Olaug S Lian
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 161031 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Olaug S Lian |
| PRENOMES | Olaug S |
| SOBRENOME | Lian |
| ASSINATURA | LIAN O S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | UiT The Arctic University of Norway |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5752-1486 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2001 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Visual framing of vaping
Introduction The increasing popularity of vaping among teenagers and young adults has raised public health concerns, with social media influencers playing a key role in shaping perceptions. This study examines how Instagram influencers use visual framing to construct and disseminate messages about vaping. Methods A qualitative semiotic analysis of 45 Instagram posts from seven international influencers was conducted, with ten posts selected for i…
The MRI-scan says it is completely normal
In clinical guidelines for patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain, reassurance is a key element. The purpose of reassuring patients is to change their views on their illness and, thereby, their actions. However, when symptoms persist without pathological findings, reassurance can be difficult to achieve. Drawing on observations of nineteen naturally occurring hospital consultations with chronic musculoskeletal pain patients, followed by indiv…
‘My cousin said to me . . .’ Patients’ use of third-party references to facilitate shared decision-making during naturally occurring primary care consultations
In this paper, we explore the ways in which patients invoke third parties to gain decision-making influence in clinical consultations. The patients’ role in decision-making processes is often overlooked, and this interactional practice has rarely been systematically studied. Through a contextual narrative exploration of 42 naturally occurring consultations between patients (aged 22–84) and general practitioners (GPs) in England, we seek to fill t…
‘I’d best take out life insurance, then.’ Conceptualisations of risk and uncertainty in primary care consultations, and implications for shared decision-making
The main objective of this study is to gain knowledge about interactional factors that support and obstruct mutual risk-assessments and shared decision-making (SDM) in clinical consultations. Through a narrative analysis of verbatim transcripts of 28 naturally occurring consultations performed in English National Health Service practices, we explore the ways in which patients and general practitioners conceptualise, construct and negotiate risks …
‘It feels like my metabolism has shut down’. Negotiating interactional roles and epistemic positions in a primary care consultation
INTRODUCTION: Our aim is to explore the ways in which a patient and a general practitioner (GP) negotiate knowledge claims stemming from different epistemic domains while dealing with a mismatch between experiential and biomedical knowledge during the clinical consultation. We interpret their interaction in relation to the sociocultural context in which their negotiation is embedded and identify factors facilitating their successful negotiation (…
‘It’s like getting your car checked’
In western industrialised societies, asymptomatic individuals are increasingly labelled as at-risk of future illness and targeted for public health interventions. These at-risk people are identified through health checks, population studies and national screening programs. The main purpose of communicating such risk to individuals is to motivate them to make lifestyle changes. Many of these risk-labels are controversial, both medically and ethica…
Beyond my Control’
In this paper, we explore how existential aspects of being diagnosed and living with cancer are shared in stories that are publicly communicated online. Through a narrative analysis of online texts and blogs, we explore how people deal with their cancer experiences, how cultural norms about illness are expressed in their stories and why they write and publish their stories online. We found that the writers described cancer diagnosis as a defining…
Doors Started to Appear
Following a 'visual turn' in qualitative methods, photographs and other forms of visual expression are increasingly used in conjunction with verbal data in social science research. According equal status to visual and verbal artifacts, however, poses significant methodological challenges. 'Photo elicitation' methods, which typically privilege participants' interpretations of photographs over the photographs themselves, have dominated. This articl…
Modes of Interaction in Naturally Occurring Medical Encounters With General Practitioners
In this article, we qualitatively explore the manner and style in which medical encounters between patients and general practitioners (GPs) are mutually conducted, as exhibited in situ in 10 consultations sourced from the One in a Million: Primary Care Consultations Archive in England. Our main objectives are to identify interactional modes, to develop a classification of these modes, and to uncover how modes emerge and shift both within and betw…
Negotiating uncertainty in clinical encounters
Based on a narrative analysis of 20 naturally occurring clinical consultations between general practitioners and patients in England, sourced from the One in a million data archive, we explore how they conceptualize and negotiate medical and existential uncertainty. To capture the interactional element, which is often overlooked, three consultations receive special attention. While exploring the ongoing dynamics of the moment-to-moment realizatio…
Socially constructed and structurally conditioned conflicts in territories of medical uncertainty
In territories of medical uncertainty, clinical encounters are highly contentious. To uncover maintaining mechanisms behind persistent conflicts, we explore the interactional dynamics of clinical encounters fused with medical uncertainty. Based on a thematic qualitative analysis of experiential texts from 385 people living with medically unexplained physical symptoms in Norway, UK, Ireland, USA and Canada, we explore patients’ main expectations, …
Motivation and obstacles for weight management among young women – a qualitative study with a public health focus - the Tromsø study
The results revealed an obvious motivation for lifestyle changes in individuals and environmental challenges for young women in the relevant stage of their life-course. There seems to be a need for health strategies that strengthens individuals' capacity to overcome the environmental challenges in the transition to adulthood. This should include reliable and accessible health education/information regarding healthy nutrition, eating habits, food …
Generating a Social Movement Online Community through an Online Discourse
I Do Not Really Belong Out There Anymore
In this article, we explore relations between health, being, belonging and place through an interpretive thematic analysis of autobiographic text and photographs about the everyday lives of 10 women and men living with medically unexplained long-term fatigue in Norway. While interpreting their place-related illness experiences, we ask: How do they experience their being in the world, where do they experience a sense of belonging/not belonging, an…
Factors facilitating patient satisfaction among women with medically unexplained long-term fatigue
Bodily conditions that are difficult to identify, explain and treat with the aid of medical knowledge and technology appear to be particularly challenging to medical encounters. Patients are often dissatisfied with the help they receive, and they often experience that their medical needs are not met. To explore factors facilitating patient satisfaction among patients with a medically unexplained condition, we ask: what is the importance of indivi…
Life according to ME
In this article, we explore the role of 'place' in shaping people's illness experiences through a data-led inductive case-study based on experiential data from people living with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) in Norway. Our main aim is to understand how they experience, interpret and attach meaning to various places in which they reside, and how they construct the course of a life influenced by chronic illness. The study is based on stories cont…
United We Stand
In this article, we report on a study that seeks to explore how the contested chronic condition myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), one of the current medical diagnoses for medically unexplained long-term exhaustion, is negotiated within the context of Norwegian internet sites. From an analysis of discussions on 14 internet forums sustained by and for people living with ME, we seek to understand how their online activity sustains a virtual symbolic c…
Medical constructions of long-term exhaustion, past and present
Culture and history affect the ways in which medical knowledge is shaped, sustained and changed. The less knowledge we have, the larger the space for the cultural imprint becomes. Based on these assumptions, we ask: how have medical constructions of long-term exhaustion changed over time, and how are changing constructions related to societal change? To discuss these questions we conducted a comparative study of medical texts from two historical …
Ny redaksjon – samme kurs
Diagnosenes sosiologi
Praktiseringen av moderne biomedisin skal være basert på vitenskapelig kunnskap og\nteknologi, men medisinskfaglige forståelser av helse og sykdom preges også av tid og sted.\nFor kroppslige plager som vanskelig lar seg entydig identifisere, forklare og kurere ved hjelp\nav medisinsk kunnskap og teknologi, kan den kulturelle pregningen bli særlig stor. Slike\nplager er derfor spesielt godt egnet som utgangspunkt for å utforske kulturens innflytel…
Global challenges, global solutions? A cross-national comparison of primary health care in Britain, Norway and the Czech Republic
Are current health policy changes leading to a greater degree of convergence in the health systems of European nations, or to a pattern of divergence? How can the degree of convergence/divergence be explained, and what can it tell us about local versus global impulses of change? The most common answer to these questions is that because the process of globalisation is driving different countries toward similar reform programs, their health systems…
Rural Doctors on a Global Stage
Den moderne Eos-myten. Om medikalisering som modernitetsfenomen
Norms for priority setting among health professionals
Which patients should be treated, and who should be treated first? In this paper, the attitudes of health professionals towards setting priorities are examined through an analysis of interview and questionnaire data answered by senior physicians and senior nurses in Norwegian hospitals. The data indicate that patients' needs remain the most important motive behind such decisions, especially among the eldest respondents. Expected medical effects o…
United We Stand
In this article, we report on a study that seeks to explore how the contested chronic condition myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), one of the current medical diagnoses for medically unexplained long-term exhaustion, is negotiated within the context of Norwegian internet sites. From an analysis of discussions on 14 internet forums sustained by and for people living with ME, we seek to understand how their online activity sustains a virtual symbolic c…
Medical constructions of long-term exhaustion, past and present
Culture and history affect the ways in which medical knowledge is shaped, sustained and changed. The less knowledge we have, the larger the space for the cultural imprint becomes. Based on these assumptions, we ask: how have medical constructions of long-term exhaustion changed over time, and how are changing constructions related to societal change? To discuss these questions we conducted a comparative study of medical texts from two historical …
Life according to ME
In this article, we explore the role of 'place' in shaping people's illness experiences through a data-led inductive case-study based on experiential data from people living with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) in Norway. Our main aim is to understand how they experience, interpret and attach meaning to various places in which they reside, and how they construct the course of a life influenced by chronic illness. The study is based on stories cont…
Negotiating uncertainty in clinical encounters
Based on a narrative analysis of 20 naturally occurring clinical consultations between general practitioners and patients in England, sourced from the One in a million data archive, we explore how they conceptualize and negotiate medical and existential uncertainty. To capture the interactional element, which is often overlooked, three consultations receive special attention. While exploring the ongoing dynamics of the moment-to-moment realizatio…
Factors facilitating patient satisfaction among women with medically unexplained long-term fatigue
Bodily conditions that are difficult to identify, explain and treat with the aid of medical knowledge and technology appear to be particularly challenging to medical encounters. Patients are often dissatisfied with the help they receive, and they often experience that their medical needs are not met. To explore factors facilitating patient satisfaction among patients with a medically unexplained condition, we ask: what is the importance of indivi…
Rural Doctors on a Global Stage
Socially constructed and structurally conditioned conflicts in territories of medical uncertainty
In territories of medical uncertainty, clinical encounters are highly contentious. To uncover maintaining mechanisms behind persistent conflicts, we explore the interactional dynamics of clinical encounters fused with medical uncertainty. Based on a thematic qualitative analysis of experiential texts from 385 people living with medically unexplained physical symptoms in Norway, UK, Ireland, USA and Canada, we explore patients’ main expectations, …
Beyond my Control’
In this paper, we explore how existential aspects of being diagnosed and living with cancer are shared in stories that are publicly communicated online. Through a narrative analysis of online texts and blogs, we explore how people deal with their cancer experiences, how cultural norms about illness are expressed in their stories and why they write and publish their stories online. We found that the writers described cancer diagnosis as a defining…
Doors Started to Appear
Following a 'visual turn' in qualitative methods, photographs and other forms of visual expression are increasingly used in conjunction with verbal data in social science research. According equal status to visual and verbal artifacts, however, poses significant methodological challenges. 'Photo elicitation' methods, which typically privilege participants' interpretations of photographs over the photographs themselves, have dominated. This articl…
Modes of Interaction in Naturally Occurring Medical Encounters With General Practitioners
In this article, we qualitatively explore the manner and style in which medical encounters between patients and general practitioners (GPs) are mutually conducted, as exhibited in situ in 10 consultations sourced from the One in a Million: Primary Care Consultations Archive in England. Our main objectives are to identify interactional modes, to develop a classification of these modes, and to uncover how modes emerge and shift both within and betw…
I Do Not Really Belong Out There Anymore
In this article, we explore relations between health, being, belonging and place through an interpretive thematic analysis of autobiographic text and photographs about the everyday lives of 10 women and men living with medically unexplained long-term fatigue in Norway. While interpreting their place-related illness experiences, we ask: How do they experience their being in the world, where do they experience a sense of belonging/not belonging, an…
Norms for priority setting among health professionals
Which patients should be treated, and who should be treated first? In this paper, the attitudes of health professionals towards setting priorities are examined through an analysis of interview and questionnaire data answered by senior physicians and senior nurses in Norwegian hospitals. The data indicate that patients' needs remain the most important motive behind such decisions, especially among the eldest respondents. Expected medical effects o…
Den moderne Eos-myten. Om medikalisering som modernitetsfenomen
Rural Doctors on a Global Stage
Global challenges, global solutions? A cross-national comparison of primary health care in Britain, Norway and the Czech Republic
Are current health policy changes leading to a greater degree of convergence in the health systems of European nations, or to a pattern of divergence? How can the degree of convergence/divergence be explained, and what can it tell us about local versus global impulses of change? The most common answer to these questions is that because the process of globalisation is driving different countries toward similar reform programs, their health systems…
Diagnosenes sosiologi
Praktiseringen av moderne biomedisin skal være basert på vitenskapelig kunnskap og\nteknologi, men medisinskfaglige forståelser av helse og sykdom preges også av tid og sted.\nFor kroppslige plager som vanskelig lar seg entydig identifisere, forklare og kurere ved hjelp\nav medisinsk kunnskap og teknologi, kan den kulturelle pregningen bli særlig stor. Slike\nplager er derfor spesielt godt egnet som utgangspunkt for å utforske kulturens innflytel…
Ny redaksjon – samme kurs
United We Stand
In this article, we report on a study that seeks to explore how the contested chronic condition myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), one of the current medical diagnoses for medically unexplained long-term exhaustion, is negotiated within the context of Norwegian internet sites. From an analysis of discussions on 14 internet forums sustained by and for people living with ME, we seek to understand how their online activity sustains a virtual symbolic c…
Medical constructions of long-term exhaustion, past and present
Culture and history affect the ways in which medical knowledge is shaped, sustained and changed. The less knowledge we have, the larger the space for the cultural imprint becomes. Based on these assumptions, we ask: how have medical constructions of long-term exhaustion changed over time, and how are changing constructions related to societal change? To discuss these questions we conducted a comparative study of medical texts from two historical …
Factors facilitating patient satisfaction among women with medically unexplained long-term fatigue
Bodily conditions that are difficult to identify, explain and treat with the aid of medical knowledge and technology appear to be particularly challenging to medical encounters. Patients are often dissatisfied with the help they receive, and they often experience that their medical needs are not met. To explore factors facilitating patient satisfaction among patients with a medically unexplained condition, we ask: what is the importance of indivi…
Life according to ME
In this article, we explore the role of 'place' in shaping people's illness experiences through a data-led inductive case-study based on experiential data from people living with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) in Norway. Our main aim is to understand how they experience, interpret and attach meaning to various places in which they reside, and how they construct the course of a life influenced by chronic illness. The study is based on stories cont…
Motivation and obstacles for weight management among young women – a qualitative study with a public health focus - the Tromsø study
The results revealed an obvious motivation for lifestyle changes in individuals and environmental challenges for young women in the relevant stage of their life-course. There seems to be a need for health strategies that strengthens individuals' capacity to overcome the environmental challenges in the transition to adulthood. This should include reliable and accessible health education/information regarding healthy nutrition, eating habits, food …
Generating a Social Movement Online Community through an Online Discourse
I Do Not Really Belong Out There Anymore
In this article, we explore relations between health, being, belonging and place through an interpretive thematic analysis of autobiographic text and photographs about the everyday lives of 10 women and men living with medically unexplained long-term fatigue in Norway. While interpreting their place-related illness experiences, we ask: How do they experience their being in the world, where do they experience a sense of belonging/not belonging, an…
Socially constructed and structurally conditioned conflicts in territories of medical uncertainty
In territories of medical uncertainty, clinical encounters are highly contentious. To uncover maintaining mechanisms behind persistent conflicts, we explore the interactional dynamics of clinical encounters fused with medical uncertainty. Based on a thematic qualitative analysis of experiential texts from 385 people living with medically unexplained physical symptoms in Norway, UK, Ireland, USA and Canada, we explore patients’ main expectations, …
Modes of Interaction in Naturally Occurring Medical Encounters With General Practitioners
In this article, we qualitatively explore the manner and style in which medical encounters between patients and general practitioners (GPs) are mutually conducted, as exhibited in situ in 10 consultations sourced from the One in a Million: Primary Care Consultations Archive in England. Our main objectives are to identify interactional modes, to develop a classification of these modes, and to uncover how modes emerge and shift both within and betw…
Negotiating uncertainty in clinical encounters
Based on a narrative analysis of 20 naturally occurring clinical consultations between general practitioners and patients in England, sourced from the One in a million data archive, we explore how they conceptualize and negotiate medical and existential uncertainty. To capture the interactional element, which is often overlooked, three consultations receive special attention. While exploring the ongoing dynamics of the moment-to-moment realizatio…
‘It’s like getting your car checked’
In western industrialised societies, asymptomatic individuals are increasingly labelled as at-risk of future illness and targeted for public health interventions. These at-risk people are identified through health checks, population studies and national screening programs. The main purpose of communicating such risk to individuals is to motivate them to make lifestyle changes. Many of these risk-labels are controversial, both medically and ethica…
Beyond my Control’
In this paper, we explore how existential aspects of being diagnosed and living with cancer are shared in stories that are publicly communicated online. Through a narrative analysis of online texts and blogs, we explore how people deal with their cancer experiences, how cultural norms about illness are expressed in their stories and why they write and publish their stories online. We found that the writers described cancer diagnosis as a defining…
Doors Started to Appear
Following a 'visual turn' in qualitative methods, photographs and other forms of visual expression are increasingly used in conjunction with verbal data in social science research. According equal status to visual and verbal artifacts, however, poses significant methodological challenges. 'Photo elicitation' methods, which typically privilege participants' interpretations of photographs over the photographs themselves, have dominated. This articl…
‘I’d best take out life insurance, then.’ Conceptualisations of risk and uncertainty in primary care consultations, and implications for shared decision-making
The main objective of this study is to gain knowledge about interactional factors that support and obstruct mutual risk-assessments and shared decision-making (SDM) in clinical consultations. Through a narrative analysis of verbatim transcripts of 28 naturally occurring consultations performed in English National Health Service practices, we explore the ways in which patients and general practitioners conceptualise, construct and negotiate risks …
‘It feels like my metabolism has shut down’. Negotiating interactional roles and epistemic positions in a primary care consultation
INTRODUCTION: Our aim is to explore the ways in which a patient and a general practitioner (GP) negotiate knowledge claims stemming from different epistemic domains while dealing with a mismatch between experiential and biomedical knowledge during the clinical consultation. We interpret their interaction in relation to the sociocultural context in which their negotiation is embedded and identify factors facilitating their successful negotiation (…
‘My cousin said to me . . .’ Patients’ use of third-party references to facilitate shared decision-making during naturally occurring primary care consultations
In this paper, we explore the ways in which patients invoke third parties to gain decision-making influence in clinical consultations. The patients’ role in decision-making processes is often overlooked, and this interactional practice has rarely been systematically studied. Through a contextual narrative exploration of 42 naturally occurring consultations between patients (aged 22–84) and general practitioners (GPs) in England, we seek to fill t…
The MRI-scan says it is completely normal
In clinical guidelines for patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain, reassurance is a key element. The purpose of reassuring patients is to change their views on their illness and, thereby, their actions. However, when symptoms persist without pathological findings, reassurance can be difficult to achieve. Drawing on observations of nineteen naturally occurring hospital consultations with chronic musculoskeletal pain patients, followed by indiv…
Visual framing of vaping
Introduction The increasing popularity of vaping among teenagers and young adults has raised public health concerns, with social media influencers playing a key role in shaping perceptions. This study examines how Instagram influencers use visual framing to construct and disseminate messages about vaping. Methods A qualitative semiotic analysis of 45 Instagram posts from seven international influencers was conducted, with ten posts selected for i…
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