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Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 44 avhandlingar innehållade orden illness narratives.

  1. 11. Laparoscopic or Open Antireflux Surgery - A Comparative Study with Special Reference to the Patient´s Perspective

    Författare :Gunilla Nilsson; Folke Johnsson; Bengt Hallerbäck; Institutionen för hälsovetenskaper; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Antireflux surgery; fundoplication; RCT; laparoscopy versus open surgery; subjective outcomes; objective outcomes; narratives; short-term follow-up; long-term follow-up; Surgery; Kirurgi; Health Informatics; Hälsoinformatik; Omvårdnad; Nursing; Gastro-enterology; Gastroenterologi; traumatology; orthopaedics; Surgery; long-term follow-up; short-term follow-up; narratives; objective outcomes; subjective outcomes; laparoscopy versus open surgery; RCT; Antireflux surgery; fundoplication; Kirurgi; traumatologi; ortopedi;

    Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this thesis was to compare the effects of laparoscopic versus open antireflux surgery in a randomized clinical trial focusing the patients' subjective and objective outcome postoperatively, from a short-term and a long-term perspective. A further aim was to describe GORD patients' experiences of illness and surgical treatment and if possible to find striking characteristics relating to laparoscopic or open surgery. LÄS MER

  3. 12. Different Voices - Different Stories : Communication, identity and meaning among people with acquired brain damage

    Författare :Eleonor Antelius; Lars-Christer Hydén; Marja-Liisa Honkasalo; Andrew Sparkes; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Acquired brain damage; body; communication; dependence; disability; embodiment; enactment; ethnography; identity; language use; meaning-making practices; narratives; normality; personhood; power relations; self-determination; social interaction; stories; storytelling; story-making; videoethnography; voice; Beroende; berättande; berättelser; etnografi; funktionshinder; förkroppsligande; förvärvad hjärnskada; identitet; kommunikation; kropp; maktrelationer; meningsskapande praktiker; narrativer; normalitet; personskap; röst; självbestämmande; social interaktion; språkanvändning; videoetnografi; Disability research; Handikappsforskning;

    Sammanfattning : The main purpose of the dissertation is to understand meaning-making practices used by people suffering from acquired brain damage with severe physical and communicative disabilities, in order to create and sustain their identity and personhood in relation to other people. The study emanates from the idea that identity and personhood, also in relation to disability, are created/sustained in ongoing interaction between people in everyday situations, and that the ability to narrate is central to such a creation of identity. LÄS MER

  4. 13. Biografier från gränslandet : En sociologisk studie om psykiatrins förändrade kontrollmekanismer

    Författare :Henrik Loodin; Sociologi; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Autobiographies; Medical Sociology; Psychiatry; Posttraumatic Stress Disorder; Biography; Migration; Narratives;

    Sammanfattning : The modern era of psychiatry is predominantly a history of confinement. Individuals suffering from mental disorders were banished to asylums and mental hospitals. During the late twentieth century, however, the Swedish psychiatry was a recurring topic for political debate and the target for numerous reforms. LÄS MER

  5. 14. Litterära besvär : skildringar av sjukdom i samtida svensk prosa

    Författare :Katarina Bernhardsson; Litteraturvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Carl-Henning Wijkmark.; Anders Paulrud; Sara Mannheimer; Torgny Lindgren; thematic studies; Illness in literature; Literature and Medicine; Medical Humanities; Swedish literature; 21st century literature; Per Olov Enquist; Maria Fagerberg; Åsa Ericsdotter;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation studies the theme of illness in Swedish fiction from the first decade of the 21st century. The aim is to present a wide-ranging discussion about illness as a contemporary literary theme. LÄS MER

  7. 15. Se – än lever jag! : Livsåskådning och lärande i livets slutskede

    Författare :Caroline Krook; Göran Linde; Valerie de Marinis; Ersta Sköndal högskola; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Learning; view of life; existential questions; coping with illness; existential situation; hermeneutic method; cancer patients; palliative care; support; view of life counselling; life narratives; Caring sciences; Vårdvetenskap; Education; Pedagogik; pedagogik;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of the study has been, by adopting a view of life and a learning perspective, to reach an understanding of the way in which cancer patients in a palliative care context understand and cope with their existential life situation. I asked the following questions: 1) How does their personal view of life influence the patients’ understanding and coping with the illness and existential life situation? 2) What existential questions are central to the patients? 3) What is personal learning all about? 4) What prerequisites are important for fostering the patients’ personal learning? Interviews focusing on narratives were conducted with ten patients who have an incurable cancer disease. LÄS MER