Sökning: "Lennart Nordenfelt"
Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 23 avhandlingar innehållade orden Lennart Nordenfelt.
16. Icons of disease : A philosophical inquiry into the semantics, phenomenology and ontology of the clinical conceptions of disease
Sammanfattning : The present study endeavers to answer the question: What are diseases in the clinical encounter between physician and patient? The answer supplied - actually, exposed and explicated throughout the study - is conceived in philosophical terms, engaging semantics, phenomenology, ethics and ontology.The methodological orientation of the study is humanistic and hermeneutical - besides the 'method' of philosophical discourse. LÄS MER
17. The hermeneutics of medicine and the phenomenology of health : steps towards a philosophy of medical practice
Sammanfattning : This study is an attempt to develop an ontology and epistemology of medicine with the aid of the philosophical theories of phenomenology and hermeneutics. Medicine, in this work, is considered to be a particular form of practice with a certain intersubjective structure, rather than an assembly of scientific theories and technologies applied in the clinic. LÄS MER
18. On the notion of mental illness : Problematizing the medical-model conception of certain abnormal behaviour and mental afflictions
Sammanfattning : This study inquires into some polemics concerning the notion of mentalillness or disease. Some central arguments in the debate on psychiatry, of the 1960's and early 70's, are focused on.The analysis is performed in two steps. LÄS MER
19. Migration, Stress and Mental Ill Health : Post-migration Factors and Experiences in the Swedish Context
Sammanfattning : This predominantly empirical dissertation deals with how socio-economic living conditions and immigrant-specific factors can be linked to immigrants’ mental ill health. It is also explored how cultural representations can affect stress and whether mental ill health is expressed differently among immigrants from Iraq and Iran than among individuals of Nordic origin. LÄS MER
20. Conceptualizing life balance from an empirical and occupational therapy perspective
Sammanfattning : Introduction: Although it is an important concept in occupational therapy, there is a need for further knowledge about life balance. This thesis explores the concept oflife balance - how people think about it and how it is used in occupational therapy. LÄS MER