Solveig Jülich

Head of department at Department of History of Science and Ideas

Visiting address:: Engelska parken, Thunbergsvägen 3P
Postal address:: Box 629
751 26 UPPSALA

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Professor at Department of History of Science and Ideas

Telephone:: +46 18 471 15 73
E-mail:: solveig.julich@idehist.uu.se
Visiting address:: Engelska parken, Thunbergsvägen 3P
Postal address:: Box 629
751 26 UPPSALA

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Short presentation

My fields of interest include media history of medicine, and historical perspectives on medicine, ethics and democracy. Between 2015–2021 I directed the multidisciplinary research programme Medicine at the Borders of Life (report and publication list ). Currently, I am leading the research project Between Openness and Secrecy and the infrastructure project Communicating Medicine (Swemper). My most recent books are Rethinking the Public Fetus (Open Access) and Embryological Spaces (in Swedish).

Biography

Solveig Jülich is Professor at the Department of History of Science and Ideas. She received a Ph.D in Technology and Social Change from Linköping University in 2002. From 2003 to 2006 she was employed as Senior Lecturer at the undergraduate programme Culture, Society, Media Production at Linköping University. She was Assistant Professor, funded by the Swedish Research Council, at the Department of Literature and History of Ideas at Stockholm University from 2006 to 2010, and then Senior Lecturer in History of Ideas. In 2014, she joined the Department of History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University.

Research

Ongoing and previous research projects

Communicating Medicine: Digitalisation of Swedish Medical Periodicals, 1781–2011 (SweMPer), infrastructure project funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond 2023–2026.
Between Openness and Secrecy: Controlling Medical Communication in Twentieth Century Sweden, funded by the Swedish Research Council 2023–2025.
The Democratisation of Medicine: Universities, Democracy and Ethics, funded by the research programme Democracy and Higher Education, Uppsala University, 2023.
Photographing Life and Death: Lennart Nilsson, Medicine and the Media in Sweden, 1940–2010, funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond 2022.
Medicine at the Borders of Life: Fetal Research and the Emergence of Ethical Controversy in Sweden, funded by the Swedish Research Council 2015–2021.
Science and Modernisation in Sweden: An Institutional Approach to Historicizing the Knowledge Society, funded by Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg’s Foundation and hosted by the Center for the History of Science at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 2012–2019.
In the Light of Media: Mass Miniature Radiography Surveys for Tuberculosis in Sweden, c. 1940–1970, funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, 2011–2014.
Scientific Research, Photojournalism or Special Effects? Lennart Nilsson’s Visual Hybrid Practices, funded by the Swedish Research Council, 2006–2010.

Publications

Selection of publications

Recent publications

Det offentliga fostret: En visuell historia

Jülich, Solveig

Part of Kungl. Vetenskapssamhällets i Uppsala årsbok, p. 9-24, Kungl. Vetenskapssamhället i Uppsala, 2025
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The Drama of the Fetoplacental Unit: Reimagining the Public Fetus of Lennart Nilsson

Jülich, Solveig

Part of Rethinking the Public Fetus, p. 143-170, University of Rochester Press, 2024
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Rethinking the Public Fetus: An Introduction

Björklund, Elisabet; Jülich, Solveig

Part of Rethinking the Public Fetus, p. 1-21, University of Rochester Press, 2024
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The Public Fetus: A Traveling Concept

Jülich, Solveig; Björklund, Elisabet

Part of Rethinking the Public Fetus, p. 289-309, University of Rochester Press, 2024
Rethinking the Public Fetus: Historical Perspectives on the Visual Culture of Pregnancy / edited by Elisabet Björklund and Solveig Jülich

Björklund, Elisabet; Jülich, Solveig

University of Rochester Press, 2024

All publications

Articles in journal

Books

Embryologiska rum: Tornbladinstitutets samling av foster från människor och djur [digital utgåva]

Jülich, Solveig

Makadam Förlag, 2022
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Embryologiska rum: Tornbladinstitutets samling av foster från människor och djur

Jülich, Solveig

Makadam Förlag, 2022

Chapters in book

Collections (editor)

Rethinking the Public Fetus: Historical Perspectives on the Visual Culture of Pregnancy / edited by Elisabet Björklund and Solveig Jülich

Björklund, Elisabet; Jülich, Solveig

University of Rochester Press, 2024
Histories of Fetal Knowledge Production in Sweden: Medicine, Politics, and Public Controversy, 1530–2020

Jülich, Solveig

Brill Academic Publishers, 2024
Communicating the History of Medicine: Perspectives on Audiences and Impact

Jülich, Solveig; Widmalm, Sven

Manchester University Press, 2020
Knowledge in Motion: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Making of Modern Society

Kärnfelt, Johan; Grandin, Karl; Jülich, Solveig

Makadam Förlag, 2018
Kunskap i rörelse: Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien och skapandet av det moderna samhället

Kärnfelt, Johan; Grandin, Karl; Jülich, Solveig

Makadam Förlag, 2018
History of Participatory Media: Politics and Publics, 1750–2000

Ekström, Anders; Jülich, Solveig; Lundgren, Frans; Wisselgren, Per

Routledge, 2011