PhD Defence by Jensine Ingerslev Nedergaard

Jensine Ingerslev Nedergaard: Skin as a Communicative Boundary - Semiotic Dialogue in Danish Healthcare System

In this PhD thesis, the researcher answers the following questions:

• How is it possible to understand communication and meaning-making through the skin?
• How does this embodied understanding of the skin as a physical and psychological boundary hold the ability to control and/or integrate communication and meaning making?
• How can we develop a new approach of educating communicative aspects in the Danish healthcare system?

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About Jensine Ingerslev Nedergaard

PhD supervisor:

Professor Jaan Valsiner, Aalborg University

PhD committee:

Associate Professor Mogens Jensen, Aalborg University, (Chair)
Professor Zachery Beckstead, Brigham Young, University, Hawaii.
Associate Professor Giuseppina Marsico, University of, Salerno, Italy

The defence is followed by a reception.

Everybody is welcome!