Search for dissertations about: "medicalisation"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 swedish dissertations containing the word medicalisation.

2. 1. Deficient bodies and divine interventions : women, midwives, and the medicalisation of childbirth - a gender perspective

   Author : Agneta Westergren; Monica Christianson; Kerstin Edin; Ingela Lundgren; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Birth experiences; birth plan; birth setting; childbirth; cross-sectional study; femininity; feminism; focused ethnography; gender perspective; intrapartum interventions; medicalisation; midwifery; qualitative methods; women; Barnmorska; feminism; förlossning; förlossningsplan; förlossningsupplevelse; förlossningsvård; genuskonstruktion; genusperspektiv; intervention; kvalitativ metod; kvinna; medikalisering; observation; tvärsnittsstudie;

   Abstract : Background In Sweden, one of the safest countries to give birth and to be born in, there is a trend towards increasing interventions during childbirth, and fewer women than ever give birth without having their labours induced or augmented, epidural analgesia, or caesarean section. While interventions at times are vital for a safe birth, there is a growing body of evidence demonstrating that an overuse of medical and technological interventions may have adverse effects on woman and child. READ MORE

4. 2. On lifelong learning as stories of the present

   Author : Gun Berglund; David Hamilton; Ingrid Nilsson; Richard Edwards; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Lifelong learning; discourse; history of the present; stories; power knowledge; governmentality; the other; pathology; medicalisation; diskurs; berättelser; patologisering; medikalisering; livslångt lärande; Education; Pedagogik;

   Abstract : This thesis examines the discursive construction of lifelong learning in Swedish, Australian and American policy. Lifelong learning has an aura of apparent self-evidence which this study wishes to challenge by deconstructing the normalised truths in contemporary lifelong learning policies. READ MORE

5. 3. Testing Pills, Enacting Obesity : The work of localizing tools in a clinical trial

   Author : Petra Jonvallen; Boel Berner; Claes-Fredrik Helgesson; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Invisible work; contract research organisation; standardization; articulation work; production tasks; enactment; evidence based medicine; clinical trials; clinical research protocol; rationalizing tools; obesity; pharmaceutical production; clinical practice; medicalisation; Övervikt; klinisk prövning; Technology and social change; Teknik och social förändring; Genus och teknik;

   Abstract : This study examines tools and practices involved in a large scale and multi-sited clinical trial of a potential drug against obesity. Two tools are in focus: a clinical research protocol and a computer control system. READ MORE

6. 4. Alcohol, sickness absence and disability pension : a study in the field of disease, ill health, psychosocial factors, and medicalisation

   Author : Marianne Upmark; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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   Abstract : In Sweden 1998 there were 34 487 newly granted DPs (disability pensions) irrespective of diagnosis and 466 (1.4 %) with a main diagnosis of alcohol dependence or abuse. Other studies have shown that alcohol diagnoses are underestimated on certificates for disability pension. READ MORE

7. 5. Critical paediatric bioethics and the treatment of short stature : an interdisciplinary study

   Author : Maria Cristina Murano; Kristin Zeiler; Patrice Bourdelais; Bjørn Hofmann; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; critical paediatric bioethics; growth hormone treatment; medicalisation; phenomenology of the body; critical disability studies; short stature; drug regulations;

   Abstract : Several studies have argued that there is a correlation between short stature and negative experiences and characteristics, such as social discrimination, economic disadvantage, health problems (especially for men). The idea that short men have a disadvantage in social interactions and in partner choices is also widespread in popular culture and common knowledge. READ MORE