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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 19 avhandlingar innehållade orden Maria Björk.
1. LIVING WITH CHILDHOOD CANCER - Family Members’ Experiences and Needs
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this thesis was to elucidate family members’ lived experiences and needs during a child’s cancer trajectory and to describe how the illness and its treatment influence both individuals within the family and the family as a whole. Seventeen families with a child under the age of 13 and newly diagnosed with cancer were followed during the child’s treatment trajectory by means of interviews and observations. LÄS MER
2. Problemet utan namn? : Neuroser, stress och kön i Sverige från 1950 till 1980
Sammanfattning : Focusing on Sweden between 1950 and 1980, this doctoral dissertation analyzes and problematizes the process in which a discourse about neurosis and nervous troubles gradually evolved into a discourse about stress. The thesis aims to show how the medical and general discussion about diffuse or vague symptoms transformed and rearticulated ideas and views on society and man, citizenship, gender roles, and medicine. LÄS MER
3. Cooperation in local electricity markets : modelling of technical measures
Sammanfattning : This thesis presents a system analysis for co-operation in local electricity markets including distributors and customers. The purpose of co-operation is to minimise the system cost of local markets by introducing system measures, such as end-use measures and municipal co-generation plants. LÄS MER
4. Cost-effective incentives for local electric utilities and industries in co-operation : modelling of technical measures
Sammanfattning : In the Swedish electricity system there is a great potential for increasing the cost efficiency of the electricity use. However, today the economic incentives, offered for instance by existing electricity rates, are too weak to improve the use of the system. LÄS MER
5. Participation and support in everyday life over a decade : perspectives of persons with rheumatoid arthritis and their significant others
Sammanfattning : Introduction: The treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has evolved over recent decades. Today, many previous limitations related to, for example, joint damage have become rare, and persons with RA can often continue to work and engage in different aspects of everyday life. LÄS MER