Solveig Jülich is a Swedish historian of ideas, professor at the department of History of Science and Ideas at

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Biography

Solveig Jülich holds a Ph.D in technology and social change from

Linköping University Linköping University (LiU; ) is a public university, public research university based in Linköping, Sweden. Originally established in 1969, it was granted full university status in 1975 and is one of Sweden's largest academic institutions. T ...

in 2002, for which she was awarded the Swedish History of Science Society award for dissertations the next year. She had previously received the Swedish History of Science Society award for articles in 1998. She was employed as senior lecturer for the undergraduate programme in Culture, Society, Media Production at

(2003–2006). She was assistant professor, funded by the Swedish Research Council, at the Department of Literature and History of Ideas at

Stockholm University Stockholm University (SU) () is a public university, public research university in Stockholm, Sweden, founded as a college in 1878, with university status since 1960. With over 33,000 students at four different faculties: law, humanities, social ...

(2006–2010) before becoming senior lecturer in history of ideas. In 2014, she joined the Department of History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University. Jülich's research and teaching interests include

Medical humanities Medical humanities is an interdisciplinary field of medicine which includes the humanities (philosophy of medicine, medical ethics and bioethics, history of medicine, literary studies and religion), social science (psychology, medical sociology, m ...

History of medicine The history of medicine is both a study of medicine throughout history as well as a multidisciplinary field of study that seeks to explore and understand medical practices, both past and present, throughout human societies. The history of med ...

and biomedicine, historical perspectives on ethics and value conflicts in medical research, and history of medicine's visual and material culture.

Research

Her previous research projects have explored the introduction and reception of

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images, the interaction between medical science and media culture, and the making of the iconic images of embryos and foetuses by Swedish photographer Lennart Nilsson. She received the Johan Nordström and Sten Lindroth prize in 2003. At present she is responsible for the six-year research programme "Medicine at the borders of life: Fetal research and the emergence of ethical controversy in Sweden", funded by the Swedish Research Council. She is also a member of the steering group for the research programme “Science and modernisation in Sweden”,Vetenskaphistoria
/ref> funded by Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg's foundation and hosted by the Center for the History of Science at the Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Selected publications

*1897: Media histories and the Stockholm exhibition, ed. with Anders Ekström & Pelle Snickars, Stockholm: Statens ljud- och bildarkiv, 2006; title in trans. *Cultural history of media, ed. with Patrik Lundell & Pelle Snickars, Stockholm: Statens ljud- och bildarkiv, 2008; title in trans. *History of participatory media: Politics and publics, 1750 – 2000, ed. with Anders Ekström, Frans Lundgren & Per Wisselgren, New York: Routledge, 2011 *The bus is the message: Perspectives on mobility, materiality, and modernity, ed. with Lotten Gustafsson Reinius & Ylva Habel, Stockholm: Kungliga biblioteket, 2013; title in trans. *Lennart Nilsson's A Child Is Born: The Many Lives of a Best-Selling Pregnancy Advice Book, Culture Unbound, Journal of Current Cultural Research, 7(4): 627-648, 2015.

References

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