Lisa Lindén
Biographic Data
| ID | 203445 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Lindén |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Lindén |
| SIGNATURE | LINDÉN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gothenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9816-7164 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
What is 'normal' after birth? Situating the material everyday consequences of second-degree vaginal tears in relation to post-birth norms
Normative assumptions and dominant constructions around women's reproductive health have long been a central topic in medical sociology and gender studies. Following this tradition, this article examines Swedish women's experience of second-degree vaginal tears - i.e. a tear in the vagina and/or perineal muscle requiring suturing. Although such tears are a common consequence of vaginal birth, follow-up and treatment have been lacking in the Swedi…
"A vaccine for everyone? Biosexual citizenship, LGBTQ+ health and sexual practice in HPV vaccination policy-settings for "high-risk groups
In this article we draw upon the notion of biosexual citizenship to examine claims and assumptions about (LGBTQ+) health and sexuality, HPV transmission and the HPV vaccine in policy-actors' accounts about the potential need for men who have sex with men, trans people and people living with HIV to access the HPV vaccine. Building on interviews with public health officials and LGBTQ + health organisation employees in Sweden, the article shows how …
Gender, sex and equal health: School nurses’ strategies and experiences of including boys in the HPV vaccination programme in Swedish primary schools
Since autumn 2020, boys in the fifth year of school (11-year-old students) in Sweden have been offered human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination for free. Drawing from individual interviews with 21 school nurses working in primary schools in one of Sweden’s regions, the aim of this study was to explore nurses’ strategies and experiences of informing students and their guardians about the new vaccination programme, HPV and sex. Drawing on feminist th…
The needle pricking and two modes of 'doing good' in the Swedish school-based human papillomavirus vaccination programme
In this article, we draw on science and technology studies literature on care practices to analyse school nurses' work with human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination in schools, in the context of a new vaccination policy including all children in the fifth grade in Sweden. Drawing on 21 interviews with school nurses working in municipalities across a larger Swedish region, we focus on the mundane work of handling the vaccination and supporting the c…
Running out of time: The case of patient advocacy for ovarian cancer patients' access to Parp inhibitors
This article analyses patient advocacy for ovarian cancer patients' access to a group of new targeted cancer treatments, so‐called poly (adenosine diphosphate ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors. Ovarian cancer is often detected in its advanced stages and has relatively poor survival rates. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with the Gynae Cancer Group, a Swedish patients' group, this article examines ovarian cancer patient advocates' engagement wi…
Moving Evidence: Patients' Groups, Biomedical Research, and Affects
Research in science and technology studies has analyzed how patients' groups engage in practices that connect biomedicine and patient experience in order to become involved in the shaping of biomedical research. However, there has been limited attention to the affective dimensions of such practices. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with a gynecological cancer patients' group in Sweden, this article focuses on practices that aim to influence resear…
Unsettling descriptions: Attending to the Potential of Things That Threaten to Undermine Care
This article explores the potential of describing things at the periphery of our attention. It discusses how our practices of 'describing collaboratively' shifted what we attended to in observations of participants in a Swedish gynaecological cancer patient organisation. We show how the care the organisation aims to promote is troubled and seemingly undermined by attending to palliative care. Our aim is to explore the ethico-political potential o…
Love and Fear
Social media are increasingly envisioned by public health authorities as a new promising arena for public engagement. Against this backdrop, this article attends to how citizens confirm, debate and resist governmental framings of health information online. By drawing upon STS and affect theory, it centers on the digital mediation of feelings on a Facebook engagement site for HPV vaccination. While the public authorities framed HPV vaccination as …
The trouble of sex: Sex-determination, prenatal diagnosis and politics
Recent decades have seen the rapid development of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) and methods of prenatal diagnosis. As a result, there are now several ways to predict the genetic sex of embryos as well as visualizing the sex of fetuses. However, how, when and where these technologies may be used have become politicized questions, both internationally and in Sweden. By providing a close reading of the Swedish political debate about tech…
Communicating Care: The Contradictions of HPV Vaccination Campaigns
To all these current and former participants: thank you for fun, enriching and friendly conversations about STS, feminist theory and, perhaps above everything, the everyday dos and don'ts of writing academic texts. You all have taught me how to be a researcher! Many have read my texts over the years. I am thankful for a great reading from my 60% opponent, Isabelle Dussauge, and from the reading group, Teun Zuiderent-Jerak and Anette Wickstrm. You…
Valuations of experimental designs in proteomic biomarker experiments and traditional randomised controlled trials
This article examines the shifting conditions for biomedical knowledge production by studying trends in the design of biomedical experiments. The basic premise of the study is that the very act of establishing a research design entails a process involving a series of valuations where different values are evoked, ordered, and displaced. In focus is the articulation and ordering of what counts as central values in research design for two kinds of b…
Valuation Studies: A Collaborative Valuation in Practice
This discussion note provides a perspective on valuation studies by a group of PhD students. Based on impressions from the Valuation as Practice workshop at The University of Edinburgh in early 2014 we were inspired by the example of Kjellberg et al. (2013) to debate how we see, understand, and are inspired by the field of valuation studies. It is the hope of the editors that sharing the concerns of early-stage researchers starting out in a field…
"What Do Eva and Anna Have to Do with Cervical Cancer?" Constructing Adolescent Girl Subjectivities in Swedish Gardasil Advertisements
This article investigates direct-to-consumer advertising in Sweden for Gardasil, the HPV vaccine, as a contemporary gendered technology of the adolescent girl body. It explores how, by constructing girls as ideal users of the vaccine, advertising campaigns encourage adolescent girls to vaccinate themselves. Using a feminist visual discourse analysis, the article examines how different girl subjectivities are constructed through advertising, and p…
Unsettling descriptions: Attending to the Potential of Things That Threaten to Undermine Care
This article explores the potential of describing things at the periphery of our attention. It discusses how our practices of 'describing collaboratively' shifted what we attended to in observations of participants in a Swedish gynaecological cancer patient organisation. We show how the care the organisation aims to promote is troubled and seemingly undermined by attending to palliative care. Our aim is to explore the ethico-political potential o…
Valuations of experimental designs in proteomic biomarker experiments and traditional randomised controlled trials
This article examines the shifting conditions for biomedical knowledge production by studying trends in the design of biomedical experiments. The basic premise of the study is that the very act of establishing a research design entails a process involving a series of valuations where different values are evoked, ordered, and displaced. In focus is the articulation and ordering of what counts as central values in research design for two kinds of b…
Running out of time: The case of patient advocacy for ovarian cancer patients' access to Parp inhibitors
This article analyses patient advocacy for ovarian cancer patients' access to a group of new targeted cancer treatments, so‐called poly (adenosine diphosphate ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors. Ovarian cancer is often detected in its advanced stages and has relatively poor survival rates. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with the Gynae Cancer Group, a Swedish patients' group, this article examines ovarian cancer patient advocates' engagement wi…
Moving Evidence: Patients' Groups, Biomedical Research, and Affects
Research in science and technology studies has analyzed how patients' groups engage in practices that connect biomedicine and patient experience in order to become involved in the shaping of biomedical research. However, there has been limited attention to the affective dimensions of such practices. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with a gynecological cancer patients' group in Sweden, this article focuses on practices that aim to influence resear…
The needle pricking and two modes of 'doing good' in the Swedish school-based human papillomavirus vaccination programme
In this article, we draw on science and technology studies literature on care practices to analyse school nurses' work with human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination in schools, in the context of a new vaccination policy including all children in the fifth grade in Sweden. Drawing on 21 interviews with school nurses working in municipalities across a larger Swedish region, we focus on the mundane work of handling the vaccination and supporting the c…
"What Do Eva and Anna Have to Do with Cervical Cancer?" Constructing Adolescent Girl Subjectivities in Swedish Gardasil Advertisements
This article investigates direct-to-consumer advertising in Sweden for Gardasil, the HPV vaccine, as a contemporary gendered technology of the adolescent girl body. It explores how, by constructing girls as ideal users of the vaccine, advertising campaigns encourage adolescent girls to vaccinate themselves. Using a feminist visual discourse analysis, the article examines how different girl subjectivities are constructed through advertising, and p…
"What Do Eva and Anna Have to Do with Cervical Cancer?" Constructing Adolescent Girl Subjectivities in Swedish Gardasil Advertisements
This article investigates direct-to-consumer advertising in Sweden for Gardasil, the HPV vaccine, as a contemporary gendered technology of the adolescent girl body. It explores how, by constructing girls as ideal users of the vaccine, advertising campaigns encourage adolescent girls to vaccinate themselves. Using a feminist visual discourse analysis, the article examines how different girl subjectivities are constructed through advertising, and p…
Valuation Studies: A Collaborative Valuation in Practice
This discussion note provides a perspective on valuation studies by a group of PhD students. Based on impressions from the Valuation as Practice workshop at The University of Edinburgh in early 2014 we were inspired by the example of Kjellberg et al. (2013) to debate how we see, understand, and are inspired by the field of valuation studies. It is the hope of the editors that sharing the concerns of early-stage researchers starting out in a field…
Communicating Care: The Contradictions of HPV Vaccination Campaigns
To all these current and former participants: thank you for fun, enriching and friendly conversations about STS, feminist theory and, perhaps above everything, the everyday dos and don'ts of writing academic texts. You all have taught me how to be a researcher! Many have read my texts over the years. I am thankful for a great reading from my 60% opponent, Isabelle Dussauge, and from the reading group, Teun Zuiderent-Jerak and Anette Wickstrm. You…
Valuations of experimental designs in proteomic biomarker experiments and traditional randomised controlled trials
This article examines the shifting conditions for biomedical knowledge production by studying trends in the design of biomedical experiments. The basic premise of the study is that the very act of establishing a research design entails a process involving a series of valuations where different values are evoked, ordered, and displaced. In focus is the articulation and ordering of what counts as central values in research design for two kinds of b…
The trouble of sex: Sex-determination, prenatal diagnosis and politics
Recent decades have seen the rapid development of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) and methods of prenatal diagnosis. As a result, there are now several ways to predict the genetic sex of embryos as well as visualizing the sex of fetuses. However, how, when and where these technologies may be used have become politicized questions, both internationally and in Sweden. By providing a close reading of the Swedish political debate about tech…
Love and Fear
Social media are increasingly envisioned by public health authorities as a new promising arena for public engagement. Against this backdrop, this article attends to how citizens confirm, debate and resist governmental framings of health information online. By drawing upon STS and affect theory, it centers on the digital mediation of feelings on a Facebook engagement site for HPV vaccination. While the public authorities framed HPV vaccination as …
Running out of time: The case of patient advocacy for ovarian cancer patients' access to Parp inhibitors
This article analyses patient advocacy for ovarian cancer patients' access to a group of new targeted cancer treatments, so‐called poly (adenosine diphosphate ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors. Ovarian cancer is often detected in its advanced stages and has relatively poor survival rates. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with the Gynae Cancer Group, a Swedish patients' group, this article examines ovarian cancer patient advocates' engagement wi…
Moving Evidence: Patients' Groups, Biomedical Research, and Affects
Research in science and technology studies has analyzed how patients' groups engage in practices that connect biomedicine and patient experience in order to become involved in the shaping of biomedical research. However, there has been limited attention to the affective dimensions of such practices. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with a gynecological cancer patients' group in Sweden, this article focuses on practices that aim to influence resear…
Unsettling descriptions: Attending to the Potential of Things That Threaten to Undermine Care
This article explores the potential of describing things at the periphery of our attention. It discusses how our practices of 'describing collaboratively' shifted what we attended to in observations of participants in a Swedish gynaecological cancer patient organisation. We show how the care the organisation aims to promote is troubled and seemingly undermined by attending to palliative care. Our aim is to explore the ethico-political potential o…
The needle pricking and two modes of 'doing good' in the Swedish school-based human papillomavirus vaccination programme
In this article, we draw on science and technology studies literature on care practices to analyse school nurses' work with human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination in schools, in the context of a new vaccination policy including all children in the fifth grade in Sweden. Drawing on 21 interviews with school nurses working in municipalities across a larger Swedish region, we focus on the mundane work of handling the vaccination and supporting the c…
Gender, sex and equal health: School nurses’ strategies and experiences of including boys in the HPV vaccination programme in Swedish primary schools
Since autumn 2020, boys in the fifth year of school (11-year-old students) in Sweden have been offered human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination for free. Drawing from individual interviews with 21 school nurses working in primary schools in one of Sweden’s regions, the aim of this study was to explore nurses’ strategies and experiences of informing students and their guardians about the new vaccination programme, HPV and sex. Drawing on feminist th…
What is 'normal' after birth? Situating the material everyday consequences of second-degree vaginal tears in relation to post-birth norms
Normative assumptions and dominant constructions around women's reproductive health have long been a central topic in medical sociology and gender studies. Following this tradition, this article examines Swedish women's experience of second-degree vaginal tears - i.e. a tear in the vagina and/or perineal muscle requiring suturing. Although such tears are a common consequence of vaginal birth, follow-up and treatment have been lacking in the Swedi…
"A vaccine for everyone? Biosexual citizenship, LGBTQ+ health and sexual practice in HPV vaccination policy-settings for "high-risk groups
In this article we draw upon the notion of biosexual citizenship to examine claims and assumptions about (LGBTQ+) health and sexuality, HPV transmission and the HPV vaccine in policy-actors' accounts about the potential need for men who have sex with men, trans people and people living with HIV to access the HPV vaccine. Building on interviews with public health officials and LGBTQ + health organisation employees in Sweden, the article shows how …
Sociology (10 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (4 works) · Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)