Jan Helge Solbakk

Biographic Data

ID6728501
NAMEJan Helge Solbakk
GIVEN NAMESJan Helge
FAMILY NAMESolbakk
SIGNATURESOLBAKK J H
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Oslo
ORCID0000-0002-2644-4932
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • The moral significance of moral distress

    Open AccessCharles Brockden Brown, Jan Helge SolbakkARTICLEMedicine Health Care and Philosophy2026

    Since Andrew Jameton introduced the term “moral distress” (MD) in 1984, the concept has attracted extensive attention in the healthcare literature. Much of this work emphasizes the costs of MD–for instance, psychological pain, work dissatisfaction, and burnout–while some highlights its potential benefits, including motivating self-improvement and institutional reform. We survey these assessments and argue that the bulk of them share a common limi…

  • Moral distress

    Open AccessCharles Brockden Brown, Cullin Brown et al.ARTICLEMedicine Health Care and Philosophy2026

    Since Andrew Jameton introduced the term “moral distress” (MD) in 1984, the idea has gained enormous attention in the healthcare literature. We offer a critical, narrative review of the understandings of MD that have been proposed, with an eye towards their scope and corresponding ability to speak to the moral vulnerability inherent in human life. Jameton’s understanding of MD is narrow in the sense that it requires the presence of institutional …

  • Moral challenges and understanding of clinical ethics in Tanzanian hospitals

    Open AccessShija Kevin Kuhumba, Bert C Molewijk et al.ARTICLEDeveloping World Bioethics2025

    Healthcare professionals encounter many moral challenges in their daily clinical practice. However, there have been few studies on the subject matter in Tanzania. This study aims to provide an account of moral challenges faced by healthcare professionals in Tanzanian hospitals, their understanding of clinical ethics, and the ethics education they have received. Many participants reported receiving some kind of ethics training through formal educa…

  • Back to WHAT? The role of research ethics in pandemic times

    Open AccessJan Helge Solbakk, Heidi Beate Bentzen et al.ARTICLEMedicine Health Care and Philosophy2021

    The Covid-19 pandemic creates an unprecedented threatening situation worldwide with an urgent need for critical reflection and new knowledge production, but also a need for imminent action despite prevailing knowledge gaps and multilevel uncertainty. With regard to the role of research ethics in these pandemic times some argue in favor of exceptionalism, others, including the authors of this paper, emphasize the urgent need to remain committed to…

  • Bioethics and imagination

    Camilo Manchola-Castillo, Jan Helge SolbakkARTICLEMedical Humanities2017References: 1

    Recently, the involvement of various authors coming from the social sciences and the arts has reinforced the humanistic component of bioethics. Their contributions vary from very theoretical perspectives to rather practical ones. In this paper, Martha Nussbaum's books, The Fragility of Goodness (1986), Love's Knowledge (1990), Cultivating Humanity (1997) and Creating Capabilities (2011) are analysed from the vantage point of narrative bioethics. …

  • Illness as a condition of our existence in the world

    Elin Håkonsen Martinsen, Jan Helge SolbakkARTICLEMedical Humanities2012Cited by: 1

    This paper seeks to find different ways of addressing illness as an experience essential to the understanding of being a human being. As a conceptual point of departure, we suggest the notion of 'pathic existence' as developed by the German physician and philosopher Viktor von Weizsäcker (1886-1957). Through an analysis of his conceptualisation of the pathic and of pathic categories, we demonstrate how this auxiliary typology may be of help in un…