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Background: Narrative medicine is an innovative approach where empathetic skills are nurtured through close reading of literary texts and creative writing. The aim of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of a course in narrative medicine for pharmacists. Methods: A 2-day course of narrative medicine was offered to community and hospital pharmacists. Feasibility was assessed using focus group interviews, participant observation, and a questionnaire. Pharmacists’ self-reported level of empathy was also assessed. Results: Eight pharmacists participated in the course. They found participation acceptable, even though some of the sessions required a personal investment far from their routines. The pharmacists were generally satisfied with the course and found it helpful in their daily patient communication. There was no significant change in the pharmacists’ level of empathy. Conclusion: A course in narrative medicine has the potential to improve pharmacist communication with patients but needs further testing, including patient-reported outcomes.

Vi har bedt en række danske litterater om at give deres bud på, hvilke forfatterskaber, litterære strømninger eller litteraturvidenskabelige tendenser, de opfatter som mest betydningsfulde i 2010’ernes litterære felt. Og vi har givet dem strikse instrukser om at gøre det kort, dvs. på én normalside. Svarene er samlet i denne enquete, som byder på en bredspektret overflyvning af det sidste årtis danske litteratur og litteraturvidenskab.

This article deals with recent Danish literature in the light of the discussion about canons occasioned by the publication of the two ministerial canons: Undervisningskanon (Educational Canon, 2004) and Kulturkanon (Cultural Canon, 2006). The article argues that recent Danish literature challenges traditional work categories and the concept of the author on which the two canons are based, and discusses which works and texts in recent Danish literature ought to belong to a future canon.

Märta Tikkanen’s poetry collection Århundradets kärlekssaga (The love story of the century, 1978) is a confessional book on life in a family where the husband and father is an alcohol abuser. It is also a love story about a married couple who love one another despite the terrible challenges posed to the relationship by alcoholism. The poetry collection became one of the most influential books in contemporary Nordic fiction, its themes on gender roles and alcohol abuse setting the trend in the Nordic discussion of women’s liberation. Märta Tikkanen’s courage to tell her own private story inspired other women to confess their gender equality problems to the public. The alcohol abuse of Märta Tikkanen’s husband Henrik Tikkanen was seen as an allegory for the more general problems in the relation between men and women. My essay introduces Märta Tikkanen’s poetry collection and discusses how the poems develop the theme of gender and alcohol. I will also compare her description of their marriage with Henrik Tikkanen’s self-portrait in his autobiographical novella Mariegatan 26, Kronohagen (1977). The analysis refers to contemporary research on gender and alcohol abuse and discusses how the poems contribute to a public recognition of the relationship between gender and alcohol abuse. The essay discusses the reception of Märta Tikkanen’s influential poems and explores her treatment of alcohol and gender in relation to other Nordic confessional or fictional books on alcohol abuse. Märta Tikkanen’s poetry collection Århundradets kärlekssaga (The love story of the century, 1978) is a confessional book on life in a family where the husband and father is an alcohol abuser. It is also a love story about a married couple who love one another despite the terrible challenges posed to the relationship by alcoholism. The poetry collection became one of the most influential books in contemporary Nordic fiction, its themes on gender roles and alcohol abuse setting the trend in the Nordic discussion of women’s liberation. Märta Tikkanen’s courage to tell her own private story inspired other women to confess their gender equality problems to the public. The alcohol abuse of Märta Tikkanen’s husband Henrik Tikkanen was seen as an allegory for the more general problems in the relation between men and women. My essay introduces Märta Tikkanen’s poetry collection and discusses how the poems develop the theme of gender and alcohol. I will also compare her description of their marriage with Henrik Tikkanen’s self-portrait in his autobiographical novella Mariegatan 26, Kronohagen (1977). The analysis refers to contemporary research on gender and alcohol abuse and discusses how the poems contribute to a public recognition of the relationship between gender and alcohol abuse. The essay discusses the reception of Märta Tikkanen’s influential poems and explores her treatment of alcohol and gender in relation to other Nordic confessional or fictional books on alcohol abuse.

The paper discusses the need for a renewal of literary historiography and presents different strategies for new historical readings that can generate interest in older literature. Students at the Danish universities and high schools are supposed to have a solid knowledge of literary classics and the methods of historical reading. In a Danish context the school's task to form and develop young people have been linked to the experience of reading literature and knowing literary history. But the older literature seems to have become a compulsory reading which students want over with as quickly as possible. It is a big problem since the European postnational societies require a historical understanding of cultural values and the sources of these values. Literature gives the readers the opportunity to see and interpret themselves in relation to their surroundings, to meet the strange and unknown and to empathize with other people's thoughts and ideas. Literature creates a special feeling of language and an understanding of how linguistic meaning is formed. The paper presents discussions of literary historiography and new approaches to literary history.

Om interdisciplinært samarbejde og humanioras betydning i aktuelle velfærdsstatsstudierne

Peter Seebergs forfatterskab som litteraturhistorisk ABC

The article briefly describes the creation of the Danish arts funding system and outlines the most important ideas concerning the relationship between literature and the welfare state and the never-ending discussion of the idea and principles of supporting the arts with public means. Anders Bodelsen, Kirsten Thorup, Christina Hesselholdt and Kristian Foss Bang are some of the many authors who have received art support during the last 45 years and the article shows how a selection of their works thematizes the new human relations of the defamiliarised welfare state. The relationship between the individual, his fellow human beings and society has in their novels been interpreted in intriguingly different narrations.

One of the most interesting compilers of ballad-books in Danish Renaissance was the noblewoman Anne Krabbe. During the Danish Renaissance a number of noblewomen collected ballads and their ballad-books are particularly intriguing, as they reveal the context within which ballads were committed to paper. While Svend Grundtvig divides ballads and their variants on the basis of a particular typology, in the Renaissance ballad-books the present-day reader or researcher sees the ballad as part of a fi ne artefact: the ballad-book itself. Anne Krabbe and the other aristocratic male and female compilers of ballad-books are not taken into acount in traditional, national literary histories. A large proportion of the eighty-eight ballads in Anne Krabbe's book deal with female culture and sexuality. Anne Krabbe's ballads have a Christian set of values as their framework and the Lutheran persuasion is part of her construction of place. Keywords: Anne Krabbe's ballad works; Danish Renaissance; female culture

Anne-Marie Mai: Et skridt på vejen, Anmeldelse af: "Krysninger. Nye perspektiver på moderne nordisk lyrikk" redigeret af Ole Karlsen.

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