Caroline Benedicte Nitter Engen
Position
Associate Professor, medical ethics and theory of science
Affiliation
Research groups
- Research Group Theory of Science
- CHER - Clinical and Health Care Ethics Research Group
- Global Health Anthropology research group
Research
Caroline Engen is an Associate Professor of Medical Ethics and Theory of Science at the University of Bergen. She has a background in both biomedical research and clinical practice, and her research focuses on how suffering shapes and challenges relationships in modern medicine. She teaches theory of science as well as medical philosophy, including ethics and epistemology.
Publications
2021
- Caroline Engen; Monica Hellesøy; Tim Grob et al. (2021). FLT3-ITD mutations in acute myeloid leukaemia – molecular characteristics, distribution and numerical variation. (external link)
- Mille Sofie Stenmarck; Caroline Benedicte Nitter Engen; Roger Strand (2021). Reframing cancer: challenging the discourse on cancer and cancer drugs—a Norwegian perspective: Reframing Cancer. (external link)
- Stein Frostad; Simona Calugi; Caroline Benedicte Nitter Engen et al. (2021). Enhanced cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT-E) for severe and extreme anorexia nervosa in an outpatient eating disorder unit at a public hospital: a quality-assessment study. (external link)
- Monica Hellesøy; Caroline Benedicte Nitter Engen; Tim Grob et al. (2021). Sex disparity in acute myeloid leukaemia with FLT3 internal tandem duplication mutations: implications for prognosis. (external link)
2025
- Caroline Benedicte Nitter Engen; Edvin Schei (2025). Attending to the Unsaid: On Knowing, Care, and Voice. (external link)
- Edvin Schei; Iona Heath; Peter Dorward et al. (2025). Making a Good Doctor. (external link)
- Karl Erik Müller; Caroline Benedicte Nitter Engen (2025). Second Thoughts—Reflections on Early Medical Career Experiences. (external link)
- Caroline Benedicte Nitter Engen; Peter Dorward (2025). Framing the Problem: Suffering and Knowing in the World of Things. (external link)
- Caroline Benedicte Nitter Engen (2025). «Doctors must live»: a care ethics inquiry into physicians’ late modern suffering. (external link)
2023
- Annelin Eriksen; Caroline Benedicte Nitter Engen; Joost Van Wijchen (2023). "Evighetsmennesket" – hvilke etiske utfordringer må vi forberede oss på?. (external link)
- Linn Okkenhaug Getz; Caroline Benedicte Nitter Engen; Line Bjørge et al. (2023). Responsible clinical trials i the age of personalized medicine. (external link)
2017
- Anne Bremer; Roger Strand; John Alexander Cairns et al. (2017). Cancer Biomarkers: Ethics, Economics and Society. (external link)
- Misbah Sabir; Monica Hellesøy; Jarno Kivioja et al. (2017). development of novel Highly Specific FLT3 Targeted Inhibitors for Combination or Sequential Therapy of Acute Myeloid Leukemia. (external link)
Projects
- The Neuro-SysMed centre's research group Philosophy of Neurodegeneration, led by Jan Reinert Karlsen at SVT.