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Avdeling for samfunnsmedisin og global helse
Universitetet i Oslo
Anne Kveim Lie er lege og professor i medisinsk historie. Hun er styreleder i European Association for the History of Medicine and Health.
Articles by Anne Kveim Lie
When penicillin came to Norway
- Anne Margrethe Aalborg Wiik,
- Erlend Hem,
- Anne Kveim Lie
08.01.2026:
Alexander Fleming's (1881–1955) discovery of penicillin in 1928, and its subsequent testing and mass production by Howard Florey (1898–1968) and Ernst Chain (1906–79) in collaboration with the United States' pharmaceutical industry, represent some of the most important milestones in medical history...
The individual care plan as a learning tool
- Anne Kveim Lie,
- Hanne Lichtwarck,
- Ronny Rene Raveen,
- Tommy Sjåfjell,
- Linda Wüsthoff,
- Ingrid Amalia Havnes
29.08.2025:
Learning to use an individual care plan in medical studies can help students prepare for a reality in which interdisciplinary collaboration, holistic thinking, advocacy and service user involvement are becoming increasingly important. The Norwegian health service faces considerable challenges in the...
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...