Research

Research related to medical humanities is carried out both at the Centre for Medical Humanities, and at other Uppsala University departments, see list below. Further, The Centre for medical humanities works to build a network of researchers in different disciplines and domains with research interests in the field of medical humanities. As a part of this effort, we also offer an introduction course to the field, held in English and available to doctoral students in biomedicine, health, the humanities and social sciences.

Research projects at the Centre for Medical Humanities

• Acting Out Disease: How Patient Organizations Shaped Modern Medicine (ActDisease) (Ylva Söderfeldt)
• Mistrust in practice: an ethnography of suspicion in general medical practice in the aftermath of COVID-19 (Mirko Pasquini)
• Philosophical Health: Philosophy as Practice of Intersubjective Care in Contemporary Societies (Luis de Miranda)
• Regretting Parenthood (Maja Bodin)
• Uppsala-Durham-Bonn Medical Humanities collaboration (Ylva Söderfeldt, Hannah Bradby, Anna Hallberg)

PhD level courses at the Centre for Medical Humanities

• Introduction to the Medical Humanities (4–6 credits)

Research projects related to medical humanities

• Choosing mode of birth. How medical and cultural discourses on vaginal births and caesarean sections shape pregnant women's knowledge of and plans for giving birth (Renita Sörensdotter)
• Deployment of Online Medial Records and eHealth Service (DOME) Consortium (Isto Huvila)
• Health Literacy and Knowledge Formation in the Information Society (Anna-Malin Karlsson)
• In tension between primary care and hospital care – What are the conditions for successful implementation of the new primary care reform? (Ulrika Winblad)
• Medicine at the Borders of Life (Solveig Jülich)
• Mother Anyway – Literary, Medical and Media Narratives (Anna Williams)
• När kroppen slöt sig och blev fast: Varför åderlåtning, miasmateori och klimatmedicin övergavs vid 1800-talets mitt (Annelie Drakman, PhD dissertation)
• The Mobilization of Patients in 20th Century Medicine (Ylva Söderfeldt)
• Taking Health Information Behaviour into Account (HIBA): implications of a neglected element for successful implementation of consumer health technologies on older adults (Isto Huvila)
• Ulleråker – functionality norms and cultural heritage (Cecilia Rodéhn and Hedvig Mårdh)