Lena Eriksson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3596680 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lena Eriksson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lena |
| FAMILY NAME | Eriksson |
| SIGNATURE | ERIKSSON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gothenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7769-0706 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Stakeholders’ opportunities and attempts to influence drug policy in Sweden
Background Drug policy is a polarized and value-laden policy area with divergent interests of stakeholders. Through a Swedish case study, this article examines stakeholders’ strategies to influence drug policy, and perceptions of their own and others’ opportunities to influence drug policy—a topic that has not been systematically analyzed previously.Methods The analysis of 38 semi-structured key informant interviews with stakeholders within the n…
Diagnostic stickiness and shifting relevance: Reassessing autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and/or attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnoses. A qualitative interview study
The rising rate of diagnosed autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has led to more individuals near the diagnostic threshold living with neurodevelopmental diagnoses. While often assigned in childhood to initiate support in medical, school and family contexts, these diagnoses may persist across time and settings, shaping adult life in ways that are unaligned with current functioning. This study explore…
Institutionalized ignorance in court: Involuntary care and citizenship(s)
When changes in Swedish law were proposed that affected the professional jurisdiction regarding involuntary care, reactions from the medical community were strong. The chairman of the parliamentary committee responsible for the proposal described how he was met by "a thousand psychiatrists booing" when presenting the suggestions to a Swedish psychiatry congress four decades ago. That psychiatrists would have to make an application in court arguin…
Morality boundary work in the making of the needle and syringe exchange program in Stockholm
Background Drug policy is prone to build on rationales based on different moralities rather than evidence. Less is known about how moralities influence drug policy implementation in practice. The aim was to analyze expressions of moralities among local policy-makers, professionals, and drug users in the context of the Stockholm needle and syringe exchange program (NSP).Methods Using political documentation from Stockholm (2003–2016), focus group …
Environmental valuation and knowledge production in Swedish marine and water management
This article explores how environmental valuation and knowledge production shape Swedish marine and water management through the case of the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management (SwAM). Tasked with conserving, restoring, and sustainably using aquatic resources following an Ecosystem Approach (EA), SwAM navigates complex interactions between these processes and the generation of actionable knowledge. Drawing on perspectives from Science …
Dual-roles and beyond: Values, Ethics, and Practices in Forensic Mental Health Decision-Making
Forensic mental health services (FMHS) involve restricting certain individual rights to uphold or promote other ethical values – the restriction of liberty in various forms is justified with reference to health and safety of the individual and the community. The tension that arises from this has been construed as a hallmark of the practice and an ever-present quandary for practitioners. Stating this ethical dilemma upfront is a common point of de…
Organizing implementation in healthcare: Balancing orders of worth
In this paper we direct attention to unavoidable conflicts between disparate value systems co-existing within organizations. Drawing on John Law's concept of ordering and Boltanski and Thévenot's orders of worth, we understand incompatibilities inherent in implementation and governance as competing orders. In extracting and articulating competing orders from our abductive analysis of semi-structured interviews with primary care managers (n = 32) …
Acceptable Use: Morality and Credibility Struggles in Swedish 1960s Alcohol and Illicit Drug (Ab)use Research and Policy
This article explores morality and credibility struggles in connection to two officially sanctioned public Swedish experiments launched in the late 1960s to investigate the (ab)use of alcohol and illicit drugs, especially in relation to young people, and the subsequent decisions to terminate the experiments and research. We argue that these 1960s struggles on how to analyze the effects of increased availability of psychoactive substances must be …
Knowledge, Values, and Needle Exchange Programs in Sweden
Since the turn of the millennium, calls for evidence-based drug policy have become increasingly louder. In response, researchers have generated a large body of evidence in support of measures such as needle exchange programs (NEPs), while another strand of research testifies that policy makers often neglect to take the research evidence into account and hence fail to introduce these programs. This article studies the interplay between research-ba…
Science, Social Construction of
In its simplest form, the claim that science is socially constructed means that there is no direct link between nature and our ideas about nature: The products of science are not themselves natural. This claim can be taken to mean different things, and a distinction is often made between strong and weak interpretations of social constructivism. The stronger claim would not recognize an independent reality or materiality outside our perceptions of…
Scientific Knowledge, Sociology of
The sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) is a field of sociology that started to take form in the early 1970s. Sociologists, historians, and philosophers who shared a common interest in studying the social underpinnings of science took as a joint focus the very content of scientific knowledge. Previously, a division of labor had existed between philosophy and sociology. The philosophers' role was to analyze and define the norms of science, dis…
Objectivities of a post-normal guideline project: The introduction of a guideline for sick-listing practices in Sweden
In this article we describe and diagnose ailments suffered by the so-called ‘medical insurance decision-making support tool’ that was published in 2007 as part of a major reform of the Swedish social insurance. Through document studies and interviews the guideline is analysed and compared with a reference case, a guideline within cardiology. Particular attention is paid to different types of objectivity and how they relate to the sick-listing gui…
Diagnosis at work – On sick leave in Sweden
Governance-by-standards in the field of stem cells: Managing uncertainty in the world of “basic innovation”
This paper explores the role of the International Stem Cell Initiative (ISCI) in its attempt to develop biological standards and experimental protocols for the embryonic field as a whole.Drawing on empirical research derived from UK and other labs and fieldwork within ISCI meetings, we describe the way standards have emerged and the difficulties in stabilizing them at the local level.The paper discusses the ways in which this form of governance-b…
Standardizing the Unknown: Practicable Pluripotency as Doable Futures
To standardize human embryonic stem cells is an exercise in standardizing different kinds of unknowns. Such standards, currently being developed in the field, can change the understanding of what a stem cell is. In the influential International Stem Cell Initiative (ISCI), scientists in a fiercely competitive field are prepared to exchange research material and data that would normally be highly confidential. ISCI participants understand the part…
Strong Program
The Strong Program is a programmatic statement that calls upon social scientists to examine the social content and underpinnings of scientific knowledge. It played an important part in the wider development of the field of sociology of scientific knowledge. The Strong Program originated from the so called Edinburgh school in the mid‐1970s and was most famously set out by David Bloor in his 1976 book, Knowledge and Social Imagery . Bloor was part …
The Presentation of the Scientific Self
Rarely before has a textual analysis of nutritional policy advice held its audience captive. Stephen Hilgartner's Science on Stage provides a valuable, timely and, not least, entertaining contribution to science studies literature that gives a detailed description of how scientific credibility is produced by institutions such as the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Using Erving Goffman's dramaturgical perspective to look at science advice a…
The Effects of Alcohol Intake and Induced Frustration on the Disposition to Start Fires
The object of the present study was to see whether there are tendencies towards reactive arson, measured as a relation between frustration, intoxication and a disposition to start fires. One hundred individuals, 50 men and 50 women, participated. All were students and they were randomly assigned to each of five experimental groups, namely a Control Group, a Placebo Group, a Frustration Group, an Alcohol Group and an Alcohol + Frustration Group. A…
Standardizing the Unknown: Practicable Pluripotency as Doable Futures
To standardize human embryonic stem cells is an exercise in standardizing different kinds of unknowns. Such standards, currently being developed in the field, can change the understanding of what a stem cell is. In the influential International Stem Cell Initiative (ISCI), scientists in a fiercely competitive field are prepared to exchange research material and data that would normally be highly confidential. ISCI participants understand the part…
Knowledge, Values, and Needle Exchange Programs in Sweden
Since the turn of the millennium, calls for evidence-based drug policy have become increasingly louder. In response, researchers have generated a large body of evidence in support of measures such as needle exchange programs (NEPs), while another strand of research testifies that policy makers often neglect to take the research evidence into account and hence fail to introduce these programs. This article studies the interplay between research-ba…
Diagnosis at work – On sick leave in Sweden
The Presentation of the Scientific Self
Rarely before has a textual analysis of nutritional policy advice held its audience captive. Stephen Hilgartner's Science on Stage provides a valuable, timely and, not least, entertaining contribution to science studies literature that gives a detailed description of how scientific credibility is produced by institutions such as the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Using Erving Goffman's dramaturgical perspective to look at science advice a…
The Effects of Alcohol Intake and Induced Frustration on the Disposition to Start Fires
The object of the present study was to see whether there are tendencies towards reactive arson, measured as a relation between frustration, intoxication and a disposition to start fires. One hundred individuals, 50 men and 50 women, participated. All were students and they were randomly assigned to each of five experimental groups, namely a Control Group, a Placebo Group, a Frustration Group, an Alcohol Group and an Alcohol + Frustration Group. A…
The Presentation of the Scientific Self
Rarely before has a textual analysis of nutritional policy advice held its audience captive. Stephen Hilgartner's Science on Stage provides a valuable, timely and, not least, entertaining contribution to science studies literature that gives a detailed description of how scientific credibility is produced by institutions such as the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Using Erving Goffman's dramaturgical perspective to look at science advice a…
Strong Program
The Strong Program is a programmatic statement that calls upon social scientists to examine the social content and underpinnings of scientific knowledge. It played an important part in the wider development of the field of sociology of scientific knowledge. The Strong Program originated from the so called Edinburgh school in the mid‐1970s and was most famously set out by David Bloor in his 1976 book, Knowledge and Social Imagery . Bloor was part …
Governance-by-standards in the field of stem cells: Managing uncertainty in the world of “basic innovation”
This paper explores the role of the International Stem Cell Initiative (ISCI) in its attempt to develop biological standards and experimental protocols for the embryonic field as a whole.Drawing on empirical research derived from UK and other labs and fieldwork within ISCI meetings, we describe the way standards have emerged and the difficulties in stabilizing them at the local level.The paper discusses the ways in which this form of governance-b…
Standardizing the Unknown: Practicable Pluripotency as Doable Futures
To standardize human embryonic stem cells is an exercise in standardizing different kinds of unknowns. Such standards, currently being developed in the field, can change the understanding of what a stem cell is. In the influential International Stem Cell Initiative (ISCI), scientists in a fiercely competitive field are prepared to exchange research material and data that would normally be highly confidential. ISCI participants understand the part…
Objectivities of a post-normal guideline project: The introduction of a guideline for sick-listing practices in Sweden
In this article we describe and diagnose ailments suffered by the so-called ‘medical insurance decision-making support tool’ that was published in 2007 as part of a major reform of the Swedish social insurance. Through document studies and interviews the guideline is analysed and compared with a reference case, a guideline within cardiology. Particular attention is paid to different types of objectivity and how they relate to the sick-listing gui…
Diagnosis at work – On sick leave in Sweden
Knowledge, Values, and Needle Exchange Programs in Sweden
Since the turn of the millennium, calls for evidence-based drug policy have become increasingly louder. In response, researchers have generated a large body of evidence in support of measures such as needle exchange programs (NEPs), while another strand of research testifies that policy makers often neglect to take the research evidence into account and hence fail to introduce these programs. This article studies the interplay between research-ba…
Science, Social Construction of
In its simplest form, the claim that science is socially constructed means that there is no direct link between nature and our ideas about nature: The products of science are not themselves natural. This claim can be taken to mean different things, and a distinction is often made between strong and weak interpretations of social constructivism. The stronger claim would not recognize an independent reality or materiality outside our perceptions of…
Scientific Knowledge, Sociology of
The sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) is a field of sociology that started to take form in the early 1970s. Sociologists, historians, and philosophers who shared a common interest in studying the social underpinnings of science took as a joint focus the very content of scientific knowledge. Previously, a division of labor had existed between philosophy and sociology. The philosophers' role was to analyze and define the norms of science, dis…
Acceptable Use: Morality and Credibility Struggles in Swedish 1960s Alcohol and Illicit Drug (Ab)use Research and Policy
This article explores morality and credibility struggles in connection to two officially sanctioned public Swedish experiments launched in the late 1960s to investigate the (ab)use of alcohol and illicit drugs, especially in relation to young people, and the subsequent decisions to terminate the experiments and research. We argue that these 1960s struggles on how to analyze the effects of increased availability of psychoactive substances must be …
Organizing implementation in healthcare: Balancing orders of worth
In this paper we direct attention to unavoidable conflicts between disparate value systems co-existing within organizations. Drawing on John Law's concept of ordering and Boltanski and Thévenot's orders of worth, we understand incompatibilities inherent in implementation and governance as competing orders. In extracting and articulating competing orders from our abductive analysis of semi-structured interviews with primary care managers (n = 32) …
Morality boundary work in the making of the needle and syringe exchange program in Stockholm
Background Drug policy is prone to build on rationales based on different moralities rather than evidence. Less is known about how moralities influence drug policy implementation in practice. The aim was to analyze expressions of moralities among local policy-makers, professionals, and drug users in the context of the Stockholm needle and syringe exchange program (NSP).Methods Using political documentation from Stockholm (2003–2016), focus group …
Environmental valuation and knowledge production in Swedish marine and water management
This article explores how environmental valuation and knowledge production shape Swedish marine and water management through the case of the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management (SwAM). Tasked with conserving, restoring, and sustainably using aquatic resources following an Ecosystem Approach (EA), SwAM navigates complex interactions between these processes and the generation of actionable knowledge. Drawing on perspectives from Science …
Dual-roles and beyond: Values, Ethics, and Practices in Forensic Mental Health Decision-Making
Forensic mental health services (FMHS) involve restricting certain individual rights to uphold or promote other ethical values – the restriction of liberty in various forms is justified with reference to health and safety of the individual and the community. The tension that arises from this has been construed as a hallmark of the practice and an ever-present quandary for practitioners. Stating this ethical dilemma upfront is a common point of de…
Stakeholders’ opportunities and attempts to influence drug policy in Sweden
Background Drug policy is a polarized and value-laden policy area with divergent interests of stakeholders. Through a Swedish case study, this article examines stakeholders’ strategies to influence drug policy, and perceptions of their own and others’ opportunities to influence drug policy—a topic that has not been systematically analyzed previously.Methods The analysis of 38 semi-structured key informant interviews with stakeholders within the n…
Diagnostic stickiness and shifting relevance: Reassessing autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and/or attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnoses. A qualitative interview study
The rising rate of diagnosed autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has led to more individuals near the diagnostic threshold living with neurodevelopmental diagnoses. While often assigned in childhood to initiate support in medical, school and family contexts, these diagnoses may persist across time and settings, shaping adult life in ways that are unaligned with current functioning. This study explore…
Institutionalized ignorance in court: Involuntary care and citizenship(s)
When changes in Swedish law were proposed that affected the professional jurisdiction regarding involuntary care, reactions from the medical community were strong. The chairman of the parliamentary committee responsible for the proposal described how he was met by "a thousand psychiatrists booing" when presenting the suggestions to a Swedish psychiatry congress four decades ago. That psychiatrists would have to make an application in court arguin…
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