Ylva Söderfeldt
Universitetslektor vid Institutionen för idéhistoria
- Telefon:
- 018-471 15 69
- E-post:
- ylva.soderfeldt@idehist.uu.se
- Besöksadress:
- Engelska parken, Thunbergsvägen 3P
- Postadress:
- Box 629
751 26 UPPSALA
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Kort presentation
Docent och universitetslektor i idéhistoria.
Föreståndare för Centrum för medicinsk humaniora.
Projektledare för ERC Starting Grant-projektet ActDisease
Nyckelord
- history of medicine
- emotion
- disability
- patient involvement
- patient organizations
- womher
- medical humanities
Biografi
Member of the Young Academy of Sweden, 2019-2024
STINT Teaching Sabbatical, University of California Los Angeles, History Department, 2022
Uppsala University's Oscar Prize, 2018
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
Forskning
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.
I am also leading a collaboration between the Medical Humanities units at Uppsala, Durham and Bonn funded by the Uppsala-Durham Seedcorn Fund and the Swedish Network for Medical Humanities.

Publikationer
Urval av publikationer
Ingår i Journal of Open Humanities Data, 2025
Curating a historical source corpus of 20th century patient organization periodicals.
Ingår i Proceedings of the Huminfra Conference (HiC 2024), 2024
Ingår i Disability and labour in the twentieth century, s. 36-63, Routledge, 2023
Claimed by culture: Circumcision, cochlear implants and the ‘intact’ body
Ingår i Medical Humanities, 2021
- DOI för Claimed by culture: Circumcision, cochlear implants and the ‘intact’ body
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Seeing the value of experiential knowledge through COVID‑19
Ingår i History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 2021
- DOI för Seeing the value of experiential knowledge through COVID‑19
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av Seeing the value of experiential knowledge through COVID‑19
The Truth Within: Making Medical Knowledge in the Hay Fever Association of Heligoland, 1899–1909
Ingår i Isis, s. 531-547, 2021
Ingår i Oxford Handbook on Disability History, s. 265-280, Oxford University Press, 2018
Senaste publikationer
Ingår i Journal of Open Humanities Data, 2025
Ingår i Selected papers from the CLARIN Annual Conference 2023, 2024
Ingår i Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 2024
- DOI för Developing education in environmental health and medicine focusing on neurology: Initiatives in Sweden (the UPRISE model), France, and Turkey
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Curating a historical source corpus of 20th century patient organization periodicals.
Ingår i Proceedings of the Huminfra Conference (HiC 2024), 2024
Visualizing longitudinal trends in digitized periodicals from the Swedish diabetes association
2024
Alla publikationer
Artiklar i tidskrift
Ingår i Journal of Open Humanities Data, 2025
Ingår i Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 2024
- DOI för Developing education in environmental health and medicine focusing on neurology: Initiatives in Sweden (the UPRISE model), France, and Turkey
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Ingår i Historisk Tidskrift, s. 289-293, 2023
Claimed by culture: Circumcision, cochlear implants and the ‘intact’ body
Ingår i Medical Humanities, 2021
- DOI för Claimed by culture: Circumcision, cochlear implants and the ‘intact’ body
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Seeing the value of experiential knowledge through COVID‑19
Ingår i History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 2021
- DOI för Seeing the value of experiential knowledge through COVID‑19
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av Seeing the value of experiential knowledge through COVID‑19
The Truth Within: Making Medical Knowledge in the Hay Fever Association of Heligoland, 1899–1909
Ingår i Isis, s. 531-547, 2021
Pandemi avslöjar mediciens makt
Ingår i Tidningen Curie, 2020
Distress, disease, desire: perspectives on the medicalisation of premature ejaculation.
Ingår i Journal of Medical Ethics, s. 865-866, 2017
"Opfer der Arbeit": verkörperte Differenz in der Arbeiterbewegung 1917-1933
Ingår i Westfälische Forschungen, s. 107-129, 2015
Ingår i Paedagogica historica, s. 479-493, 2014
Ingår i Sign Language Studies, s. 250-265, 2014
Jüdische Gehörlose in Deutschland 1800-1933. Blicke in die Geschichte einer doppelten Minderheit.
Ingår i Medizin, Gesellschaft, und Geschichte : Jahrbuch des Instituts fur Geschichte der Medizin der Robert Bosch Stiftung, s. 207-30, 2014
Information, consent and treatment of patients with Morgellons disease: an ethical perspective.
Ingår i American Journal of Clinical Dermatology, s. 71-6, 2014
From Comparison to Indices: A disabling perspective on the history of happiness
Ingår i Health, Culture and Society, s. 249-264, 2013
Der Anfang einer Selbsthilfebewegung?: Die Organisation der Gehörlosen im 19. Jahrhundert.
Ingår i Selbsthilfejahrbuch, s. 43-48, 2013
The galvanic treatment of deafness and the trials at the Berlin Royal Deaf-Mute Asylum in 1802.
Ingår i European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, s. 1953-8, 2013
Ingår i Virus. Beiträge zur Sozialgeschichte der Medizin, s. 91-102, 2012
Taubstumme Genossen.: Vor 100 Jahren wurde eine spezielle Sektion der SPD gegründet
Ingår i junge Welt, Beilage Behindertenpolitik, s. 6, 2011
Dödsfallet på dövskolan berodde på okänt syndrom
Ingår i Läkartidningen, s. 777-8, 2010
Ingår i Das Zeichen, s. 375-379, 2009
Böcker
A beginner's guide to Swedish academia
Sveriges unga akademi, 2022
Krankheit verbindet: Strategien und Strukturen deutscher Patientenvereine im 20. Jahrhundert
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020
Kassel University Press, 2017
Von Wechselbälgen und verkörperter Differenz: Zwei Beiträge zu den Disability Studies
Verlag der Evangelischen Gesellschaft, 2017
Uberwindung der Körperlichkeit.: Historische Perspektiven auf den künstlichen Körper
Kassel University Press GmbH, 2015
Utopin i vardagen: sinnen, kvinnor, idéer : en vänbok till Elisabeth Mansén
Ellerströms förlag, 2014
From pathology to public sphere: The German deaf movement, 1848-1914
Transcript Verlag, 2013
Kapitel i böcker, delar av antologi
Ingår i Disability and labour in the twentieth century, s. 36-63, Routledge, 2023
Ingår i Communicating the history of medicine, s. 43-65, Manchester University Press, 2020
Die 'Lex Zwickau': Zwangssterilisierungsdebatten in der Gehörlosenbewegung
Ingår i Zwischen Fremdbestimmung und Autonomie, s. 155-192, Transcript Verlag, 2019
Ingår i Oxford Handbook on Disability History, s. 265-280, Oxford University Press, 2018
The Blind Finch: Expanding the Role of Disability in Heritage and Human-Animal Bond Studies.
Ingår i In: (Eds.). Rethinking Disability, s. 445-462, Garant, 2016
"det mest talande beviset": En dövblind yngling, en falsk tolk och funktionshinder som ornament.
Ingår i Utopin I vardagen. , s. 206-224, Ellerströms förlag, 2014
Konferensbidrag
Ingår i Selected papers from the CLARIN Annual Conference 2023, 2024
Curating a historical source corpus of 20th century patient organization periodicals.
Ingår i Proceedings of the Huminfra Conference (HiC 2024), 2024
Visualizing longitudinal trends in digitized periodicals from the Swedish diabetes association
2024
Rapporter
Övriga
Ingår i Social history of medicine, s. 429-430, 2023
- DOI för Alex de Waal, New Pandemics, Old Politics: Two Hundred Years of War on Disease and Its Alternatives, Cambridge/Medford, MA: Polity Press, 2021
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av Alex de Waal, New Pandemics, Old Politics: Two Hundred Years of War on Disease and Its Alternatives, Cambridge/Medford, MA: Polity Press, 2021
"A sanitary war".: Corona, medical power(lessness) and responsibilization.
2020
Ingår i Historische Zeitschrift, s. 267-268, 2019
Gehörlose in der französichen Spätaufklärung.
Ingår i WerkstattGeschichte, s. 107-109, 2016
2016