Sökning: "medical pluralism"

Hittade 4 uppsatser innehållade orden medical pluralism.

  1. 1. Nyhetsdiskurser om döva : En kvantitativ innehållsanalys och diskursanalys om medierepresentationer av döva och dövhet

    Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för medier och journalistik (MJ)

    Författare :Petra Örlegård; [2016]
    Nyckelord :News; representations; discourse; deaf; deafness; sign language; deaf culture; media; Nerikes Allehanda; Dagens Nyheter; Sydsvenskan; linguistic minority; disability;

    Sammanfattning : This study investigates the news discourses to find out how deaf people and/or deafness is represented and analyses how the discourses might be affected by or influence common attitudes and prejudices about deaf people and/or deafness. First, however, this study analysed the contents of the news articles quantitatively in order to find frequencies of different news topics with references to deaf people and/or deafness and whether deaf people were allowed to talk or not. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Lahiya vitesse and the quest for relief : A study of medical pluralism in Saga, Niamey, Niger

    Magister-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Författare :Gabriella Körling; [2005]
    Nyckelord :medical anthropology; medical pluralism; therapy seeking; illness; health care;

    Sammanfattning : This paper focuses on what people in Saga, a village on the periphery of Niamey, the capital of Niger, do in the face of illness. With limited economic assets and in a context of medical pluralism, to which therapeutic alternatives do they turn? And what factors are determinant in the choice that they make? Saga is an old village, which has become increasingly integrated into the expanding urban community of Niamey. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Voluntary Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide : A Critical Ethical Comparative Analysis

    Magister-uppsats, Centrum för tillämpad etik

    Författare :Ignatius Chidiebere Opara; [2005]
    Nyckelord :Ethics; Voluntary euthanasia; Physician assisted suicide PAS ; Morality; Physician; Patient.; Etik;

    Sammanfattning : The two most controversial ends of life decisions are those in which physicians help patients take their lives and when the physician deliberately and directly intervenes to end the patients’ life upon his request. These are often referred to as voluntary euthanasia and physician assisted suicide. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Understanding ‘Illness’

    Magister-uppsats, Kulturantropologiska avdelningen

    Författare :Magdalena Brzezinska; [2004]
    Nyckelord :Cultural anthropology; Illness; Candomblé; Rio de Janeiro; medical pluralism; lifeworld; narrative; medical knowledge; Kulturantropologi;

    Sammanfattning : This study describes and analyses understanding ‘illness’ among clients and leaders of the spiritual tradition Candomblé in Rio de Janeiro. The study focuses on the individuals’ narratives of illness and of healing rituals within the cult. LÄS MER