Search for dissertations about: "biomedicalization"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the word biomedicalization.

2. 1. Everybody knows? : Conversational coproduction in communication of addiction expertise

   Author : Katarina Winter; Mikaela Sundberg; Johan Edman; Mikael Klintman; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; conversational coproduction; coproduction of knowledge; science and technology studies; expert communication; science communication; public participation; publics; experts; addiction; codependency; media; politics; conversation analysis; biomedicalization; Sociology; sociologi;

   Abstract : The coproduction idiom within Science and Technology Studies (STS) centers on how science and society produce knowledge together. The current thesis explores expert communication – which is immersed in the relationship between science and society – as a case for understanding such coproducing processes. READ MORE

4. 2. Coming of Contraceptive Age: An Interdiciplinary Analysis of Hormonal Contraceptives and Mental Health

   Author : Sofia Zettermark; Socialepidemiologi; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Interdisciplinary; Social Epidemiology; Gender Studies; Hormonal Contraceptives; Reproductive Justice; Intersectionality;

   Abstract : This thesis emanates from the discursive gap between a medical discourse andexperience-driven knowledges in mental health aspects of hormonal contraceptives.The tensions and fractures between a medical discourse focusing on contraceptiveeffectiveness and largely refuting any significant adverse outcomes, and experiencebasednarratives of commonplace detrimental, or at least unwelcome and unpleasant,mental health effects, is apparent. READ MORE