| Bjørn Hofmann | |
| Birth Place: | Norway |
| Occupation: | Professor at the Department of Health, Technology and Society at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
Bjørn Morten Hofmann (born in Oslo, 20 July 1964) is a Norwegian researcher in philosophy of medicine and ethics with special interest for the relationship between epistemology and ethics.
His main subjects in the philosophy of medicine have been the concepts of health and disease. In the philosophy of the health sciences he has studied causation, rationality, evidence, diagnosis, overdiagnosis, medicalization and futility. Reproductive technologies, biobanks and organ transplantation have been his main topics in the ethics of biotechnologies. Additionally, Hofmann has published in research ethics, ethics in health technology assessment (HTA), medical ethics, health services research, and science and technology studies.
Hofmann was trained in the natural sciences at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norges Tekniske Høgskole) where he studied physical electronics and biomedical engineering and graduated in 1989. After his studies, he worked with medical technology at Lillehammer county hospital and with health applications at Telenor Research. He studied philosophy at the University of Tromsø in 1993 and 1994 and got his PhD in philosophy of medicine from the University of Oslo in 2002.
Hofmann has been working as a professor at the University College of Gjøvik, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology at Gjøvik, and at the University of Oslo and has been a researcher at the Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services since 2002. Hofmann was a Harkness fellow[1] at the Dartmouth College in the United States, 2014–2015.
63 of his papers and journal articles have been cited 20 times or more, according to Google Scholar (2021).His most cited papers are: