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Visar resultat 31 - 35 av 191 avhandlingar innehållade orden health discourse.
31. 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
32. Talking talent : Narratives of youth sports selection
Sammanfattning : In sports, there seems to be an eternal interest in discovering young talents and refining them into elite adult athletes. The dilemma of selecting talent, while at the same time ensuring every child´s right to participate, needs to be addressed and have consequences in social practice. LÄS MER
33. Psychosurgery in Sweden 1944 - 1958 : the practice, the professional and media discourse
Sammanfattning : Background. The pioneering early experiments of prefrontal lobotomy were performed in 1944 by neurosurgeons in Stockholm in collaboration with psychiatrists. There was a rapid implementation of the new surgical approach. In 1946 and 1947 the two state mental hospitals, Umedalen and Sidsjön, introduced prefrontal lobotomy on a large scale. LÄS MER
34. The Knowledgeable Parent : Ideologies of Communication in Swedish Health Discourse
Sammanfattning : This thesis explores the communication of health knowledge among new parents in Sweden. Based on three separate studies, the thesis employs a selection of theoretical concepts and methodological approaches, mainly originating from mediated discourse analysis and linguistic anthropology. LÄS MER
35. Risk, language and discourse
Sammanfattning : This doctoral thesis analyses the concept of risk and how it functions as an organizing principle of discourse, paying close attention to actual linguistic practice. Article 1 analyses the concepts of risk, safety and security and their relations based on corpus data (the Corpus of Contemporary American English). LÄS MER