2024
Nissen N (2024) Rolling Sisters: On Webs of Resistance and World Building. Paper presented at Queer Contemporary Histories. International and Intersectional Perspectives Conference, Freie Universität Berlin, July 1, 2024. (see also Rolling Sisters Poster, 1983)
Risør, MB and Nissen N (2024) Affective Processes and the Diagnosing of Chronic Fatigue, in: Hope and Uncertainty in Health and Medicine. Imagining the Pragmatics of Medical Potential. eds. Bernhard Hadolt, Andrea Stöckl, transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, p213-230, (open access), link
2022
Nissen N (2022) An assemblage of everyday technologies in the practice of western herbal medicine – a photo essay. Outlines. Critical Practice Studies, 23(1):50-73, (open access), link
Jespersen E, Minet LR, Nissen N (2022) Symptoms of total pain experienced by older people with advanced gastrointestinal cancer receiving palliative chemotherapy. European Journal of Cancer Care, (open access), link
Nissen N, Rossau HK, Pilegaard MS, la Cour K. (2022) Cancer rehabilitation and palliative care for socially vulnerable patients in Denmark: an exploration of practices and conceptualisations, Palliative Care and Social Practice, Vol 16, link
2021
Andersen IC, Simonÿ C, Nissen N (2021) “Det har ændret mit liv fuldstændigt.” En fortælling om at tage vare på sig selv og andre under et langvarigt forløb med COVID-19. Forstyrrelsen 3:11-15, (open access) link
Nissen N, Lemche J, Reestorff CM, Schmidt M, Skjerbaek AG, Skovgaard L, Stenager E, Soegaard IG, LaCour K, (2021) The lived experience of uncertainty in everyday life with MS, Disability and Rehabilitation, 44(20):5957-5963, link
Sakellariou D, Nissen N, Warren N (2021) The Lived Temporalities of Prognosis: Fixing and Unfixing Futures, The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, Winter 2021, 39(2), (open access), link
Nissen N, Andersen IC, Simonÿ C (2021) The dangerous guest: Exploring everyday uncertainty in the year of COVID-19, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, (open access) link
Bärtlein S, Nissen N (2021) Jinn and Mental Suffering by Migrants in Europe: A Review of Literature. In: Böttcher A., Krawietz B. (eds) Islam, Migration and Jinn. The Modern Muslim World. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. link
2020
Nissen N, Laursen SS, Rossau HK (2020) Communication about complementary and alternative medicine in Danish oncological settings: An intervention study, Complementary Medicine Research, 27(6):392-400, link
Peoples H, Nissen N, Brandt Å, La Cour K (2020) Perceptions of quality of life by people with advanced cancer who live at home British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 84(11):723-730, link
2019
Nissen N (2019) Fortællinger om hjælpemidler i hverdagen med Multipel Sclerose, REHPA, 29 August 2019, link
Nissen N (2019) Researching care practices in everyday life with Multiple Sclerosis, REHPA, 12 June 2019, link
Nissen N (2019) Forskning af (egen)omsorg i hverdagslivet med multipel sclerose, REHPA, 12 June 2019, link
Nissen N and Lemche J (2019) Højdepunkter fra fokusgruppediskussioner, REHPA, 15 April 2019, link
Nørgaard B, Nissen N, Hoeck B (2019) Hvis vi ikke passer på, får vi mere ulige sundhed, Kristeligt Dagblad A/S, 13 March 2019, link
2018
Nissen N and Risør MB (eds) (2018) Diagnostic fluidity: working with uncertainty and mutability, Medical Anthropology Research Centre, Publicacions URV, (open access), link
Risør MB and Nissen N (2018) Configurations of diagnostic processes and practices: an introduction, in: Nissen and Risør (eds) Diagnostic fluidity: working with uncertainty and mutability, Medical Anthropology Research Centre, Publicacions URV, (open access)
Peoples H, Nissen N, Brandt Å, la Cour K (2018) Belonging and quality of life as perceived by people with advanced cancer who live at home, Journal of Occupational Science, 25(2): 200-213
Nissen N (2018) Learning to write a good story: Academic writing for qualitative health researchers, Medical Writing 27(1), 84-85
2017
Nissen N (2017) Men’s everyday healthcare: Practices, tensions and paradoxes, and masculinities in Denmark, Medical Anthropology 36(6): 551-565, link to video abstract
Nissen N (2017) Inside/Outside: Contours of men’s everyday healthcare and masculinities (photo essay), Medicine Anthropology Theory; Special Issue ‘Therapeutic landscapes and anthropological perspectives on health and place’ MAT 4(1): 193-206, (open access), link
Nørgaard, B, Skjøt-Arkil, H, Nissen, N, & Mogensen, CB (2017). Inappropriate admissions or inadequate discharges of frail elderly: Competing program theories and implementation challenges in an intermediate care intervention. Journal of Nursing Education and Practice, 7(6), 72-79.
2016
Brenman N, Witeska-Mlynarczyk A, Nissen N, Bech Risør, M (2016) Configurations of diagnostic processes, practices, and evidence: a conference report, Somatosphere, Nov 2016, link
2015
Johannessen H, Agdal R, Green A, Hjelmborg J, Lunde A, Nissen N, et al (2015) Designing effectiveness studies of individualized treatment with personalized outcomes, Medical Research Archives 2(2): 1-13
Ledderer L, Nissen N (2015) Translating Patient Experience into Clinical Practice: An Example of ‘Patient Involvement’ from Psychosocial Cancer Rehabilitation in Denmark, Conjunctions: Transdisciplinary Journal of Cultural Participation, 2(2): 137-153, link
Nissen N (2015) Naturalness as an ethical stance: Idea(l)s and practices of care in western herbal medicine in the UK, Anthropology & Medicine 22(2): 162-176
Traynor M, Nissen N, Lincoln C, Buus N, (2015) Occupational closure in nursing work reconsidered: UK health care support workers and assistant practitioners: a focus group study, Social Science & Medicine 136-137: 81-88
2014
Nissen N, Lunde A, Pedersen GC, Johannessen H (2014) The use of complementary and alternative medicine after the completion of hospital treatment for colorectal cancer: Findings from a questionnaire study in Denmark, BioMed Central Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 14, 388,
Techau M, Pedersen CG, Green A, Johannessen H, Nissen N, (2014) Non-participants and reasons for non-participation in a pragmatic trial of energy healing as cancer rehabilitation, European Journal of Integrative Medicine, 6(3), 268-276
2013
Nissen N, (2013) Women’s Bodies and Women’s Lives in Western Herbal Medicine in the UK, Medical Anthropology 32(1), 75-91
Nissen N and L Manderson, (2013) Researching Alternative and Complementary Therapies: Mapping the Field (Introduction to special issue entitled Alternative and Complementary Therapies: The Politics and Logics of Care), Medical Anthropology 32(1), 1-7
Birch M and N Nissen, (2013) A different way of caring? An exploration of alternative healthcare relationships, in: Critical Approaches to Care: Understanding Caring Relations, Identities and Cultures C. Rogers and S. Weller (eds), Pp 72-81, London: Routledge
Nissen, N, Weidenhammer W, Schunder-Tatzber S, Johannessen H, (2013) Public health ethics for complementary and alternative medicine, European Journal of Integrative Medicine (special issue: Public Health in Integrative Medicine) 5, 62-67
Nissen, N, Weidenhammer W, Schunder-Tatzber S, Johannessen H, (2013) What attitudes and needs do citizens in Europe have in relation to information about CAM? Forschende Komplementärmedizin 20 (suppl1), 11
2012
Nissen N, Schunder-Tatzber S, Weidenhammer W, Johannessen H, (2012) What attitudes and needs do citizens in Europe have in relation to complementary and alternative medicine? Forschende Komplementärmedizin 19 (suppl2), 9-17
Nissen, N and S Evans, (2012) Exploring the practice and use of Western herbal medicine: Perspectives from the social science literature, Journal of Herbal Medicine 3(1), 6-15
Nissen N, Johannessen H, Schunder-Tatzber S, Weidenhammer W, (2012) Citizens’ needs and attitudes to complementary and alternative medicine, pp105, CAMbrella WP3 Report to the EU Commission, FP7-Health-2009-GA. No 241951
Nissen, N, (2012) Book review: Folk healing and health practices in Britain and Ireland: Stethoscopes, wands and crystals, by Ronnie Moore and Stuart McClean (eds), Berghahn Books, Oxford, 2010, Anthropology & Medicine, 19(2), 257-259
2011
Nissen N, (2011) Perspectives on holism in the practice of Western herbal medicine in the UK, Journal of Herbal Medicine 2(3-4), 76-82
Nissen N, (2011) Challenging Perspectives: Women, complementary and alternative medicine, and social change, Interface: A journal for and about social movements 3(2), 187-212, (open access) link
Nissen, N, (2011) Strange encounters: Reflections on authoring a doctoral thesis. Writing across Boundaries, Department of Anthropology, Durham University, UK, link
2010
Nissen N, (2010) The Storied Patient-Practitioner Relationship in the Practice of Western Herbal Medicine in the UK, European Journal of Integrative Medicine 2(4), 200
Nissen N, (2010) Practitioners of Western Herbal Medicine and Their Practice in the UK: Beginning to sketch the profession, Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice 16(4), 181-6
Nissen N, (2010) Introducing the storied patient-practitioner relationship in Western herbal medicine in the UK, Herbal Thymes
2009
Nissen N, (2009) Herbal Healthcare and Processes of Change: An Ethnographic Study of Women’s Contemporary Practice and Use of Western Herbal Medicine in the UK, Unpublished PhD thesis (monograph), The Open University, UK, link
Brodie E, Cowling E, Nissen N, (2009) Understanding participation: A literature review, pp49, Institute of Volunteering Research and National Council for Voluntary Organisations, London, UK, link
Other publications
Teach Yourself Herbal Medicine (2001, 2003), McGraw-Hill, 9780340867747, link
Rolling Sisters (1983), Silkscreen poster, link
Vertrautheit, Respekt, Meidung (1979), Arch+, 46, 35-38, September 1979