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Abstracts fra Bibliotek for Læger 4/2017
17. sep. 2018
4 min.
Interview: Det ensomme hjerte
— En samtale med forfatter og historiker Tom Buk-Swienty, som har genoplevet 2. verdenskrigs rædsler med en ung lægestuderende som rejsefører
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Originalartikel: Lægen som figur på film og i tv
Ib Bondebjerg
The doctor as a figure in movies and television fiction.
Bibl Læger 2017;209: 284-309.
This article deals with doctors, hospitals, and the medical science in film and television fiction in a historical and generic perspective. Doctors have always occupied a prominent place in film and on television, and this reflects the centrality of doctors and medicine in our everyday life. A typology of doctors on film and television, from doctors as scientific front runners to romantic doctor characters is presented. From the first silent movies to modern television series, such fictions have often in both dramatic and realistic ways told stories of ethical and human dilemmas. They have shown us historical and contemporary aspects of the development of medicine and surgery and, also, critical stories of the health system. Doctors and medicine hold a central place in our film and television history, they embody and symbolize central aspects and dimensions of the development of modern societies.
Poetisk stuegang: Digte om læger, hospitaler, sygdom og død
Karsten Bjarnholt
Fem skarpe: Et åndeligt bidrag
En samtale med sociolog Anette Stenslund, som har været tilknyttet forsknings- og udstillingsprojektet »Hvad gør kunst på hospitaler?«, igangsat af KØS Museum for kunst i det offentlige rum
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Et billede fra min hverdag: En tur på overenskomstcyklen
Sebastian Wærkskjold
Etisk stuegang: Tillidskrisen i det danske sundhedsvæsen
— Paternalisme, valgfrihed og patientmentalitetens dialektik
Nana Cecilie Halmsted Kongsholm & Katla Heðinsdóttir
The trust crisis in the Danish healthcare system – paternalism, freedom of choice, and the dialectics of patient mentality.
Bibl Læger 2017; 209: 328-333.
The Danish healthcare system is experiencing a trust crisis: an increasing number of patients report that they feel abandoned, and less than half of Danish patients believe that they will receive the proper care for their needs. This article explores, whether the current trust crisis is caused by a mismatch between the nature of today’s patient mentality and the accommodation of it by the healthcare system. Employing Hegel’s notion of dialectics (thesis-antithesis-synthesis), we show how today’s patient mentality has evolved from the traditional paternalistic ideal, through the post-enlightenment focus on patients’ rights and autonomy, to a mentality that is characterized by the need for self-determination combined with a need to be taken care of by a competent, caring authority. We argue that the mentality of the current healthcare system, with its overarching focus on patients’ rights and autonomy, has failed to evolve alongside the mentality of patients. The current system is, thus, poorly fit to accommodate the needs of modern patients, leading to loss of patient trust. On this basis, we suggest that “local paternalism” in the healthcare system is both desirable and ethically justified, and that one route to rebuilding the trust of patients is for doctors to revisit their role as caring authority figures.
Introduktion: Karl Heinrich Ulrichs
— En sexologisk kulturpioner
Dag Heede
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs – a sexological and cultural pioneer.
Bibl Læger 2017;209: 334-351.
In 1885, the German lawyer, writer and gay rights’ activist Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825-1895) published a collection of eccentric gothic stories, “Sailors’ tales”. The stories take place in the North Atlantic in a pre-Christian era. Two of them are situated on the Faroe Islands and one of these,”Manor”, is a vampire story with an explicitlyhomoerotic theme. A young sailor, Manor, loves his young boy, Har, so much that when Manor drowns, he does not stop visiting the boy. At night, the dead lover leaves his grave, swims across the sound and quenches his thirst by sucking on Har’s breast. After several attempts of nailing Manor to his coffin, the nightly visits cease, but Har withers away and ends up dying. The two lovers are buried in the same grave. Ulrichs used the story to emphasise the strength and willingness to sacrifice which characterize male homosexual love, or in his words: the love of ”urnings”. The short story is translated into Danish and introduced by literary scholar Dag Heede.
Novelle: Manor
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs
Kvartalets genstand: Lægen og medicinhistorien
Morten A. Skydsgaard
Fem skarpe: En åben fest uden så mange gæster
— En samtale med formanden for Dansk Medicinsk-historisk Selskab i anledning af dets 100-års jubilæum
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