Prof. Dr. Karin Dahlberg, (Emeritus) (Linnaeus University, Sweden) The in-betweenness of phenomenology and its essential value in the care of vulnerable persons

21 December 2021

h. 16.45 CET


Prof. Dr. Karin Dahlberg, (Emeritus) (Linnaeus University, Sweden) The in-betweenness of phenomenology and its essential value in the care of vulnerable persons

The Dance, Henri Matisse

Karin Dahlberg RN, EdD, PhD is professor in health sciences, partly retired. 

Previously at Växjö university/Linnaeus University in Sweden where she directed a doctoral program of health sciences as well as a centre for Lifeworld Research. Together with Helena Dahlberg, she has developed a phenomenological approach to empirical research (Reflective Lifeworld Research).

She has been a visiting scholar at several universities in the US and in the UK, and has given a number of summer courses as well as lectures in the philosophy and methodology of phenomenology in US, UK, Lithuania, and in southeast Asia. Her articles have been translated into both Chinese and Japanese. She is on the editorial board for several international journals. She has authored several Swedish books on health care science and phenomenology.

International publications (selected): 

Dahlberg, K., Dahlberg, H. & Nyström, M. (2008). Reflective Lifeworld Research (2nd edition), Studentlitteratur, Sweden Dahlberg, H. & Dahlberg, K. (2020). Phenomenology of science and the art of radical questioning. Qualitative Inquiry

Dahlberg, H. & Dahlberg, K. (2019). Open and Reflective Lifeworld Research: A Third Way. Qualitative Inquiry, 107780041983669

Dahlberg, H. & Dahlberg, K. (2019). The question of meaning – a momentous issue for qualitative research. Int J Qualitative Studies in Health and Well-being 14:1

Dahlberg, H.& Ranheim,A. Dahlberg, K. (2017). Ecological health and caring. In: K. Galvin (ed.) Book on well-being. London: Routledge

Dahlberg, K. (2017). The art of understanding. I M. Visse & T. Abma: Evaluation for a Caring Society , Edited. IAP Publishers

van Wijngaarden, E & van der Meide, H. & Dahlberg, K. (2017). Researching health care as a meaningful practice: Towards a non-dualistic view on evidence for qualitative research. Qualitative Health Research DOI: 10.1177/1049732317711133

Ozolins, L. & Dahlberg, K. (2015). Caring touch. Patients’ experiences in an anthroposophic clinical context. Scandinavian Journal of Caring Science

Hörberg, U. & Dahlberg, K. (2015). Caring potentials in the shadows of power, correction and discipline – Forensic psychiatric care in the light of the work of Michel Foucault. International Journal of Qualitative studies on health and well-being, 10: 28703, http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/qhw.v10.28703 

Todres, L., Galvin, K. & Dahlberg, K. (2014). “Caring for insiderness’’: Phenomenologically informed insights that can guide practice. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health Well-being 2014, 9: 21421 - http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/qhw.v9.21421

Dahlberg, K. (2013). My answer to the questions. I: A. Fors, C Ceci & J.S. Drummond: Philosophy of Nursing: 5 Questions. New York and London: . Automatic Press/VIP

Dahlberg, K. (2011). Lifeworld Phenomenology for Caring and for Health Care Research. In: G. Thomson, F. Dykes & S. Downe: Qualitative Research in Midwifery and Childbirth: Phenomenological Approaches. London: Routledge

Dahlberg, K., Todres, L. & Galvin, K. (2009). Lifeworld-led healthcare is more than patient-led care: an existential view of well-being. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 12(3), 265-271.

Dahlberg, K. (2006). 'The individual in the world - the world in the individual': towards a human science phenomenology that includes the social world. Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology, 6, August (www.jpip.org).

Todres, L., Galvin, K. & Dahlberg, K. (2007). Lifeworld-led healthcare: revisiting a humanising philosophy that integrates emerging trends. Medicine, Healthcare and Philosophy, 10, 53-63.

Dahlberg, K. (2007). The enigmatic phenomenon of loneliness. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being,2(4), 195-207.

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Lectures and Discussions will be held in English