Search for dissertations about: "widows"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 15 swedish dissertations containing the word widows.

2. 1. The widowhood effect : Studies on mortality among Swedish widows and widowers

   Author : Filip Dabergott; Sven Drefahl; Sunnee Billingsley; Kelfve Susanne; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; widowhood; mortality trends; population aging; gender; socioeconomic status; sociologisk demografi; Sociological Demography;

   Abstract : Spousal loss is a common experience associated with old age, and a major life-event that entails a period of intense suffering for most individuals. In addition to emotional shock and grief, the period after spousal loss is often characterized by vast changes in many areas of the surviving spouse’s life, from everyday habits to financial security. READ MORE

4. 2. The loss of a husband to cancer : additional and avoidable psychological traumata

   Author : Unnur Anna Valdimarsdóttir; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : Widowhood; neoplasms; risk factors; communication; prognosis; adaptation; psychological; anxiety; depression; epidemiology.;

   Abstract : Background: The loss of a loved partner is a stressful event and the long-term outcome of such a trauma may partly be determined by characteristics of the death. When death is the result of a chronic illness such as cancer, the future widow may have an opportunity to prepare for the forthcoming death but may also be exposed to the additional burden of her husband's suffering. READ MORE

5. 3. Historical Urban Agriculture : Food Production and Access to Land in Swedish Towns before 1900

   Author : Annika Björklund; Mats Widgren; Johannes Renes; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; urban agriculture; urban history; urban geography; Sweden; town; food production; food consumption; Uppsala; historical geography; land allocation; cadastral maps; urban land-use; Human geography; Kulturgeografi; Human Geography; kulturgeografi;

   Abstract : This doctoral thesis analyses the role of historical urban agriculture in a long-time perspective, through a combination of overarching surveys of Swedish towns and detailed studies of one town – Uppsala in east-central Sweden. The study shows how agricultural land – town land – of various sizes was donated to towns repeatedly during medieval times and in the 16th and 17th centuries. READ MORE

6. 4. SOMETHING GOOD BUT NOTHING TO BE PROUD OF : Inheritance and Succession Practices, and Sociopolitical Stakes in Times of Decentralization in Marracuene, Mozambique

   Author : Fernando Matai Manjate; Sten Hagberg; Sverker Finnström; Lars Buur; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Inheritance; succession; dispossession; legal pluralism; Marracuene; Mozambique; urbanization; decentralization; anthropology.; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

   Abstract : This ethnographic study focuses on inheritance and succession practices and sociopolitical stakes in present-day Marracuene in southern Mozambique. It explores how in contexts of rapid economic, social, cultural and political change, individuals, social actors and institutions deal with inheritance and succession rights, both when the property holders and incumbents are still alive and after they have passed away. READ MORE

7. 5. Latin Letters from Clergymen in the Province of Scania (Eastern Denmark - Southern Sweden) in the Seventeenth Century : A Critical Edition with Introduction, Translation and Commentaries

   Author : Johanna Svensson; Latin; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Neo-Latin; Latin letters; Latin epistolography; Lutheran confessional culture; clerical identity; Lutheran clergymen; North-Western Scania; Barkåkra; clerical networks; the pastor s communion; testimonials; churchings; the Treaty of Roskilde;

   Abstract : This doctoral thesis comprises a critical edition of a previously unpublished manuscript from the late seventeenth century, which is housed in Lund University Library. The manuscript consists of copies of eighty-eight letters and other documents in Latin. READ MORE