Susanne Lundin
Biographic Data
| ID | 100991 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susanne Lundin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Lundin |
| SIGNATURE | LUNDIN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lund University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0038-9661 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Negotiating uncertainties
This article examines how different layers of health-related uncertainties emerge and intersect in an algorithmic society. We aim to understand how people's self-care practices co-evolve with digitalised health systems. Sweden stands out among Western countries due to the population's high digital consumption of medical and health products. We conceptualise health-related uncertainties as inherent in care-seeking. The uncertainties are embedded i…
Engineering organs, hopes and hybridity
The development of replacing human organs with those from genetically modified pigs holds immense potential for alleviating the shortage of organs necessary for patients in need of transplants. This medical advancement is also accompanied by significant social changes, including the emergence of a bioeconomy, new modes of biotechnology governance, altered human-animal relations and increased public engagement. Some aspects, such as the impact on …
I'm not a jukebox where you push a button and then I sing
This article aims to deepen understandings of physician-patient encounters by investigating views and perceptions held by Swedish physicians and care seekers on medicine access. Through a relational approach and a focus on materialities of medicines as fluid and contingent, we conceptualize medicine access as situated everyday practices and physician-patient encounters as embedded in sociomaterial configurations. Through a bricolage approach, we …
Movement of knowledge
Medical knowledge is always in motion.It moves from the lab to the office, from a press release to a patient, from an academic journal to a civil servant's desk and then on to a policymaker.Knowledge is deconstructed, reconstructed, and transformed as it moves.The dynamic, ever-evolving nature of medical knowledge has given rise to different concepts to explain it: diffusion, translation, circulation, transit, co-production.At the same time, its …
The Complexities of Victimhood
The aim of this paper is to explore the complexity of the concept of the victim within the context of organ trading. By examining the intricate phenomenon of organ trade, we show how prevailing notions of victimhood form the basis of concrete social practices. The empirical basis for this exploration comprises in-depth interviews conducted during fieldwork in South Africa and Kosovo. We also draw on research undertaken at various expert meetings.…
Organ economy
Organ trafficking is an illegal means of meeting the shortage of transplants. The activity flourishes for several interacting reasons, such as medical needs, poverty and criminality. Other factors are fundamental conceptual structures such as the dream of the regenerative body as well as the view of the body as an object of utility and an object of value. The article aims to go behind the normative discussions that usually surround organ traffick…
Genetics and democracy—what is the issue
I Want a Baby; Don't Stop Me from Being a Mother
The increasing demand for human egg cells has led to reproductive tourism and a transnational egg trade. The activity flourishes due to poverty and criminality, as well as medical needs (infertility) and cultural needs (the dream of parenthood). Other factors are fundamental concepts, such as the view of the body as an object of utility and value. This article aims to go behind the normative discussions that usually surround different forms of as…
For Better or for Worse
Modernity has meant a cultural and social differentiation within the western society, which, according to Jürgen Habermas' theory on communication, can be seen as a division between different forms of actions that takes place in different realms of the society. By combining Habermas' notions of lifeworld and system with Arthur Frank's analysis of stories as a way to experience illness, the article performs a cultural analysis of the meeting betwe…
Successful Ageing' in Practice
This article aims to contribute to the critical examination of the notions of health and activity, and to discuss how these cultural and social constructs have impact on elderly people's lives. An ethnographic perspective gives fruitful inputs to explore how old people deal with the image of old age as one of decay and decline, while they simultaneously relate to the normative idea of so-called successful ageing. The focus is thus on how elderly …
Difficult Questions and Ambivalent Answers on Genetic Testing
A qualitative pilot study on the attitudes of some citizens in southern Sweden toward predictive genetic testing - and a quantitative nation wide opinion poll targeting the same issues, was initiated by the Cultural Scientific Research Team of BAGADILICO. The latter is an international biomedical research environment on neurological disease at Lund University. The data of the two studies crystallized through analysis into themes around which the …
Learning to Eat Strawberries in a Disciplined Way Normalization Practices Following Organ Transplantation
This article addresses everyday strategies of coming to terms with organ transplantation that we term normalization practices. The analysis is based on focus group discussions and ethnographic interviews with transplant recipients, their relatives and waiting list patients in Sweden, Cyprus and Germany. Exploring our respondents’ narratives we analytically differentiate between three levels of practices normalizing the post-transplantation experi…
Corps vieillis et technologies nouvelles
Le développement biomédical signifie une meilleure qualité de vie pour de nombreux patients. Pourtant, les possibilités médicales posent un certain nombre de problèmes éthiques et culturels, et « corriger » le corps humain soulève beaucoup de questions existentielles. Par ailleurs, l'allongement de la vie impose des choix difficiles en matière de politique de recherche, de santé et de service médical public - traitements coûteux et sophistiqués d…
Kroppen värd att satsa på
The last years the number of biotechnological companies have increased. Biology has become a valuable raw material that can be refined into medical and commercial products. My article is focusing on the links between our dreams of a healthy body, and the development of the biotech- and pharmaceutical industry. The human dreams about the body are illustrated with three comprehensive perspectives. First, it deals with the question that the body tod…
GenEtnologi
All forms of fieldwork put the researcher in a number of tricky situations. Our project "Gene ethics, gene technology, and everyday ethics" is no exception. It involves well known difficulties such as the impossibility of "going native" coupled with ethnocentrism, but also representation critique and reflexivity. The work in our cross-disciplinary project brings several of these questions of method and analysis to the fore at the same time as new…
The boundless body
Today's technology is able to intervene in biological processes in a highly concrete way. Technology thus shapes and reshapes our world in a very special way, not just biologically but also culturally. This raises questions relevant to the cultural sciences. In this article I discuss biotechnology and cultural transformation by considering xenotransplantation. The focus is on patients who have received animal cells, and on their attempts to make …
Creating Life and Exploring Death
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Att skapa liv och utforska död
Artificial reproduction and the handling of dead bodies give us important information about the interaction between societal structures, identity, and the body. They also tell us something about the extent to which it is collective or personal needs that are signalled via the body. On the basis of the two empirical fields studied here, we think that we can say that the experience of living in a high-tech society, where questions of life and death…
Längtan efter social och biologisk identitet
Det är kvin norna som står i centrum för behandlingen mot barnlöshet. Ändå är det kanske ännu viktigare för männen att få bekräftelse på sin fertilitet. Konstgjord befruktning kan således hjälpa till att vidmakthålla traditionella tankar både om föräldraskap och könsidentitet. Tekniken möjliggör inte bara en biologisk utan också en social reproduktion
The boundless body
Today's technology is able to intervene in biological processes in a highly concrete way. Technology thus shapes and reshapes our world in a very special way, not just biologically but also culturally. This raises questions relevant to the cultural sciences. In this article I discuss biotechnology and cultural transformation by considering xenotransplantation. The focus is on patients who have received animal cells, and on their attempts to make …
I Want a Baby; Don't Stop Me from Being a Mother
The increasing demand for human egg cells has led to reproductive tourism and a transnational egg trade. The activity flourishes due to poverty and criminality, as well as medical needs (infertility) and cultural needs (the dream of parenthood). Other factors are fundamental concepts, such as the view of the body as an object of utility and value. This article aims to go behind the normative discussions that usually surround different forms of as…
Successful Ageing' in Practice
This article aims to contribute to the critical examination of the notions of health and activity, and to discuss how these cultural and social constructs have impact on elderly people's lives. An ethnographic perspective gives fruitful inputs to explore how old people deal with the image of old age as one of decay and decline, while they simultaneously relate to the normative idea of so-called successful ageing. The focus is thus on how elderly …
Corps vieillis et technologies nouvelles
Le développement biomédical signifie une meilleure qualité de vie pour de nombreux patients. Pourtant, les possibilités médicales posent un certain nombre de problèmes éthiques et culturels, et « corriger » le corps humain soulève beaucoup de questions existentielles. Par ailleurs, l'allongement de la vie impose des choix difficiles en matière de politique de recherche, de santé et de service médical public - traitements coûteux et sophistiqués d…
For Better or for Worse
Modernity has meant a cultural and social differentiation within the western society, which, according to Jürgen Habermas' theory on communication, can be seen as a division between different forms of actions that takes place in different realms of the society. By combining Habermas' notions of lifeworld and system with Arthur Frank's analysis of stories as a way to experience illness, the article performs a cultural analysis of the meeting betwe…
Att skapa liv och utforska död
Artificial reproduction and the handling of dead bodies give us important information about the interaction between societal structures, identity, and the body. They also tell us something about the extent to which it is collective or personal needs that are signalled via the body. On the basis of the two empirical fields studied here, we think that we can say that the experience of living in a high-tech society, where questions of life and death…
Längtan efter social och biologisk identitet
Det är kvin norna som står i centrum för behandlingen mot barnlöshet. Ändå är det kanske ännu viktigare för männen att få bekräftelse på sin fertilitet. Konstgjord befruktning kan således hjälpa till att vidmakthålla traditionella tankar både om föräldraskap och könsidentitet. Tekniken möjliggör inte bara en biologisk utan också en social reproduktion
Creating Life and Exploring Death
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GenEtnologi
All forms of fieldwork put the researcher in a number of tricky situations. Our project "Gene ethics, gene technology, and everyday ethics" is no exception. It involves well known difficulties such as the impossibility of "going native" coupled with ethnocentrism, but also representation critique and reflexivity. The work in our cross-disciplinary project brings several of these questions of method and analysis to the fore at the same time as new…
The boundless body
Today's technology is able to intervene in biological processes in a highly concrete way. Technology thus shapes and reshapes our world in a very special way, not just biologically but also culturally. This raises questions relevant to the cultural sciences. In this article I discuss biotechnology and cultural transformation by considering xenotransplantation. The focus is on patients who have received animal cells, and on their attempts to make …
Kroppen värd att satsa på
The last years the number of biotechnological companies have increased. Biology has become a valuable raw material that can be refined into medical and commercial products. My article is focusing on the links between our dreams of a healthy body, and the development of the biotech- and pharmaceutical industry. The human dreams about the body are illustrated with three comprehensive perspectives. First, it deals with the question that the body tod…
Corps vieillis et technologies nouvelles
Le développement biomédical signifie une meilleure qualité de vie pour de nombreux patients. Pourtant, les possibilités médicales posent un certain nombre de problèmes éthiques et culturels, et « corriger » le corps humain soulève beaucoup de questions existentielles. Par ailleurs, l'allongement de la vie impose des choix difficiles en matière de politique de recherche, de santé et de service médical public - traitements coûteux et sophistiqués d…
Learning to Eat Strawberries in a Disciplined Way Normalization Practices Following Organ Transplantation
This article addresses everyday strategies of coming to terms with organ transplantation that we term normalization practices. The analysis is based on focus group discussions and ethnographic interviews with transplant recipients, their relatives and waiting list patients in Sweden, Cyprus and Germany. Exploring our respondents’ narratives we analytically differentiate between three levels of practices normalizing the post-transplantation experi…
Organ economy
Organ trafficking is an illegal means of meeting the shortage of transplants. The activity flourishes for several interacting reasons, such as medical needs, poverty and criminality. Other factors are fundamental conceptual structures such as the dream of the regenerative body as well as the view of the body as an object of utility and an object of value. The article aims to go behind the normative discussions that usually surround organ traffick…
Genetics and democracy—what is the issue
I Want a Baby; Don't Stop Me from Being a Mother
The increasing demand for human egg cells has led to reproductive tourism and a transnational egg trade. The activity flourishes due to poverty and criminality, as well as medical needs (infertility) and cultural needs (the dream of parenthood). Other factors are fundamental concepts, such as the view of the body as an object of utility and value. This article aims to go behind the normative discussions that usually surround different forms of as…
For Better or for Worse
Modernity has meant a cultural and social differentiation within the western society, which, according to Jürgen Habermas' theory on communication, can be seen as a division between different forms of actions that takes place in different realms of the society. By combining Habermas' notions of lifeworld and system with Arthur Frank's analysis of stories as a way to experience illness, the article performs a cultural analysis of the meeting betwe…
Successful Ageing' in Practice
This article aims to contribute to the critical examination of the notions of health and activity, and to discuss how these cultural and social constructs have impact on elderly people's lives. An ethnographic perspective gives fruitful inputs to explore how old people deal with the image of old age as one of decay and decline, while they simultaneously relate to the normative idea of so-called successful ageing. The focus is thus on how elderly …
Difficult Questions and Ambivalent Answers on Genetic Testing
A qualitative pilot study on the attitudes of some citizens in southern Sweden toward predictive genetic testing - and a quantitative nation wide opinion poll targeting the same issues, was initiated by the Cultural Scientific Research Team of BAGADILICO. The latter is an international biomedical research environment on neurological disease at Lund University. The data of the two studies crystallized through analysis into themes around which the …
The Complexities of Victimhood
The aim of this paper is to explore the complexity of the concept of the victim within the context of organ trading. By examining the intricate phenomenon of organ trade, we show how prevailing notions of victimhood form the basis of concrete social practices. The empirical basis for this exploration comprises in-depth interviews conducted during fieldwork in South Africa and Kosovo. We also draw on research undertaken at various expert meetings.…
Movement of knowledge
Medical knowledge is always in motion.It moves from the lab to the office, from a press release to a patient, from an academic journal to a civil servant's desk and then on to a policymaker.Knowledge is deconstructed, reconstructed, and transformed as it moves.The dynamic, ever-evolving nature of medical knowledge has given rise to different concepts to explain it: diffusion, translation, circulation, transit, co-production.At the same time, its …
I'm not a jukebox where you push a button and then I sing
This article aims to deepen understandings of physician-patient encounters by investigating views and perceptions held by Swedish physicians and care seekers on medicine access. Through a relational approach and a focus on materialities of medicines as fluid and contingent, we conceptualize medicine access as situated everyday practices and physician-patient encounters as embedded in sociomaterial configurations. Through a bricolage approach, we …
Engineering organs, hopes and hybridity
The development of replacing human organs with those from genetically modified pigs holds immense potential for alleviating the shortage of organs necessary for patients in need of transplants. This medical advancement is also accompanied by significant social changes, including the emergence of a bioeconomy, new modes of biotechnology governance, altered human-animal relations and increased public engagement. Some aspects, such as the impact on …
Negotiating uncertainties
This article examines how different layers of health-related uncertainties emerge and intersect in an algorithmic society. We aim to understand how people's self-care practices co-evolve with digitalised health systems. Sweden stands out among Western countries due to the population's high digital consumption of medical and health products. We conceptualise health-related uncertainties as inherent in care-seeking. The uncertainties are embedded i…
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Organ Donation and Transplantation (4 works)