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Ragnhild Ørstavik er assisterende sjefredaktør i Tidsskriftet.
Articles by Ragnhild Ørstavik
Trust, but in what?
- Ragnhild Ørstavik
16.10.2017:
The Research Council's survey on the population's attitudes to research can hardly be trusted. We should nevertheless take it seriously. Recently, the Research Council of Norway published interim results from a study of Norwegians' attitudes to research. Many respondents agreed with such statements...
A new way to be a mother
- Ragnhild Ørstavik
02.02.2017:
Egg donation cannot be seen as equivalent to sperm donation, but should nevertheless be permitted in Norway. The first birth to result from an egg donation took place in California in 1984 (1). Now, 33 years later, the Storting will reassess the Biotechnology Act, which regulates egg donations. The...
Striking a balance
- Ragnhild Ørstavik
11.10.2016:
Almost 130 years have passed since women first entered the field of medical studies. Now men’s exit is well underway. On a warm summer’s day in 1876, James Barry died of dysentery. He had been a highly respected British army surgeon, and among other things, had conducted the first recorded Caesarean...
The editorial
- Ragnhild Ørstavik
05.04.2016:
The editorials are one of our journal’s most important instruments for drawing attention to salient issues in medicine and health policy. A good editorial will argue a point of view, while also elucidating other aspects of the issue at hand. Much has changed since I last worked at the Journal of the...