Eva Åhrén
Operations Director
E-mail: eva.ahren@ki.se
Telephone: +46852486245
Visiting address: Annerovägen 12, 16970 Solna
Postal address: GVS Gemensamt verksamhetsstöd, GVS Medicinens historia och kulturarv, 171 77 Stockholm
About me
- I am Operations Director the Hagströmer Medico-Historical Library and KI
Medical History and Heritage, which is a section in the President’s Office.
Our mission is twofold:
* To preserve, develop and make KI:s heritage collections available to
scholars, students and the general public.
* To research and communicate KI:s history, within a larger context of the
history of medicine, healthcare and the life sciences.
The collections in our care consist of older books and periodicals,
manuscripts, photographs, art prints, scientific instruments and
preparations, and KI:s art collection. The section consists of two units: the
Hagströmer Library, and Research and Collections. We are currently located
in the old Haga Courthouse, but we are preparing to move to Campus Solna in
2022.
I am also in charge of the effort to integrate culture and science at KI, a
mission related to KI:s Strategy 2030. I am a member of KI:s Culture Council
and a leader of the research team in History of Science and Medicine, which
is a part o Center for Healthcare Ethics at LIME. Our research deals with
̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ and scientific history in Stockholm from the sixteenth century until
now, within national and global contexts. KI, and its predecessor Collegium
Medicum, have played prominent parts in this history.
In 2002 I received my PhD from the cross-disciplinary research department
Health and Society at Linköping University. Since then, I have taught
cultural history and history of medicine - conducted research in the history
of medicine and science - and worked as Senior Curator and Head of Research at
the Nobel Museum in Stockholm (2003-2007).
MA, History of Science and Ideas, Stockholm University, 1994
PhD, Program in Heatlh and Society, Linköping University, 2002
Postdoc, History of Medicine, Yale University, 2005-2006
Research
- My own research focuses on materiality, visuality and epistemology in
nineteenth-century life science and ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡. For example, I
study the role of specimen preparations and museum work for knowledge
production - the impact of scientific networks on research and education
- the
development and use of visual media (e. g. drawings, prints, photography, and
models) and mediations in research and education. One of my research projects
deals with the creation and use of wax moulages (cast models of body parts
with skin and venereal disease) at KI and its teaching clinics.
Before I came to KI in 2013, I was Researcher at the U. S. National
Institutes of Health (NIH), studying early bacteriology and NIH history.
During the years 2007-2010, I had a research project at Uppsala University,
funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond for the Advancment of the Humanities and
Social Sciences. This project dealt with KI’s nineteenth-century museums of
Anatomy, Pathology, Pharmacology, Forensic medicine and more.
Articles
- Article: JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF DERMATOLOGY AND VENEREOLOGY. 2018;32(4):570-580
- Article: NUNCIUS / ISTITUTO E MUSEO DI STORIA DELLA SCIENZA. 2017;32(1):166-211
All other publications
- Other: JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND ALLIED SCIENCES. 2011;66(2):251-253
Employments
- Operations Director, ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡, 2024-
- Operations Director, Central Administration, ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡, 2024-
- Operations Director, Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡, 2023-2026