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Ylva Söderfeldt is a Senior Lecturer at Uppsala University's Department of History of Science and Ideas, where she also serves as Director of the Centre for Medical Humanities. Her research focuses on the intersection of medical expertise, disability studies, and patient agency, particularly examining how marginalized groups negotiate identity and knowledge production within medical frameworks.
Her work includes studies on patient organizations, experiential knowledge, and historical discourses surrounding deafness and chronic illness. She leads an ERC Starting Grant project analyzing the evolution of patient advocacy and has published extensively on topics like gendered labor in health movements and bioethical debates over bodily integrity. Her methodological approach combines traditional historiography with computational text analysis of periodicals.
Key collaborations include research with institutions in Sweden (Uppsala), Germany (RWTH Aachen), and international networks. She holds a PhD in History from Stuttgart University and has been affiliated with Uppsala University since 2016.
