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Hans Hadders

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Hans Hadders

Associate Professor
Department of Public Health and Nursing
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

hans.hadders@ntnu.no
+4773412206 +4799397747 Øya helsehus, Øya
Twitter ResearchGate Google Scholar Hans Hadders at Academia.edu Norwegian Forum for Global Health research board member
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About

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Hans Hadders is associate professor at Department of Public Health and Nursing, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at NTNU. He has a background in nursing and his PhD is in social anthropology. During the eighties Hadders spent six years at the Visva-Bharati University at Santiniketan (West Bengal) studying North Indian Music. He has done research on the mortuary rituals performed by the Jadopatias in the Santal villages of Bengal and Jharkhand, India. Besides his focus on mortuary rituals and standardisation of death in India and within the Norwegian health care, his field of specialisation is medical anthropology. Hadders is involved in the collaboration with Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences; Dhulikhel Hospital and Kathmandu Medical College; Sinamangal Hospital in Nepal.

Competencies

  • Death rituals
  • Ethnographic method
  • Global Health
  • Medical Anthropology
  • Nursing
  • Qualitative research
  • Terminal care

Research

  • The Cemetery Research Group
  • Forskernettverket Døden: Emosjoner, relasjoner og kultur (DERK)

Forskernettverket Døden: Emosjoner, relasjoner og kultur (DERK)

DERK er et tverrfaglig nettverk for forskere i Norden som deler interessen av å utforske, og utvikle forståelse av, ulike aspekter ved døden

Publications

  • Chronological
  • By category
  • All publications registered in NVA

2024

  • Hadders, Hans Per Åke. (2024) COVID-19 corpse management in Nepal: handling the deceased at Pashupati electric crematorium during the COVID-19 pandemic. Mortality
    Academic article

2022

  • Hadders, Hans. (2022) Temple eye banking: cornea donation practice at Pashupati crematorium in Nepal. Mortality
    Academic article

2021

  • Hadders, Hans. (2021) Hindu urn burial in Norway: an option for the future?. Mortality
    Academic article
  • Hadders, Hans; Nugteren, Albertina; Poudel, Rojisha. (2021) Ke garne? (What can one do?). An exploration of how people ‘on the ground’ perceived the incomplete improvised mortuary rituals at Pashupatinath after the earthquake in Nepal, 2015.
    Academic chapter

2018

  • Paulsen, Bård; Johnsen, Roar; Hadders, Hans. (2018) Nurses' experience with relatives of patients receiving end-of-life-care in nursing homes and at home – a questionnaire based explorative study. Nursing Open
    Academic article

2017

  • Hadders, Hans. (2017) Establishment of electric crematorium in Nepal: continuity, changes and challenges. Mortality
    Academic article

Journal publications

  • Hadders, Hans. (2017) Establishment of electric crematorium in Nepal: continuity, changes and challenges. Mortality
    Academic article
  • Hadders, Hans. (2021) Hindu urn burial in Norway: an option for the future?. Mortality
    Academic article
  • Hadders, Hans Per Åke. (2024) COVID-19 corpse management in Nepal: handling the deceased at Pashupati electric crematorium during the COVID-19 pandemic. Mortality
    Academic article
  • Paulsen, Bård; Johnsen, Roar; Hadders, Hans. (2018) Nurses' experience with relatives of patients receiving end-of-life-care in nursing homes and at home – a questionnaire based explorative study. Nursing Open
    Academic article
  • Hadders, Hans. (2022) Temple eye banking: cornea donation practice at Pashupati crematorium in Nepal. Mortality
    Academic article

Part of book/report

  • Hadders, Hans; Nugteren, Albertina; Poudel, Rojisha. (2021) Ke garne? (What can one do?). An exploration of how people ‘on the ground’ perceived the incomplete improvised mortuary rituals at Pashupatinath after the earthquake in Nepal, 2015.
    Academic chapter

Outreach

2026

  • Conference lecture
    Hadders, Hans. (2026) Deathscapes in diaspora: Hindu urn burial, mourning and memorialization at Norwegian cemeteries. Place and Placelessness: Changing Roles of the Cemetery in the Contemporary World

2025

  • Conference lecture
    Hadders, Hans Per Åke. (2025) Temple eye banking: the multiple ontologies of cornea necro donation at Pashupati crematorium in Nepal. Antropologidagene

2024

  • Lecture
    Hadders, Hans Per Åke. (2024) Kulturforståelse og Kultursensitivitet. Fagdag i Migrasjonshelse
  • Conference lecture
    Hadders, Hans Per Åke. (2024) Hornhinne donasjon ved palliativ avdeling. DERK - seminar i regi av forskernettverket Døden: Emosjoner, relasjoner og kultur (DERK)
  • Conference lecture
    Hadders, Hans Per Åke. (2024) The gift of the eye: the multiple ontologies of cornea necro donation at Pashupati crematorium in Nepal. INTERNATIONAL DEATH AND GRIEF CONFERENCE: Reckoning for the Dead and Death

2019

  • Lecture
    Hadders, Hans. (2019) Døden i det flerkulturelle samfunn. Når er man død?

2013

  • Conference lecture
    Hadders, Hans. (2013) Cremation in Norway: changes and challenges. 9th Annual Norwegian Health Sociology Conference

2012

  • Conference poster
    Hadders, Hans; Paulsen, Bente; Fougner, Vigdis. (2012) Post mortem care in a palliative medical unit: Relatives’ participation in leave-taking events. The 7th World Research Congress of the EAPC
  • Conference lecture
    Hadders, Hans. (2012) Hindu cremations in Norwegian crematoria: challenges and changes. Mortality, death and dying: philosophical and social perspectives

2010

  • Conference lecture
    Hadders, Hans; Alnæs, anne hambro. (2010) Enacting death: contested and contestable practices in the ICU. Norsk Antropologisk Forenings Årskonferanse

2009

  • Conference lecture
    Hadders, Hans. (2009) Sjukhusdöden; rutin eller ritual?. utenTitteltekst

2008

  • Conference lecture
    Hadders, Hans. (2008) Måter sykepleiere behandler døden og den døde kroppen på: distanse og nærhet. Vidareutdanning i kreftsykepleie
  • Conference poster
    Hadders, Hans. (2008) Standardisering av sykehusdøden. En klinisk affære?. Fagdag ved St. Olavs Hospital
  • Conference lecture
    Hadders, Hans. (2008) Dealing with the dead patient: Nurses and post-mortem care. Ritual and Health

2007

  • Conference lecture
    Hadders, Hans. (2007) Picture Recitations of the Jadopatias in North India. Sound and Image. 27th Annual Conference In Visual Anthropology

2006

  • Conference lecture
    Hadders, Hans. (2006) Liv och död på intensiven. Medidinsk antropologi, Antropologi i praksis
  • Interview
    Hadders, Hans. (2006) Døden på sjukehuset.
  • Conference lecture
    Hadders, Hans. (2006) Technology, care and ritual: relatives’ presence in connection with a death at the intensive care unit. Participation in Practice
  • Conference lecture
    Hadders, Hans. (2006) ”Iscenesettelse” av døden på intensivavdelingen. Norsk Antropologisk Forenings Årskonferanse 2006: Homo Faber, Redskapsbrukeren
  • Conference lecture
    Hadders, Hans. (2006) Liv og død på intensiven. Medisinsk antropologi & Antropologi i praksis. Seminar for sos-ant-studenter

2005

  • Interview
    Hadders, Hans. (2005) En verdig død?.
  • Conference lecture
    Hadders, Hans. (2005) Post-mortem care and the dignity of the dead patient at the intensive care unit. 7th International Conference. The Social Context of Death, Dying and Disposal
  • Conference lecture
    Hadders, Hans. (2005) Palliative care and the dignity of the dead patient at the intensive care unit. Suffering and Narration. Scandinavian workshop in social Anthropology
  • Conference lecture
    Hadders, Hans. (2005) Multivalent procedural manuals and institutionalised death. Medicalized routine or humanized ritual?. "Globalization, indentity and standardization"
  • Conference lecture
    Hadders, Hans. (2005) Moving Identities: The Jadopatia, the Santals and the Myth of Creation. Reinterpreting Adivasi (Indigenous Peoples) Movements in South Asia

2004

  • Lecture
    Hadders, Hans. (2004) Kultur; en forklaring eller forkludring?. Verden inn på sykehuset
  • Conference lecture
    Hadders, Hans. (2004) Musikaliskt fältarbete, resonans och musikens många omstridda ontologier. [Mangler data]
  • Conference poster
    Hadders, Hans; Hagen, Vigdis; Torvik, Karin; Petersvik, Bjørg. (2004) Rutiner og ritualer ved livets slutt:Pårørendes deltakelse i forbindelse med dødsfall ved Seksjon lindrende behandling, Kreftavdelingen, St Olavs Hospital. Jubileumskonferanse. Seksjon lindrende behandling 10 år
  • Conference poster
    Hadders, Hans; Torvik, Karin; Hagen, Vigdis; Petersvik, Bjørg. (2004) Routines and Rituals at the time of death.Relative�s participation in leave-taking events. 13th International Conference on Cancer Nursing
  • Conference lecture
    Hadders, Hans. (2004) Avskedsritualers betydelse på den palliativa vårdavdelningen. 7. Nordiske Kongress for Palliativ Vård
  • Conference lecture
    Hadders, Hans. (2004) Vilken betydelse har vår uppfattning av den dødes værensstatus för hur vi förstår sorg och de sörgande?. Jubileumskonferanse. Seksjon lindrende behandling 10 år

2003

  • Contribution to radio or TV
    Hadders, Hans. (2003) Faglig innlegg i samband med utstillingen "Far Vel".
  • Lecture
    Hadders, Hans. (2003) Between the living and the dead. Forskningsforum på Kreftavdelingen ved St. Olavs hospital
  • Lecture
    Hadders, Hans. (2003) Mellan levande och döda; ritualer omkring döden i olika samfunn. [Mangler data]
  • Lecture
    Hadders, Hans. (2003) Faglig innlegg i forbindelse med visning av utstillingen "Far Vel". Nidaros-kongressen
  • Lecture
    Hadders, Hans. (2003) Mellan levande och döda: Registrering av rutiner ved dødsfall. FSK-konferanse (forum for sykepleie i kreftomsorgen)
  • Conference lecture
    Hadders, Hans. (2003) Smerte i et krysskulturelt perspektiv. Nidaros-kongressen
  • Conference lecture
    Hadders, Hans. (2003) Between the living and the dead; Nursing care of dead bodies. Norsk Antropologisk Forenings årskonferanse, 2003: "Antropologisk merkevare"
  • Conference lecture
    Hadders, Hans. (2003) Smerte og kultur. [Mangler data]

2002

  • Conference lecture
    Hadders, Hans. (2002) Life, death and creation: The Jadopatia and the Karam Binti. NOFSA- konferanse, Religions in South-Asia

2001

  • Conference lecture
    Hadders, Hans. (2001) Kultur og smerte. [Mangler data]
  • Conference lecture
    Hadders, Hans. (2001) Life, Death and Creation; The Jadopatias working among the Santal. Death Rituals and Belonging in a Globalized World
  • Conference lecture
    Hadders, Hans. (2001) Improvisasjon i nordindisk musikk. [Mangler data]
  • Conference poster
    Hadders, Hans. (2001) Evaluering av rutiner ved dødsfall. FSKs jublieumskonferanse. Balansekunst

2000

  • Conference lecture
    Hadders, Hans. (2000) "Between tribe and caste; The Jadopatias of Bengal". 16th European Modern South Asian Studies Conference
  • Conference lecture
    Hadders, Hans. (2000) "Om feltarbeid og feltarbeidteknikk". [Mangler data]
  • Conference poster
    Hadders, Hans. (2000) Evaluering av rutiner ved dødsfall. Mittnorsk fagforum

1999

  • Lecture
    Hadders, Hans. (1999) Fremmedkulturelle pasienter - variasjoner i smerteopplevelse og medikamentbehov?. RIT- Postoperativ smertebehandling
  • Lecture
    Hadders, Hans. (1999) Holdninger til menneske, helse, sykdom og død i ulike kulturer. Seksjon lindrende behandling, Kreft, RIT

1996

  • Lecture
    Hadders, Hans. (1996) Musikk, mystisisme og medisin. [Mangler data]

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