Essays about: "hysteria"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the word hysteria.

1. 1. Enabling Equitable Pain Management : Understanding gender bias in pain assessment and designing for equitable care delivery

   University essay from KTH/Maskinkonstruktion (Inst.)

   Author : Anubhuti Gupta; [2022]
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   Abstract : The healthcare field, just like any industry which is driven by people, their interactions and decisions, is affected by the social norms and biases. Historically being centred around the average white male, the healthcare structure, systems and process are not equitable. READ MORE

3. 2. Hysterical Bodies: A socio-legal and feminist policy analysis of gender bias in the treatment of cardiovascular disease in the US, UK, and Canada

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

   Author : Lena Fonteyne; [2022]
   Keywords : Gender Bias; Cardiovascular Disease; Feminism; Ableism; Power; Hysteria; Human Rights; United States; United Kingdom; Canada; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis is an exploration of gender bias in the treatment of chronic illnesses by analysing the relationship between gender, feminism, and ableism in regard to power relations within a human rights healthcare-focused framework. Through a combination of feminist theory and critical disability theory, this thesis aims to answer how gendered cycles of inequality are perpetuated within healthcare systems specifically in the treatment of cardiovascular disease. READ MORE

4. 3. No Need for Penis-Envy : A Feminist Psychoanalytic Reading of The Bell Jar

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Kajsa Erikson; [2021]
   Keywords : The Bell Jar; Sylvia Plath; psychoanalysis; feminism; Oedipus complex; bisexuality; castration; hysteria; melancholia;

   Abstract : This essay analyzes Esther Greenwood’s identity crisis, mental illness, and recovery in Sylvia Plath’s novel The Bell Jar (1963) from a feminist psychoanalytic perspective. The purpose is to understand the cultural and psychological mechanisms behind the main character’s situation. READ MORE

5. 4. It´s The Smart City, Stupid! : A critical study of Smart narratives, Attraction Hysteria & the production of Smart Space in the European Green Capital 2020

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

   Author : Joel Göransson Scalzotto; [2020]
   Keywords : Smart City; Lisbon; Urban Regeneration; Attraction Hysteria; City Branding; Civic Participation; Egovernance; Production of space; Gentrification; Urban Commodification; Creative city;

   Abstract : In this research, the “Smart City-edifice” of Lisbon has been examined through qualitative field work carried out in the city. The concept of the Smart City- edifice has been designed by the author in an attempt to grasp the ambiguous Smart City ambition as an assemblage of (i) specific techniques incorporated into the urban environment (ii) the modes of governance which these techniques allow for, particularly real time data collection & (iii) issues of city branding, placemaking and urban, Smart regeneration. READ MORE

6. 5. “To shape God, Shape Self”: The Political Manipulation of the Human Body and Reclamation of Space in Octavia E. Butler’s The Parable of the Sower

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Lisa James; [2018]
   Keywords : Butler; human body; space; society; Contemporary America; literature; dystopia; Los Angeles; Southern California; ecology; global warming; sociopolitics; gender; stereotypes; race; ethnicity; stagnation; patriarchy; female voice; hysteria; feminist studies; social reform; movement; migration; nomadology; Octavia Butler; empathy; sympathy; Parable of the Sower; hyperempathy;

   Abstract : This paper considers the role of the human body in Octavia E. Butler’s The Parable of theSower and the way it interacts with defined space to stage expressive forms of politicalopposition. READ MORE