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Ketil Slagstad, MD, PhD

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Academic Appointment

  • 2022–Present: Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for the History of Medicine and Ethics in Medicine, Charité Berlin

Education

  • 2022: Ph.D., History of Medicine, University of Oslo
  • 2011: MD, University of Oslo

Professional Experience

  • 2015–2019: Editor, Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association
  • 2013–2015: Junior Doctor, Internal Medicine and Anesthesiology, Akershus University Hospital
  • 2013: Junior Doctor, Internal Medicine, Sykehuset Østfold
  • 2011–2013: Resident Physician ("turnuslege"), Harstad Sykehus & Bardu Legekontor

Grants

  • 2025: Horizon Europe: MSCA Doctoral Network (EUR 580,544.64)
  • 2024: DFG – German Research Foundation, PI “Werkzeuge des klinischen Wissens” (EUR 347,005)
  • 2022 & 2020: The Fritt Ord Foundation Grant for Critics; NFFO Writing Grant
  • 2021: Fulbright Scholarship
  • 2018 & 2016: Science Studies Colloquium Series, University of Oslo

Research Fellowships

  • 2021: Visiting Doctoral Student, Department for the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

Research and Teaching Interests

  • History of biomedicine, social medicine, and psychiatry
  • History of clinical research and bioethics
  • Public health ethics and epidemic temporalities
  • STS, history of practices, visualization, and paper technologies
  • Transgender history and HIV/AIDS health activism

Peer-Reviewed Books

  • Standardizing Sex: A History of Trans Medicine (University of Chicago Press, 2025)
  • Det ligger i blodet (Press, 2023)

Peer-Reviewed Publications

  • 2025: “Psychiatric Experiences,” Oxford Bibliographies, History of Medicine
  • 2024: “How the Idea of Social Contagion Shaped Trans Medicine,”New England Journal of Medicine, 391, 16:1546–1551
  • 2024: “Visualizing BDSM and AIDS Activism: Archiving Pleasures, Sanitizing History," Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 78, 3:270-303
  • 2024:“Psychiatric Practices Beyond Psychiatry,” in G. Gahlen, V. Hess, M. Scarfone, and H. Voelker (eds.), Doing Psychiatry in Postwar Europe, Manchester University Press
  • 2022: “Bureaucratizing Medicine,” Isis, 113, 469–490
  • 2022: “Selling Sex in the Age of HIV/AIDS,” in J. Weston and H. Kershaw (eds.) Histories of HIV/AIDS in Western Europe, Manchester University Press
  • 2021: “Society as Cause and Cure,” Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 45, 3:456–478
  • 2021: “The Political Nature of Sex,” New England Journal of Medicine, 384, 11:1070–1074
  • 2021: “Transkjønn i medisinen,” in A. Hellum and A. Sørlie (eds.): Frihet, likhet og mangfold, Gyldendal
  • 2020: “The Amphibious Nature of AIDS Activism,” Medical History, 64, 3, 401–435
  • 2020: “The Pasts, Presents and Futures of AIDS,” Social History of Medicine, 34, 2:417–444
  • 2020: “Meaning and Matter in Psychiatry,” European Journal for Person Centered Healthcare, 8, 3:376–384
  • 2017: w/ Bjørn Hofmann, “Ny fostertest ble svaret, men hva var spørsmålet?” Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift, 34, 2:150–164
  • 2016: “Sex, piller og moral,” Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift, 33, 4:285–295

Book Reviews

  • 2025: Review of Aids-krisens Danmarkshistorie in Lambda Nordica
  • 2024: Reviews in Bulletin for the History of Medicine and Jahrbuch Sexualitäten
  • 2020–Present: Book Critic for Morgenbladet (40+ reviews)
  • 2019–2018: Reviews in Somatosphere and Isis

Conference Presentations and Invited Talks

  • 2025: Talks at Oslo Trans Health Conference, EAHMH Berlin, ECSM
  • 2024: Multiple presentations across Oslo, Berlin, and Glasgow
  • 2023: Workshops and conferences at Charité, Max Planck, and SNF

Workshops Convened

  • 2024: Writing Workshop, University of Oslo
  • 2023: Translation and Medical Knowledge Workshop, Charité Berlin
  • 2021: “Trans/Medicine” with Jacob Moses, Johns Hopkins

Workshop/Panel Respondent

  • 2025: Geschlecht – Körper – Diversität, University of Vienna
  • 2024–2023: Various events at MPIWG, EAHMH, and Oslo

Teaching Experience

  • Charité Berlin: Ethics and history of medicine modules
  • Humboldt University: History undergraduate/graduate
  • University of Oslo: MED3064: Newer Medical History

Dissertation Supervision

  • 2024–Present: Melina Engel, Dr. Med., Brandenburg

Graduate Exams

  • 2024: Emilie Lekve, MA Thesis, University of Oslo
  • 2022: Terje Hellberg, MA Thesis, University of Agder

Honors and Awards

  • 2024: Norwegian Critics’ Prize and Bookseller Association Nonfiction Award
  • 2023: Förderpreis des Fachverbands Medizingeschichte

Service to the Department

  • 2022–Present: Organizer, Research Colloquium in History and Ethics of Medicine

Service to the Field

  • 2024: Treasurer, Berlin-Brandenburg Society for the History of Medicine
  • 2023: Scientific Board, EAHMH
  • 2022–2023: EAHMH Biannual Conference Organizer

Manuscript Reviewer

  • Nature (2025), MUP (2024), TDLF Journal (2020-2024), BHM, JHMAS, others

Editorial Experience

  • 2023-Present: Editorial Assistant, Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift
  • 2020–2023: Editorial Board, Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift
  • 2015–2019: Editor, Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association

Language Skills

  • Norwegian (native)
  • English (fluent)
  • German (fluent)
  • French (proficient)