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- Strand, Thomas, 1970-
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Hjälp mig att hjälpa dig! : upplevelser och uppfattningar av undersökning med MRT för personer med metastaser i ryggen
- 2018
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Aim: The overall aim was to explore how patients with spinal metastasesexperience a magnetic resonance imaging examination (MRI). Furthermore,the purpose was to investigate the radiographers’ perceptions of the patients’care needs and what measures can be taken to relieve the suffering associatedwith an MRI examination.Methods: The design for all four studies was qualitative with content analysisused in Studies I, III and IV and a phenomenographic approach in Study II.Main Findings: The results showed that the patients could experience worry,anxiety, insecurity and pain during an MRI examination. These adverse feelingscan be reduced by adjustments to the examination’s routines as well as byadjustments to the examination’s settings. A short break in the middle of theexamination can be beneficial if the patient is involved in the decision regardingthe break or other adjustments made in conjunction with the examination.Radiographers’ perceptions of the caring for patients were influenced by theircaring perspective and their approach towards what they consider to be essentialin the care of patients with spinal metastasis. The radiographers used theirintuition as a moral compass when they decided what, when and how to adjustthe different aspects of the MRI examination. A shortage of time can affect theextent of the adjustments that can be made as well as the establishment of acaring relationship with the patient.Conclusions: The patients may feel a sense of security when they receive correctinformation prior to and during the examination. Patients want to influencetheir own care. The personalization and adjustments of the examinationroutines need to be performed in agreement with the patient. The radiographersshould not use intuition as the foundation for their care and assumptions aboutthe care needs of the patients should be avoided. The
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- Tillema, Linnea, 1987-
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Övningar i frihet : Pedagogiseringen av känslolivet och mellanmänskliga relationer i 1970-talets Sverige
- 2021
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- During the 1970s, Sweden saw the rise of a new set of pedagogical methods and techniques, aimed at educating and training people to become emotionally emancipated and authentic in their relationships with others. The purpose of this study is to analyze this pedagogization of emotional life and interpersonal relations as a historically specific form of government. Using theoretical perspectives and tools from the field of governmentality studies, the dissertation asks which human subjects and relationships the pedagogical initiatives were supposed to produce, what benefits were ascribed to them, and how their proponents argued for their value in contemporary Swedish society. The investigation is organized around three case studies, concerned with the introduction of pedagogizing authenticity techniques within three different arenas of social life: the workplace, the family, and sexual relationships. Drawing upon a wide range of empirical materials, including instructive manuals and contemporary media reports, the study explores the parallel introduction of “sensitivity training” at the workplace, “active parenting” as a new method for educating parents, and sensuality training aimed at enhancing pleasure in sexual relations. By shifting the focus away from the countercultural movements, which have received considerable attention elsewhere, this investigation shows that techniques to promote authenticity and emotional liberation were widely circulated in 1970s Sweden, and advocated by established and powerful actors. The emotional and relational competences that the authenticity techniques were set to produce were ascribed a crucial role not only for the transition to a new economy, but also for the formation of a specific democratic ideal and practice, that is characterized in this dissertation as emotional democracy. Övningar i frihet demonstrates that the authentic, self-expressive, sensitive and responsibilized subject, regarding herself and her relationships with others as projects of optimization, emerged earlier and in other contexts than previous studies of the “neoliberal” or “advanced liberal” modes of government have claimed.
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