K Hansson
Biographic Data
| ID | 16586 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Hansson |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Hansson |
| SIGNATURE | HANSSON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lund University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9039-2201 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Medical Humanities in the Nordics
In recent years, researchers in the Nordic countries have increasingly come to adopt the label “medical humanities” to describe existing academic turfs on the intersections of health, culture, and society, and to bring forth new initiatives to engage with medicine from a theoretical and socio-cultural viewpoint and build collaboration with colleagues in biomedicine. Increasingly, the designation has proven to be useful in communicating to funders…
Engineering organs, hopes and hybridity: Considerations on the social potentialities of xenotransplantation
The development of replacing human organs with those from genetically modified pigs holds immense potential for alleviating the shortage of organs necessary for patients in need of transplants. This medical advancement is also accompanied by significant social changes, including the emergence of a bioeconomy, new modes of biotechnology governance, altered human-animal relations and increased public engagement. Some aspects, such as the impact on …
Digitala Arbetslivet: Digitalisering av sjuksköterskeyrket
The virtual workplace This article examines what the digitalization of healthcare has come to mean for nurses as a professional group. Digitalization is understood in the article as a term that is concerned with everything from digital surveillance systems that partially take over the nurses’ attentive observation of their patients, to healthcare meetings that do not take place in the hospital but transpire with the help of cameras and monitors. …
Research forum: Imaging a post-antimicrobial future
Antimicrobial resistance, or AMR, is a global challenge, with the WHO declaring it one of the ‘top 10 global public health threats facing humanity’. Specifically, the WHO, governments and researchers have highlighted the ‘misuse and overuse of antimicrobials’, and the lack of clean water, sanitation and preventative measures, specifically noting concern over resistant strains of gonorrhoea, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus influenza, H…
Imagining a post-antibiotic era: A cultural analysis of crisis and antibiotic resistance
The study presented in this article is about the role played by imagination when national and international organisations convey the idea of a dystopian crisis involved in the real transition to a postantibiotic era. The present is an era that can be defined as a time when no new antibiotics are discovered or developed, and existing antibiotics simultaneously become less effective since bacteria develop resistance against the active substances. T…
Special Issue: Intersections and Transformations in Medical Humanities: Defining and Conceptualising New Paths
This special issue of Ethnologia Europaea explores new paths for our scientific disciplines within the expanding field of medical humanities. Medical humanities have seen a significant expansion in recent years, creating new research foci and leading to collaborations both within and outside of the humanities. As it is a growing academic field, we argue that it is necessary to be part of the medical humanities in defining and conceptualising new …
Controlling Bacteria in a Post-antibiotic Era: Popular Ideas about Bacteria, Antibiotics, and the Immune System
This article addresses people's experiences with bacteria and the human body and examines the cultural meanings regarding concerns that society likely is running out of effective antibiotics. The empirical material comes from Sweden, and our analysis is framed through perspectives from the medical humanities. The interdisciplinary goal is to better understand the societal challenges of antibiotic resistance in the advent of a so-called post-antib…
Accessibility Denied. Understanding Inaccessibility and Everyday Resistance to Inclusion for Persons with Disabilities
This book explores the societal resistance to accessibility for persons with disabilities, and tries to set an example of how to study exclusion in a time when numerous policies promise inclusion. With 12 chapters organised in three parts, the book takes a comprehensive approach to accessibility, covering transport and communication, knowledge and education, law and organisation. Topics within a wide cross-disciplinary field are covered, includin…
The digital society comes sneaking in. An emerging field and its disabling barriers
This study examines disabled people’s everyday experience of social exclusion in relation to the rapid growth of digital technologies in everyday practices. It highlights the relationships between the growing theoretical apparatus on how society changes with new digital technologies, and theories about how this might lead to new disabling barriers in the everyday lives of disabled people. To better understand disabled people’s everyday experience…
Den sårbara gemenskapen: Kvinnojourer under covid-19-pandemin
När covid-19-pandemin nådde Sverige mobiliserade kvinnojourerna snabbt eftersom de visste vad en nedstängning av samhället skulle kunna betyda för kvinnor och barn som lever under hot och med våld i sina hem. På kort tid kom myndigheternas rekommendationer om att arbeta hemma, upprätthålla social distans och undvika resor att minska möjligheterna till rörlighet. Detta gjorde det särskilt svårt för kvinnor som levde under hot och kontroll att komm…
A Man in Crisis or Crisis of Men? Masculinity and Societal Challenge in the 1970s in Sweden
Individual crisis', as a psychological term, was introduced in a Swedish context in the late 1960s. In this article, 'individual crisis' is analysed as a concept in order to understand how masculinity and emotion came to matter in Sweden in the 1970s-not least to bring about gender equality in Swedish welfare society. With 'individual crisis' as the empirical starting point for pinpointing the way men were to create a new identity and how new psy…
Kroppen och den motsägelsefulla staden
The Body and the Divergent CityCulture analytic perspectives on disability and urban spaces Kristofer Hansson The city is constrained by a variety of strategies and in this article, two such strategies are highlighted: economic strategies and accessibility strategies. These strategies may function in the same urban space, but this article highlights those places where there is a potential conflict between these two. This is done mainly through et…
"Halloumiskam" och vårt livgivande antibiotikum: Kulturella föreställningar om farliga bakterier och problematiska läkemedel
This article studies the Swedish concept of "Halloumi shame". The concept was invented in 2019 when the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) criticized Cyprus – the home country of this cheese – for using large quantities of preventative antibiotics in animal husbandry, leading to an increased prevalence of resistant bacteria. "Halloumi shame" was being used to deal with different complex phenomenon in society at this time. More specific, this study …
Det smarta barnet: Kulturella perspektiv på den påverkbara hjärnan
Our way of understanding children’s intelligence seems to be in transition: developments within ge- netic technology is approaching the science-fiction phenomenon of "designer babies". Embryonic screening and new biomodifying technologies are mak- ing rapid progress and are thus changing the biological limits of what is possible. The purpose of this article is to examine cultural perceptions of the designed brain and how new technology evoke noti…
Movement of knowledge: Medical humanities perspectives on medicine, science, and experience
Medical knowledge is always in motion.It moves from the lab to the office, from a press release to a patient, from an academic journal to a civil servant's desk and then on to a policymaker.Knowledge is deconstructed, reconstructed, and transformed as it moves.The dynamic, ever-evolving nature of medical knowledge has given rise to different concepts to explain it: diffusion, translation, circulation, transit, co-production.At the same time, its …
Living chronic: Agency and expertise in the rhetoric of diabetes
Vulnerable Normality: Popular Neuroimaging and the Discursive Logic of the (Dis)able(d) Brain
The aim of this article is to analyse popular neuroimaging of (dis)able(d) brains as a cultural phenomenon, as well as to explore how there has been, during the last decades, a subtle but important change in the way 'normal' brains are depicted in popular science. Popular neuroimaging is introduced and used as an empirical basis to analyse what Fiona Kumari Campbell sees as a critique against ableism. The empirical material consists of two Britis…
The Unbound Brain - A Thematic Introduction
No abstract available
The Hamburgers in the Fridge: An Interview with Professor Nikolas Rose about Interdisciplinary Collaboration, Neuroscience and Critical Friendship
During 2016 and 2017 the Cultural Studies Group of Neuroscience at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences at Lund University in Sweden organised a seminar series titled the 'Seminar on Neuroscience, Culture and Society'. Professor Nikolas Rose was one of the invited guest speakers; he is a researcher who strongly influences cultural reflections on neuroscience (Rose 2007, Abi-Rached & Rose 2010, Rose & Abi-Rached 2013). He visited us on the…
Det mätbara arbetslivet i laboratoriet
Today’s publishing system with H-index and Impact Factors has made it easier to measure research productivity and working life in academia. This article investigates the consequences of this measurability and competition for PhD-students that work in a biomedical research group. The ethnographic material is interviews with seven Swedish PhD-students that were employed in various research groups at the same university. They were all women between …
Taking ownership of gaming and disability
Gaming among young people with disabilities is often understood within a habilitation frame, as if video and computer games primarily should help to exercise and ‘improve’. Little is known about how these games are used within a private frame, and how young people with disabilities operate their gaming as concrete persons rather than as treatment-receiving clients. Through the use of stories, descriptions, and demonstrations from Swedish youth an…
Crisis and Caring for Inner Selves: Psychiatric Crisis as a Social Classification in Sweden in the 1970s
This article aims to contribute to the understanding concerning the introduction of crisis psychotherapy in the 1970s in psychiatric clinics in Sweden. The article discusses how this psychotherapy became central in the work of the clinics in supporting patients to well-being and inner growth. The ambition was that patients in an acute crisis-situation would be offered care immediately, aiming at a short and intensive contact with the professional…
Introduction: Self-care Translated into Practice
No abstract available
Do different scales measure the same construct? Three Sense of Coherence scales: Table 1
BACKGROUND: Different scales claim to measure the construct "Sense of Coherence". Results from these scales have been compared without knowing whether they measure the same construct. This article compares two versions of Antonovsky's original scale (SOC-13 and SOC-29), translated into Swedish, and a three-item scale (SOC-3) that claims to measure Sense of Coherence. METHODS: The data were analysed in a cross-sectional setting. The study consiste…
Camouflage
To camouflage is to adapt in a situation. The word is used in different ways with many connotations and synonyms, as in disguise, mask, hide, conceal, obscure, cover-up and create a façade or smoke-screen. What the words have in common is that they point out how something can give protection from recognition. Camouflage is therefore a good word to use in studying how the individual being can mask and hide differences, stigmas, or abnormalities. B…
Introduction: Self-care Translated into Practice
No abstract available
The digital society comes sneaking in. An emerging field and its disabling barriers
This study examines disabled people’s everyday experience of social exclusion in relation to the rapid growth of digital technologies in everyday practices. It highlights the relationships between the growing theoretical apparatus on how society changes with new digital technologies, and theories about how this might lead to new disabling barriers in the everyday lives of disabled people. To better understand disabled people’s everyday experience…
Do different scales measure the same construct? Three Sense of Coherence scales: Table 1
BACKGROUND: Different scales claim to measure the construct "Sense of Coherence". Results from these scales have been compared without knowing whether they measure the same construct. This article compares two versions of Antonovsky's original scale (SOC-13 and SOC-29), translated into Swedish, and a three-item scale (SOC-3) that claims to measure Sense of Coherence. METHODS: The data were analysed in a cross-sectional setting. The study consiste…
Imagining a post-antibiotic era: A cultural analysis of crisis and antibiotic resistance
The study presented in this article is about the role played by imagination when national and international organisations convey the idea of a dystopian crisis involved in the real transition to a postantibiotic era. The present is an era that can be defined as a time when no new antibiotics are discovered or developed, and existing antibiotics simultaneously become less effective since bacteria develop resistance against the active substances. T…
Special Issue: Intersections and Transformations in Medical Humanities: Defining and Conceptualising New Paths
This special issue of Ethnologia Europaea explores new paths for our scientific disciplines within the expanding field of medical humanities. Medical humanities have seen a significant expansion in recent years, creating new research foci and leading to collaborations both within and outside of the humanities. As it is a growing academic field, we argue that it is necessary to be part of the medical humanities in defining and conceptualising new …
Controlling Bacteria in a Post-antibiotic Era: Popular Ideas about Bacteria, Antibiotics, and the Immune System
This article addresses people's experiences with bacteria and the human body and examines the cultural meanings regarding concerns that society likely is running out of effective antibiotics. The empirical material comes from Sweden, and our analysis is framed through perspectives from the medical humanities. The interdisciplinary goal is to better understand the societal challenges of antibiotic resistance in the advent of a so-called post-antib…
The Hamburgers in the Fridge: An Interview with Professor Nikolas Rose about Interdisciplinary Collaboration, Neuroscience and Critical Friendship
During 2016 and 2017 the Cultural Studies Group of Neuroscience at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences at Lund University in Sweden organised a seminar series titled the 'Seminar on Neuroscience, Culture and Society'. Professor Nikolas Rose was one of the invited guest speakers; he is a researcher who strongly influences cultural reflections on neuroscience (Rose 2007, Abi-Rached & Rose 2010, Rose & Abi-Rached 2013). He visited us on the…
Taking ownership of gaming and disability
Gaming among young people with disabilities is often understood within a habilitation frame, as if video and computer games primarily should help to exercise and ‘improve’. Little is known about how these games are used within a private frame, and how young people with disabilities operate their gaming as concrete persons rather than as treatment-receiving clients. Through the use of stories, descriptions, and demonstrations from Swedish youth an…
Camouflage
To camouflage is to adapt in a situation. The word is used in different ways with many connotations and synonyms, as in disguise, mask, hide, conceal, obscure, cover-up and create a façade or smoke-screen. What the words have in common is that they point out how something can give protection from recognition. Camouflage is therefore a good word to use in studying how the individual being can mask and hide differences, stigmas, or abnormalities. B…
Do different scales measure the same construct? Three Sense of Coherence scales: Table 1
BACKGROUND: Different scales claim to measure the construct "Sense of Coherence". Results from these scales have been compared without knowing whether they measure the same construct. This article compares two versions of Antonovsky's original scale (SOC-13 and SOC-29), translated into Swedish, and a three-item scale (SOC-3) that claims to measure Sense of Coherence. METHODS: The data were analysed in a cross-sectional setting. The study consiste…
Crisis and Caring for Inner Selves: Psychiatric Crisis as a Social Classification in Sweden in the 1970s
This article aims to contribute to the understanding concerning the introduction of crisis psychotherapy in the 1970s in psychiatric clinics in Sweden. The article discusses how this psychotherapy became central in the work of the clinics in supporting patients to well-being and inner growth. The ambition was that patients in an acute crisis-situation would be offered care immediately, aiming at a short and intensive contact with the professional…
Introduction: Self-care Translated into Practice
No abstract available
Det mätbara arbetslivet i laboratoriet
Today’s publishing system with H-index and Impact Factors has made it easier to measure research productivity and working life in academia. This article investigates the consequences of this measurability and competition for PhD-students that work in a biomedical research group. The ethnographic material is interviews with seven Swedish PhD-students that were employed in various research groups at the same university. They were all women between …
Taking ownership of gaming and disability
Gaming among young people with disabilities is often understood within a habilitation frame, as if video and computer games primarily should help to exercise and ‘improve’. Little is known about how these games are used within a private frame, and how young people with disabilities operate their gaming as concrete persons rather than as treatment-receiving clients. Through the use of stories, descriptions, and demonstrations from Swedish youth an…
Vulnerable Normality: Popular Neuroimaging and the Discursive Logic of the (Dis)able(d) Brain
The aim of this article is to analyse popular neuroimaging of (dis)able(d) brains as a cultural phenomenon, as well as to explore how there has been, during the last decades, a subtle but important change in the way 'normal' brains are depicted in popular science. Popular neuroimaging is introduced and used as an empirical basis to analyse what Fiona Kumari Campbell sees as a critique against ableism. The empirical material consists of two Britis…
The Unbound Brain - A Thematic Introduction
No abstract available
The Hamburgers in the Fridge: An Interview with Professor Nikolas Rose about Interdisciplinary Collaboration, Neuroscience and Critical Friendship
During 2016 and 2017 the Cultural Studies Group of Neuroscience at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences at Lund University in Sweden organised a seminar series titled the 'Seminar on Neuroscience, Culture and Society'. Professor Nikolas Rose was one of the invited guest speakers; he is a researcher who strongly influences cultural reflections on neuroscience (Rose 2007, Abi-Rached & Rose 2010, Rose & Abi-Rached 2013). He visited us on the…
Living chronic: Agency and expertise in the rhetoric of diabetes
Kroppen och den motsägelsefulla staden
The Body and the Divergent CityCulture analytic perspectives on disability and urban spaces Kristofer Hansson The city is constrained by a variety of strategies and in this article, two such strategies are highlighted: economic strategies and accessibility strategies. These strategies may function in the same urban space, but this article highlights those places where there is a potential conflict between these two. This is done mainly through et…
"Halloumiskam" och vårt livgivande antibiotikum: Kulturella föreställningar om farliga bakterier och problematiska läkemedel
This article studies the Swedish concept of "Halloumi shame". The concept was invented in 2019 when the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) criticized Cyprus – the home country of this cheese – for using large quantities of preventative antibiotics in animal husbandry, leading to an increased prevalence of resistant bacteria. "Halloumi shame" was being used to deal with different complex phenomenon in society at this time. More specific, this study …
Det smarta barnet: Kulturella perspektiv på den påverkbara hjärnan
Our way of understanding children’s intelligence seems to be in transition: developments within ge- netic technology is approaching the science-fiction phenomenon of "designer babies". Embryonic screening and new biomodifying technologies are mak- ing rapid progress and are thus changing the biological limits of what is possible. The purpose of this article is to examine cultural perceptions of the designed brain and how new technology evoke noti…
Movement of knowledge: Medical humanities perspectives on medicine, science, and experience
Medical knowledge is always in motion.It moves from the lab to the office, from a press release to a patient, from an academic journal to a civil servant's desk and then on to a policymaker.Knowledge is deconstructed, reconstructed, and transformed as it moves.The dynamic, ever-evolving nature of medical knowledge has given rise to different concepts to explain it: diffusion, translation, circulation, transit, co-production.At the same time, its …
Accessibility Denied. Understanding Inaccessibility and Everyday Resistance to Inclusion for Persons with Disabilities
This book explores the societal resistance to accessibility for persons with disabilities, and tries to set an example of how to study exclusion in a time when numerous policies promise inclusion. With 12 chapters organised in three parts, the book takes a comprehensive approach to accessibility, covering transport and communication, knowledge and education, law and organisation. Topics within a wide cross-disciplinary field are covered, includin…
The digital society comes sneaking in. An emerging field and its disabling barriers
This study examines disabled people’s everyday experience of social exclusion in relation to the rapid growth of digital technologies in everyday practices. It highlights the relationships between the growing theoretical apparatus on how society changes with new digital technologies, and theories about how this might lead to new disabling barriers in the everyday lives of disabled people. To better understand disabled people’s everyday experience…
Den sårbara gemenskapen: Kvinnojourer under covid-19-pandemin
När covid-19-pandemin nådde Sverige mobiliserade kvinnojourerna snabbt eftersom de visste vad en nedstängning av samhället skulle kunna betyda för kvinnor och barn som lever under hot och med våld i sina hem. På kort tid kom myndigheternas rekommendationer om att arbeta hemma, upprätthålla social distans och undvika resor att minska möjligheterna till rörlighet. Detta gjorde det särskilt svårt för kvinnor som levde under hot och kontroll att komm…
A Man in Crisis or Crisis of Men? Masculinity and Societal Challenge in the 1970s in Sweden
Individual crisis', as a psychological term, was introduced in a Swedish context in the late 1960s. In this article, 'individual crisis' is analysed as a concept in order to understand how masculinity and emotion came to matter in Sweden in the 1970s-not least to bring about gender equality in Swedish welfare society. With 'individual crisis' as the empirical starting point for pinpointing the way men were to create a new identity and how new psy…
Research forum: Imaging a post-antimicrobial future
Antimicrobial resistance, or AMR, is a global challenge, with the WHO declaring it one of the ‘top 10 global public health threats facing humanity’. Specifically, the WHO, governments and researchers have highlighted the ‘misuse and overuse of antimicrobials’, and the lack of clean water, sanitation and preventative measures, specifically noting concern over resistant strains of gonorrhoea, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus influenza, H…
Imagining a post-antibiotic era: A cultural analysis of crisis and antibiotic resistance
The study presented in this article is about the role played by imagination when national and international organisations convey the idea of a dystopian crisis involved in the real transition to a postantibiotic era. The present is an era that can be defined as a time when no new antibiotics are discovered or developed, and existing antibiotics simultaneously become less effective since bacteria develop resistance against the active substances. T…
Special Issue: Intersections and Transformations in Medical Humanities: Defining and Conceptualising New Paths
This special issue of Ethnologia Europaea explores new paths for our scientific disciplines within the expanding field of medical humanities. Medical humanities have seen a significant expansion in recent years, creating new research foci and leading to collaborations both within and outside of the humanities. As it is a growing academic field, we argue that it is necessary to be part of the medical humanities in defining and conceptualising new …
Controlling Bacteria in a Post-antibiotic Era: Popular Ideas about Bacteria, Antibiotics, and the Immune System
This article addresses people's experiences with bacteria and the human body and examines the cultural meanings regarding concerns that society likely is running out of effective antibiotics. The empirical material comes from Sweden, and our analysis is framed through perspectives from the medical humanities. The interdisciplinary goal is to better understand the societal challenges of antibiotic resistance in the advent of a so-called post-antib…
Digitala Arbetslivet: Digitalisering av sjuksköterskeyrket
The virtual workplace This article examines what the digitalization of healthcare has come to mean for nurses as a professional group. Digitalization is understood in the article as a term that is concerned with everything from digital surveillance systems that partially take over the nurses’ attentive observation of their patients, to healthcare meetings that do not take place in the hospital but transpire with the help of cameras and monitors. …
Engineering organs, hopes and hybridity: Considerations on the social potentialities of xenotransplantation
The development of replacing human organs with those from genetically modified pigs holds immense potential for alleviating the shortage of organs necessary for patients in need of transplants. This medical advancement is also accompanied by significant social changes, including the emergence of a bioeconomy, new modes of biotechnology governance, altered human-animal relations and increased public engagement. Some aspects, such as the impact on …
Medical Humanities in the Nordics
In recent years, researchers in the Nordic countries have increasingly come to adopt the label “medical humanities” to describe existing academic turfs on the intersections of health, culture, and society, and to bring forth new initiatives to engage with medicine from a theoretical and socio-cultural viewpoint and build collaboration with colleagues in biomedicine. Increasingly, the designation has proven to be useful in communicating to funders…
Psychology (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Biology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Empathy and Medical Education (4 works)