Berge Solberg

Professor in medical ethics and head of the teaching in medical ethics in the medical school at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Editor of the Nordic journal of applied ethics. Since 2004 a member of The Norwegian Advisory Board on Biotechnology. 

Fields of interest:

Medical ethics and research ethics in general. Political philosophy and medical ethics. Special interest in the ethics of prenatal diagnosis, assisted reproduction, newborn medicine, medical genetics, biobanking .

Ongoing projects:

• "In genes we trust - biobanks and everyday life" (2009-2012)
  (on the ethics of commercial utilisation of population based biobanks)
• The ethics of genetic sequencing (2011-2013)

Publications/ presentations:

• Papers, book chapters
• Chronicles, etc,
• Invited speaches/lectures
• Interviews and mediacontributions

Master/PhD:

Master in philosophy, University of Oslo, 1997.
PhD: Selecting human life? Ethical considerations in reproduction with regards to knowledge on genetic risk (NTNU 2003, no)
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Supervising, PhD:

• Lars Ursin - The informed consenters. Biobank Research and the ethics of recruitment and participation (2008)
• Patrick Kermit - Etikk etter cochleaimplantering av døve barn: En undersøkelse med fokus på anerkjennelse, identitet og språk (2010)
• Bente Kojan - Klasseblikk på et barnevern i vekst (2011)