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Lennart Nordenfelt

Lennart Nordenfelt

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
36
Citations
5628
World Ranking
6488
National Ranking
86

Overview

Lennart Nordenfelt is affiliated with Linköping University in Sweden and has contributed to the fields of Medicine, Health Professions, and Psychology. Their research primarily focuses on areas within Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions, and Clinical Psychology.

The major topics of their work include:

  • Patient Dignity and Privacy
  • Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
  • Ethics in Medical Practice
  • Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints

One of Nordenfelt's recent publications is titled Care of the older person and the value of human dignity, published in 2023 in the journal Bioethics. This paper has been cited nine times. The publication venue Bioethics is also among the frequent venues where Nordenfelt has published their work.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Nordenfelt include:

  • Félix Pageau
  • Gaëlle Fiasse
  • Emilian Mihailov
  • Bjørn Hofmann

The research addresses ethical considerations in medical care, particularly relating to patient dignity, privacy, and decision-making in end-of-life contexts. The focus on topics such as palliative care and healthcare restraints reflects an interdisciplinary approach that spans clinical, psychological, and environmental aspects of health professions.

Best Publications

  • The varieties of dignity.

    Lennart Nordenfelt

  • On the Nature of Health: An Action-Theoretic Approach

    Lennart Nordenfelt

  • Ethical and Methodological Issues in Interviewing Persons With Dementia

    Ingrid Hellström;Mike Nolan;Lennart Nordenfelt;Ulla Lundh

  • The concepts of health and illness revisited

    Lennart Nordenfelt

  • Views on Dignity of Elderly Nursing Home Residents

    Lise-Lotte Franklin;Britt-Marie Ternestedt;Lennart Nordenfelt

  • On the nature of health

    Lennart Nordenfelt

  • Action theory, disability and ICF.

    Lennart Nordenfelt

  • Quality of Life, Health and Happiness

    Lennart Nordenfelt

  • What is a Sports Injury

    Toomas Timpka;Jenny Jacobsson;Jerome Bickenbach;Caroline F. Finch

  • Health, Science, and Ordinary Language

    Lennart Nordenfelt

  • Three Nursing Home Residents Speak About Meaning At the End of Life

    Lise-Lotte Dwyer;Lennart Nordenfelt;Britt-Marie Ternestedt

  • On health, ability and activity: comments on some basic notions in the ICF.

    Lennart Nordenfelt

  • Concepts and measurement of quality of life in health care

    Lennart Nordenfelt

  • Action, Ability and Health: Essays in the Philosophy of Action and Welfare

    Lennart Nordenfelt

  • Policy and practice of work ability : a negotiation of responsibility in organizing return to work

    Ida Seing;Christian Ståhl;Lennart Nordenfelt;Pia Bülow

  • Dignity as experienced by nursing home staff

    Lise-Lotte Dwyer;Birgitta Andershed;Lennart Nordenfelt;Britt-Marie Ternestedt

  • The association of immigrant- and non-immigrant-specific factors with mental ill health among immigrants in Sweden.

    Petter Tinghög;Suad Al-Saffar;John Carstensen;Lennart Nordenfelt

  • Dignity and the care of the elderly

    Lennart Nordenfelt

  • The four notions of dignity

    Lennart Nordenfelt;Andrew Edgar

  • Health, Disease, and Causal Explanations in Medicine

    Lennart Nordenfelt;B. Ingemar B. Lindahl

  • Concepts of health and their consequences for health care.

    Lennart Nordenfelt

Frequent Co-Authors

Toomas Timpka
Toomas Timpka Linköping University
Bo Algers
Bo Algers Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Per Nilsen
Per Nilsen Linköping University
Jerome Bickenbach
Jerome Bickenbach University of Lucerne

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