Essays about: "medical anthropology"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 15 essays containing the words medical anthropology.

  1. 1. The Sounds of Pain : An ethnography of musicians living with migraine in Uppsala

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Rosanne Heijstek; [2024]
    Keywords : migraine; anthropology; pain; music; affect;

    Abstract : Migraine is an extremely common and disabling disease that affects three times more women than men, and is characterized by recurring migraines comprised of disturbances in sensation perception, intense head pain, nausea, and increased sensitivity to light and sound that can last from several hours to multiple days. Currently, there are no cures for the disease, no official social services that can help a person to handle living with it, and limited studies on its mechanisms or impact on a person’s life. READ MORE

  3. 2. Vaccine development during a pandemic : A case study of an academic research group in Sweden and their vaccine(s) against SARS-CoV-2

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Anna Tarnovskaya; [2023]
    Keywords : vaccine development; COVID-19; discursive practices; situational analysis; grounded theory; DNA vaccine;

    Abstract : This ethnographic study examines the multiple ways in which a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 disease and infection is known in an academic research group in Sweden. This academic research group has been working to develop a vaccine since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020. READ MORE

  4. 3. Care and the Potential of Genetic Counseling: A Clinical Fieldwork

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Socialantropologi

    Author : Frederik Jacques Paulsen; [2023]
    Keywords : Medical anthropology; genetics; care; telecare; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Recent decades have witnessed an innovation in genetics and biomedical practices, shifting the practice from treatment to prevention. Testing healthy individuals for genetic inherited diseases has now become increasingly common, preventing potential disease by offering early screenings, medication, or potentially surgery, reducing the genetic risk from developing into disease. READ MORE

  5. 4. Slow environmental violence and the socio-political recognition of air pollution : The case of Poland

    University essay from Jönköping University/HLK, Globala studier

    Author : Speelman Chantal; [2023]
    Keywords : Slow environmental violence | human-nature relations | political ecology | medical anthropology | air pollution | social perception | health | young-adults;

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  6. 5. The Making of "White Spaces" : The construction, disruption, and maintenance of stability in bipolar realities in Sweden

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Socialantropologiska institutionen

    Author : Emma Larsen; [2023]
    Keywords : Medical anthropology; mental illness; bipolar disorder; treatment; mental health; anthropology of becoming; knowledge production; knowledge sharing; agency; power; knowledge-power; social anthropology; cultural anthropology;

    Abstract : Bipolar disorder is a condition rarely approached in anthropological research, and even less so through the eyes of people living with the disorder. Therefore, to focus on understanding the experience of the state in-between episodes, here referred to as a “white space”, is rare and in need of further examination. READ MORE