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- Liu, Rui, et al.
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"I'm not a jukebox where you push a button and then I sing": Negotiating Medicine Access in Physician–Patient Encounters
- 2022
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Ingår i: Ethnologia Europaea. - : Open Library of the Humanities. - 0425-4597 .- 1604-3030. ; 52:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article aims to deepen understandings of physician–patient encounters by investigating views and perceptions held by Swedish physicians and care seekers on medicine access. Through a relational approach and a focus on materialities of medicines as fluid and contingent, we conceptualize medicine access as situated everyday practices and physician–patient encounters as embedded in sociomaterial configurations. Through a bricolage approach, we present both quantitative and qualitative data from physicians and care seekers. We argue that diverging views on medicine access held by both parties do not necessarily position medical professional knowledge as opposed to lay knowledge. They are reflective of a shifting healthcare landscape and evolving expectations on provision and experiences of care services.
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- Lundin, Susanne, et al.
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”Allt fler falska mediciner mot covid-19 i omlopp”
- 2021
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Ingår i: Dagens nyheter (DN debatt). - 1101-2447.
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Debatten om covid-19 fokuserar främst på medicinska områden som smittspridning, antikroppar och vacciner. Men det finns andra aspekter som glöms bort.Våren 2020 rapporterade Interpol att stora mängder förfalskade covid-19- skyddsprodukter av olika slag var i omlopp. Nu ett år senare har den globala illegala spridningen ökat. Det gäller allt från undermåliga ansiktsmasker till sådant som utger sig för att vara godkända mediciner och vacciner.Många falska mediciner och skyddsprodukter kan ge allvarliga biverkningar. Andra produkter kan vara helt i avsaknad av aktiva ingredienser och det kan ligga nära till hands att avfärda dem som harmlösa. I själva verket invaggar de oss i en falsk trygghet vilket är allvarligt under den nu pågående pandemin. Vår forskargrupp har länge studerat förekomsten av förfalskade medicinska produkter och vi såg vikten av att samla in data om hur skydd mot covid-19 anskaffas, vem som har tillgång till produkterna och i vilken utsträckning människor riskerar att få förfalskade varor.
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- Mirsalehi, Talieh
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Health in Negotiation : Cultural Analytical Perspectives on Health and Inequalities in the Swedish Asylum Context
- 2024
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Health inequalities are a persistent and growing issue in different countries worldwide. Sweden, despite being one of the scandinavian countries with internationally recognized welfare system is no exception. The issue of health disparities and its increase among some groups, including those who are categorised as migrant have been acknowledged. Emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, however, revealed the gravity of the situation when groups of people who had migrated to Sweden from countries mainly within Africa and the Middle East were on the frontline experiencing disproportionate impacts of the Coronavirus. Although the effect of structural factors on health vulnerabilities among these groups have been identified, there is still little knowledge about how individuals who are placed into migrant categories have experienced and responded to health risks caused by the pandemic. This dissertation aims to provide a cultural analytical account of the ways in which people who undergo an asylum process in Sweden relate to, navigate, and negotiate health. By empirically investigating a group of asylum seekers’ perceptions of health, body, and risk, this study demonstrates how the participants make meaning of their embodied experiences of generating health and practicing self-care while living in a transitional state. In a health care landscape where taking responsibility for one’s health is a sociocultural norm, protecting health and preserving body is seen as a moral percept, expected from all members of society. Disparities in health, from this view, may be perceived as avoidable by leading a healthy way of life and avoiding exposure to health risks. By focusing on a group of asylum seekers’ experiences of navigating health and care before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden, this study reveals how perceptions and practices of health and care are situational, contextual, and negotiable in relation to the conditions within asylum processes. While being expected to actively participate in the society they want to be a part of, those who joined this study revealed how uncertainties about the state of their ‘at-risk’ bodies clash with performances of membership.While making meaning of notions of health and care in the new society and turning it to projects of familiarization, those who joined this study shared challenges of building a fit and equally immune body that matches new parameters of health and well-being under unqual circumstances. However, it may not be translated as passivity and lack of initiation among ‘vulnerable’ groups when it comes to generating health. The notions of health, care, risk, and immunity, from this perspective, are boundary concepts and open to interpretation. In order to access the experiences, perceptions and practices of health among ‘inaccessible’ migrant populations, more emphasis needs to be put on methodological considerations in health research among different groups.
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- Mirsalehi, Talieh
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Migration, transient bodies, and re-construction of the self : embodying refinement of bodies in the borderland of community and society
- 2022
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Migration includes re-starting and re-building a life course. It begins with re-imagination of the journey and the kind of life that is going to take shape in the receiving society. One steps in a migratory journey with knowledge of the past experiences of dealing with risks through, among others, developing an understanding about one’s body. With migration, bodies get displaced, emplaced, replaced, and so do cultural perceptions about body, health, illness, and healing. Migration relocates bodies and alongside, regenerates ideas about what a healthy body is and how it is supposed to be (re)constructed and restored. Those entering a new society as asylum seekers and migrants may face requirements of re-understanding their bodies and re-establishing new skills to refine their pre-migration bodies. It is to become good, familiar members of the society. But how do those who cross borders to resettle in a new society perceive these sociocultually constructed ideas about management of risks, preservation of health, and creation of up-to-standard bodies? Who decides what an ideal body is, how it is supposed to be constructed, and what defines a refined, repaired, or restored body? What does it take to be rewarded with the status of “good citizens”? Outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic has created an environment where boundaries between the dos and don'ts of selfcare have become blurred. In my article, I take the basis of the society of Sweden to address re-regulation of bodies in a context of migration and in time of crisis.
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- Mirsalehi, Talieh
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Rethinking Immunity : An Ethnography of Risk and Migration in Sweden
- 2023
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Ingår i: Medical Anthropology. Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness. - 0145-9740. ; 42:5, s. 493-505
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- I outline the interplay between biological and socio-cultural dimensions of immunity and risk in the context of migration from Afghanistan to Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic. Documenting my interlocutors’ responses to everyday situations, I explore the challenges they face in a new society. Their references to immunity reveal ideas about bodily and biological functions, as well as sociocultural aspects of risk and immunity as fluid concepts. Understanding how different groups manage risk, practice care, and perceive immunity requires attention to the circumstances that surround individual and communal experiences of care practices. I reveal their perceptions, hopes, concerns, and strategies for immunization against the real risks they encounter.
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- Mirsalehi, Talieh
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The Art of Listening
- 2019
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Ingår i: Ethnologia Scandinavica. - 0348-9698. ; 49
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Recension (refereegranskat)
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- Mirsalehi, Talieh, et al.
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To reach the unreachable : migration, health vulnerabilities, and the problem of nonresponse bias in health research
- 2023
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Ingår i: Medicine Across Borders. - : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. - 9781991260314 - 9781991260307 ; , s. 133-151
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Our aim in this chapter is to explore how outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic has revealed the existing methodological challenges and prospects in research on health vulnerabilities among the groups of foreign-born and migrant in Sweden. We focus on the strengths and weaknesses of different methodological approaches when dealing with the issue of accessibility to the (seemingly) inaccessible and absent groups. In other words, our intention is to discuss the issue of nonresponse bias in different methodological approaches rather than presenting empirical explanations for the situations that have arisen during the pandemic.
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