Barbara Ann Barrett

Teaching

Teaching experiences:

• Medical Anthropology - mandatory FSV course
• 2. sem. methods - FSV
• Introduction to Anthropology - MPH

Themes in teaching:

• Introduction to medical antrhopology
• Evaluating the risk of illness
• Introduction to anthropological diversity
• Social lives of medicine
• Life and death - and new technologies
• Death and dying - human bodies for sale
• Ethnic patients in the Danish Healthsystem
• Qualitative methods

Supervision:

I am supervising in areas of reproductive health, medical anthropologi and qualitative methods.

Primary fields of research

Guidelines in action. A study of organisational standardisation and clinical management of risk markers in routine first trimester screening in Denmark

In September 2004 the Danish Health Authority introduced Guidelines for prenatal diagnostics – prenatal information, risk assessment, counselling and diagnostics - the world’s first national, tax-funded first trimester screening (FTS) programme to all pregnant women regardless of age and risk status yielding a risk assessment for (primarily) Down syndrome. This research provides insigth into guidelines in action; when and how the clinical gudielines encounter the clinical practice. Taken together the thesis and two papers provide insight into organisational standardisation and standards of FTS and into the sonographer’s daily clinical management of the nasal bone in routine FTS in Denmark. 

CV

Primary fields of research

• Prenatal screening
• Reproductive health
• Ethics and biotechnology
• Policy studies of guidelines

Knowledge of languages

• English - fluent
• Swedish, Norwegian, Farois and German - good understanding