Browsing UiS Brage by Author "Gripsrud, Birgitta Haga"
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Alt som lever, må dø : døden som tverrfaglig kunnskapsfelt
Gripsrud, Birgitta Haga; Thoresen, Lisbeth (Chapter, 2019)Døden angår oss. Våre dødsforestillinger sier noe om hvem vi er, hvordan vi oppfatter oss selv, og hva som er viktig for oss. Tanatologi er vitenskapen og læren om døden. Den utgjør et voksende tverrfaglig felt internasjonalt. ... -
CARING FUTURES: a study protocol for transdisciplinary qualitative research on technology-mediated care practices and theory development for ethics of care
Ramvi, Ellen; Gripsrud, Birgitta Haga; Hellstrand, Ingvil Førland; Gjerstad, Brita; Vagli, Åse Elisabeth (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-09)Introduction The world’s population is ageing. As older persons live longer and increase in number, society faces a greater disease burden and, in public welfare, a corresponding resource deficit. New technology is one ... -
Couldn’t care less? A psychosocial analysis of contemporary cancer care policy as a case of borderline welfare
Gripsrud, Birgitta Haga; Ramvi, Ellen; Ribers, Bjørn (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This article engages with recent shifts in public healthcare policy in Norway through a psychosocial analysis of contemporary cancer care, which evokes the hope of cure and reparation in the psychosocial imaginary. With ... -
Depth-hermeneutics: a psychosocial approach to facilitate teachers’ reflective practice?
Gripsrud, Birgitta Haga; Mellon, Karsten; Ramvi, Ellen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)In this article we present and outline depth-hermeneutics as a new application of a theoretically founded psychosocial approach, with the ambition of inspiring teachers to explore challenging aspects of their relational ... -
Ethics of care in technology-mediated healthcare practices: A scoping review
Ramvi, Ellen; Hellstrand, Ingvil; Jensen, Ida Bruheim; Gripsrud, Birgitta Haga; Gjerstad, Brita (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Background Introducing new technologies into healthcare practices may challenge professionals' traditional care cultures. The aim of this review was to map how the ‘ethics of care’ theoretical framework informs empirical ... -
How do migrant nursing home staff relate to religion in their work with patients who are approaching death?
Lavik, Marta Høyland; Gripsrud, Birgitta Haga; Ramvi, Ellen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-11)Abstract Aim: To investigate how migrant nursing home staff relate to religion in their care for patients who are approaching death. Method and theory: Individual in-depth interviews were conducted with 16 migrant healthcare ... -
Imagining transitions in old age through the visual matrix method: thinking about what is hard to bear
Liveng, Anne; Ramvi, Ellen; Froggett, Lynn; Manley, Julian; Hollway, Wendy; Lading, Åse Høgsbro; Gripsrud, Birgitta Haga (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-08)Dominant discourses of ageing are often confined to what is less painful to think about and therefore idealise or denigrate ageing and later life. We present findings from an exploratory psychosocial study, in a Nordic ... -
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 ... -
Livshistorier i omsorgsarbeid. Utfordringer og muligheter ved bruk av livshistoriedokumentasjon på sykehjem
Hellstrand, Ingvil Førland; Simonhjell, Nora; Gripsrud, Birgitta Haga; Michaelsen, Ragnhild Margrete Finnesand; Ramvi, Ellen; Leiknes, Ingrid Margrethe (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Nyere helse- og omsorgspolitiske dokumenter løfter fram livshistorier som en viktig kilde til kunnskap i eldreomsorgen, og et relevant verktøy for profesjonelt omsorgsarbeid på sykehjemmet. Men hvilke utfordringer og ... -
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 ... -
Our genes, our selves: hereditary breast cancer and biological citizenship in Norway
Solbrække, Kari Nyheim; Søiland, Håvard; Lode, Kirsten; Gripsrud, Birgitta Haga (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-03)In this paper we explore the rise of ‘the breast cancer gene’ as a field of medical, cultural and personal knowledge. We address its significance in the Norwegian public health care system in relation to so-called biological ... -
Psychosocial and Symbolic Dimensions of the Breast Explored through a Visual Matrix
Gripsrud, Birgitta Haga; Ramvi, Ellen; Froggett, Lynn; Hellstrand, Ingvil Førland; Manley, Julian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-08)This article explores knowledge about the breast in lived experience, addressing a gap in empirical research on a highly gendered cultural trope and embodied organ. We present findings from a study that used a free-associative ... -
Scientific supremacy as an obstacle to establishing and sustaining interdisciplinary dialogue across knowledge paradigms in health care and medicine
Gripsrud, Birgitta Haga; Solbrække, Kari Nyheim (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This is a response to a short communication on our research presented in Solbrække et al. (Med Health Care Philos 20(1):89–103, 2017), which raises a series of serious allegations. Our article explored the rise of ‘the ... -
Silence about encounters with dying among healthcare professionals in a society that ‘de-tabooises’ death
Ramvi, Ellen; Gripsrud, Birgitta Haga (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Background: Empirical studies on healthcare personnel indicate that professionals’ experiences with dying and death become silenced and unutterable within the healthcare service. Aim: To explore and interpret silence ... -
Spenninger i flerkulturelle arbeidsfellesskap ved sykehjem. En etnografisk studie
Ådland, Anne Kristine; Lavik, Marta Høyland; Gripsrud, Birgitta Haga; Ramvi, Ellen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Bakgrunn: Pleiepersonellets samhandling i sykehjem er viktig for kvaliteten på omsorgen for mennesker i livets sluttfase og for de ansattes egen velferd. I studien undersøker vi hvordan pleiepersonell i norske sykehjem ... -
"They stay with you": Nursing home staff's emotional experiences of being in a close relationship with a resident in long-term care who died
Ådland, Anne Kristine; Gripsrud, Birgitta Haga; Lavik, Marta Høyland; Ramvi, Ellen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Aim: To explore and develop understanding of nursing home staff’s emotional experiences of being in a close relationship with a resident in long-term care who later died. Design: Ethnographic fieldwork. Methods: As part ... -
Who thinks about death? A psychoanalytically informed interpretive study of communication about death among nursing home staff
Ramvi, Ellen; Lavik, Marta Høyland; Gripsrud, Birgitta Haga (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-10)The purpose of the present study was to gain insight into how death is a theme of communication and reflection among staff at a multicultural nursing home. Sixteen interviews with healthcare providers from five nursing ... -
Å arbeide med barn og unge som er blitt utsatt for seksuelle overgrep: en intervjustudie om barnevernspedagogers emosjonelle utfordringer og belastninger og om hvordan disse håndteres
Bjørstad, Merethe (Masteroppgave/UIS-HV/2019;, Master thesis, 2019-05-31)Denne masteroppgaven presenterer en kvalitativ studie om barnevernspedagogers emosjonelle utfordringer og belastninger av å arbeide med overgrepsutsatte barn og unge og hvordan de håndterer de emosjonelle utfordringene og ...