Karine Aasgaard Jansen
Biographic Data
| ID | 221182 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karine Aasgaard Jansen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karine Aasgaard |
| FAMILY NAME | Jansen |
| SIGNATURE | JANSEN K A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bergen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3281-5373 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Abortion Within Reason or Right
Cleaning the womb’
This article discusses students' perspectives on fertility control, including induced abortion, in Antananarivo, Madagascar. The study draws on a total of nine weeks of ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 2016 and 2017. It argues that while the majority of the students do not refrain from premarital sex, they negotiate their desire for physical intimacy in accordance with the prevailing discourse of premarital abstinence among the Merina ethnic g…
Ut over ”illness” og ”disease”
In this article I introduce readers to the history of medical anthropology. Medical anthropology is a subfield within social anthropology that has the cultural dimensions of health and illness as its main research interest and focus. Similar to studies within the medical humanities, medical anthropology considers the human body and its capabilities and restrictions to be primarily cultural constructions. In this article I discuss medical anthropo…
The 2005-2007 Chikungunya Epidemic in Réunion
From March 2005 to April 2007 the French overseas department and Indian Ocean island of Réunion was significantly affected by an epidemic of chikungunya. Chikungunya is a vector-spread disease (by the aedes albopictus mosquito) that leads to painful rheumatic symptoms. The disease infected approximately one third of the island's total population of 802,000 inhabitants (Rallu 2009 ). This article is a discussion of local etiological accounts of ch…
The printed press’s representations of the 2005–2007chikungunya epidemic in Réunion
From 2005 to 2007 the French overseas department and Indian Ocean island of Réunion experienced for the first time ever an epidemic of chikungunya. Chikungunya is a vector-spread disease by mosquitoes that leads to painful rheumatic symptoms, and infected approximately one-third of the island’s population of approximately 802,000 inhabitants. This article is based upon a discourse analysis of text and images of 111 articles on chikungunya in Réun…
Abortion Within Reason or Right
The 2005-2007 Chikungunya Epidemic in Réunion
From March 2005 to April 2007 the French overseas department and Indian Ocean island of Réunion was significantly affected by an epidemic of chikungunya. Chikungunya is a vector-spread disease (by the aedes albopictus mosquito) that leads to painful rheumatic symptoms. The disease infected approximately one third of the island's total population of 802,000 inhabitants (Rallu 2009 ). This article is a discussion of local etiological accounts of ch…
The printed press’s representations of the 2005–2007chikungunya epidemic in Réunion
From 2005 to 2007 the French overseas department and Indian Ocean island of Réunion experienced for the first time ever an epidemic of chikungunya. Chikungunya is a vector-spread disease by mosquitoes that leads to painful rheumatic symptoms, and infected approximately one-third of the island’s population of approximately 802,000 inhabitants. This article is based upon a discourse analysis of text and images of 111 articles on chikungunya in Réun…
The 2005-2007 Chikungunya Epidemic in Réunion
From March 2005 to April 2007 the French overseas department and Indian Ocean island of Réunion was significantly affected by an epidemic of chikungunya. Chikungunya is a vector-spread disease (by the aedes albopictus mosquito) that leads to painful rheumatic symptoms. The disease infected approximately one third of the island's total population of 802,000 inhabitants (Rallu 2009 ). This article is a discussion of local etiological accounts of ch…
Ut over ”illness” og ”disease”
In this article I introduce readers to the history of medical anthropology. Medical anthropology is a subfield within social anthropology that has the cultural dimensions of health and illness as its main research interest and focus. Similar to studies within the medical humanities, medical anthropology considers the human body and its capabilities and restrictions to be primarily cultural constructions. In this article I discuss medical anthropo…
Cleaning the womb’
This article discusses students' perspectives on fertility control, including induced abortion, in Antananarivo, Madagascar. The study draws on a total of nine weeks of ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 2016 and 2017. It argues that while the majority of the students do not refrain from premarital sex, they negotiate their desire for physical intimacy in accordance with the prevailing discourse of premarital abstinence among the Merina ethnic g…
Abortion Within Reason or Right
Medicine (4 works) · Geography (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Population (3 works) · Psychiatry (3 works) · Biology (2 works) · Demography (2 works) · Demography (2 works) · Disease (2 works) · Ethnology (2 works)