Ylva Söderfeldt
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of History of Science and Ideas
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 15 69
- E-mail:
- ylva.soderfeldt@idehist.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken, Thunbergsvägen 3P
- Postal address:
- Box 629
751 26 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
Docent and senior lecturer in History of Science and Ideas.
Director of the Centre for Medical Humanities.
Keywords
- disability
- emotion
- history of medicine
- medical humanities
- patient involvement
- patient organizations
- womher
Biography
Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for History of Science/Berlin Centre for the History of Knowledge 2016-2017
Research Associate and Lecturer, Institute for History, Theory and Ethics in Medicine at RWTH Aachen University Hospital 2012-2016
Ph.D. in History, Stuttgart University/ Institute for the History of Medicine of the Robert Bosch Foundation 2008-2011
B. A. and M.A. in History of Ideas, Stockholm University 2002-2006
Research
My primary research interests are directed towards the relationship between expertise and subjectivity, i. e. between those who produce knowledge and the ones they produce knowledge about. This has led me to study people who, due to some deviation from the norm, become objects of concern for various kinds of experts who study, describe, manage, and treat them in various ways. Specifically, I am interested in how groups marked as “others” participate in defining themselves and how this process that affects both the “others” and the people, practices, institutions, and discourses surrounding them.
In a Swedish Research Council funded project and an ERC Starting Grant funded project I study the emergence of patient organizations and their relationship to medical expertise. The self-governed organizations people with particular illnesses in common began forming in the late 19th century have in the 20th century grown into an influential social movement, where patients engage in self-help, sociability, lobbying, and knowledge generation.
Publications
Selection of publications
- Gendered labour and consumer culture in the multiple sclerosis associations in Sweden and West Germany (2023)
- The Truth Within (2021)
- Claimed by culture (2021)
- Towards mining the history of the active patient. (2019)
- Die 'Lex Zwickau' (2019)
- Silenced by professional noise (2018)
- Distress, disease, desire (2017)
- "Opfer der Arbeit" (2015)
- An Evening of Equality? (2014)
- Happiness disabled (2014)
- From pathology to public sphere (2013)
- From Comparison to Indices (2013)
Recent publications
- Curating a historical source corpus of 20th century patient organization periodicals. (2024)
- Developing education in environmental health and medicine focusing on neurology (2024)
- Topics in Periodicals from the Swedish Diabetes Association 1949 – 1990: Extending the Topic Modelling Tool Topics2Themes with a Timeline Visualisation (2024)
- Visualizing longitudinal trends in digitized periodicals from the Swedish diabetes association (2024)
- Medicinhistoriens vägval (2023)
All publications
Articles
- Developing education in environmental health and medicine focusing on neurology (2024)
- Medicinhistoriens vägval (2023)
- Alex de Waal, New Pandemics, Old Politics: Two Hundred Years of War on Disease and Its Alternatives, Cambridge/Medford, MA: Polity Press, 2021 (2023)
- Seeing the value of experiential knowledge through COVID‑19 (2021)
- The Truth Within (2021)
- Claimed by culture (2021)
- Pandemi avslöjar mediciens makt (2020)
- Jan Stoll: Behinderte Anerkennung? Interessenorganisationen von Menschen mit Behinderungen in Westdeutschland seit 1945 (2019)
- Distress, disease, desire (2017)
- Gehörlose in der französichen Spätaufklärung. (2016)
- "Opfer der Arbeit" (2015)
- Jüdische Gehörlose in Deutschland 1800-1933. Blicke in die Geschichte einer doppelten Minderheit. (2014)
- An Evening of Equality? (2014)
- Information, consent and treatment of patients with Morgellons disease (2014)
- Happiness disabled (2014)
- The galvanic treatment of deafness and the trials at the Berlin Royal Deaf-Mute Asylum in 1802. (2013)
- Der Anfang einer Selbsthilfebewegung? (2013)
- From Comparison to Indices (2013)
- Abgrenzung von Innen. (2012)
- Taubstumme Genossen. (2011)
- Dödsfallet på dövskolan berodde på okänt syndrom (2010)
- Lebenswelt eines "taubstummen Vaganten" (2009)
Books
- A beginner's guide to Swedish academia (2022)
- Krankheit verbindet (2020)
- Disability Studies meets History of Science (2017)
- Von Wechselbälgen und verkörperter Differenz (2017)
- Uberwindung der Körperlichkeit. (2015)
- Utopin i vardagen (2014)
- From pathology to public sphere (2013)
Chapters
- Gendered labour and consumer culture in the multiple sclerosis associations in Sweden and West Germany (2023)
- Feeling great? (2020)
- Die 'Lex Zwickau' (2019)
- Silenced by professional noise (2018)
- The Blind Finch (2016)
- "det mest talande beviset": (2014)
Conferences
- Curating a historical source corpus of 20th century patient organization periodicals. (2024)
- Topics in Periodicals from the Swedish Diabetes Association 1949 – 1990: Extending the Topic Modelling Tool Topics2Themes with a Timeline Visualisation (2024)
- Visualizing longitudinal trends in digitized periodicals from the Swedish diabetes association (2024)