Beth Maina Ahlberg
Professor emeritus at Department of Sociology; Affiliated Faculty
- E-mail:
- beth.ahlberg@uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken
Thunbergsvägen 3H - Postal address:
- Box 624
751 26 UPPSALA
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Publications
Recent publications
Healthcare staff's racialized talk: The perpetuation of racism in healthcare
Part of Social Science and Medicine, 2024
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Part of Frontiers in Sociology, 2023
- DOI for Disruptions by COVID-19: experiences of global health interventions in research, education, and humanitarian work
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Part of Sociology, p. 957-974, 2023
- DOI for ‘You are Still a Guest in This Country!’: Understanding Racism through the Concepts of Hospitality and Hostility in Healthcare Encounters in Sweden
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Discussing racism in healthcare: A qualitative study of reflections by graduate nursing students
Part of Nursing Open, p. 3677-3686, 2023
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Part of Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, p. 531-534, 2023
- DOI for Designing an education intervention for understanding racism in healthcare in Sweden: development and implementation of anti-racist strategies through shared knowledge production and evaluation
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Articles in journal
Healthcare staff's racialized talk: The perpetuation of racism in healthcare
Part of Social Science and Medicine, 2024
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Part of Frontiers in Sociology, 2023
- DOI for Disruptions by COVID-19: experiences of global health interventions in research, education, and humanitarian work
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Part of Sociology, p. 957-974, 2023
- DOI for ‘You are Still a Guest in This Country!’: Understanding Racism through the Concepts of Hospitality and Hostility in Healthcare Encounters in Sweden
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Discussing racism in healthcare: A qualitative study of reflections by graduate nursing students
Part of Nursing Open, p. 3677-3686, 2023
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Part of Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, p. 531-534, 2023
- DOI for Designing an education intervention for understanding racism in healthcare in Sweden: development and implementation of anti-racist strategies through shared knowledge production and evaluation
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Part of Frontiers in Sociology, 2022
- DOI for Ethnic, racial and regional inequalities in access to COVID-19 vaccine, testing and hospitalization: Implications for eradication of the pandemic
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Women as Agents of Change: Male Circumcision and HIV Prevention in Kenya
Part of Sexuality & Culture, p. 1074-1089, 2022
Part of Palliative Care and Social Practice, p. 1-15, 2022
- DOI for Conceptualizing impact in community-based participatory action research to engage communities in end-of-life issues
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Part of Frontiers in Sociology, 2022
- DOI for “Just Throw It Behind You and Just Keep Going”: Emotional Labor when Ethnic Minority Healthcare Staff Encounter Racism in Healthcare
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Part of Death Studies, p. 651-664, 2021
- DOI for Navigating power dynamics in engaging communities in end-of-life issues: Lessons learned from developing community-based intergenerational arts initiatives about death and loss
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Part of Healthcare, 2021
- DOI for Play Elements as Mechanisms in Intergenerational Arts Activities to Support Community Engagement with End-of-Life Issues
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Part of Health & Social Care in the Community, p. 2025-2036, 2020
- DOI for Death, loss and community: Perspectives from children, their parents and older adults on intergenerational community-based arts initiatives in Sweden
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Racism in European Health Care: Structural Violence and Beyond
Part of Qualitative Health Research, p. 1662-1673, 2020
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Part of Health Research Policy and Systems, 2019
- DOI for Undoing the unspeakable: researching racism in Swedish healthcare using a participatory process to build dialogue
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Part of Journal of Social Work, p. 579-598, 2017
Part of Qualitative Health Research, p. 1828-1841, 2017
Part of Action Research, p. 257-275, 2016
Perspectives and experiences of new migrants on health screening in Sweden
Part of BMC Health Services Research, 2016
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The global, the ethnic and the gendered war: women and rape in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
Part of Gender, Place and Culture, p. 484-502, 2016
"It is a thin line to walk on": challenges of staff working at Swedish immigration detention centres
Part of International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being, p. 25196, 2015
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'It is a dilemma': perspectives of nurse practitioners on health screening of newly arrived migrants
Part of Global Health Action, 2015
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"The fairer the better?": Use of potentially toxic skin bleaching products
Part of African Health Sciences, p. 1074-1080, 2015
A prison with extra flavours : Experiences of immigrants in Swedish immigration detention centres
Part of International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care, p. 73-85, 2015
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Part of Journal of religion and health, p. 454-466, 2013
Part of PLOS ONE, 2013
- DOI for "How Can I Gain Skills if I Don't Practice?'' The Dynamics of Prohibitive Silence against Pre-Marital Pregnancy and Sex in Zimbabwe
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Constructing Soldiers from Boys in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
Part of Men and Masculinities, p. 203-227, 2013
Part of Ethnicity and Health, p. 469-482, 2013
Part of Ethnicity and Health, p. 454-468, 2013
2012
Part of BMC Health Services Research, p. 433, 2012
- DOI for "It is a challenge to do it the right way": an interpretive description of caregivers' experiences in caring for migrant patients in Northern Sweden
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Part of Maternal and Child Nutrition, p. 448-458, 2012
Battles on women's bodies: War, rape and traumatisation in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
Part of Global Public Health, p. 139-152, 2011
‘Youth in a void’: sexuality, HIV/AIDSand communication in Kenyan publicschools
Part of Sex Education, p. 459-470, 2011
Part of Child Health and Education, p. 122-136, 2011
Voices unheard: Youth and sexuality in the wake of HIV prevention in Kenya
Part of Sexual & Reproductive HealthCare, p. 143-148, 2010
Part of Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, p. 553-558, 2010
Part of Culture, Health and Sexuality, p. 103-114, 2010
HIV/AIDS and sexuality: concerns of youths in rural Zimbabwe
Part of African Journal of AIDS Research, p. 503-513, 2009
Part of Journal of Human Lactation, p. 427-434, 2009
Part of Children and youth services review, p. 1345-1354, 2008
Part of Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, p. 211-216, 2008
Part of Children and youth services review, p. 600-617, 2007
Knowing but not knowing: providing maternity care in the contest of HIV/AIDS in rural Zimbabwe
Part of African Journal of AIDS Res, p. 133-139, 2006
”Racism without racists”: How health care staff obfuscate racism in health care
Part of Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health
Articles, review/survey
Racism in healthcare: a scoping review
Part of BMC Public Health, 2022
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Part of Frontiers in Sociology, 2019
- DOI for Invisibility of Racism in the Global Neoliberal Era: Implications for Researching Racism in Healthcare
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Chapters in book
A map of the complexities that have emerged in HIV and AIDS research.
Part of Social Science and Medicine Africa (SOMA-Net) Charper 1, p. 7-16, 2006