Solveig Jülich
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
- Rethinking the Public Fetus (2024)
- Rethinking the Public Fetus (2024)
- The Drama of the Fetoplacental Unit (2024)
- The Public Fetus (2024)
- Pusseltävlingar för de ofödda (2023)
- Embryologiska rum (2022)
- Introduction (2020)
- Communicating the History of Medicine (2020)
- Från medicinskt avfall till rättighetsinnehavare (2019)
- Fosterexperimentens produktiva hemlighet (2018)
- Picturing abortion opposition in Sweden (2018)
- Drama of Life before Birth (2018)
- Knowledge in Motion (2018)
- A historical argument for regulatory failure in the case of Primodos and other ‘hormone pregnancy tests’ (2018)
- In the light of media (2016)
- The making of a best-selling book on reproduction (2015)
- Lennart Nilsson's Fish-Eyes (2015)
- Lennart Nilsson’s A Child Is Born (2015)
- Colouring the human landscapes (2014)
- Transdisciplinära varianter och strategier (2014)
Recent publications
- Rethinking the Public Fetus (2024)
- Rethinking the Public Fetus (2024)
- The Drama of the Fetoplacental Unit (2024)
- Introduction: Historicizing Fetal Knowledge Production, Reproductive Politics, and Conflicted Values (2024)
- Histories of Fetal Knowledge Production in Sweden (2024)
All publications
Articles
- Pusseltävlingar för de ofödda (2023)
- Lennart Nilsson – fotografering på liv och död (2022)
- Den offentliga ohälsan (2021)
- Blodigt om en skärningspunkt i kirurgins utveckling (2019)
- Från medicinskt avfall till rättighetsinnehavare (2019)
- Fosterexperimentens produktiva hemlighet (2018)
- Museers återbegravningar av foster hotar ett unikt kulturarv (2018)
- Picturing abortion opposition in Sweden (2018)
- A historical argument for regulatory failure in the case of Primodos and other ‘hormone pregnancy tests’ (2018)
- Trots allt en traditionell medicinhistoria (2016)
- In the light of media (2016)
- The making of a best-selling book on reproduction (2015)
- Lennart Nilsson's Fish-Eyes (2015)
- Lennart Nilsson’s A Child Is Born (2015)
- Colouring the human landscapes (2014)
- Anna Maria Forssberg och Karin Sennefelt, red., Fråga föremålen. Handbok till historiska studier av materiell kultur (2014)
- Ludmilla Jordanova, The Look of the Past. Visual and Material Evidence in Historical Practice (2014)
Books
- Rethinking the Public Fetus (2024)
- Histories of Fetal Knowledge Production in Sweden (2024)
- Embryologiska rum (2022)
- Embryologiska rum (2022)
- Communicating the History of Medicine (2020)
- Kunskap i rörelse (2018)
- Knowledge in Motion (2018)
- History of Participatory Media (2011)
Chapters
- Rethinking the Public Fetus (2024)
- The Drama of the Fetoplacental Unit (2024)
- Introduction: Historicizing Fetal Knowledge Production, Reproductive Politics, and Conflicted Values (2024)
- Embryology and the Clinic (2024)
- Epilogue: Controversy and Fetal Research (2024)
- The Public Fetus (2024)
- Fetuses as Instruments of Health (2024)
- Lennart Nilsson (2022)
- Ögats kris (2022)
- Introduction (2020)
- Klippböckernas vetenskapshistoria (2018)
- Tomteforskaren (2018)
- Befolkningsmedaljen (2018)
- Drama of Life before Birth (2018)
- Science Clipped (2018)
- The Population Medal (2018)
- The Santa Scientist (2018)
- Forskningsprocessens dynamik (2016)
- Transdisciplinära varianter och strategier (2014)