Ylva Söderfeldt
Professor 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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Professor vid Institutionen för idéhistoria; Centrum för medicinsk humaniora
- E-post:
- ylva.soderfeldt@idehist.uu.se
- Besöksadress:
- Engelska parken, Thunbergsvägen 3P
- Postadress:
- Box 629
751 26 UPPSALA
Kort presentation
Professor 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 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.

Publikationer
Urval av publikationer
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Ingår i Journal of Open Humanities Data, 2025
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Curating a historical source corpus of 20th century patient organization periodicals
Ingår i Proceedings of the Huminfra Conference (HiC 2024), s. 76-82, 2024
- DOI för Curating a historical source corpus of 20th century patient organization periodicals
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Ingår i Disability and labour in the twentieth century, s. 36-63, Routledge, 2023
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Claimed by culture: Circumcision, cochlear implants and the ‘intact’ body
Ingår i Medical Humanities, 2021
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Seeing the value of experiential knowledge through COVID‑19
Ingår i History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 2021
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The Truth Within: Making Medical Knowledge in the Hay Fever Association of Heligoland, 1899–1909
Ingår i Isis, s. 531-547, 2021
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Ingår i Oxford Handbook on Disability History, s. 265-280, Oxford University Press, 2018
Senaste publikationer
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Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Linguistic Analysis for Health (HeaLing 2026)
2026
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Classifying Textual Genre in Historical Magazines (1875-1990)
Ingår i Proceedings of the 9th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature (LaTeCH-CLfL 2025), s. 160-171, 2025
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Ingår i NTM. International Journal of History and Ethics of Natural Sciences, Technology and Medicine, s. 241-245, 2025
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Ingår i Journal of Open Humanities Data, 2025
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Exploring Patient Organization Periodicals with the Topic Timelines Text Visualization Method
Ingår i HiC 2025 Huminfra Conference 12-13 November, 2025 Stockholm, Sweden, s. 88-100, 2025
Alla publikationer
Artiklar i tidskrift
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Ingår i Journal of Open Humanities Data, 2025
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Ingår i Social history of medicine, 2025
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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
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Claimed by culture: Circumcision, cochlear implants and the ‘intact’ body
Ingår i Medical Humanities, 2021
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Seeing the value of experiential knowledge through COVID‑19
Ingår i History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 2021
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The Truth Within: Making Medical Knowledge in the Hay Fever Association of Heligoland, 1899–1909
Ingår i Isis, s. 531-547, 2021
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Pandemi avslöjar mediciens makt
Ingår i Tidningen Curie, 2020
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Distress, disease, desire: perspectives on the medicalisation of premature ejaculation.
Ingår i Journal of Medical Ethics, s. 865-866, 2017
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"Opfer der Arbeit": verkörperte Differenz in der Arbeiterbewegung 1917-1933
Ingår i Westfälische Forschungen, s. 107-129, 2015
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Ingår i Sign Language Studies, s. 250-265, 2014
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Information, consent and treatment of patients with Morgellons disease: an ethical perspective.
Ingår i American Journal of Clinical Dermatology, s. 71-6, 2014
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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
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Ingår i Paedagogica historica, s. 479-493, 2014
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From Comparison to Indices: A disabling perspective on the history of happiness
Ingår i Health, Culture and Society, s. 249-264, 2013
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Der Anfang einer Selbsthilfebewegung?: Die Organisation der Gehörlosen im 19. Jahrhundert.
Ingår i Selbsthilfejahrbuch, s. 43-48, 2013
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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
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Ingår i Virus. Beiträge zur Sozialgeschichte der Medizin, s. 91-102, 2012
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Ingår i SeelsOHRge. Zeitung für die Evangelische Schwerhörigenseelsorge, s. 5-8, 2011
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Taubstumme Genossen.: Vor 100 Jahren wurde eine spezielle Sektion der SPD gegründet
Ingår i junge Welt, Beilage Behindertenpolitik, s. 6, 2011
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Dödsfallet på dövskolan berodde på okänt syndrom
Ingår i Läkartidningen, s. 777-8, 2010
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Ingår i Das Zeichen, s. 375-379, 2009
Böcker
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A beginner's guide to Swedish academia
Sveriges unga akademi, 2022
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Krankheit verbindet: Strategien und Strukturen deutscher Patientenvereine im 20. Jahrhundert
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020
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Kassel University Press, 2017
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Von Wechselbälgen und verkörperter Differenz: Zwei Beiträge zu den Disability Studies
Verlag der Evangelischen Gesellschaft, 2017
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Uberwindung der Körperlichkeit.: Historische Perspektiven auf den künstlichen Körper
Kassel University Press GmbH, 2015
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Utopin i vardagen: sinnen, kvinnor, idéer : en vänbok till Elisabeth Mansén
Ellerströms förlag, 2014
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From pathology to public sphere: The German deaf movement, 1848-1914
Transcript Verlag, 2013
Kapitel i böcker, delar av antologi
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Ingår i Huminfra handbook:, s. 147-182, University of Tartu Library, 2025
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Ingår i Disability and labour in the twentieth century, s. 36-63, Routledge, 2023
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Ingår i Communicating the history of medicine, s. 43-65, Manchester University Press, 2020
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Die 'Lex Zwickau': Zwangssterilisierungsdebatten in der Gehörlosenbewegung
Ingår i Zwischen Fremdbestimmung und Autonomie, s. 155-192, Transcript Verlag, 2019
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Ingår i Oxford Handbook on Disability History, s. 265-280, Oxford University Press, 2018
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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
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"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
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Classifying Textual Genre in Historical Magazines (1875-1990)
Ingår i Proceedings of the 9th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature (LaTeCH-CLfL 2025), s. 160-171, 2025
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Exploring Patient Organization Periodicals with the Topic Timelines Text Visualization Method
Ingår i HiC 2025 Huminfra Conference 12-13 November, 2025 Stockholm, Sweden, s. 88-100, 2025
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Further Developing the Word Rain Text Visualisation Technique in a Digital History Project
Ingår i Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications, 2025
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Curating a historical source corpus of 20th century patient organization periodicals
Ingår i Proceedings of the Huminfra Conference (HiC 2024), s. 76-82, 2024
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- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av Curating a historical source corpus of 20th century patient organization periodicals
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Ingår i Selected papers from the CLARIN Annual Conference 2023, s. 203-216, 2024
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Visualizing longitudinal trends in digitized periodicals from the Swedish diabetes association
2024
Proceedings (redaktörskap)
Rapporter
Övriga
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Ingår i NTM. International Journal of History and Ethics of Natural Sciences, Technology and Medicine, s. 241-245, 2025
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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
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"A sanitary war".: Corona, medical power(lessness) and responsibilization.
2020
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Ingår i Historische Zeitschrift, s. 267-268, 2019
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Gehörlose in der französichen Spätaufklärung.
Ingår i WerkstattGeschichte, s. 107-109, 2016
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2016