Nina Nissen
Biographic Data
| ID | 167889 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nina Nissen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nina |
| FAMILY NAME | Nissen |
| SIGNATURE | NISSEN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern Denmark |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0790-5772 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Affective Processes and the Diagnosing of Chronic Fatigue
In this article, Risør and Nissen are dedicated to examining the assessment of chronic fatigue and clinical encounters in a clinic in Norway. We particularly attend to affects, which drive the setting of diagnosis and care. In our analysis, intensities, affective attunements, and atmospheres determine the course of the consultations and play a decisive role in enacting the relational encounters. We suggest that affectivity clarifies that being "u…
An assemblage of everyday technologies in the practice of western herbal medicine - a photo essay
Small, mundane technologies, such as stethoscopes, medicinal bottles, labels, cleaning and dispensing equipment, are integral to the practice of western herbal medicine (WHM) in the UK. A focus on such technologies reveals the dynamic character and porousness of medical systems and allows us to identify cultural interactions. In this photo essay, based on long-term anthropological research, I explore an assemblage of everyday technologies used by…
Personalised medicine and the state
The Lived Temporalities of Prognosis
In this article, we explore the ways in which a man with motor neurone disease, Gareth, and his wife and carer, Maggie, enact different temporal orientations, when the expected future, an early death, does not arrive. We attend to the tensions between everyday priorities and uncertain futures to discuss the ways Gareth and Maggie negotiate action to deal with problems that are yet to come, but, despite this, already matter. We argue that prognosi…
Belonging and quality of life as perceived by people with advanced cancer who live at home
Introduction: In a previous paper, we explored how people with advanced cancer experience occupational engagement and perceive quality of life; this pointed to the importance of doing things with and for others. These emerging findings resonate with the theoretical conceptualization of belonging within occupational science.Purpose: To gain a deeper understanding of the ways in which perceived quality of life of people with advanced cancer who liv…
Inside/outside
Men's Everyday Health Care
My interest is in how masculinities are enacted and implicated in different care repertoires. Drawing on Mol's notion of "logic of care," I illustrate that in Denmark some men's care practices are an integral part of their life projects, and so they target both the human body, and sociality and relationality, as everyday care. In this way, men enact, embody, and weave together a self- and other-directed "caring masculinity" with practices of auto…
Naturalness as an ethical stance
An association of non-biomedical healthcare with appeals to nature and naturalness, and an invocation of a rhetoric of gentleness, goodness, purity and moral power has been noted previously, and some scholars argue that nature has taken on a meaning broadly opposed to the rational scientific order of modernity. Drawing on an ethnographic study of women's practice and use of western herbal medicine (WHM) in the UK, the intertwining of the perceive…
Occupational closure in nursing work reconsidered
Researching Alternative and Complementary Therapies
Women's Bodies and Women's Lives in Western Herbal Medicine in the UK
Health practices designated, over time, as complementary and alternative to normative biomedicine represent one of the earliest manifestations of the growing significance, especially for women, of holistic health care in many Western English-speaking societies. In this article, I interrogate ideas and practices around the body and self in Western herbal medicine (WHM) in the UK. I first explore women herbalists' ideas of the body, health, and ill…
Folk healing and health practices in Britain and Ireland
Folk healing and health practices in Britain and Ireland: stethoscopes, wands and crystals, edited by Ronnie Moore and Stuart McClean, Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2010, 288 pp., £53 (hardback), ISBN 97
Women's Bodies and Women's Lives in Western Herbal Medicine in the UK
Health practices designated, over time, as complementary and alternative to normative biomedicine represent one of the earliest manifestations of the growing significance, especially for women, of holistic health care in many Western English-speaking societies. In this article, I interrogate ideas and practices around the body and self in Western herbal medicine (WHM) in the UK. I first explore women herbalists' ideas of the body, health, and ill…
Occupational closure in nursing work reconsidered
Belonging and quality of life as perceived by people with advanced cancer who live at home
Introduction: In a previous paper, we explored how people with advanced cancer experience occupational engagement and perceive quality of life; this pointed to the importance of doing things with and for others. These emerging findings resonate with the theoretical conceptualization of belonging within occupational science.Purpose: To gain a deeper understanding of the ways in which perceived quality of life of people with advanced cancer who liv…
Researching Alternative and Complementary Therapies
Men's Everyday Health Care
My interest is in how masculinities are enacted and implicated in different care repertoires. Drawing on Mol's notion of "logic of care," I illustrate that in Denmark some men's care practices are an integral part of their life projects, and so they target both the human body, and sociality and relationality, as everyday care. In this way, men enact, embody, and weave together a self- and other-directed "caring masculinity" with practices of auto…
Naturalness as an ethical stance
An association of non-biomedical healthcare with appeals to nature and naturalness, and an invocation of a rhetoric of gentleness, goodness, purity and moral power has been noted previously, and some scholars argue that nature has taken on a meaning broadly opposed to the rational scientific order of modernity. Drawing on an ethnographic study of women's practice and use of western herbal medicine (WHM) in the UK, the intertwining of the perceive…
Folk healing and health practices in Britain and Ireland
Folk healing and health practices in Britain and Ireland: stethoscopes, wands and crystals, edited by Ronnie Moore and Stuart McClean, Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2010, 288 pp., £53 (hardback), ISBN 97
Researching Alternative and Complementary Therapies
Women's Bodies and Women's Lives in Western Herbal Medicine in the UK
Health practices designated, over time, as complementary and alternative to normative biomedicine represent one of the earliest manifestations of the growing significance, especially for women, of holistic health care in many Western English-speaking societies. In this article, I interrogate ideas and practices around the body and self in Western herbal medicine (WHM) in the UK. I first explore women herbalists' ideas of the body, health, and ill…
Naturalness as an ethical stance
An association of non-biomedical healthcare with appeals to nature and naturalness, and an invocation of a rhetoric of gentleness, goodness, purity and moral power has been noted previously, and some scholars argue that nature has taken on a meaning broadly opposed to the rational scientific order of modernity. Drawing on an ethnographic study of women's practice and use of western herbal medicine (WHM) in the UK, the intertwining of the perceive…
Occupational closure in nursing work reconsidered
Belonging and quality of life as perceived by people with advanced cancer who live at home
Introduction: In a previous paper, we explored how people with advanced cancer experience occupational engagement and perceive quality of life; this pointed to the importance of doing things with and for others. These emerging findings resonate with the theoretical conceptualization of belonging within occupational science.Purpose: To gain a deeper understanding of the ways in which perceived quality of life of people with advanced cancer who liv…
Inside/outside
Men's Everyday Health Care
My interest is in how masculinities are enacted and implicated in different care repertoires. Drawing on Mol's notion of "logic of care," I illustrate that in Denmark some men's care practices are an integral part of their life projects, and so they target both the human body, and sociality and relationality, as everyday care. In this way, men enact, embody, and weave together a self- and other-directed "caring masculinity" with practices of auto…
Personalised medicine and the state
The Lived Temporalities of Prognosis
In this article, we explore the ways in which a man with motor neurone disease, Gareth, and his wife and carer, Maggie, enact different temporal orientations, when the expected future, an early death, does not arrive. We attend to the tensions between everyday priorities and uncertain futures to discuss the ways Gareth and Maggie negotiate action to deal with problems that are yet to come, but, despite this, already matter. We argue that prognosi…
An assemblage of everyday technologies in the practice of western herbal medicine - a photo essay
Small, mundane technologies, such as stethoscopes, medicinal bottles, labels, cleaning and dispensing equipment, are integral to the practice of western herbal medicine (WHM) in the UK. A focus on such technologies reveals the dynamic character and porousness of medical systems and allows us to identify cultural interactions. In this photo essay, based on long-term anthropological research, I explore an assemblage of everyday technologies used by…
Affective Processes and the Diagnosing of Chronic Fatigue
In this article, Risør and Nissen are dedicated to examining the assessment of chronic fatigue and clinical encounters in a clinic in Norway. We particularly attend to affects, which drive the setting of diagnosis and care. In our analysis, intensities, affective attunements, and atmospheres determine the course of the consultations and play a decisive role in enacting the relational encounters. We suggest that affectivity clarifies that being "u…
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