Sökning: "medicalization"

Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 27 avhandlingar innehållade ordet medicalization.

  1. 11. Creative Disability Classification Systems : The case of Greece, 1990-2015

    Författare :Antonia Pavli; Vasilis Galis; Berth Danermark; Myriam Winance; Örebro universitet; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; classification system; statistics; medicalization; disability movement; disability fraud; corporatism; economic crisis; STS; disability theory; Handikappvetenskap; Disability Science;

    Sammanfattning : Disability classification systems belong to the core of states’ social/disability policies through which persons with disabilities are classified as eligible or ineligible for having access to disability allowances. The study of disability classification systems has stimulated the interest of several scholars from the broader area of disability studies. LÄS MER

  3. 12. Swedish alcohol discourse : Constructions of a social problem

    Författare :Caroline Sutton; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sociology; Alcohol; Social problems; Social construction; Sweden; Medicalization; Totalconsumption; Public Health; Discourse; Sociologi; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociologi; Sociology;

    Sammanfattning : In this dissertation it is argued that alcohol problems in Sweden are not strictly an objectivephenomenon, but are largely discursive constructions that have been reconfigured in substantial ways since at least 1910. The empirical work aims to identify and discuss thesereconfigurations. LÄS MER

  4. 13. 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

  5. 14. Att släcka ljungeldar : Medikaliseringen av eklampsi i Sverige 1840-1930

    Författare :Olivia Ekman; Jenny Eklöf; Erland Mårald; Maria Björk; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; eklampsi; preeklampsi; havandeskapsförgiftning; medikalisering; medicinhistoria; idéhistoria; kvinnohistoria; Aktiv metod; Stroganoffs metod; History Of Sciences and Ideas; idé- och lärdomshistoria; Medical Humanities; medicinsk humaniora;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation investigates the treatment of eclampsia in Sweden at the turn of the 20th century, paying particular attention to two treatments, the “Active treatment” and “Stroganoff’s treatment”. The aim is to investigate the evolving medicalization of eclampsia in Sweden by analyzing the interdisciplinary discussion on eclampsia in the Swedish medical journals. LÄS MER

  7. 15. On lifelong learning as stories of the present

    Författare :Gun Berglund; David Hamilton; Ingrid Nilsson; Richard Edwards; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Lifelong learning; discourse; history of the present; stories; power knowledge; governmentality; the other; pathology; medicalisation; diskurs; berättelser; patologisering; medikalisering; livslångt lärande; Education; Pedagogik;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the discursive construction of lifelong learning in Swedish, Australian and American policy. Lifelong learning has an aura of apparent self-evidence which this study wishes to challenge by deconstructing the normalised truths in contemporary lifelong learning policies. LÄS MER