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
Hadde gleden av å snakke med Mary Ann i podkasten Skeiv dagsorden om transmedisinsk historie. Vi snakker blant annet om eugenikken, velferdsstaten og sykeliggjøring av minoriteter. player.captivate.fm/episode/f70d...
Transmedisinens historie med Ketil SlagstadQuickly and easily listen to Skeiv dagsorden for free!player.captivate.fmCome work with us! Two fully funded 36-month PhD positions in the history of medicine at Charité Berlin. The positions are part of the EU-funded Gender Insight network researching biopsychosocial aspects of diverse hormonal transitions. Deadline 28 Feb 2026 #histmed genderinsight.eu
Gender InsightThrough co-creation and mixed methods research the projects will increase our understanding of the influence of biopsychosocial factors during hormonal transitions such as puberty and menopause, in th...genderinsight.euAn incredible and beautiful short documentary by Nicolas Gouralt who interviewed online workers from Venezuela, Kenya and the Philippines who annotate images to train A.I. systems. Here is as gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/o...
Opinion | Self-Driving Cars Can’t See Without Their Eyeswww.nytimes.comRoland MeyerNicolas Gourault's fantastic short experimental documentary film «Their Eyes» about the invisible human labor behind AI, which we showed and discussed at our «React & Respond» conference in Zurich last year, is now streaming on the NYT website www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/o...
I Morgenbladet denne uka forsøker jeg å trekke noen linjer mellom den aktuelle saken om ulovlig forskning ved Rikshospitalet på unge transkjønnedes journalopplysninger og den mye lengre tradisjonen med uetisk forskning på transpersoner. www.morgenbladet.no/ideer/gjenno...
Det var en glede å snakke med Sarah von Essen for @weekendavisen.dk om min nye bok og den skandinaviske transmedisinske historien. www.weekendavisen.dk/ideer/umage-...
Umage alliancerTransmedicin. Det var ikke velfærdsstatens frisind, der tidligt gav transpersoner mulighed for at få kønsskifteoperationer – det var viljen til at regulere individet. Medicinhistoriker Ketil Slagstad ...www.weekendavisen.dkNy utgave av Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift er nå publisert! Rita Augestad Knudsen og Ole Martin Stormoen skriver om risikovurderinger for terrorisme, Eirik Magnus Fuglestad analyserer framveksten av "de nye småbrukerne", og Jan Grue beretter fra et forskningsopphold i USA. www.scup.com/toc/nnt/42/4
Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift | Volume 42 | Issue 4 | Table of Contentswww.scup.com"Genetic determinism is one of those one-single-technofix-will-solve-everything ideas that visionaries can fall prey to, and the history of genetics is lousy with hereditarians promising to end disease, make us smarter and better our society." @nccomfort.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/o...
Opinion | James Watson Saw the True Form of DNA. Then It Blinded Him.www.nytimes.comOm du er i Trondheim i kveld 10.12 (kl. 19.00) eller i Bergen i morgen (kl. 17.00), kom forbi på boksamtale om den skandinaviske transmedisinske historien. facebook.com/events/s/ket...
Ketil Slagstad: Standardizing Sex - A History of Trans MedicineEvent in Trondheim, Norway by Litteraturhuset i Trondheim on Monday, November 10 2025facebook.comI'm thrilled and extremely grateful to Elizabeth Reis for her thorough review of my book in Annals of Science, which concludes with the following words: "Standardizing Sex brilliantly exposes how cultural context and social anxieties in Scandinavia, www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Standardizing Sex: a history of trans medicinePublished in Annals of Science (Ahead of Print, 2025)www.tandfonline.comI'm honored by this incredibly generous and thoughtful review of my book "Standardizing Sex" by Os Keyes. academic.oup.com/shm/advance-... @sshmedicine.bsky.social #histmed
Ketil Slagstad, Standardizing Sex: A History of Trans MedicineWhen historians of trans medicine discuss Scandinavia, it is too often in the form of endcaps: as the place where Christine Jorgensen first received surgicacademic.oup.comWir freuen uns auf eine Reihe spannender Vorträge und Diskussionen im Rahmen des Kolloquiums Forschung und Lehre des Instituts für Geschichte der Medizin und Ethik der Medizin, das jeden zweiten Dienstag um 11 Uhr stattfindet. Kommen Sie gerne vorbei! medizingeschichte.charite.de/forschung/ko...
Kolloquium Forschung und Lehre: Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlinmedizingeschichte.charite.dewww.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...
Kravet om kastrering av transpersoner må få et oppgjørDet er på tide med en beklagelse og oppreisning.www.aftenposten.noKetil SlagstadStaten 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.
Hast du im Jahr 2024 oder 2025 einen medizinhistorischen Artikel veröffentlicht? Dann bewirb dich bis zum 28. Februar 2026 für den Förderpreis des Fachverbands Medizingeschichte. #histmed fachverband-medizingeschichte.de/foerderpreis/
Förderpreis – Fachverband Medizingeschichte e.V.fachverband-medizingeschichte.deEin sehr lesenswerter Artikel über die Praxis der erzwungenen Sterilisation von trans* Menschen. Diese Praxis wurde in den 1950er bis 1970er Jahren in verschiedenen Ländern eingeführt und erst in den 2010er Jahren abgeschafft. taz.de/Trans-Person...
Trans Personen in Europa: Eingriff in die MenschenwürdeTrans Personen mussten sich lange Zeit sterilisieren lassen, wenn sie ihr Geschlecht offiziell ändern wollten. Die emotionalen Folgen sind verheerend.taz.deJeg kommer på en liten norgesturné med den nye boka mi "Standardizing Sex" - Trondheim 10. november med Eir-Anne Edgar (NTNU) og Andreas Krogstad (Skeive Studenter Trondheim) - Bergen 11. november i samarbeid med Skeivt arkiv og PKI Kom, kom! litteraturhusetitrondheim.no/program/keti...
Ketil Slagstad: Standardizing Sex - A History of Trans Medicine - Litteraturhuset i TrondheimDen skandinaviske historien er spesiell i det den belyser den sentrale rollen staten har spilt i regulering og standardisering av […]litteraturhusetitrondheim.noWe have a winner: @misstillit.bsky.social! Congratulations! Thank you all for taking part in the lottery. For each participant, I will donate the value of one copy of the book to Casa Kuà, a Berlin organization by and for trans* and non binary BIPoCs to make healthcare more accessible. casa-kua.com
Casa KuàTrans* Inter* Queer Community & Health Centrecasa-kua.comKetil SlagstadTo 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. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Last day to participate in the lottery. I announce the winner tomorrow. Repost and tag and win your copy to learn about how physicians and researchers have worked to protect a binary norm of sex by excluding non-binary people from medical trials since the 1960s.
Ketil SlagstadTo 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. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...