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19 December 2025
Letterstedt Author’s Prize awarded to Boel Berner for book on medical mystery
In her interdisciplinary book, Boel Berner traces how researchers spent more than a century trying to understand the deadly disease pellagra. She has now been awarded the Letterstedt Author’s Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Pupils' definitions of mental health
The argument that young people do not feel well is common in reports and media. What does it mean? We examine schoolchildren’s experiences of mental health and how such knowledge can add to the knowledge gained from surveys measuring symptoms.
A Feminist Analysis of Medical Screening
Medical screening is an expanding part of healthcare, and more and more diseases can be screened for. Because of this, we need to understand what screening means and does – and screening does more than just find disease.
A gift for life?
In 2012 the world’s first systematic attempts of uterus transplantation were conducted at Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Sweden. This unique project explored the sociocultural dimensions of the attempts by studying involved actors’ perspectives.
Uncertainties and risk in planning translational trials
How do stakeholders define scientific significance and clinical relevance in planning early phase trials? We examine in the translational medical arenas: cell therapies for Parkinson's disease and drugs targeting cancer stem cells.
Art project: The ”difficult patient”
This series of three artworks is a commentary on how medicine creates its own "difficult patients". It can also serve as critical reflection on how healthcare professionals and patients use their knowledge to enable better care.
Crime scene investigators as a boundary profession
The project studies how crime scene investigators learn to mediate between the criminal justice system’s disparate professions – forensic scientists, police investigators, and prosecutors – to enable their cooperation around forensic evidence.
Packaging, Negotiating, Translating
The project studies how crime scene investigators learn to mediate between the criminal justice system’s disparate professions – forensic scientists, police investigators, and prosecutors – to enable their cooperation around forensic evidence.
P6: Body, Knowledge, Subjectivity
A research collective that explores social, cultural, and philosophical aspects of technology in practices. We are active in the fields of knowledge production and movement, feminist theory, and medical humanities.