Torben Hviid Nielsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 282841 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Torben Hviid Nielsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Torben Hviid |
| FAMILY NAME | Nielsen |
| SIGNATURE | NIELSEN T H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern Denmark |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8205-5544 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Somatic Overdiagnosis and Hermeneutical Injustice
Overdiagnosis has increasingly been recognized as a severe issue within medicine because it leads to iatrogenic harms and issues of distributive justice without corresponding benefit of treatment. This article attempts to show that overdiagnosis is also a matter of epistemic injustice. Through qualitative empirical studies, it argues that overdiagnosed patients without symptoms, who do not stand to benefit from medical examination and treatment, …
Value-freedom & patient autonomy
A longstanding debate in philosophy of medicine-whether disease concepts are value-free (naturalism) or value-laden (normativism)-intersects with broader discussions about patient autonomy and the move away from paternalistic practices. An important argument supporting naturalism is the idea that value-freedom is necessary to protect patient autonomy. This paper challenges that view, arguing that autonomy does not require value-freedom. We first …
Disorder or distress? The hermeneutical injustices of overdiagnosis within psychiatry
Epistemic injustices within diagnostic practices in health care have increasingly been the object of research in recent years. However, most accounts focus on either under- or misdiagnosis resulting from epistemic injustices and have largely neglected the issue of overdiagnosis. This paper explicates what overdiagnosis entails in psychiatry and outline several structural problems within diagnostic practices that enable overdiagnosis. Afterwards, …
The normativist-naturalist puzzle
While there is no shortage in discussions of health assessment tools, little is known about health professionals' experience of their practical uses. However, these tools rely on assumptions that have significant impacts on the practice of health assessment. In this study, we explore health professionals' experiences with health assessment tools, that is, how they define, use, and understand these tools, and whether they take them to measure heal…
Issues for a phenomenology of illness – transgressing psychologizations
Phenomenology of illness has grown increasingly popular in recent times. However, the most prominent phenomenologists of illness defend a psychologizing notion of phenomenology, which argues that illness is primarily constituted by embodied experiences, feelings, and emotions of suffering, alienation etc. The article argues that this gives rise to three issues that need to be addressed. (1) How is the theory of embodiment compatible with the stro…
Hvad må verden begynde med? – En undersøgelse af lysvæsenet i Phänomenologie des Geistes
The paper seeks to unfold a passage towards the end of The Phenomenology of Spirit by Hegel named Das Lichtwesen. The passage is found at the beginning of the section on religion, which constitutes the point in the development of spirit, wherein the spirit has gained a knowledge of itself but in a metaphorical and sensuous form. The paper argues that there are striking similarities between this passage and the sections of the Science of Logic con…
Time Materialized – Broaching the Question of Objective Historicity
The paper unfolds a preliminary theory of so-called objective or ontological historicity, that is to say, a theory of historicity which is not founded in the human subject. The article does this by deriving a notion of historicity from classical ontology by drawing upon figures such as Aristotle, Cusanus, Leibniz and Kant. One of the leading examples analysed throughout the paper is the museal object, which seems to embody a certain aporia betwee…
Lykke-Pers ulykke. Om moderniteter, identiteter og egentlighed
Five Framings - One Entity? The Political Ethics of Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Following their initial derivation in 1998, human embryonic stem cells have been presented in five dominant framings. The original framings as a breakthrough in basic research and a medical hope were both intended and orchestrated to anticipate and overrule the old bioethical concerns. The third framing nonetheless questioned the legitimacy of the bare laboratory research from day one. Two subsequent framings presented adult stem cells as Nature’…
Biotechnology and the European public
The State, the Market and the Individual. Politics, Economy and the Idea of Man in the Works of Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith and in Renaissance Humanism
Thomas Hobbes, the father of modern state theory. regarded the loss of the self-government of the individual as a pre-condition of peace. the achievement of which the state was a necessary instrument Adam Smith. the father of political economy, similarly regarded the loss of the versatility of the individual as the price for that growth and prosperity, the achievement of which the division of labour and the market were necessary instruments Howev…
Disorder or distress? The hermeneutical injustices of overdiagnosis within psychiatry
Epistemic injustices within diagnostic practices in health care have increasingly been the object of research in recent years. However, most accounts focus on either under- or misdiagnosis resulting from epistemic injustices and have largely neglected the issue of overdiagnosis. This paper explicates what overdiagnosis entails in psychiatry and outline several structural problems within diagnostic practices that enable overdiagnosis. Afterwards, …
The State, the Market and the Individual. Politics, Economy and the Idea of Man in the Works of Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith and in Renaissance Humanism
Thomas Hobbes, the father of modern state theory. regarded the loss of the self-government of the individual as a pre-condition of peace. the achievement of which the state was a necessary instrument Adam Smith. the father of political economy, similarly regarded the loss of the versatility of the individual as the price for that growth and prosperity, the achievement of which the division of labour and the market were necessary instruments Howev…
The State, the Market and the Individual. Politics, Economy and the Idea of Man in the Works of Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith and in Renaissance Humanism
Thomas Hobbes, the father of modern state theory. regarded the loss of the self-government of the individual as a pre-condition of peace. the achievement of which the state was a necessary instrument Adam Smith. the father of political economy, similarly regarded the loss of the versatility of the individual as the price for that growth and prosperity, the achievement of which the division of labour and the market were necessary instruments Howev…
Biotechnology and the European public
Five Framings - One Entity? The Political Ethics of Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Following their initial derivation in 1998, human embryonic stem cells have been presented in five dominant framings. The original framings as a breakthrough in basic research and a medical hope were both intended and orchestrated to anticipate and overrule the old bioethical concerns. The third framing nonetheless questioned the legitimacy of the bare laboratory research from day one. Two subsequent framings presented adult stem cells as Nature’…
Lykke-Pers ulykke. Om moderniteter, identiteter og egentlighed
Hvad må verden begynde med? – En undersøgelse af lysvæsenet i Phänomenologie des Geistes
The paper seeks to unfold a passage towards the end of The Phenomenology of Spirit by Hegel named Das Lichtwesen. The passage is found at the beginning of the section on religion, which constitutes the point in the development of spirit, wherein the spirit has gained a knowledge of itself but in a metaphorical and sensuous form. The paper argues that there are striking similarities between this passage and the sections of the Science of Logic con…
Time Materialized – Broaching the Question of Objective Historicity
The paper unfolds a preliminary theory of so-called objective or ontological historicity, that is to say, a theory of historicity which is not founded in the human subject. The article does this by deriving a notion of historicity from classical ontology by drawing upon figures such as Aristotle, Cusanus, Leibniz and Kant. One of the leading examples analysed throughout the paper is the museal object, which seems to embody a certain aporia betwee…
Issues for a phenomenology of illness – transgressing psychologizations
Phenomenology of illness has grown increasingly popular in recent times. However, the most prominent phenomenologists of illness defend a psychologizing notion of phenomenology, which argues that illness is primarily constituted by embodied experiences, feelings, and emotions of suffering, alienation etc. The article argues that this gives rise to three issues that need to be addressed. (1) How is the theory of embodiment compatible with the stro…
Disorder or distress? The hermeneutical injustices of overdiagnosis within psychiatry
Epistemic injustices within diagnostic practices in health care have increasingly been the object of research in recent years. However, most accounts focus on either under- or misdiagnosis resulting from epistemic injustices and have largely neglected the issue of overdiagnosis. This paper explicates what overdiagnosis entails in psychiatry and outline several structural problems within diagnostic practices that enable overdiagnosis. Afterwards, …
The normativist-naturalist puzzle
While there is no shortage in discussions of health assessment tools, little is known about health professionals' experience of their practical uses. However, these tools rely on assumptions that have significant impacts on the practice of health assessment. In this study, we explore health professionals' experiences with health assessment tools, that is, how they define, use, and understand these tools, and whether they take them to measure heal…
Somatic Overdiagnosis and Hermeneutical Injustice
Overdiagnosis has increasingly been recognized as a severe issue within medicine because it leads to iatrogenic harms and issues of distributive justice without corresponding benefit of treatment. This article attempts to show that overdiagnosis is also a matter of epistemic injustice. Through qualitative empirical studies, it argues that overdiagnosed patients without symptoms, who do not stand to benefit from medical examination and treatment, …
Value-freedom & patient autonomy
A longstanding debate in philosophy of medicine-whether disease concepts are value-free (naturalism) or value-laden (normativism)-intersects with broader discussions about patient autonomy and the move away from paternalistic practices. An important argument supporting naturalism is the idea that value-freedom is necessary to protect patient autonomy. This paper challenges that view, arguing that autonomy does not require value-freedom. We first …
Epistemology (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Mental Health and Psychiatry (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Psychotherapist (3 works)