Search for dissertations about: "DEATH"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 2950 swedish dissertations containing the word DEATH.

  2. 1. Facing death : physicians' difficulties and coping strategies in cancer care

    Author : Margareta Andræ; Lars Jacobsson; Ulla Holm; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Physician; cancer care; conflicts; coping; facing death; dying;

    Abstract : Even if the treatment of cancer has developed over the last decades 50% of the patients still die of their cancer. The doctor's way of dealing with his and his patient's anxiety must surely be of significance for the treatment the patient receives.In the first part of the thesis earlier studies of physicians' stress and ways of coping are reported. READ MORE

  4. 2. Legislating death : socio-legal studies of the brain death controversy in Sweden

    Author : Dimitris Michailakis; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sociology; Sociologi;

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  5. 3. Baptism and Death : A Study of Mark and Romans

    Author : Bim O'Reilly; James A Kelhoffer; Jonas Holmstrand; Karl Olav Sandnes; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Baptism; Death; Gospel of Mark; Romans; Paul; Narrative Criticism; Rhetorical Criticism; Argumentation Analysis; Macrostructure; Comparative Analysis; Mark and Paul; Discipleship; Nya testamentets exegetik; New Testament Exegesis;

    Abstract : Does baptism in some way associate an initiate with the death and resurrection of Christ? From the fourth century until the present, this understanding has had a central place in defining the meaning of baptism. In the NT, baptism and death are associated in two ways. READ MORE

  6. 4. Postpone death? : Nurse-physician perspectives on life-sustaining treatment and ethics rounds

    Author : Mia Svantesson; Gerd Ahlström; Håkan Thorsén; Kjell Kallenberg; Rurik Löfmark; Peter Strang; Örebro universitet; []
    Keywords : LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER; AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES; Clinical ethics; Life-sustaining treatment; End-of-life decisions; Attitudes; Nurses; Physicians; Inter-professional relations; Ethics consultation; Ethics rounds; Surgery; Kirurgi; Surgery; Kirurgi;

    Abstract : The starting point of the present thesis is nurses’ reported experiences of disagreements with physicians for pushing life sustaining treatment too far. The overall aim was to describe and compare nurses’ and physicians’ perspectives on the boundaries for life-sustaining treatment and to evaluate whether ethics rounds could promote mutual understanding and stimulate ethical reflection. READ MORE

  7. 5. Death and the Self : A Metaphysical Investigation of the Rationality of Afterlife Beliefs in the Contemporary Intellectual Climate

    Author : Johan Eddebo; Mikael Stenmark; Karin Johanneson; Charles Taliaferro; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; death; subjectivity; selfhood; afterlife; irreducibility; critique of naturalism; immaterialist ontologies; dualism; idealism; philosophy of religion; quantum theory; interpretations of quantum mechanics; modernity; Philosophy of Religion; Religionsfilosofi;

    Abstract : This dissertation's purpose is to test the hypothesis that beliefs in the possibility of post-mortem survival can be rationally held within the context of the contemporary scientific and philosophical environment. In terms of criteria of rationality, a basic evidentialism is assumed, such that propositions which are sufficiently supported by the available evidence can be rationally held. READ MORE