Panel on chronic illness at the Nordic STS Conference in Oslo, 7-9 June 2023

The GenDis project organized a panel on “The politics of disruption and repair in chronic illness” at the 6th Nordic STS Conference at the University of Oslo on 7-9 June 2023. The panel included four papers:

Ina Hallström (Stockholm University): Endo Episteme: Epistemic Injustice and the Misrecognition of Endometriosis 

Venla Oikkonen and Elina Helosvuori (Tampere University): Gendered Chronic Pain, Embodied Experiences and Clinical Encounters

Ahalya Ganesh, Lilli Aini Rokkonen and Maria Temmes (Tampere University): Gendering Chronic Illness in Patient Advocacy 

Lisa Lindén (Chalmers University of Technology), Doris Lydahl (University of Gothenburg) and Jesper Petersson (University of Gothenburg): Beyond Covid? Using patient knowledge to improve the care and management of Long Covid sufferers

Thank you all for a lively and inspiring discussion!

GenDis team in Oslo
Members of the GenDis team in Oslo