Anna T. Höglund

Anna T. Höglund
Professor of Care Ethics & Gender Studies
Anna T. Höglund is Professor of Care Ethics and Gender Studies. She has worked extensively on the question of ethical competence for health care practitioners. Related research areas are moral distress in clinical settings and prioritization in health care. She has also published substantially on the topic of gender and ethics. She holds an undergraduate degree in Arts (1997) and a doctoral degree in Theology (2001) from Uppsala University. She became Associate Professor of Ethics in 2006.
E-mail: anna.hoglund@crb.uu.se
Phone: +46 18 471 62 28
Recently in the media
- Den medicinska etiken är hotad
Dagens Medicin 2022-05-18 - Maciej Zaremba: Så ska de fria läkarna bort – och din trygghet som patient minskas
Dagens Nyheter, 2021-09-23 - Hur kan filosofin användas för att avgöra middagsmenyn?
Filosofiska Rummet, 2021-05-16 - Etikexpert: Därför väcker kött så starka känslor
Dagens Nyheter, 2021-04-28 - Ethical choices in a pandemic
Mirage News, 2020-05-12 - Etiska vägval i en pandemi
Forskarpodden, 2020-04-07 - Meny goes Filosofiska Rummet - om filosofi och etik och mat
Sveriges Radio P1, 2020-01-02 - Etik i policy och styrningspraktik: Vilken etisk kompetens behöver vårdens beslutsfattare?
Statens medicinsk-etiska råd, 2019-12-17 - Att välja rätt: Klimatsmart eller matskam?
AP7, 2019-11-13
Teaching
PhD and licentiate supervision
- Maria Gottvall: Vaccine against HPV – Ethical and social aspects: Survey, exploration and intervention (PhD 2014)
- Frida Kuhlau: Dual use and responsible life science research – A bioethical approach (PhD 2013)
- Amal Matar: Ethical issues in preconception genetic screening (PhD 2019)
- Mona Pettersson: Developing clearer definitions and clinical guidelines for Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) orders in oncology care (PhD 2018)
- Malin Masterton: Duties to Past Persons: Moral Standing and Posthumous Interests of Old Human Remains (PhD 2011)
- Sofia Kälvemark Sporrong (Social Medicine): Ethical Competence and Moral Distress in the Health Care Sector: A Prospective Evaluation of Ethics Rounds (PhD 2007)
- Erica Falkenström, Stockholm University, Department of Education: Developing ethical competence in health care management (PhD 2012)
Pretend play for children with cancer

We ran a pilot project to see if pretend play can hellp children with cancer and their families.
Telenursing: gender aspects

Anna T. Höglund is part of a collaboration that investigates gender differences in the communication and outcome of telenursing consultations.
Preconception genetic screening

Amal Matar is looking at the ethical issues of preconception genetic testing and screening, taking the family’s and the individual's perspective into account.
Deciding to not resuscitate

Mona Pettersson investigated clinical and ethical perspectives on ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ (DNR) orders among staff in oncology and hematology care.
Ethics for nursing students

We focus on ethical competence. Students learn to identify moral dilemmas and to reflect on the values and how they should be weighed, and hopefully also to act.
Caring for patients

Nurses encounter ethical dilemmas in their daily work. But there are also moral dimensions to nursing practice.
Recent publications
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Ethical concerns when recruiting children with cancer for research: Swedish healthcare professionals' perceptions and experiences.
Part of BMC Medical Ethics, p. 23-, 2023.
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Parent Perceptions of a Pretend Play Intervention for Their Children With Cancer
Part of Journal of Nursing Research, 2023.
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YouTube as a source of information on clinical trials for paediatric cancer
Part of Information, Communication and Society, p. 716-729, 2023.
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Commissioned reports in Swedish healthcare governance – descriptive mapping and a content analysis
Part of BMC Health Services Research, 2022.
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Fest och fasta.: Om balans och etiska avvägningar vid val av mat.
Part of Signum, p. 27-32, 2022.
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Networked reports: Commissioning and production of expert reports on Swedish health care governance
Part of Politics and Policy, p. 580-597, 2022.
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A survey of nursing teachers’ awareness of discrimination and inequity in telephone nursing care
Part of BMC Nursing, 2021.
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Maten, moralen och våra val. Recension av "Matens filosofi" av Henrik Lagerlund.
Part of Signum, p. 58-59, 2021.
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The ethics of DNR-decisions in oncology and hematology care: A qualitative study
Part of BMC Medical Ethics, 2020.
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Nursing Ethics & Ethics of Care
Nursing ethics is concerned with the moral dimensions of nursing practice while the ethics of care is a normative ethical theory. For many years CRB has developed these fields from different angles. We have used qualitative studies to describe and explore the kinds of ethical dilemmas nurses encounter in their day-to-day work and how they solve them. Other studies have investigated the role of ethical guidelines in the building of ethical competence in nursing practice and in priority setting. In this report, we provide a summary of our research.

From war and gender to the ethics of care
Anna T. Höglund is Senior Lecturer in Nursing Ethics and Gender Studies. Her research is focused on nursing and care, not too different from the ideals of peace: making sure no one is hurt. Find out what she has to say about taking the step from war to care.
