B. Lundgren
Umeå University, Sweden
Sweden

Author: Professor Britta Lundgren, PhD

Professor of Ethnology at the Department of Culture and Media Studies, Umeå University,

SE-901 87 UMEÅ, Sweden. Britta.lundgren@umu.se

Project leader for research project, financed by the Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden: “Epidemics, Vaccination, and the Power of Narratives” 2013-2016.

Previous areas of research: Gender Studies (research leader 2005-2011) for “Challenging Gender “(Centre of Gender Excellence Grant, Swedish Research Council).

Now coordinator for Medical Humanities Network  at Umeå University.

Latest publications (selected):

2013 “Brave New World? Leading Large Research Structures” In: The Social Politics of Research Collaboration.  Edited by Gabriele Griffin, Katarina Hamberg and Britta Lundgren. Routledge. Pp. 23-38.

2014 “Narrating Narcolepsy. Centering a Side Effect”. Medical Anthropology 34:2, 150-165

DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2014.962694

2015  “’Rhyme or Reason’? Saying no to mass-vaccination. Subjective re-interpretations in the context of the A(H1N1) pandemic in Sweden 2009-2010”. Medical Humanities 2015, 0, 1-6. doi:10.1136/medhum-2015-010684

2015 “Medicinsk humaniora - en arena för utmaning och experiment” (Medical Humanities - an arena for challenges and experiments)  In: Kulturella Perspektiv (Cultural Perspectives), No 1, 2015. 2-10.

Forthcoming:

2015 “Don´t focus the star, try to catch the light”: Indirect questioning in interviews to question normative assumptions in one’s research focus” In: Gabriele Griffin, ed. Cross-cultural Interviewing: Feminist Experiences and Reflections. Routledge.

2015 (together with Martin Holmberg) “Pandemic flus and vaccination policies in Sweden” In: The Politics of Vaccination: A Global History. London: Pickering & Chatto Publishers.