Maare E Tamm
Biographic Data
| ID | 5708047 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maare E Tamm |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maare E |
| FAMILY NAME | Tamm |
| SIGNATURE | TAMM M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boden College of Health and Caring Sciences |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Personification of life and death among swedish health care professionals
The aim of this study was to determine how people working in health care in Sweden personify life and death. The questions of special interest were whether there are archetypal notions of life and death, and what emotional tone is associated with them, especially with death. Totals of 22 women and 25 men working in health care were interviewed individually. The results showed that 84% of the men and 65% of the women personified death as an old ma…
The meaning of death for children and adolescents
The purpose of this study was twofold: to investigate the qualitative differences in children's concepts of death, as reflected in their drawings and to study the gender differences in children's death concepts. Subjects were 431 children. of four age groups (9, 12, 15, and 18 years) and both sexes. The children were asked to draw their impression of the word death and to give a verbal commentary on what they had drawn. The drawings were analyzed…
Models of health and disease
This paper describes and analyses six models of health and disease. These are: religious, biomedical, psychosomatic, humanistic, existential and transpersonal. Of these six models, only one was unequivocally reductionist: the biomedical. The others were all holistic. The religious, humanistic and transpersonal models could be considered as health models, the biomedical, psychosomatic and existential models as disease or illness models. The differ…
The meaning of death for children and adolescents
The purpose of this study was twofold: to investigate the qualitative differences in children's concepts of death, as reflected in their drawings and to study the gender differences in children's death concepts. Subjects were 431 children. of four age groups (9, 12, 15, and 18 years) and both sexes. The children were asked to draw their impression of the word death and to give a verbal commentary on what they had drawn. The drawings were analyzed…
Personification of life and death among swedish health care professionals
The aim of this study was to determine how people working in health care in Sweden personify life and death. The questions of special interest were whether there are archetypal notions of life and death, and what emotional tone is associated with them, especially with death. Totals of 22 women and 25 men working in health care were interviewed individually. The results showed that 84% of the men and 65% of the women personified death as an old ma…
Models of health and disease
This paper describes and analyses six models of health and disease. These are: religious, biomedical, psychosomatic, humanistic, existential and transpersonal. Of these six models, only one was unequivocally reductionist: the biomedical. The others were all holistic. The religious, humanistic and transpersonal models could be considered as health models, the biomedical, psychosomatic and existential models as disease or illness models. The differ…
Models of health and disease
This paper describes and analyses six models of health and disease. These are: religious, biomedical, psychosomatic, humanistic, existential and transpersonal. Of these six models, only one was unequivocally reductionist: the biomedical. The others were all holistic. The religious, humanistic and transpersonal models could be considered as health models, the biomedical, psychosomatic and existential models as disease or illness models. The differ…
The meaning of death for children and adolescents
The purpose of this study was twofold: to investigate the qualitative differences in children's concepts of death, as reflected in their drawings and to study the gender differences in children's death concepts. Subjects were 431 children. of four age groups (9, 12, 15, and 18 years) and both sexes. The children were asked to draw their impression of the word death and to give a verbal commentary on what they had drawn. The drawings were analyzed…
Personification of life and death among swedish health care professionals
The aim of this study was to determine how people working in health care in Sweden personify life and death. The questions of special interest were whether there are archetypal notions of life and death, and what emotional tone is associated with them, especially with death. Totals of 22 women and 25 men working in health care were interviewed individually. The results showed that 84% of the men and 65% of the women personified death as an old ma…
Psychology (3 works) · Empathy and Medical Education (2 works) · Health care (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Psychotherapist (2 works) · Art (1 work) · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion (1 work) · Demography (1 work) · Demography (1 work) · Developmental psychology (1 work)