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Item Att förebygga våldsbejakande extremism: En systematisk kartläggning av insatser(Segerstedtinstitutet, Göteborgs universitet, 2018) Eriksson, Erik; Beckman, Ulrika; Sager, Morten; Segerstedtinstitutet, Göteborgs universitetItem Culture and Health : A Wider Horizon(Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion, University of Gothenburg, 2015) Sigurdson, Ola; Priebe, Gunilla; Sager, Morten; Bernhardsson, Katarina; Brodén, Daniel; Sigurdson, Ola; Centre for Culture and Health, University of GothenburgWhat is Culture and Health? Culture and Health: A Wider Horizon introduces this highly topical field of enquiry from a broad, multidisciplinary perspective. The book addresses fundamental issues including:What do the terms ‘culture’ and ‘health’ actually mean? How has the field emerged in Sweden? How can we research Culture and Health? Can we avoid an instrumentalisation of art – and should we? Culture and Health: A Wider Perspective also provides a detailed introduction to two central, international research directions: ‘arts and health’ and the ‘medical humanities’. As well, the book sketches the diversity of research perspectives in the field at the University of Gothenburg. Culture and Health: A Wider Perspective is at once an accessible and in-depth introduction to the field with many approaches. Directed at researchers, students, policymakers and practitioners, the book is an important resource for future study and practical work.Item Kultur och hälsa. Ett vidgat perspektiv(Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion, Göteborgs universitet, 2014) Sigurdson, Ola; Priebe, Gunilla; Sager, Morten; Bernhardsson, Katharina; Brodén, Daniel; Sigurdson, Ola; Centrum för kultur och hälsa, Göteborgs universitetVad är kultur och hälsa? I Kultur och hälsa: ett vidgat perspektiv presenteras det högaktuella forskningsfältet utifrån ett brett och mångvetenskapligt perspektiv. Boken tar upp grundfrågor som: vilka innebörder har egentligen begreppen kultur och hälsa? hur växte området fram i sverige? hur forskar man om kultur och hälsa? Kan man undvika en instrumentalisering av konsten – och bör man det? Kultur och hälsa: ett vidgat perspektiv ger också en utförlig introduktion till två centrala internationella forskningsinriktningar: ”konst och hälsa” och ”medicinsk humaniora”. Likaså ges en bild av mångfalden av forskningsperspektiv inom området vid Göteborgs universitet. Kultur och hälsa: ett vidgat perspektiv är en på samma gång tillgänglig och fördjupande introduktion till fältet med många ingångar. Den vänder sig till forskare, studenter, beslutsfattare och yrkesverksamma som en viktig resurs i såväl framtida forskning som praktiskt arbete.Item Optimising Health In Europe Through Evidence-Based And Personalized Medical Practices: The Use Of Expertise, Standards And Technologies In Health Promotion And Preventive Medicine(Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori, 2011-10) Elzinga, Aant; Bragesjö, Fredrik; Hallberg, Margareta; Hoshor, Amelie; Kasperowski, Dick; Sager, Morten; Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteoriThis is the working title of a workshop planned to take place in April 2012 as a step towards developing a grant proposal to meet the criteria of an appropriate EU framework call in the area of health policy and governance. The core idea is an interest in the use of expertise, standards and technologies on the one hand and on the other hand variations in adherence of patients to prescribed treatment - typically across a number of different lifestyle-related diseases or ailments, in comparison between a number of European countries. The focus would, more specifically, be on two aspects: evidence-basing of relevant treatments and patient adherence to expert recommendations for preventive purposes in the cases of the disease categories selected. At this point the selection of disease categories to focus on in the workshop and the grant proposal is left open; the following are only named as examples: irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), hypertension and cardiovascular diseases, high cholesterol, overweight/obesity, Type 2 diabetes and certain infectious diseases. This is in view of the urgent call to action issued by the WHO Regional Office for Europe in its Summary Report 2005 on European Health which identifies the high risks to health, related to tobacco and alcohol consumption, high blood pressure and cholesterol, overweight, low fruit and vegetable intake, and physical inactivity. The report urges that these health risks need to be dealt with in order to help prevent ischaemic heart disease, unipolar depressive disorders, cerebrovascular disease, alcohol-use disorders, chronic pulmonary disease, lung cancer and road traffic injury. The summary has a special focus on children’s health, because health in childhood determines health throughout life and into the next generation (WHO 2005). The present initiative comes from a group of scholars at the University of Gothenburg who have over the years done research that falls within the realm of science and technology studies (STS). Coming out of an amalgam of studies of scientific controversies, the role of expertise, critical studies of public understanding of science, scientific citizenship and governance issues, and earlier work in the field of science policy studies, several members of the group have now come to focus particularly on Studies of Medicine, Expertise and Controversies (SMEC). For more information about the group, see Appendix II and http://www.flov.gu.se/english/research/.Item Pluripotent circulations : putting actor-network theory to work on stem cells in the USA, prior to 2001(Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2006) Sager, MortenWhen researchers in 1998 presented stem cells produced from embryos this led to heated debates in the US. Should taxpayers’ money fund this research or should it remain within the private sector? While most studies have focused on the disputes, Morten Sager’s doctoral dissertation starts off in the usually neglected common ground between the proponents and the opponents of federally funded research on human embryonic stem cells. Inspired by actor-network theory (ANT) Sager presents an analytic model where the crucial question concerns – not the disputes about embryos – but how a particular public representation of human embryonic stem cells came about. It is a representation that includes the possibility and necessity of transplantation therapies, the existence of thousands of ”spare embryos”, and ultimately the taxonomic definition and hierarchization of various stem cells’ biological capacities. Going backwards along the historical traces of reproductive technologies and practices, experiments and debates on aborted fetal tissue, and earlier non-embryonic stem cell research Sager finds excluded altenatives and hidden uncertainties. For this purpose he uses a wide range of empirical material from Congressional hearings, official panels and reports, media surveillance, scientific journals, personal conference attendance and meetings with key persons in the stem cell field. It is the first book-length study of how the mutual reinforcement and intertwinement of several developments – dating at least as far back as Roe vs. Wade – helped shape the public and political ”realities” of human embryonic stem cells in the 1998-2001 debates. In addition, Sager uses the case as an opportunity to invite the reader to reflect on the possible uses and problems of the ANT approach. Pluripotent circulations is based on Morten Sager’s doctoral dissertation in Theory of Science. It fi lls a lacuna in the historical understanding of the stem cell debates in the USA and sheds analytic light on the prospects and limits of ANT. He is now an Assistant Professor at the Department of History of Ideas and Theory of Science at University of Gothenburg.