Sökning: "Susanne Lundin"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 avhandlingar innehållade orden Susanne Lundin.
1. Gene technology at stake : Swedish governmental commissions on the border of science and politics
Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the Swedish political response to the challenges posed by gene technology, seen through the prism of governmental commissions. It discerns and analyses continuities and changes in the Swedish political conception of gene technology, over the course of two decades, 1980–2000. LÄS MER
2. Branschinteraktion och institutionell förändring : Omvandling i två livsmedelsbranscher
Sammanfattning : Studien tar sin utgångspunkt i de senaste decenniernas trend mot avreglering, marknadsintegration och andra politiska åtgärder som syftar till att skapa bättre förutsättningar för konkurrens. Konkurrens antas skapa dynamik och ge olika positiva effekter såsom innovationer, förnyelse och mångfald. LÄS MER
3. Att ge liv : aspekter av fruktbarhet i tid och rum
Sammanfattning : The aim of the study is to explore the context in wich fertility - to give life - is perceived. Human beings are by necessity constructing meaning in order to survive, it is a part of their biological preconditions. Meaning is created and constructed in a society and a culture at a given historic time. LÄS MER
4. Please Be Patient : A Cultural Phenomenological Study of Haemodialysis and Kidney Transplantation Care
Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the practice of haemodialysis and kidney transplantation, the two medical therapies available for persons with kidney failure, from a phenomenological perspective. A basic assumption made in the thesis is that contemporary biomedicine is deeply embedded in the cultural, historical, economic, and political circumstances provided by the particular local, national, and transnational contexts in which it is practiced. LÄS MER
5. I ett andetag : En kulturanalys av astma som begränsning och möjlighet
Sammanfattning : Though asthma is a commonly occurring disorder today, the development and introduction of anti-inflammatory drugs in treating it has changed the possibilities of living with it. At the same time, the Swedish guidelines for asthma care have changed: the patient is to take responsibility for her or his chronic illness to attain full quality of life. LÄS MER
