Sökning: "conceptions of disease"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 27 avhandlingar innehållade orden conceptions of disease.

  1. 1. Icons of disease : A philosophical inquiry into the semantics, phenomenology and ontology of the clinical conceptions of disease

    Författare :Per Sundström; Lennart Nordenfelt; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Conceptions of disease; Clinical encounter; Life-world; Symbolic mediation; Philosophy of medicine; Medical ethics; Hermeneutics; Human organism; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

    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

  3. 2. Frisk och sjuk : Vardagliga föreställningar om hälsan och dess motsatser

    Författare :Gunilla Tegern; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; lay conceptions; the medicalization process; sociology of health and illness; everyday typologies of diseases; 20th century; Sweden; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of the present study is to analyse the content of everyday conceptions of health and illness and to elucidate through this analysis what these conceptions can tell us about our time.The analysis is based on two types of material: interviews with lay persons about health and illness, and newspaper articles and biographies concerning certain topics. LÄS MER

  4. 3. INDIVIDUAL GENETIC RESEARCH RESULTS : Uncertainties, Conceptions, and Preferences

    Författare :Jennifer Viberg Johansson; M G Hansson; Pär Segerdahl; Sophie Langenskiöld; Marion McAllister; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Incidental findings; genetic risk information; research participants; risk perception; free choice; framing; conceptions of genetic risk; making sense of genetic risk; preferences for genetic risk information;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis contributes to the ethical discussion on how to handle incidental findings in biomedical research using sequencing technologies from a theoretical and an empirical perspective. Study I and II are theoretical studies that used conceptual analysis. LÄS MER

  5. 4. När kroppen slöt sig och blev fast : Varför åderlåtning, miasmateori och klimatmedicin övergavs vid 1800-talets mitt

    Författare :Annelie Drakman; Sven Widmalm; Tony Gustafsson; Ylva Söderfeldt; Anne Kveim Lie; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History of medicine; physician; doctor; bloodletting; the miasmatic theory; climate medicine; purging; health; disease; 1800-talet; medicin; medicinhistoria; läkare; provinsialläkare; sjukdom; hälsa; sjukdomsuppfattningar; klimatmedicin; åderlåtning; miasmateori; kontagion; kroppens historia; kroppsuppfattningar; History of Sciences and Ideas; Idé- och lärdomshistoria;

    Sammanfattning : For 2500 years, bloodletting, purging, climate medicine and the miasmatic theory were the fundaments of Western medicine. But then, over the course of just a few decades during the middle of the nineteenth century, they disappeared. Silently, without having been disproven or even disputed, before the breakthrough of bacteriology. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Informal caregivers' conceptions of daily life with a spouse having chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

    Författare :Gunilla Lindqvist; Katarina Hjelm; Britt-Marie Ternestedt; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Informal caregivers; gender; literature review; Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; daily life; feelings of guilt; grounded theory; main concerns; male spouses; female spouses; everyday life; phenomenography; Vårdvetenskap; Caring Science;

    Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this thesis was to explore informal caregivers’ daily life with particular focus on those living with a spouse who has Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in different grades, mild to severe, based on the ill person’s main concern.The study design was explorative, comparative and descriptive. LÄS MER