Researchers Network

Affiliation with the Centre for Medical Humanities is open to all employees at Uppsala University. If you are interested in joining, please contact the coordinator Erika Sigvardsdotter.

Researcher	Research and teaching interests
Anders Backlund Professor at the Department of Medicinal Chemistry	Pharmacognosy, historical and traditional drugs, systematic botany, evolutionary biology and its history of idéas, Linnaeus, his work and its importance
Johan Bengtsson Researcher at the Department for Medical Sciences, Psychiatry	Negative symptoms in schizophrenia, autonomic nervous system (in particular heart rate variability) and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), disease/illness ontology, nosology, meta-research and placebo effects
Maria Björkman PhD, Department of Culture and Society, Linköping University (formerly coordinator for the Centre for Medical Humanities)
Maja Bodin Postdoc, Centre for Medical Humanities	Reproductive health, family planning, fertility awareness, gender, reproductive decision-making
Hannah Bradby Professor at the Department of Sociology
Josefin Bäckström Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at the Department of Neuroscience
Moa Kindström Dahlin Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at the Department of Law	Medical law, mental health law, public law, compulsory treatment
Annelie Drakman PhD, Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University (formerly at the Department of History of Science and Ideas, UU)	History of the body, 19th century history of medicine, bloodletting, miasma, medical practices
Hedvig von Ehrenheim, PhD, docent, Department of Archaeology and ancient history	History of medicine, Corpus Hippocraticum, Galen, history of emotions, placebo effects.
Kristina Engwall, Associate professor in history, Cesar (Centre for social work)	Disability history, care and treatment of ‘the feebleminded’, gender, sexuality
Lise Eriksson Docent in Sociology of Religion, researcher at the Department of Women's and Children's Health	Sexual and reproductive health, assisted reproduction, surrogacy, family and kinship studies, migration, religion and social norms
Birgitta Essén Professor at the Department of Women's and Children's Health
Erik Grönkvist Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor, Department of Economics	Health economics
Jameson Garland Researcher, Department of Law	Medical law, gender, sexuality and the law, family law, comparative law, critical legal theory, constitutional and human rights law, property law
Jan Grimell Postdoc, The Church of Sweden’s Unit for Research and Analysis	Institutional pastoral care, pastoral care, narrative identity, identity work
Irina Hron Docent, Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion, University of Gothenburg	Skin writing, dermography, skin studies, cultural history of skin, medical history, ethics and literature, comparative literature
Isto Huvila Professor in Information Studies at the Department of ALM	Health information behaviour, medical records, e-health
Ellinor Hållén PhD, Affiliated Researcher at the Department of Philosophy	Philosophy of mind, mental health (anxiety), psychoanalysis/therapy, articulation and expression, philosophy of education
Anne Ingvarsson Chief Curator at Uppsala University Museum	Bioarchaeology, Aegean prehistory, history of medicine, human remains, repatriation issues
Eva Jangland Senior Lecturer/Docent at the Department of Surgical Sciences	Patient experiences in acute care, patient participation, Fundamentals of Care (FoC) Advanced Practice Nursing Roles (APN/NP), competence development and evidence based nursing
Malin Gingnell Department of Psychology	Anxiety and emotion research – how are neuroscientific methods affected by societal development and ideas?
Britt-Inger Johanson Professor at the Department of Art History	Sanatoria
Solveig Jülich Professor at the Department of History of Science and Ideas	History of medicine and biomedicine, historical perspectives on ethics and value conflicts in medical research, and history of medicine’s visual and material culture
Anna-Malin Karlsson Professor, Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism, Stockholm University (formerly at UU)	Discourse and interaction analysis, multimodality, language-mediated knowledge-building, health communication
Amanda Lagerkvist Professor of Media and Communication Studies	Existential media studies
Francis Lee Docent, Division for Science, Technology and Society, Chalmers (formerly at the Department of History of Science and Ideas, UU)	Sociology of medicine and biomedicine, science and technology studies, valuation studies, knowledge production and new technologies in biomedicine and medicine
Anna-Sara Lind Professor at the Department of Law, and researcher at CEMFOR/CRS	Public law, EU law, medical law, social law
Olof Lindahl PhD, Associate Senior Lecturer in International Business, Department of Business Studies & Uppsala Antibiotic Center	Antibiotic resistence, antimicrobial resistance (AMR), antibiotic development, innovation incentives, responsible use/antibiotic stewardship, diagnostics development and implementation
Matilda Lindgren PhD student in gender studies and reproductive medicine Centre for Gender Research, research school WOMHER	Sexual and reproductive health, reproductive decision-making, gender- and queer theory, sexuality studies, family and kinship studies, LGBTQI and solo parenthood, assisted reproduction, egg and embryo donation.
Steve McKeever Department of Informatics and Media, Deputy Director of the Uppsala Diabetes Centre	The interface between life science and computation
Claudia Merli Associate Professor at the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology
Luis de Miranda Postdoc, Centre for Medical Humanities	Continental philosophy, medical humanities, philosophical health
Åsa Muntlin Associate professor (Emergency Nursing), Department of Medical Sciences	Fundamentals of Care, care processes, emergency care, leadership and professional development (historical perspective and future challenges)
Hedvig Mårdh Researcher at the Department of Art History	Critical heritage studies, museum studies, mental health geography, art history, public art
Ingrid Nylander Professor at the Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences
Matts Olovsson Professor, specialist physician at the Department of Women's and Children's Health
Mirko Pasquini, Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethology, and Engaging Vulnerability Programme (personal homepage with the programme)	Medical Anthropology, Global Health, Emergency care, Hospital ethnography, Care infrastructures, Phenomenology, Mental health, Ethics of care, ER overcrowding, Triage, Violence against health care staff, Trust, Community participation in health
Torsten Pettersson Professor at the Department of Literature
Cecilia Rodéhn Researcher at the Centre for Gender Research
Helga Sadowski Researcher, PhD, Department of Informatics and Media, Uppsala University	Human-Computer Interaction Digital health technologies, reproductive health apps, ICTs and family communication, Family work and digital media
Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed Docent at the Department of Literature
Erika Sigvardsdotter PhD, Coordinator for the Centre for Medical Humanities	The development of medical humanities, human geography, migration, undocumented migration and undocumentedness, mental health, phenomenology
Anna Singer Professor, Department of Law
Stefan Sjöström Professor at the Center for Social Work (CESAR)
Santa Slokenberga Researcher, Department of Law, and Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics
Sabine Sten Professor in Osteoarchaeology
Jenny Stern Researcher at the Department of Women's and Children's Health,
Joakim Svartheden Faculty office coordinator at the Faculty of Medicine Unit: Medical Programme Umeå University
Catharina Svensson Professor at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology
Ylva Söderfeldt Docent and senior lecturer in History of Science and Ideas. Director of the Centre for Medical Humanities	Disability history, patient organizations, the physician-patient relationship, lay and expert knowledge in medicine
Ann-Charlott Timander PhD, Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Work, University of Gothenburg	Race biology, eugenics, critical theory, human rights, identity (re) construction, case histories, phenomenology, hermeneutics, compulsory "care", gender, class, embodied mental and emotional distress, power, resistance and violence
Helena Tinnerholm Ljungberg Postdoc, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet (formerly at the Department of History of Science and Ideas, UU)	Politics of family and reproduction, feminist theory, the relationship between politics, ethics, and medicine
Martin Tondel Associate Professor in Occupational and Environmental Medicine	Idiopathic environmental intolerance, Chernobyl, medical anthropology, ethics, risk communication
Petra Werner-Kjellberg PhD in Aesthetics, Music Therapist

Sven Widmalm Professor at the Department of History of Science and Ideas	History of eugenics, history of biochemistry, history of the pharmaceutical industry, history of psychiatry
Anna Williams Professor at the Department of Literature	Motherhood studies, narrative and medicine, literature and gender

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