Iben M Gjødsbøl
Biographic Data
| ID | 122574 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Iben M Gjødsbøl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Iben M |
| FAMILY NAME | Gjødsbøl |
| SIGNATURE | GJØDSBØL I M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3938-5211 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Predictive algorithms in healthcare
This article examines the development and integration of predictive artificial intelligence (AI) in clinical cardiology in Denmark. Employing a conceptual lens of nearness , I analyze how researchers and cardiologists unsettle and redraw boundaries between human and artificial intelligence. Based on ethnographic fieldwork on the CARDIA IHD algorithm, which predicts survival prognoses for patients hospitalized with ischemic heart disease, I demons…
Introduction to the special issue
cells become humanized through socio-material practices (e.g
From Prediction to Horizon
Computational methods and tools under the label ‘artificial intelligence’ (AI) are increasingly promoted as solutions to the challenges of under‐resourced and understaffed healthcare systems, with predictive modelling positioned as a means to improve efficiency and individualise care. Yet little is known about how predictive algorithms are taken up in the everyday practices of clinical decision‐making. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with Danis…
Population curation
How do precision medicine initiatives (re)organize relations between individuals and populations? In this article, we investigate how the curation of national genomic populations enacts communities and, in so doing, constructs mutual obligation between individuals and the state. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in the Danish National Genome Center (DNGC), we show how members of advisory bodies negotiated the inclusion criteria for two different …
Making a case for “Careful storage”
The word “storage” may initially seem antithetical to “good care,” evoking a sense of objectification and spatial othering . And yet, dementia care institutions empirically function as spaces that physically separate, or “store,” their charges as part of the care they provide. In this paper, we propose what we call “careful storage” as a way of analytically engaging with the interrelationship of care and storage in dementia care institutions. Dra…
Intangible Cultural Heritage
Moral Ambiguities: Fleshy and Digital Substitutes in the Life Sciences
Caring for people experiencing homelessness in times of crisis
Objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic shed light on rooted social inequalities and on housing as a crucial social determinant of health. Little is known on current practices and new opportunities to support people experiencing homelessness in a situation of a global health crisis. This study explores frontline workers' experiences of providing essential services to people experiencing homelessness in Copenhagen, Denmark, during the first COVID-19 loc…
Personalized medicine and preventive health care
Health care systems around the globe are currently orienting themselves towards ‘personalized medicine’, a medical care regime aimed at individualizing prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease through proliferating amounts and sources of data, including genetic information. In Denmark, national health policies on personalized medicine focus on harnessing the potentials of genomic science and technology to bring knowledge about patient-spec…
Time and Personhood across Early and Late-Stage Dementia
How do time and personhood become related when dementia sets in? This article brings together ethnographies from a memory clinic and a dementia nursing home in Copenhagen, Denmark, pursuing how personhood and time become intertwined across early and late-stage dementia. In the memory clinic, the dementia diagnosis is enacted and experienced simultaneously as an indispensable prophecy of discontinuity of personhood and life for the patients, and a…
Recognizing Dementia
This article investigates how a person with dementia is made up through intersubjective acts of recognition. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a Danish memory clinic, we show that identification of disease requires patients to be substituted by their relatives in constructing believable medical narratives; yet during memory testing, patients are not allowed any substitution to clearly expose cognitive shortcomings. In combining works of theorist…
A life worth living
Caregiving can be conceptualized as involving practices of substitution, in which doctors, nurses, and health assistants step into the subject positions of their charges in order to sustain their personhood and compensate for their reduced capacities. Fieldwork in Denmark at three sites-a neonatal intensive care unit, a research laboratory using piglets as animal models, and a dementia nursing home-shows that temporality is a key component in sub…
Humanity at the Edge
Resisting decay
A life worth living
Caregiving can be conceptualized as involving practices of substitution, in which doctors, nurses, and health assistants step into the subject positions of their charges in order to sustain their personhood and compensate for their reduced capacities. Fieldwork in Denmark at three sites-a neonatal intensive care unit, a research laboratory using piglets as animal models, and a dementia nursing home-shows that temporality is a key component in sub…
Resisting decay
Time and Personhood across Early and Late-Stage Dementia
How do time and personhood become related when dementia sets in? This article brings together ethnographies from a memory clinic and a dementia nursing home in Copenhagen, Denmark, pursuing how personhood and time become intertwined across early and late-stage dementia. In the memory clinic, the dementia diagnosis is enacted and experienced simultaneously as an indispensable prophecy of discontinuity of personhood and life for the patients, and a…
Recognizing Dementia
This article investigates how a person with dementia is made up through intersubjective acts of recognition. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a Danish memory clinic, we show that identification of disease requires patients to be substituted by their relatives in constructing believable medical narratives; yet during memory testing, patients are not allowed any substitution to clearly expose cognitive shortcomings. In combining works of theorist…
Population curation
How do precision medicine initiatives (re)organize relations between individuals and populations? In this article, we investigate how the curation of national genomic populations enacts communities and, in so doing, constructs mutual obligation between individuals and the state. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in the Danish National Genome Center (DNGC), we show how members of advisory bodies negotiated the inclusion criteria for two different …
Humanity at the Edge
Resisting decay
Recognizing Dementia
This article investigates how a person with dementia is made up through intersubjective acts of recognition. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a Danish memory clinic, we show that identification of disease requires patients to be substituted by their relatives in constructing believable medical narratives; yet during memory testing, patients are not allowed any substitution to clearly expose cognitive shortcomings. In combining works of theorist…
A life worth living
Caregiving can be conceptualized as involving practices of substitution, in which doctors, nurses, and health assistants step into the subject positions of their charges in order to sustain their personhood and compensate for their reduced capacities. Fieldwork in Denmark at three sites-a neonatal intensive care unit, a research laboratory using piglets as animal models, and a dementia nursing home-shows that temporality is a key component in sub…
Personalized medicine and preventive health care
Health care systems around the globe are currently orienting themselves towards ‘personalized medicine’, a medical care regime aimed at individualizing prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease through proliferating amounts and sources of data, including genetic information. In Denmark, national health policies on personalized medicine focus on harnessing the potentials of genomic science and technology to bring knowledge about patient-spec…
Time and Personhood across Early and Late-Stage Dementia
How do time and personhood become related when dementia sets in? This article brings together ethnographies from a memory clinic and a dementia nursing home in Copenhagen, Denmark, pursuing how personhood and time become intertwined across early and late-stage dementia. In the memory clinic, the dementia diagnosis is enacted and experienced simultaneously as an indispensable prophecy of discontinuity of personhood and life for the patients, and a…
Moral Ambiguities: Fleshy and Digital Substitutes in the Life Sciences
Caring for people experiencing homelessness in times of crisis
Objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic shed light on rooted social inequalities and on housing as a crucial social determinant of health. Little is known on current practices and new opportunities to support people experiencing homelessness in a situation of a global health crisis. This study explores frontline workers' experiences of providing essential services to people experiencing homelessness in Copenhagen, Denmark, during the first COVID-19 loc…
Making a case for “Careful storage”
The word “storage” may initially seem antithetical to “good care,” evoking a sense of objectification and spatial othering . And yet, dementia care institutions empirically function as spaces that physically separate, or “store,” their charges as part of the care they provide. In this paper, we propose what we call “careful storage” as a way of analytically engaging with the interrelationship of care and storage in dementia care institutions. Dra…
Intangible Cultural Heritage
Population curation
How do precision medicine initiatives (re)organize relations between individuals and populations? In this article, we investigate how the curation of national genomic populations enacts communities and, in so doing, constructs mutual obligation between individuals and the state. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in the Danish National Genome Center (DNGC), we show how members of advisory bodies negotiated the inclusion criteria for two different …
Predictive algorithms in healthcare
This article examines the development and integration of predictive artificial intelligence (AI) in clinical cardiology in Denmark. Employing a conceptual lens of nearness , I analyze how researchers and cardiologists unsettle and redraw boundaries between human and artificial intelligence. Based on ethnographic fieldwork on the CARDIA IHD algorithm, which predicts survival prognoses for patients hospitalized with ischemic heart disease, I demons…
Introduction to the special issue
cells become humanized through socio-material practices (e.g
From Prediction to Horizon
Computational methods and tools under the label ‘artificial intelligence’ (AI) are increasingly promoted as solutions to the challenges of under‐resourced and understaffed healthcare systems, with predictive modelling positioned as a means to improve efficiency and individualise care. Yet little is known about how predictive algorithms are taken up in the everyday practices of clinical decision‐making. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with Danis…
Sociology (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Nursing (5 works) · Danish (4 works) · Dementia (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Psychology (4 works)