Browsing Bergen Open Research Archive by Author "Lie, Reidar K."
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Attitudes towards transfers of human tissue samples across borders: An international survey of researchers and policy makers in five countries
Zhang, Xinqing; Matsui, Kenji; Krohmal, Benjamin; Zeid, Alaa Abou; Muthuswamy, Vasantha; Koo, Young Mo; Kita, Yoshikuni; Lie, Reidar K. (Journal article, 2010-09-16)Background: Sharing of tissue samples for research and disease surveillance purposes has become increasingly important. While it is clear that this is an area of intense, international controversy, there is an absence of ... -
Bioethical Implications of Globalization: An International Consortium Project of the European Commission
Novotny, Thomas E.; Mordini, Emilio; Chadwick, Ruth; Pedersen, J. Martin; Fabbri, Fabrizio; Lie, Reidar K.; Thanachaiboot, Natapong; Mossialos, Elias; Permanand, Govin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2006-01-24)The term “globalization” was popularized by Marshall McLuhan in War and Peace in the Global Village. In the book, McLuhan described how the global media shaped current events surrounding the Vietnam War [1] and also predicted ... -
Comparative effectiveness research: what to do when experts disagree about risks
Lie, Reidar K.; Chan, Francis KL; Grady, Christine; Ng, Vincent; Wendler, David (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-06-19)Background: Ethical issues related to comparative effectiveness research, or research that compares existing standards of care, have recently received considerable attention. In this paper we focus on how Ethics Review ... -
Following the giant's paces-governance issues and bioethical reflections in China
Wang, Zhaochen; Zhang, Di; Ng, Vincent H.; Lie, Reidar K.; Zhai, Xiaomei (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-10-31)Background: China has become a global player in the field of biosamples research and analysis of genetic data. The Beijing Genomics Institute is a genetics factory where enormous amounts of biosamples/data from all over ... -
Obligations of low income countries in ensuring equity in global health financing
Barugahare, John; Lie, Reidar K. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-09-08)Background. Despite common recognition of joint responsibility for global health by all countries particularly to ensure justice in global health, current discussions of countries’ obligations for global health largely ... -
Obligations of poor countries in ensuring global justice: The case of Uganda
Barugahare, John; Lie, Reidar K. (Journal article, 2014)Obligations of global justice rest mainly on the global rich but also to a lesser extent on the global poor. The governments of poor countries are obliged to fulfill requirements of non-aggression, good governance and ... -
Priority setting in health care: Lessons from the experiences of eight countries
Sabik, Lindsay M.; Lie, Reidar K. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2008-01-21)All health care systems face problems of justice and efficiency related to setting priorities for allocating a limited pool of resources to a population. Because many of the central issues are the same in all systems, the ... -
Understanding the futility of countries’ obligations for health rights: realising justice for the global poor
Barugahare, John; Lie, Reidar K. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-06-03)Background: Although health is a right of all individuals without any distinction, the realisation of this right has remained very difficult for the marginalised populations of poor countries. Inequitable distribution of ...