Jens Seeberg
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 91648 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jens Seeberg |
| PRENOMES | Jens |
| SOBRENOME | Seeberg |
| ASSINATURA | SEEBERG J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Aarhus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3572-2754 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1996 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Antibiotics as infrastructure
In industrial work environments with limited labour protection and frequent injuries, medicines may function to sustain work capacity rather than facilitate recovery. Focusing on steel production in Nepal, we explored how the local healthcare ecology framed care pathways for steel workers. The analysis draws on concepts of pharmaceuticalisation, local healthcare ecology and the political economy of labour to examine how medicines-particularly ant…
Biosocial vulnerabilities amidst the pandemic
Health logics in and beyond the laboratory
The COVID-19 pandemic spread rapidly across the globe after its emergence in 2020. Various strategies were used to prevent the spread of infection, including lockdowns, testing, and social distancing. However, accepting or rejecting certain measures had implications for individuals, populations, or both, and the pandemic foregrounded the relation between medicine and public health, including their different objectives, ethical principles, and ris…
The invisible pandemic of antimicrobial resistance and its possible endings
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is often framed as a 'silent pandemic,' an invisible crisis unfolding beyond the public gaze. This unseen emergency narrative fuels policy responses aimed at re-establishing human control over antimicrobial use and benefits. In this commentary, we critique the reduction of AMR to a homogenising framework - a product of long-standing paradigms for disease control and elimination. We argue that AMR stems not merely fr…
Testing Care and Morality
COVID-testing was central to control the spread of infection in Denmark. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, we show that testing was not just a diagnostic sign; it was also a biosocial practice that enacted a public health morality, centered on responsibility, care, and belonging. We argue that testing led to a public healthicization of everyday life, as it moralized individual and collective behavior and created a moral divide between the tested…
Viral etnografi
I denne artikel beskriver vi, hvordan den antropologiske komponent af 'HOPE - How Democracies Cope with COVID-19: A Data-Driven Approach' har arbejdet etnografisk under covid-19-epidemien i Danmark. Artiklen illustrerer, hvordan coronavirus' ustabilitet fordrede en kontinuerlig gentænkning af det etnografiske feltarbejde. Coronakrisen skabte en akut situation, hvor forudgående viden og forbindelser til en divers række felter blev centrale for ind…
Can epidemics be noncommunicable
This article argues that the concept of communicability that is central to the distinction between communicable diseases (CDs) and noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) is poorly conceptualized. The epidemic spread of NCDs such as diabetes, depression, and eating disorders demonstrates that they are communicable, even if they are not infectious. We need to more critically explore how they might be communicable in specific environments. All diseases wit…
Fear of Drug-resistant Tuberculosis as Social Contagion
This article explores the spread of tuberculosis, the fear of infection as well as rejection and care across family ties and doctor-patient relationships based on a case study in Odisha, India. Social contagion is seen as the communication of the phenomenal in ways that reproduce perceptions, feelings or the faculty of will in another person, involving modifications of intensity, meaning and context. This paper discusses the impact of the social …
Livstegn. En semiotisk analyse af CD4-celletal hos HIV-smittede
CD4-cells play a vital part for the body's capability to overcome diseases. As a result of HIV-infection these cells are destroyed. Counts of the cells inform both the doctor and the HIV-infected person of the progress of the HIV-infection which may otherwise be unnoticed during the so-called latency period. The article analyzes the different and partly contradictory interpretations of CD4-counts throughout the course of the HIV-infection as well…
Redistributing vulnerabilities
It is widely accepted that the social distribution of vulnerability in a given society may turn hazardous events into disasters. This distributional approach draws attention to continuities that explain catastrophes by virtue of the workings of society prior to the event. In this paper, we draw attention to the social processes whereby vulnerability is modified and renegotiated during the post-disaster period where resources for disaster alleviat…
Medical syncretism in Yogyakarta
Background Medical syncretism involves activities conducted by healers who are mixing or blending different treatment strategy and explanatory models, is prevalent in the modern world. In medical pluralism, the pattern demonstrates that biomedicine exerts dominance over alternative medical system. The rigid clinical practice guidelines derived from the current best evidence of systematic reviews and meta-analyses involving many randomised-control…
The Event of Dots and the Transformation of the Tuberculosis Syndemic in India
Directly Observed Treatment – Short-course (DOTS) has been promoted by the WHO globally as the preferred standard approach to tuberculosis control and treatment since the mid 1990s. In India, DOTS has been gradually implemented as a national programme since 1997, covering the entire country by 2006. DOTS is a highly complex healthcare intervention that involves universal monitoring of all patients, access to high quality drugs and the adoption of…
Treatment seeking and health financing in selected poor urban neighbourhoods in India, Indonesia and Thailand
Connecting Pills and People
This article explores the impact of intensive competition within the pharmaceutical industry and among private providers on health care in an Indian city. In-depth interviewing and clinical observation were used over a period of 18 months. Private practitioners and chemists who provided regular services to inhabitants of a poor neighborhood in central Bhubaneswar were included. Fierce competition in private health in Odisha, India, reduced qualit…
Stigma-Statistik
Jens Seeberg: Stigma Statistics: Agendas in the Making in Danish AIDS Policy This article explores a number of paradoxes and assumptions in the public debate on AIDS in Denmark. They form part of a recurrent attack on the Danish 'soft line' AIDS policy that maintains anonymity and voluntary HIV-testing. One central issue in recent years has been obligatory testing of asylum seekers from high risk areas as a precondition for considering the asylum…
Connecting Pills and People
This article explores the impact of intensive competition within the pharmaceutical industry and among private providers on health care in an Indian city. In-depth interviewing and clinical observation were used over a period of 18 months. Private practitioners and chemists who provided regular services to inhabitants of a poor neighborhood in central Bhubaneswar were included. Fierce competition in private health in Odisha, India, reduced qualit…
Treatment seeking and health financing in selected poor urban neighbourhoods in India, Indonesia and Thailand
Can epidemics be noncommunicable
This article argues that the concept of communicability that is central to the distinction between communicable diseases (CDs) and noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) is poorly conceptualized. The epidemic spread of NCDs such as diabetes, depression, and eating disorders demonstrates that they are communicable, even if they are not infectious. We need to more critically explore how they might be communicable in specific environments. All diseases wit…
Biosocial vulnerabilities amidst the pandemic
Testing Care and Morality
COVID-testing was central to control the spread of infection in Denmark. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, we show that testing was not just a diagnostic sign; it was also a biosocial practice that enacted a public health morality, centered on responsibility, care, and belonging. We argue that testing led to a public healthicization of everyday life, as it moralized individual and collective behavior and created a moral divide between the tested…
The Event of Dots and the Transformation of the Tuberculosis Syndemic in India
Directly Observed Treatment – Short-course (DOTS) has been promoted by the WHO globally as the preferred standard approach to tuberculosis control and treatment since the mid 1990s. In India, DOTS has been gradually implemented as a national programme since 1997, covering the entire country by 2006. DOTS is a highly complex healthcare intervention that involves universal monitoring of all patients, access to high quality drugs and the adoption of…
Stigma-Statistik
Jens Seeberg: Stigma Statistics: Agendas in the Making in Danish AIDS Policy This article explores a number of paradoxes and assumptions in the public debate on AIDS in Denmark. They form part of a recurrent attack on the Danish 'soft line' AIDS policy that maintains anonymity and voluntary HIV-testing. One central issue in recent years has been obligatory testing of asylum seekers from high risk areas as a precondition for considering the asylum…
Connecting Pills and People
This article explores the impact of intensive competition within the pharmaceutical industry and among private providers on health care in an Indian city. In-depth interviewing and clinical observation were used over a period of 18 months. Private practitioners and chemists who provided regular services to inhabitants of a poor neighborhood in central Bhubaneswar were included. Fierce competition in private health in Odisha, India, reduced qualit…
Medical syncretism in Yogyakarta
Background Medical syncretism involves activities conducted by healers who are mixing or blending different treatment strategy and explanatory models, is prevalent in the modern world. In medical pluralism, the pattern demonstrates that biomedicine exerts dominance over alternative medical system. The rigid clinical practice guidelines derived from the current best evidence of systematic reviews and meta-analyses involving many randomised-control…
The Event of Dots and the Transformation of the Tuberculosis Syndemic in India
Directly Observed Treatment – Short-course (DOTS) has been promoted by the WHO globally as the preferred standard approach to tuberculosis control and treatment since the mid 1990s. In India, DOTS has been gradually implemented as a national programme since 1997, covering the entire country by 2006. DOTS is a highly complex healthcare intervention that involves universal monitoring of all patients, access to high quality drugs and the adoption of…
Treatment seeking and health financing in selected poor urban neighbourhoods in India, Indonesia and Thailand
Redistributing vulnerabilities
It is widely accepted that the social distribution of vulnerability in a given society may turn hazardous events into disasters. This distributional approach draws attention to continuities that explain catastrophes by virtue of the workings of society prior to the event. In this paper, we draw attention to the social processes whereby vulnerability is modified and renegotiated during the post-disaster period where resources for disaster alleviat…
Livstegn. En semiotisk analyse af CD4-celletal hos HIV-smittede
CD4-cells play a vital part for the body's capability to overcome diseases. As a result of HIV-infection these cells are destroyed. Counts of the cells inform both the doctor and the HIV-infected person of the progress of the HIV-infection which may otherwise be unnoticed during the so-called latency period. The article analyzes the different and partly contradictory interpretations of CD4-counts throughout the course of the HIV-infection as well…
Can epidemics be noncommunicable
This article argues that the concept of communicability that is central to the distinction between communicable diseases (CDs) and noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) is poorly conceptualized. The epidemic spread of NCDs such as diabetes, depression, and eating disorders demonstrates that they are communicable, even if they are not infectious. We need to more critically explore how they might be communicable in specific environments. All diseases wit…
Fear of Drug-resistant Tuberculosis as Social Contagion
This article explores the spread of tuberculosis, the fear of infection as well as rejection and care across family ties and doctor-patient relationships based on a case study in Odisha, India. Social contagion is seen as the communication of the phenomenal in ways that reproduce perceptions, feelings or the faculty of will in another person, involving modifications of intensity, meaning and context. This paper discusses the impact of the social …
Viral etnografi
I denne artikel beskriver vi, hvordan den antropologiske komponent af 'HOPE - How Democracies Cope with COVID-19: A Data-Driven Approach' har arbejdet etnografisk under covid-19-epidemien i Danmark. Artiklen illustrerer, hvordan coronavirus' ustabilitet fordrede en kontinuerlig gentænkning af det etnografiske feltarbejde. Coronakrisen skabte en akut situation, hvor forudgående viden og forbindelser til en divers række felter blev centrale for ind…
The invisible pandemic of antimicrobial resistance and its possible endings
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is often framed as a 'silent pandemic,' an invisible crisis unfolding beyond the public gaze. This unseen emergency narrative fuels policy responses aimed at re-establishing human control over antimicrobial use and benefits. In this commentary, we critique the reduction of AMR to a homogenising framework - a product of long-standing paradigms for disease control and elimination. We argue that AMR stems not merely fr…
Testing Care and Morality
COVID-testing was central to control the spread of infection in Denmark. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, we show that testing was not just a diagnostic sign; it was also a biosocial practice that enacted a public health morality, centered on responsibility, care, and belonging. We argue that testing led to a public healthicization of everyday life, as it moralized individual and collective behavior and created a moral divide between the tested…
Biosocial vulnerabilities amidst the pandemic
Health logics in and beyond the laboratory
The COVID-19 pandemic spread rapidly across the globe after its emergence in 2020. Various strategies were used to prevent the spread of infection, including lockdowns, testing, and social distancing. However, accepting or rejecting certain measures had implications for individuals, populations, or both, and the pandemic foregrounded the relation between medicine and public health, including their different objectives, ethical principles, and ris…
Antibiotics as infrastructure
In industrial work environments with limited labour protection and frequent injuries, medicines may function to sustain work capacity rather than facilitate recovery. Focusing on steel production in Nepal, we explored how the local healthcare ecology framed care pathways for steel workers. The analysis draws on concepts of pharmaceuticalisation, local healthcare ecology and the political economy of labour to examine how medicines-particularly ant…
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