Dorthe Brogård Kristensen

Biographic Data

ID165362
NAMEDorthe Brogård Kristensen
GIVEN NAMESDorthe Brogård
FAMILY NAMEKristensen
SIGNATUREKRISTENSEN D B
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Southern Denmark
ORCID0000-0002-9008-9349
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS30
TOTAL CITATIONS109
AUTHOR COUNT29
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2002
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX6

  • Self-tracking inequalities in public health: Mapping the landscape and identifying avenues for research

    Open AccessBastien Presset, Maiju Tanninen et al.ARTICLEHealth An Interdisciplinary…2026

    While extensive research has been conducted on self-tracking (using devices like smartwatches to monitor behaviours), few studies have investigated the question of inequalities within this area. This creates a critical knowledge gap at a time when self-tracking is rapidly expanding in public health. More specifically, it may fall short of delivering its benefits if its limitations, notably those related to how it spreads across and is adopted by …

  • The highest decision-making level” – Multidisciplinary team meetings as boundary spaces

    Open AccessHenriette List, Dorthe Brogård Kristensen et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2025References: 9

    Multidisciplinary team meetings (MDMs), also known as tumor boards, play a crucial role in collaborative decision-making within Western healthcare systems. This study explores the significance of MDMs in Danish cancer care through an ethnographic lens, based on fieldwork conducted at five university hospitals. Clinicians regard these meetings as fostering efficiency, reflexivity, consistency, transparency, and security in patient care, and recogn…

  • In whose pockets? How small Danish patient organisations balance legitimacy, representation and dependency in collaboration with public sector medical researchers and the life science industry

    Open AccessCharlotte Bredal Jacobsen, Dorthe Brogård Kristensen et al.ARTICLEBioSocieties2024

    It is a commonly accepted idea that complex structural challenges can be solved if private actors, NGOs, and the public authorities collaborate (Brogaard in Politica 47(4):541–560, 2015), a view that has come to frame several publicly funded network activities in Denmark. This article takes its point of departure in one such project aimed at setting up a collaborative network between researchers, patient associations, and life science partners to…

  • Myter: En introduktion

    Michael Harbsmeier, Peter Henriques et al.ARTICLETidsskriftet Antropologi2024

    Introduktion

  • Fitness interrupted

    A P Kuruoglu, Anne Louise Fink et al.ARTICLEConsumption Markets & Culture2023

    This article investigates the entanglement between embodiment and space, by unfolding the consequences of the Covid19-lockdown on fit bodies. We draw on workout diaries and phenomenological interviews with 22 Danish gym-goers and analyze their attempts to adapt their workouts and/or generate new embodiments within their new spatial conditions. We find that lockdown threatened and disrupted carefully cultivated embodiments, and generated fluctuati…

  • Interviewsamtale: Medicinsk Antropologi

    Henriette List, Perle Møhl et al.ARTICLETidsskriftet Antropologi2023

    Interviewsamtale om medicinsk antropologi

  • The Optimised and Enhanced Self: Experiences of the Self and the Making of Societal Values: Enhancement

    Open AccessDorthe Brogård KristensenCHAPTERPalgrave Handbook of the…2022

  • Ethics, Values, and Morality: Introduction

    Open AccessRachel Douglas‐jone, Rachel Douglas-Jones et al.CHAPTERPalgrave Handbook of the…2022

  • Chapter 3 Uncanny Memories, Violence and Indigenous Medicine in Southern Chile

    Dorthe Brogård Kristensen, Dorthe Brogaard KristensenCHAPTERRemembering Violence2022

  • The Palgrave Handbook of the Anthropology of Technology

    Open AccessRachel Douglas‐jone, M H Bruun et al.BOOKPalgrave Handbook of the…2022Cited by: 14References: 20

    This Handbook offers an overview of the thriving and diverse field of anthropological studies of technology. It features 39 original chapters, each reviewing the state of the art of current research and enlivening the field of study through ethnographic analysis of human-technology interfaces, forms of social organisation, technological practices and/or systems of belief and meaning in different parts of the world. The Handbook is organised aroun…

  • Subject in the Making: Technologies of the Self and Aspirations for a Good Life in Contemporary Denmark

    M A Petersen, Aja Smith et al.ARTICLEMedical Anthropology2022Cited by: 2References: 29

    Coping with crisis is fundamental for human life, but so is the pursuit of everything good and fruitful. We revisit Foucault's technologies of the self as an analytical lens for what people do when pursuing a good life in contemporary Denmark. Comparing three emerging self-improvement domains; psychedelic micro-dosing, meditation and mindfulness, and fitness self-tracking, we explore processes though which individuals become subjects of their own…

  • Interview: Antropologien, Teknologien Og Fremtiden

    My Madsen, Dorthe Brogård Kristensen et al.ARTICLETidsskriftet Antropologi2021

    Interview med Ayo Wahlberg og Maja Hojer Bruun

  • Teknosociale Sammenfiltringer: Redaktionelt forord

    Stine Willum Adrian, Barbara Ann Barrett et al.ARTICLETidsskriftet Antropologi2021

    Redaktionelt forord

  • Tracking towards care: Relational affordances of self-tracking in gym culture

    Open AccessDorthe Brogård Kristensen, A P Kuruoglu et al.ARTICLESociology of Health & Illness2021Cited by: 7References: 11

    In the past few years, self-tracking technologies have been celebrated for the possibilities they offer to 'optimize' fitness and wellbeing, yet also criticized for being rigid and isolating. In this article, we identify complex tracking arrangements that consist of a variety of data and multiple modalities of tracking emplaced within arrangements of actors and objects (digital/analog tracking devices and data output). We inquire into how these a…

  • Patients, Doctors and Healers: Medical Worlds among the Mapuche in Southern Chile

    Open AccessDorthe Brogård KristensenBOOKPatients, Doctors and Healers2019

  • Illness Stories, Medical Choices and Socio-Political Process

    Open AccessDorthe Brogård KristensenCHAPTERPatients, Doctors and Healers2019

  • Patients, Doctors and Healers: Medical Worlds among the Mapuche in Southern Chile

    Dorthe Brogård KristensenBOOKPatients, Doctors and Healers2018

  • Co-evolving with self-tracking technologies

    Open AccessDorthe Brogård Kristensen, M RuckensteinARTICLENew Media & Society2018Cited by: 39References: 15

    Seen in a longitudinal perspective, Quantified Self-inspired self-tracking sets up “a laboratory of the self,” where people co-evolve with technologies. By exploring ways in which self-tracking technologies energize everyday aims or are experienced as limiting, we demonstrate how some aspects of the self are amplified while others become reduced and restricted. We suggest that further developing the concept of the laboratory of the self renews th…

  • Perception and translation of numbers: The case of a health campaign in Denmark

    Open AccessDorthe Brogård Kristensen, Charlotte Bredal Jacobsen et al.ARTICLECritical Public Health2017

    This article explores the translation of numeric health communications from the authorities to ordinary citizens. Based on qualitative interviews and document analysis, it follows the life of a Danish health campaign called ‘6 a day’ from its initiation to its dissemination, and finally to its place in the perceptions and health practices of citizens. While the definition of the target of ‘6 a day’ was clearly anchored in social and scientific co…

  • Forord

    M H Bruun, Dorthe Brogård Kristensen et al.ARTICLETidsskriftet Antropologi2016

    Dette dobbelte temanummer af Tidsskriftet Antropologi nr. 72 og 73 er baseret på et forskningsseminar afholdt i maj 2014 af det såkaldte Norden-netværk med titlen „Ethnographies of Welfare State Transformations“. Norden-netvæket bestå af danske antropologer fra forskellige akademiske institutioner, som har det til fæles, at de laver feltarbejde i Norden/Skandinavien og møes for at fremme antropologisk teoridannelse og debat om denne etnografiske …

  • Healthism in Denmark: "State, market, and the search for a "Moral Compass

    Open AccessDorthe Brogård Kristensen, Usha M Rodrigues et al.ARTICLEHealth An Interdisciplinary…2016Cited by: 19References: 40

    This article focuses on contemporary responses to public health messages in Denmark, a country whose system of social welfare is, like that of the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe, undergoing increasing levels of marketization and privatization. Drawing primarily upon Robert Crawford's analysis of healthism as a neoliberal project, the aim of this article is to develop critical understandings of how individuals respond both bodily and emotio…

  • Enquete: Sundhedens univers

    Dorthe Brogård KristensenARTICLETidsskriftet Antropologi2016

    ENQUETE:Dorthe Brogård Kristensen: Sundhedens univers

  • Forord

    M H Bruun, Dorthe Brogård Kristensen et al.ARTICLETidsskriftet Antropologi2015

    Dette dobbelte temanummer af Tidsskriftet Antropologi nr. 72 og 73 er baseretpå et forskningsseminar afholdt i maj 2014 af det såkaldte Norden-netværk medtitlen 'Ethnographies of Welfare State Transformations

  • Introduktion: Et Lykkeligere, Sundere Og Mere Effektivt Liv

    Dorthe Brogård Kristensen, M A Petersen et al.ARTICLETidsskriftet Antropologi2014

    Med temaet optimering sætter Tidsskriftet Antropologi fokus på en af nutidens tendenser: menneskets stræben efter maksimal ønsket effekt eller funktion med et minimum af indsats og uønskede konsekvenser. I den moderne forbrugskultur finder vi en opblomstring af nye teknologier, som er designet til at optimere mental og kropslig velvære og formåen; eksempler er medicinsk og kosmetisk forbedring, diæter samt en række teknologier designet til at mål…

  • The new work ethics of consumption and the paradox of mundane brand resistance

    Open AccessSofia Ulver-Sneistrup, Askegaard et al.ARTICLEJournal of Consumer Culture2011Cited by: 11References: 14

    In terms of consumer resistance and marketplace ideologies, consumer researchers have called for a more nuanced conceptualization of consumption moralism in order to avoid the simplistic trope of inside/outside the marketplace (e.g. Arnould, 2007; Luedicke et al., 2010; Peñaloza and Price, 1993; Thompson, 2004). With the aim of contributing to this quest, this article brings together two originally separate ethnographic studies on food consumptio…