Anne Kveim Lie

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Anne Kveim Lie er professor ved Avdeling for samfunnsmedisin og global helse og utdanningsleder ved Institutt for helse og samfunn, Universitetet i Oslo.

Articles by Anne Kveim Lie

Puberty suppression

Atle Fretheim,
Anne Kveim Lie,
Ketil Slagstad

14.03.2025: Political and medical decisions to restrict access to puberty blockers for transgender adolescents ignore the most important primary outcome measure. Health authorities in Norway and several other countries have recently tightened access to puberty blockers for transgender adolescents (1). This is a...

The power of diagnosis

Anne Kveim Lie,
Ketil Slagstad

11.06.2018: The new diagnosis of gender incongruence is a recognition of the right of transgender persons to decide for themselves who they want to be. Our understanding of gender and gender identity is changing, in Norway and internationally. The disappearance of the 'gender identity disorders' diagnostic...

Research ethics on the agenda – the debates preceding the establishment of the ethics committees

Nadia Shad Paulsen,
Anne Kveim Lie

08.11.2016: Today there are Regional Committees for Medical and Health Research Ethics in every regional health authority. Their work is based on several laws, including the Health Research Act, the Personal Data Act and the Patients’ Rights Act (1), in addition to international guidelines on health research...

Do we need history?

Anne Kveim Lie

13.12.2011: Medical history can deepen our understanding of the present. However, if history is to function as a corrective to the current situation, it should not be regarded primarily as a tool for personal culture. As usual, this year’s Christmas issue contains articles on medical history. In a time when...