• Am I fine? Exploring everyday life ambiguities and potentialities of embodied sensations in a Danish middle-class community 

      Offersen, Sara Marie Hebsgaard; Risør, Mette Bech; Vedsted, Peter; Andersen, Rikke Sand (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-04-21)
      Woven into the fabric of human existence is the possibility of death and suffering from disease. This essential vulnerability calls forth processes of meaning making, of grappling with uncertainty and morality. In this article we explore the uncertainty and ambiguity that exists in the space between bodily sensations and symptoms of illness. Bodily sensations have the potential to become symptoms ...
    • Cancer-before-cancer. Mythologies of cancer in everyday life 

      Offersen, Sara Marie Hebsgaard; Risør, Mette Bech; Vedsted, Peter; Andersen, Rikke Sand (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-12-19)
      Approaching the presence of cancer in everyday life in terms of mythologies, the article examines what cancer is and how cancer-related potentialities are enacted and embodied in the context of contemporary regimes of anticipation. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a suburban Danish middle-class community among people who were not immediately afflicted by cancer, we describe different and ...