Ketil Slagstad

Congratulations, Luci! Looking forward to reading it!

Contagious Counter-Worlds: On the Idea of an Alternative in German Primary Healthcare - Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry This article discusses experimental attempts and imaginaries of interdisciplinary healthcare in alternative group practices, focusing on health activist movements in contemporary Germany and their pre...

📚 Very glad to see this out in the world:
the first paper of my ethnographic dissertation is now published open access in Culture, Medicine, Psychiatry, as part of a special issue on „Liberation Medicine“.

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Positions | Gender Insight

🚀 Doctoral Network #GenderInsight - 15 Open PhD Positions! 🚀

I am hiring two PhD candidate for my German research group, based at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin: see Clinical Lens, Projects 5 and 6!

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🚨Now recruiting 2 PhD students as part of Gender Insight MSCA doctoral network! My fabulous team at the Department of Medical Psychology at @amsterdamumc.bsky.social is growing. See link below or visit www.genderinsight.eu. Apply by end of February. werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/en/publicati...

Wonderful job opportunities coming up in Berlin!

Transmedisinens historie med Ketil Slagstad Quickly and easily listen to Skeiv dagsorden for free!

Hadde gleden av å snakke med Mary Ann i podkasten Skeiv dagsorden om transmedisinsk historie. Vi snakker blant annet om eugenikken, velferdsstaten og sykeliggjøring av minoriteter. player.captivate.fm/episode/f70d...

In total, we have available 15 PhD positions in psychology, history, ethics, endocrinology, neuroscience and public health as part of our MSCA network in different European countries. See all postings on the webpage.

Please note that MSCA networks have specific mobility criteria for eligibility.

2. Contesting Menopause: Feminist Science, Gender, and the Making of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) | Gender Insight

Position 2:

Contesting Menopause: Feminist Science, Gender, and the Making of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)

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1. Do-It-Yourself Transition (DIY) and Circles of Knowledge: Stories of Transgender Healthcare Beyond the Clinic | Gender Insight

Position 1:

Do-It-Yourself Transition (DIY) and Circles of Knowledge: Stories of Transgender Healthcare Beyond the Clinic

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Gender Insight Through co-creation and mixed methods research the projects will increase our understanding of the influence of biopsychosocial factors during hormonal transitions such as puberty and menopause, in th...

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Two fully funded 36-month PhD positions in the history of medicine at Charité Berlin.

The positions are part of the EU-funded Gender Insight network researching biopsychosocial aspects of diverse hormonal transitions.

Deadline 28 Feb 2026

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Karl Kahlbaums Nosologie war für Emil Kraepelin von großer Bedeutung, und daher ist es eine besondere Freude, in der Bibliothek auf sein Originalexemplar zu stoßen.

Unterschreiben!
gegen Register zur Erfassung von trans* und nichtbinären Personen und für Rechte auf informationelle Selbstbestimmung, Gleichbehandlung und Schutz vor Diskriminierung
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An incredible and beautiful short documentary by Nicolas Gouralt who interviewed online workers from Venezuela, Kenya and the Philippines who annotate images to train A.I. systems.

Here is as gift link.

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Post-doc positions:
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."

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Congratulations! This looks great. Looking forward to reading it!

Skjermdump av avisartikkel

I Morgenbladet denne uka forsøker jeg å trekke noen linjer mellom den aktuelle saken om ulovlig forskning ved Rikshospitalet på unge transkjønnedes journalopplysninger og den mye lengre tradisjonen med uetisk forskning på transpersoner.

www.morgenbladet.no/ideer/gjenno...

Paradiset er ikke til salg Dokumentarfilm om mennesker, som skifter køn eller kønsidentitet eller iklæder sig et andet køns tøj. Filmen veksler mellem musikalske optrædener og personlige fortællinger.

I intervjuet snakket vi om filmen "Paradiset er ikke til salg" fra 1985, der Christine Jorgensen opptrer. Filmen, som gir et fint innblikk i dansk transhistorie, kan man se her:

www.danmarkpaafilm.dk/film/paradis...

Som von Essen skriver: "Det var ikke velfærdsstatens frisind, der tidligt gav transpersoner mulighed for at få kønsskifteoperationer – det var viljen til at regulere individet."

Umage alliancer Transmedicin. Det var ikke velfærdsstatens frisind, der tidligt gav transpersoner mulighed for at få kønsskifteoperationer – det var viljen til at regulere individet. Medicinhistoriker Ketil Slagstad ...

Det var en glede å snakke med Sarah von Essen for @weekendavisen.dk om min nye bok og den skandinaviske transmedisinske historien.

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Inge Lorange Backer trekker de lange linjene i lovforberedelsen, mens Maiken S. Granberg skriver om felleshager som matsikkerhet og beredskap.

Forsida og heftet er som vanlig ypperlig illustrert av Siri Dokken.

God lesing fra oss i redaksjonen!

Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift | Volume 42 | Issue 4 | Table of Contents

Ny utgave av Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift er nå publisert!

Rita Augestad Knudsen og Ole Martin Stormoen skriver om risikovurderinger for terrorisme, Eirik Magnus Fuglestad analyserer framveksten av "de nye småbrukerne", og Jan Grue beretter fra et forskningsopphold i USA.

www.scup.com/toc/nnt/42/4

Beautiful. Thank you for sharing!

Rethinking Microbial Histories: Beyond Pasteur and the Lab In an age when microbes are once again at the centre of global attention - whether through pandemics, probiotics or planetary health - rethinking their histories is more than an academic exercise.

Rethinking Microbial Histories: Beyond Pasteur and the Lab
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If you need a manuscript copy edited or proofread, I highly recommend the services of @emilyherring.bsky.social. I just received an edited manuscript back, and I'm very pleased with the level of detail and her excellent suggestions!

Opinion | James Watson Saw the True Form of DNA. Then It Blinded Him.

"Genetic determinism is one of those one-single-technofix-will-solve-everything ideas that visionaries can fall prey to, and the history of genetics is lousy with hereditarians promising to end disease, make us smarter and better our society."
@nccomfort.bsky.social

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Boksamtale: "Standardizing Sex" Hvordan ble transmedisin utviklet – og hvilken rolle spilte Skandinavia i en global historie?

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Om du er i Trondheim i kveld 10.12 (kl. 19.00) eller i Bergen i morgen (kl. 17.00), kom forbi på boksamtale om den skandinaviske transmedisinske historien.

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Want to know Donna J. Drucker's Top 3 Books of 2025? Donna's top 3 reads of 2025 include Standardizing Sex and two other amazing books. Discover what makes these books unmissable!

I wrote a little about my three favorite books of the year, including @slagstadk.bsky.social's "Standardizing Sex" for the book review site Shepherd. Congratulations to Dr. Slagstad on such a deeply researched and well-argued book. 📚
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Thank you very much for your thoughtful words and reflections about the book. I really appreciate it!

particularly the desire to uphold traditional gender norms for the sake of the public good, determined and limited transgender care, and it should motivate readers to better understand their own social perspectives as well."