• Life pushing through: Coming to writing and mining for deep reflexivity 

      Gripsrud, Birgitta Haga (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      As a researcher, three of my fields of interest have been the breast, breast cancer and death. In 2020, life interrupted as my mother phoned to say that a CT-scan had revealed a small growth in her left breast. Having just ...
    • Mothering Death: A Psychosocial Interpretation of Breast Cancer Biography 

      Gripsrud, Birgitta Haga (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      In this article I take as my point of departure a puzzle presented by a woman who had an apparently ‘bizarre’ reaction to a breast cancer diagnosis. In the clinic, she had exclaimed: “I would rather die than lose the ...