Search for dissertations about: "Medical pluralism"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the words Medical pluralism.

2. 1. Bioethics Across Borders : An African Perspective

   Author : Chikezie Onuoha; Carl-Henric Grenholm; Werner Wolbert; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : Ethics; bioethics; pluralism; common morality; ethics; Beauchamp; Childress; Engelhardt; Kekes; Igbo; Africa; culture; worldview; solidarity; community; illness; medical care; Etik; Etik; Ethics;

   Abstract : Bioethics deals with the ethical problems arising from the developments in life sciences and biotechnologies. Western autonomy-based philosophical framework has dominated the approach of mainstream Bioethics. READ MORE

4. 2. European Legal Perspectives on Health-Related Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing

   Author : Santa Slokenberga; Elisabeth Rynning; Jane Reichel; Tamara Hervey; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; direct-to-consumer genetic testing; legal pluralism; state sovereignty; coexistence; privacy; consent; technical performance; utility; Medicinsk rätt; Medical Law;

   Abstract : This doctoral thesis examines how the coexistence of the Council of Europe and the EUinfluences rules on direct-to-consumer genetic testing, as well as how these influencesreflect on individual states that are simultaneously bound to both of the legal orders ofinterest.Through the lens of legal pluralism and state sovereignty this research examines thecompetence and authority of the Council of Europe and the EU to handle the market aspects(technical performance and utility) as well as privacy (consent to a medical serviceand data protection requirements), and examines the obligations these two legal ordersplace on the Member States of the EU. READ MORE

5. 3. "We Are In-Between". : Health-seeking, Gender and Authority in a Charismatic Church in Mbeya, Tanzania

   Author : Lotta Gammelin; Kyrko- och missionsstudier; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; health-seeking; gender; health-seeking nomads; Faith-healing; Medical pluralism; authority; Pentecostal charismatic Christianity; spirit possession; agency; Spiritual warfare; suffering; motherhood; theological ethnography; Tanzania;

   Abstract : This study examines health-seeking, healing practices, gender and authority in a charismatic, locally founded church, the International Church for Healing and Glory (ICHG) in Mbeya, Tanzania. Based on ten months of ethnographic fieldwork carried out in 2013 and 2014, it addresses the situation of people who resort to faith-healing in a medically pluralistic context. READ MORE

6. 4. On the road to life satisfaction for person's with Parkinsons disease

   Author : Lina Rosengren; Rehabiliteringsmedicin; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Parkinson s disease; Life satisfaction; Adaptation; Qualitative approaches; Sense of Coherence;

   Abstract : Parkinson’s disease (PD) is one of the most common neurodegenerative disorders. The motor and non-motor symptoms of PD lead to a number of consequences in everyday life for persons with PD (PwPD). READ MORE

7. 5. Creative Disability Classification Systems : The case of Greece, 1990-2015

   Author : Antonia Pavli; Vasilis Galis; Berth Danermark; Myriam Winance; Örebro universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; classification system; statistics; medicalization; disability movement; disability fraud; corporatism; economic crisis; STS; disability theory; Handikappvetenskap; Disability Science;

   Abstract : Disability classification systems belong to the core of states’ social/disability policies through which persons with disabilities are classified as eligible or ineligible for having access to disability allowances. The study of disability classification systems has stimulated the interest of several scholars from the broader area of disability studies. READ MORE