Blar i forfatter "Vedsted, Peter"

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    • Am I fine? Exploring everyday life ambiguities and potentialities of embodied sensations in a Danish middle-class community 

      Offersen, Sara Marie Hebsgaard; Risør, Mette Bech; Vedsted, Peter; Andersen, Rikke Sand (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-04-21)
      Woven into the fabric of human existence is the possibility of death and suffering from disease. This essential vulnerability calls forth processes of meaning making, of grappling with uncertainty and morality. In this article we explore the uncertainty and ambiguity that exists in the space between bodily sensations and symptoms of illness. Bodily sensations have the potential to become symptoms ...

    • Cancer-before-cancer. Mythologies of cancer in everyday life 

      Offersen, Sara Marie Hebsgaard; Risør, Mette Bech; Vedsted, Peter; Andersen, Rikke Sand (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-12-19)
      Approaching the presence of cancer in everyday life in terms of mythologies, the article examines what cancer is and how cancer-related potentialities are enacted and embodied in the context of contemporary regimes of anticipation. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a suburban Danish middle-class community among people who were not immediately afflicted by cancer, we describe different and ...

    • Class, Social suffering and Health Consumerism 

      Merrild, Camilla Hoffmann; Risør, Mette Bech; Vedsted, Peter; Andersen, Rikke Sand (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015-10-12)
      In recent years an extensive social gradient in cancer outcome has attracted much attention, with late diagnosis proposed as one important reason for this. Whereas earlier research has investigated health care seeking among cancer patients, these social differences may be better understood by looking at health care seeking practices among people who are not diagnosed with cancer. Drawing on ...

    • Resisting 'reason'. A Comparative Anthropological Study of Social Differences and Resistance Toward Health Promotion and Illness Prevention In Denmark 

      Merrild, Camilla Hoffman; Sand, Rikke Andersen; Risør, Mette Bech; Vedsted, Peter (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-06-30)
      Social differences in health and illness are well-documented in Denmark. However, very little is known about how health practices manifest in the everyday lives of different social classes. We propose acts of resistance and formation of health subjectivities as helpful concepts to develop our understanding of how dominant health discourses are appropriated by different social classes and transformed ...