Ketil Slagstad
@slagstadk.bsky.social
physician-historian at the Institute of History and Ethics of Medicine, Charité Berlin | history of psychiatry, health activism, HIV/AIDS, trans medicine
Standardizing Sex: A History of Trans Medicine (UCP, 2025)
https://www.ketilslagstad.com
Standardizing Sex: A History of Trans Medicine (UCP, 2025)
https://www.ketilslagstad.com
Det er dessverre en lang tradisjon innen transmedisinen for forskning som verken er inkluderende eller brukerorientert. Disse forfatterne stiller noen gode spørsmål som har gyldighet for forskning på marginaliserte grupper mer generelt:
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November 15, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Det er dessverre en lang tradisjon innen transmedisinen for forskning som verken er inkluderende eller brukerorientert. Disse forfatterne stiller noen gode spørsmål som har gyldighet for forskning på marginaliserte grupper mer generelt:
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Staten og Legeforeningen bør be om unnskyldning for overgrepene begått mot transpersoner. Folk som ble tvunget til kastrering for å skifte juridisk kjønn, må få oppreisning. I boka «Standardizing Sex» viser jeg at staten vel vitende ofret folks reproduktive helse for å beskytte en binær kjønnsnorm.
October 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Staten og Legeforeningen bør be om unnskyldning for overgrepene begått mot transpersoner. Folk som ble tvunget til kastrering for å skifte juridisk kjønn, må få oppreisning. I boka «Standardizing Sex» viser jeg at staten vel vitende ofret folks reproduktive helse for å beskytte en binær kjønnsnorm.
To celebrate the release of "Standardizing Sex," I'm giving away a free ebook. For a chance to win and learn about the myriad strategies the state has followed to standardize sex, share this post and tag someone in the comments. I'll announce the winner in a week.
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September 14, 2025 at 8:23 AM
To celebrate the release of "Standardizing Sex," I'm giving away a free ebook. For a chance to win and learn about the myriad strategies the state has followed to standardize sex, share this post and tag someone in the comments. I'll announce the winner in a week.
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Todd Sekuler and Agata Dziuban give a paper on The Politics of Absence, exemplified by the empty folder titled "Lesbians and AIDS" in a Berlin queer archive.
September 11, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Todd Sekuler and Agata Dziuban give a paper on The Politics of Absence, exemplified by the empty folder titled "Lesbians and AIDS" in a Berlin queer archive.
Katerina Suverina opens the panel "Silences and Absences: HIV/AIDS at the Margins of Representation" at the The European Histories of HIV/AIDS Symposium in Copenhagen, by presenting on the challenges on archiving HIV and drug activism in post-Soviet spaces. #histmed
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September 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Katerina Suverina opens the panel "Silences and Absences: HIV/AIDS at the Margins of Representation" at the The European Histories of HIV/AIDS Symposium in Copenhagen, by presenting on the challenges on archiving HIV and drug activism in post-Soviet spaces. #histmed
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As one of few remaining unstandardized public spaces in Berlin, the sunset at Tempelhofer Feld seemed right for a celebration.
September 1, 2025 at 10:23 AM
As one of few remaining unstandardized public spaces in Berlin, the sunset at Tempelhofer Feld seemed right for a celebration.
I can't believe this idea that's been in my head for ten years is finally a thing in the world. @uchicagopress.bsky.social #histmed #EAHMH25 #sts #histsci
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August 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I can't believe this idea that's been in my head for ten years is finally a thing in the world. @uchicagopress.bsky.social #histmed #EAHMH25 #sts #histsci
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@davidfreis.bsky.social with a diagram of the Steglitz Hospital in Berlin, opened in 1968, materializing the vision of the Mega Hospital as a factory.
August 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
@davidfreis.bsky.social with a diagram of the Steglitz Hospital in Berlin, opened in 1968, materializing the vision of the Mega Hospital as a factory.
Victoria Bates and Clare Hickman kick off the panel on Therapeutic Spaces, Hospital Architecture by presenting on more-than-human approaches followed by papers by @davidfreis.bsky.social (Medical Megastructures) and Michael Baers (The Social Democratic Carnivalesque). #EAHMH25
August 28, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Victoria Bates and Clare Hickman kick off the panel on Therapeutic Spaces, Hospital Architecture by presenting on more-than-human approaches followed by papers by @davidfreis.bsky.social (Medical Megastructures) and Michael Baers (The Social Democratic Carnivalesque). #EAHMH25
The traditional boat trip of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health is happening. Andreas Jüttemann is guiding us through Berlin’s medical history. Make sure to join the association not to miss out on the next boat trip in two years! #EAHMH25
August 27, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The traditional boat trip of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health is happening. Andreas Jüttemann is guiding us through Berlin’s medical history. Make sure to join the association not to miss out on the next boat trip in two years! #EAHMH25
#EAHMH25 Bogdan C. Iacob concludes the panel by presenting on the introduction of medicinal plants in Romania during the late Cold War and how the embracing of traditional medicine forged cooperation with the Global South.
August 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
#EAHMH25 Bogdan C. Iacob concludes the panel by presenting on the introduction of medicinal plants in Romania during the late Cold War and how the embracing of traditional medicine forged cooperation with the Global South.
Lu Chen gives a paper on the expansion of vaccine programs in China in the second half of the 20th C arguing that health decision making shifted from the clinical gaze to the economic gaze.
August 27, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Lu Chen gives a paper on the expansion of vaccine programs in China in the second half of the 20th C arguing that health decision making shifted from the clinical gaze to the economic gaze.
Sebastián Fonseca kicks off the Experimenting with Public Health Panel by introducing a special issue to appear in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, highlighting the “Western-Centered Paradigm” of community health (i.e. overlooking participation of local actors). #EAHMH25
August 27, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Sebastián Fonseca kicks off the Experimenting with Public Health Panel by introducing a special issue to appear in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, highlighting the “Western-Centered Paradigm” of community health (i.e. overlooking participation of local actors). #EAHMH25
Rob Ellis and Ute Oswald present their research on the role of language in migration and mental health (how was language or the lack of it used to define someone as mentally ill?) and the experiences of Belgian refugees to Great Britain during WWI. #EAHMH25
August 27, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Rob Ellis and Ute Oswald present their research on the role of language in migration and mental health (how was language or the lack of it used to define someone as mentally ill?) and the experiences of Belgian refugees to Great Britain during WWI. #EAHMH25
Panel 2, Migration and Health, begins with Markus Wahl’s paper on German migration to Brazil, scientific racism, eugenics, and the pathologization of “the other.” #EAHMH25
August 27, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Panel 2, Migration and Health, begins with Markus Wahl’s paper on German migration to Brazil, scientific racism, eugenics, and the pathologization of “the other.” #EAHMH25
Simon Brausch concludes the panel in a paper that seeks to historicize reliability by analyzing quality assessment and ideals in clinical trials before and after the introduction of EBM. #EAHMH25
August 27, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Simon Brausch concludes the panel in a paper that seeks to historicize reliability by analyzing quality assessment and ideals in clinical trials before and after the introduction of EBM. #EAHMH25
Felix Rietmann’s paper is on the creation of a global market for pediatric drugs with the marketing of antihistamines as case study.
August 27, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Felix Rietmann’s paper is on the creation of a global market for pediatric drugs with the marketing of antihistamines as case study.
The #EAHMH25 panel Producing and Negotiating Evidence is on. Alexa Geisthövel presents on the establishment of a network for data-sharing of outcomes after renal transplantation during the Cold War.
August 27, 2025 at 7:37 AM
The #EAHMH25 panel Producing and Negotiating Evidence is on. Alexa Geisthövel presents on the establishment of a network for data-sharing of outcomes after renal transplantation during the Cold War.
Thank you, @ederummadum.bsky.social! And for your generous review: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
August 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Thank you, @ederummadum.bsky.social! And for your generous review: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
“Standardizing Sex” analyzes the practices and politicization of trans medicine. With this promotion code you’ll get 30% off.
July 17, 2025 at 6:43 PM
“Standardizing Sex” analyzes the practices and politicization of trans medicine. With this promotion code you’ll get 30% off.
Call for Papers
Trauma, Institutional Knowledge, and Social Order: New Perspectives from Eastern and Western Europe during the Cold War
We welcome submissions for our workshop, which will take place at the University of Graz on December 3–5, 2025.
Deadline for submission is July 1. #histmed
Trauma, Institutional Knowledge, and Social Order: New Perspectives from Eastern and Western Europe during the Cold War
We welcome submissions for our workshop, which will take place at the University of Graz on December 3–5, 2025.
Deadline for submission is July 1. #histmed
May 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Call for Papers
Trauma, Institutional Knowledge, and Social Order: New Perspectives from Eastern and Western Europe during the Cold War
We welcome submissions for our workshop, which will take place at the University of Graz on December 3–5, 2025.
Deadline for submission is July 1. #histmed
Trauma, Institutional Knowledge, and Social Order: New Perspectives from Eastern and Western Europe during the Cold War
We welcome submissions for our workshop, which will take place at the University of Graz on December 3–5, 2025.
Deadline for submission is July 1. #histmed
The text proof is now final. See you in print in September. 👋
May 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The text proof is now final. See you in print in September. 👋
Nå er «Det ligger i blodet» endelig ute i pocket, fortsatt med Martin Lundells nydelige omslag. www.norli.no/boker/det-li...
April 25, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Nå er «Det ligger i blodet» endelig ute i pocket, fortsatt med Martin Lundells nydelige omslag. www.norli.no/boker/det-li...