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Amplifying Ambiguities. Art on the Fringes of Biotechnology
(Doctoral thesis, 2016-05-31)This doctoral dissertation presents a study of artists’ engagements with wet biotechnologies, considering ‘bioart’ in relation to related approaches. Bioart is at present emerging as an important art form ... -
Biotechnology: Action and choice in second modernity.
(Doctoral thesis, 2007-11) -
Det liturgiske møte. Språk og gudsmetaforer i Den norske kirkes høymesse
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Feminism, Epistemology & Morality
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Førende forestillinger i fosterpolitikken. En metafor- og diskursanalyse av hvordan kvinne, foster og abort blir konstituert i stortingsdebatter om abort og fosterdiagnostikk
(Doctoral thesis, 2009-08-14)Abstract Background: During the first twenty years of prenatal diagnostics in Norway, selective abortion on eugenic grounds according to The Abortion Law`s section 2c was seen as an advisable and reasonable medical decision. ... -
Habermas' method: Rational reconstruction
(Doctoral thesis, 2011-10-07)This dissertation clarifies, discusses and elaborates on the method of Jürgen Habermas’ philosophical enterprise: rational reconstruction. The method is designed for a systematic reconstruction of the intuitive knowledge ... -
‘Healthism’ and public health in the Norwegian welfare state : A discursive theory of science approach to the translation of public health science and policy into practice
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-02-19)This dissertation employs discourse analytic reading strategies in order to examine lifestyle intervention as knowledge practices realizing public health science and policy in the Norwegian welfare state. It addresses a ... -
Intellectual Practicians: An Exploration of Professionalism among Upper Secondary School Teachers with Icelandic Mother Tongue Teachers as a Contextualized Empirical Case
(Doctoral thesis, 2015-05-21)The study Intellectual practicians explores an educational practice; more particularly that of mother tongue teachers in upper secondary school in Iceland as experienced and described by some of these teachers. The study’s ... -
Making Sense of Rare Earth Elements. An interdisciplinary approach to mineral resources’ ethics and governance
(Doctoral thesis, 2013-05-24)This interdisciplinary PhD dissertation aims to identify and address the ethical challenges posed by rare earth elements, as a non-renewable, ill-distributed, and valuable resource. The overall theoretical framework in ... -
Making world hunger legible : The politics of measuring global food insecurity
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-06-02)Indikatorar for mattryggleik og ernæring er blant dei mest sentrale måleinstrumenta for internasjonal utvikling. Forskingslitteraturen kring historiske, konseptuelle og politiske dimensjonar ved måling av svolt er likevel ... -
The notion of ‘responsible development’ in new approaches to governance of nanosciences and nanotechnologies
(Doctoral thesis, 2010-10-08)This PhD dissertation looks at the development of nanosciences and nanotechnologies (nanoST), a field that has gained tremendous political and economic momentum in the first decade of the 21st century. It is also a field ... -
Towards Inclusive Environmental Governance: a Study of the Expert-Lay Interplay in a Brazilian Social Movement
(Doctoral thesis, 2009-04-17)First and foremost this dissertation concerns itself with inclusive manners of environmental governance. In a broad sense, it addresses the science-politics interplay in environmental governance. It focuses upon two main ...