Search for dissertations about: "feminist STS"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the words feminist STS.

  2. 1. Making Death Matter : A Feminist Technoscience Study of Alzheimer's Sciences in the Laboratory

    Author : Tara Mehrabi; Cecilia Åsberg; Ericka Johnson; Stine Willum Adrian; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Agential realism; posthumanities; new materialism; feminist technoscience; STS; gender studies; Human Animal Studies; matters of practice; animal experimentation; spectrum of killability; agential asymmetry; Drosophila melanogaster; fruit flies; Alzheimer’s sciences; laboratory ethnography; biological waste; politics of categorization; mattering death; ethics of relationality.; Agentiell realism; posthumaniora; nymaterialism; feministiska teknovetenskpliga studier; genusvetenskap; vetenskapliga praktiker; djurförsök; agentiell assymetri; fruktflugor; Alzheimers sjukdomar; labbetnografi; biologiskt avfall; döden; relationell etik; processontologi; Genusstudier; Cultural Studies; Kulturstudier; History of Ideas; Idé- och lärdomshistoria; Philosophy; Filosofi; Social Sciences Interdisciplinary; Tvärvetenskapliga studier inom samhällsvetenskap;

    Abstract : This thesis is a contribution to feminist laboratory studies and a critical engagement with the natural sciences, or more precisely research on the biochemical workings and deadly relations of Alzheimer’s disease emanating from a year of field work in a Drosophila fly lab. The natural sciences have been a point of fascination within the field of gender studies for decades. READ MORE

  4. 2. The Swedish Abortion Pill : Co-Producing Medical Abortion and Values, ca. 1965–1992

    Author : Morag Ramsey; Solveig Jülich; Francis Lee; Jean-Paul Gaudillière; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Medical abortion; abortion pill; history of medicine; reproduction; reproductive technologies; feminist STS; History of Sciences and Ideas; Idé- och lärdomshistoria;

    Abstract : Abortion pills have had a large impact. Since their introduction to national markets in the 1990s, scholars have examined how abortion pills have changed medical practices, illegal abortion, and reproductive activism. What has gone unstudied, however, has been the development and the history of abortion pills. READ MORE

  5. 3. Towards feminist health empowerment for self-testing apps : testing for dementia

    Author : Alexandra Kapeller; Jelmer Brüggemann; Lisa Guntram; Kristin Zeiler; Federica Lucivero; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Self-testing apps; MHealth; Empowerment; Phenomenology; Dementia; Självtest-appar; Mobilhälsa; Empowerment; Fenomenologi; Demens;

    Abstract : Health empowerment, the idea to enable people to assume more control over their health decisions, has been a buzzword in health care organisation and has recently received even more attention through the popularisation of mobile health (mHealth) apps. One form of mHealth are self-testing apps, which offer users to test themselves for medical conditions as severe as dementia and Parkinson’s disease. READ MORE

  6. 4. Communicating Care : The Contradictions of HPV Vaccination Campaigns

    Author : Lisa Lindén; Ericka Johnson; Claes-Fredrik Helgesson; Ana Viseu; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HPV vaccination; health campaigns; public health; care; temporality; feelings; materiality; gender; sexuality; science and technology studies; feminist theory; digital media; social media; social sciences; public involvement; HPV-vaccination; hälsokampanjer; folkhälsoprojekt; omsorg; temporalitet; känslor; materialitet; genus; sexualitet; teknik- och vetenskapsstudier; feministisk teori; digitala medier; sociala medier; samhällsvetenskap; publik delaktighet;

    Abstract : Denna avhandling undersöker tre statligt finansierade kampanjer mot human papillomvirus (HPV) i Sverige. Författaren visar att kampanjerna innehåller och artikulerar olika former av omsorg som inte är begränsade till att endast uppmana människor att ”ta hand om sig själva” eller ”bry sig om andra”. READ MORE

  7. 5. Gender, Technology and Knowledge

    Author : Sara Goodman; Genusvetenskapliga institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social Studies of Science and Technolgy STS ; Sweden; Gender; sociology; computerization; globalization; gender and work; gender division of labor; midwifery; midwives; India; reproductive technology; globalisation;

    Abstract : During the last 15 years questions concerning gender, technology and knowledge, have become increasingly recognized as central to the field of the sociology of technology. Nonetheless, critical questions remain unanswered. These issues are addressed here through investigations of the relationship between gender, work, knowledge and technology. READ MORE