Sökning: "disability identity"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 34 avhandlingar innehållade orden disability identity.
1. Disability and gender : Autonomy as an indication of adulthood
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this dissertation was initially to examine the relationship between a continuedrequirement of practical assistance in adult life and autonomy. As the work has proceeded, thefocus has come to increasingly be on identifying social obstacles to autonomy, particularly fordisabled young women. LÄS MER
2. Different Voices - Different Stories : Communication, identity and meaning among people with acquired brain damage
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
3. Det högkänsliga subjektets tillblivelse : Diskursiva praktiker om identitet, förmåga och funktionsvariation
Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines discursive practices about the highly sensitive person (HSP) from the perspective of knowledge production, categorization and community formation. In contemporary Sweden it has become increasingly common to talk about oneself in terms of being constituted in a particular way, e.g. LÄS MER
4. Bending mainstream definitions of sport, gender and ability : Representations of wheelchair racers
Sammanfattning : Inspired by feminist post-structural thinking and with a discourse analytic approach, this study’s main theme is gendered identity, disability and sport. It consists of four separate, but interrelated, empirical studies and focuses on two research questions. LÄS MER
5. Perceptions of disease. Values and attitudes of patients and medical students
Sammanfattning : During the 20th century, the development of biomedical knowledge and the demographical changes have increased the needs and demands for health care in industrialised countries. Illness without evidence of disease and fear of disease are often the reasons for seeking medical care. LÄS MER