Bjørn Hofmann

Bjørn Morten Hofmann (born in Oslo, 20 July 1964) is a Norwegian researcher in philosophy of medicine and ethics with special interest for the relationship between epistemology and ethics.

His main subjects in the ''philosophy of medicine'' have been the concepts of health and disease. In the philosophy of medicine he has studied causation, rationality, evidence, bias, diagnosis, overdiagnosis, medicalization and futility. Reproductive technologies, biobanks, organ transplantation, organoids, and artificial intelligence (AI/ML) have been his main topics in the ethics of biotechnologies. Additionally, Hofmann has published in research ethics, ethics in health technology assessment (HTA), medical ethics, health services research, and science and technology studies. Provided by Wikipedia