Yngvar Løchen (31 May 1931 – 28 July 1998) was a Norwegian sociologist. He took his dr.philos. in 1965 and was hired as

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of community medicine at the

University of Oslo The University of Oslo ( no, Universitetet i Oslo; la, Universitas Osloensis) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the highest ranked and oldest university in Norway. It is consistently ranked among the top universit ...

the same year. In 1971 he was appointed professor in the

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at the

University of Tromsø The University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway (Norwegian: ''Universitetet i Tromsø – Norges arktiske universitet''; Northern Sami: ''Romssa universitehta – Norgga árktalaš universitehta'') is a state university in Norway an ...

. He served as

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from 1977 to 1981. He was also chairman of the from 1974 to 1977, and of the from 1985 to 1989. Løchen's 1965 work (''Ideals and Realities in a Psychiatric Hospital'') was selected for the

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in 2009–2011.

Selected bibliography

This is a list of his most notable works: * (1965) * (1970) * (1971) * (1977) * (1985) * (1993) * (1998)

References

1931 births 1998 deaths Norwegian sociologists Academic staff of the University of Oslo Academic staff of the University of Tromsø Rectors of the University of Tromsø 20th-century Norwegian writers Medical sociologists {{Norway-sociologist-stub