Thomas Söderqvist – Director, professor

As Professor of History of Medicine in the Department of Public Health and Director of Medical Museion, I have the overall responsibility for the museum’s research and teaching, exhibitions, collections, acquisitions, web outreach, etc.

My undergraduate academic background training was in zoology, chemistry and paleontology, followed by postgraduate work in political sociology, philosophy of science and history of science. I earned my PhD in ‘theory of science’ (vetenskapsteori) from the University of Gothenburg in 1986.

I have a long track record of academic publications in the following research fields:

• sociology of knowledge
• history of 20th century ecology
• history of 20th century immunology
• historiography of contemporary science
• biographical methodology
• research ethics (virtue ethics)
• science museology

 and have also produced a fairly large number of popular writings.

(Most of my publications after 2005 are also listed in the University of Copenhagen publication database).

I have also had the pleasure to produce and curate several exhibitions and art installations, including Primary Substances, Healthy Ageing, An Ageing World, and Genomic Enlightenment.

For details about my academic career, see this short autobiography, or read this biographical interview, or check out my curriculum vitae.

My current intellectual interest is to understand how medical museums can contribute to a critical assessment of present and future medical science and technology. What is the place of medical museums on the contemporary political, cultural and social arena between global biotechnoscience and the experiences of ordinary people?

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