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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Biographical analysis"”.
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Living with chronic illness. A biographical analysis of a family's account.
It has been estimated that by the year 2014 there will be a 12 per cent increase in the number of adults with at least one chronic illness condition (Carrier, 2009). The turn to caring for those with a chronic illness at home has resulted in carers having an increased risk of developing health …
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Saying ‘No’: A biographical analysis of the experiences of women with a genetic predisposition to developing breast/ovarian cancer who reject risk reducing surgery
Background: Genetic technologies have identified some of the genes implicated in cancer susceptibility. Women with mutations in breast/ovarian cancer-susceptibility genes (BRCA1 and 2) have a lifetime combined risk of breast/ovarian cancer of more than 80%. Risk reducing surgery (RRS) reduces …
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Fierce Flames and the Golden Lotus: Case Studies on the Madness and Creativity Connection
A historical/biographical analysis of the connection between creativity and a variety of psychoses including: syphilis, epilepsy, schizophenia and manic-depression/bi-polar disorder. The figures examined are Gustave Flaubert, Hector Berlioz, Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainer Maria Rilke, Virginia Woolf …
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Fierce Flames and the Golden Lotus: Case Studies on the Madness and Creativity Connection
A historical/biographical analysis of the connection between creativity and a variety of psychoses including: syphilis, epilepsy, schizophenia and manic-depression/bi-polar disorder. The figures examined are Gustave Flaubert, Hector Berlioz, Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainer Maria Rilke, Virginia Woolf …
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A Comparative Study of Jungian Psychology and Sufism
… study. I initiate my research with a biographical analysis to highlight the existing traces of Sufism in Jung’s milieu, which is permeated by an Orientalist outlook that influenced his writings as well as his personal, social and historical environment. The main purpose of the …
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Women’s sporting lives: a biographical study of elite amateur tennis players at Wimbledon
… women tennis players’ marginalisation through a biographical analysis of the women’s amateur circuit with particular emphasis on the previously untold story of four British tennis players: Mrs. Phyllis King (née Mudford, who competed at the Wimbledon Championships 1928-1953), Mrs. Joan Hughesman …
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Leaving Spain: A Biographical Study on the Experiences of an Economic Crisis, Migration and New Beginnings
… processes of their life histories (e.g., biographical projects and trajectories of suffering) and their autobiographical theorising. The data basis of this research project consists of 58 autobiographical narrative interviews (and four follow-up interviews) with informants who were either …
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Understanding the entrepreneur as socially constructed.
… of this thesis, which combines two levels of analysis, is to explore the entrepreneur as a social construct and the socially constructed nature of entrepreneurship. It builds upon a limited number of extant studies considering the socially constructed nature of entrepreneurship by focusing …
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Evénements de santé et transition à la retraite des seniors en Belgique. Une approche biographique
La thèse de Mr. Banturiki porte sur une analyse socio-démographique réalisée dans une perspective biographique mettant en relation des événements vécus dans le parcours de vie et la transition à la retraite des seniors en Belgique. L’une des approches novatrices de ce travail est la …