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- Alftberg, Åsa, et al.
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Vara av eller på? : Cochleaimplantat och ljudmiljöer
- 2016
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Ingår i: Ljud tar plats : funktionshinderperspektiv på ljudmiljöer - funktionshinderperspektiv på ljudmiljöer. - : Institute for Educational Sciences, Lund University, Sweden. - 2001-7510 .- 2001-7529. - 9789198145861 ; 11, s. 31-51
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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- Alftberg, Åsa, et al.
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The Sci-Fi Brain: Narratives in Neuroscience and Popular Culture
- 2018
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Ingår i: Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research. - : Linköpings universitet. - 2000-1525. ; 10:1, s. 11-30
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The connection between neuroscience, popular media and lay perceptions of the brain involves the framing of complex scientific processes and results through familiar cultural narratives and metaphors. Such narratives are often built on the premise that neuroscience, with the help of powerful new technologies, will finally solve the mysteries of brain and mind, consciousness and morality. At the same time, popular culture – especially the science fiction genre – tends to focus on worst case scenarios of the implementation of technology. This article explores cultural narratives of what the brain is and how it functions in two different contexts – among neuroscientists and within popular culture. In particular, narratives about technology and the malleable brain as well as the notion of the mad scientist are studied. The article explores how these narratives are presented and used in popular culture and how neuroscientists relate to the narratives when describing their work. There is a contrast, but also a blurring of boundaries, between actual research carried out and the fictional portrayals of scientists constructing, or altering, fully functional brains. This to some extent serves as a background for the public’s understanding of, and attitude towards, neuroscience – something that must be taken into consideration when dealing with the therapeutic treatment of patients. The narratives of neuroscience in popular culture are to some extent shaped by actual scientific practices and findings, but neuroscience is also influenced by laypeople’s perceptions, which often have their roots in the narratives of popular culture.
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- Alftberg, Åsa
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Ansvar och kontroll. Levd erfarenhet av ljudmiljöer hos personer med kokleaimplantat.
- 2015
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Aim: This study aims at exploring how persons with hearing impairments, using cochlear implants, create and negotiate meaning in relation to soundscapes in modern society. Methods: Participants were contacted through national organisations for persons with hearing impairments. Data was gathered by means of a combination of interviews and an ethnological questionnaire. Results: For persons with cochlear implants, the process to (re)learn how to hear can be difficult, even painful. Hence, the process can be a personal investment: incentives involve increasing ones hearing, as well as a normative pursuit of able-bodiedness. Normative expectations concerning oral communication are contributing to experiences of various soundscapes, in turn rendering individual strategies morally loaded. Simultaneously, personal choice and responsibility are included as components in the process of creating and negotiating meaning. Conclusions: A person’s creation of meaning and the personal significance of the cochlear implant revolve around normative able-bodiedness, in turn entangled in the relationship between person and society. However, by using the cochlear implant in everyday practice, normative able-bodiedness is negotiated, sometimes even resisted.
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- Alftberg, Åsa, et al.
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Conversations about Death and Dying with Older People : An Ethnographic Study in Nursing Homes
- 2018
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Ingår i: Healthcare. - : MDPI. - 2227-9032. ; 6:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Nursing homes are often places where older persons “come to die.” Despite this, death and dying are seldom articulated or talked about. The aim of this study was to explore assistant nurses’ experiences of conversations about death and dying with nursing home residents. This study is part of an implementation project through a knowledge-based educational intervention based on palliative care principles. An ethnographic study design was applied in seven nursing homes, where eight assistant nurses were interviewed and followed in their daily assignments through participant observations. The assistant nurses stated that they had the knowledge and tools to conduct such conversations, even though they lacked the time and felt that emotional strain could be a hinder for conversations about death and dying. The assistant nurses used the strategies of distracting, comforting, and disregarding either when they perceived that residents’ reflections on death and dying were part of their illness and disease or when there was a lack of alignment between the residents’ contemplations and the concept of dying well. They indicated that ambivalence and ambiguity toward conversations about death and dying should be taken into consideration in future implementations of knowledge-based palliative care that take place in nursing homes after this project is finalized.
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- Alftberg, Åsa
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Den hälsofrämjande promenaden. Äldre människors promenerande som nytta, nöje och norm.
- 2011
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Ingår i: Socialmedicinsk tidskrift. - 0037-833X. ; 88:3, s. 233-239
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- From a medical point of view, walking is an activity that is becoming more and more associated with health promotion. Especially older people are encouraged to take walks, since ageing is considered to increase the risk of ill-health.The aim of this article is to discuss how older people reason about health and walking, and their use of talking walks. The article shows that the interviewees are aware of walking as health promoting, but they take walks for purposes that do not have to be related to good health at all. The normative health promotion walk is something people have to handle, but in practice, in actually walking, other possibilities of creating meaning are within reach.
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- Alftberg, Åsa, et al.
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Fenomenologins möjligheter i etnologin: Rapport från en nationell workshop.
- 2011
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Fredag den 17 december 2010 genomfördes en nationell workshop kring fenomenologins vara i etnologin vid Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper, Lunds universitet. Denna rapport är ett resultat från workshopen och skall ses som ett försök att intensifiera den diskussion som var på workshopen. Etnologin har tagit inspiration från fenomenologin och i denna filosofi har ämnet funnit teorier och metodologier för att utveckla kulturanalysen. Ibland har inspirationen kommit från de fenomenologiska klassikerna - Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Simone de Beauvoir – andra gånger har inspirationen varit antropologer och sociologer som har varit starkt färgade av fenomenologin. Idag vågar vi påstå att det finns en så stor etnologisk diskussion och användning av denna filosofi att vi kan prata om en etnologisk tolkning av fenomenologi.
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- Alftberg, Åsa
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Hemma bra men inte bäst? : åldrandets strategier och hemmets betydelse
- 2010
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Åldrandet medför en skiftning i sättet att se sitt hem och sin bostad. Kroppens åldersförändring tillsammans med föreställningar om ålderdomen medför att det egna hemmet uppfattas som ett problem. Hemmet har dock en meningsskapande betydelse, vilket gör att det kan upplevas som svårt att flytta därifrån.
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- Alftberg, Åsa, et al.
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Introduction : Self-care Translated into Practice
- 2012
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Ingår i: Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research. - : Linköping University Electronic Press. - 2000-1525 .- 2000-1525. ; 4:3, s. 415-424
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The overall expectation placed upon individuals to take responsibility for their own life, has in cultural studies been described in terms of neo-liberalism and defined as an internationally prevailing ideological paradigm (Dean 1999; Smart 2003; Gilbert 2008). In this thematic section of Culture Unbound there are many examples of how, if and when these ideas affect people’s everyday life. The discussions revolve around living with long-term sickness, the organization of healthcare, and questions concerning well-being. This is a special issue that analyses how cultural ideas about self-care and self-care management take practical form, looking for those social practices that are uncertain and ambiguous (Reckwitz 2002). In this introduction, we as theme-editors present the predominant themes that are discussed in more depth in the individual articles. In view of how personal strategies for living and life planning are open to continual revision and how those strategies increasingly emphasize the relationship between identity and the biological (Kaufman 2010), we seek to explore how this is translated into practice. Self-care and its technologies take place in everyday life, and will be examined using an ethnographic approach.
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