Search for dissertations about: "discourse analysis health critical"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 21 swedish dissertations containing the words discourse analysis health critical.

2. 6. Men and Masculinities in Sexual Healthcare: Exploring Notions and Discourses among Healthcare Professionals

   Author : Tommy Persson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Masculinity; ; Sexual Health; Attitude of Health Personnel; Focus Groups; Gender; Qualitative Research;

   Abstract : Aim: Healthcare professionals (HCP) have been described as vital for men’s experiences of sexual healthcare (SHC). However, HCPs in SHC have to a low extent been included in research on men and masculinity. The aim of this thesis was to explore HCPs’ attitudes, notions and discourses on men and masculinities in the SHC context. READ MORE

4. 7. Health Data : Representation and (In)visibility

   Author : Pedro Sanches; Magnus Boman; Catherine Mulligan; KTH; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES;

   Abstract : Health data requires context to be understood. I show how, by examining two areas: self-surveillance, with a focus on representation of bodily data, and mass-surveillance, with a focus on representing populations. READ MORE

5. 8. The production and maintenance of inequalities in health care : A communicative perspective

   Author : Joel Hedegaard; Helene Ahl; Airi Rovio-Johansson; Karin Jonnergård; Jönköping University; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; communication; gender; ethnicity; health care; organization; critical discourse analysis; social constructionism; social positions; qualitative content analysis;

   Abstract : The Swedish health care system does not offer care on equal terms for all its end-users. Discrimination toward patients can take the form substandard communication toward women or foreign born patients. Discrimination is also embedded in the organizational context. READ MORE

6. 9. Bending mainstream definitions of sport, gender and ability : Representations of wheelchair racers

   Author : Kim Wickman; Eva Olofsson; Ulla Johansson; Jorid Hovden; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; able-ism; disability; discourse; gender; identity; representation; sports media; Paralympics; wheelchair racing; Sports; Idrott;

   Abstract : Inspired by feminist post-structural thinking and with a discourse analytic approach, this study’s main theme is gendered identity, disability and sport. It consists of four separate, but interrelated, empirical studies and focuses on two research questions. READ MORE

7. 10. Psychosurgery in Sweden 1944 - 1958 : the practice, the professional and media discourse

   Author : Kenneth Ögren; Marie Åsberg; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; lobotomy; Sweden; schizophrenia; mortality; gender; behaviour; implementation; media; discourse; profession; neurosurgeon; psychiatrist; medical superintendent; Psychiatry; psykiatri;

   Abstract : Background. The pioneering early experiments of prefrontal lobotomy were performed in 1944 by neurosurgeons in Stockholm in collaboration with psychiatrists. There was a rapid implementation of the new surgical approach. In 1946 and 1947 the two state mental hospitals, Umedalen and Sidsjön, introduced prefrontal lobotomy on a large scale. READ MORE