Thor Eirik Eriksen

ORCID: 0000-0001-6341-1120
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  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Education, Healthcare and Sociology Research
  • Empathy and Medical Education
  • Occupational Health and Safety Research
  • Philosophy and History of Science
  • Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
  • Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills
  • Healthcare cost, quality, practices
  • Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
  • Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices
  • Contact Dermatitis and Allergies
  • Pain Management and Placebo Effect
  • Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
  • History of Science and Medicine
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Psychiatric care and mental health services
  • Education and Critical Thinking Development
  • Social and Educational Sciences
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
  • Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
  • Occupational exposure and asthma

University Hospital of North Norway
2012-2023

UiT The Arctic University of Norway
2012-2023

Abstract Medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) remain recalcitrant to the medical profession, proving less suitable for homogenic treatment with respect their aetiology, taxonomy and diagnosis. While majority of existing research methods are designed large scale population data sufficiently homogenous groups, MUS characterised by heterogenic complex nature. As a result, seem resist scrutiny in way that other conditions do not. This paper approaches problem from philosophical point view. The...

10.1186/1747-5341-8-11 article EN cc-by Philosophy Ethics and Humanities in Medicine 2013-09-04

The practicing doctor, and most obviously the primary care clinician who encounters full complexity of patients, faces several fundamental but intrinsically related theoretical practical challenges - strongly actualized by so-called medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) multi-morbidity. Systems medicine, which is emerging application systems biology to medicine a merger molecular biomedicine, theory mathematical modelling, has recently been proposed as care-centered strategy for that promises...

10.1111/jep.12251 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 2014-10-14

Mindfulness has attracted increased interest in the field of health professionals' education due to its proposed double benefit providing self-help strategies counter stress and burnout symptoms cultivating attitudes central role professional helpers. The current study explored experiential aspects learning mindfulness. Specifically, we how first-year medical psychology students experienced conceptualized mindfulness upon completion a 7-week mindfulness-based reduction program. Twenty-two...

10.1007/s12671-016-0521-0 article EN cc-by Mindfulness 2016-04-06

10.1007/s11019-013-9501-5 article EN Medicine Health Care and Philosophy 2013-07-22

10.1007/s11019-012-9436-2 article EN Medicine Health Care and Philosophy 2012-09-29

Background Workers in the salmon processing industry have an increased risk of developing respiratory diseases and other hypersensitivity responses due to occupational exposure bioaerosols containing fish proteins microorganisms, related allergens. Little is known about effective measures reduce bioaerosol extent skin complaints among workers. In addition, while identification factors a core activity disease prevention strategies, there increasing interest health-promoting factors, which...

10.2196/48790 article EN cc-by JMIR Research Protocols 2023-05-30

The types of diseases, or categories suffering, referred to as medically unexplained symptoms syndromes (MUS) are the focus for following commentary. Such cases seem invite reflection. very nature such complex patterns disease and suffering raises a number fundamental epistemological ontological issues. Furthermore, health challenges can serve basis an exploration how person well medical caretaker comes grip with disease, incapacitation suffering. We have structured our comments into two...

10.1111/jep.12430 article EN Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 2015-08-16

We have a desire to discover and create order, our constitution, including rational faculties, indicates that we are predisposed for such productivity. This affinity order the establishment of is fundamental humans naturally also leaves its mark on medical discipline. When this profession made subject criticism, frequently in terms well-used reproofs as reductionism, reification de-humanisation, systematising productivity invariably involved some way or other. It is, however, problematic...

10.1007/s11019-022-10093-0 article EN cc-by Medicine Health Care and Philosophy 2022-06-09

<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> Workers in the salmon processing industry have an increased risk of developing respiratory diseases and other hypersensitivity responses due to occupational exposure bioaerosols containing fish proteins microorganisms, related allergens. Little is known about effective measures reduce bioaerosol extent skin complaints among workers. In addition, while identification factors a core activity disease prevention strategies, there increasing interest...

10.2196/preprints.48790 preprint EN 2023-05-07
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