Linköping University Tema-T Higher Seminar 22nd April ZOOM

[Graham Minenor-Matheson]

Good afternoon all,

Apologies for cross-posting.

We would like to invite you to our latest Spring Term Higher Seminar at Tema-T Linköping University with Venla Oikonnen of Tampere University next week, Tuesday 22nd April 2025 at 13.15-15.00 online via Zoom.  Link, abstract and bio below:

Venla Oikkonen: Navigating pharmaceutical effects in gendered chronic illness

 

Endometriosis is an estrogen-associated chronic gynecological illness that can cause severe pain and other symptoms especially during menstruation. Endometriosis is treated primarily with hormonalpharmaceuticals, such as oral contraceptives or hormonal IUDs. As hormonal pharmaceuticals are widely known to cause a range of side effects, people with endometriosis try to find, often through trial and error, a hormonal medication that is tolerable yet effective. My presentation explores how people living with endometriosis perceive the multiple effects of hormonal pharmaceuticals and how they make decisions about what medications to try. I identify three issues that characterize experiences of living with and managing endometriosis: establishing hormonal contraceptives as key medications while also critiquing the lack of attention paid to side effects; approaching side effects and effectiveness as relational through comparison of treatments; and negotiating the limitations on choice that arise from age, other diagnoses, and availability of pharmaceuticals. The paper draws on interview and story data collected in Finland in 2021-2023 as part of a larger project on gendered chronic illness.

 

Bio: Venla Oikkonen is Associate Professor at the Tampere Centre for Science, Technology and Innovation Studies (TaSTI), Tampere University. She is the author of two monographs, Population Genetics and Belonging: A Cultural Analysis of Genetic Ancestry (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and Gender, Sexuality and Reproduction in Evolutionary Narratives (Routledge, 2013). She has published on cultural aspects of genetic ancestry testing, infectious diseases, vaccination debates and ideas of immunity and embodiment in journals such as Body & Society, Science, Technology & Human Values, Social Studies of Science and Medicine Anthropology Theory.  She leads a project on gendered chronic illness funded by the Research Council of Finland and Kone Foundation.

Graham Minenor-Matheson is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Higher Seminar Venla Oikonnen Zoom Meeting
Time: Apr 22, 2025 01:15 PM Stockholm
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https://liu-se.zoom.us/j/68884981941?pwd=HHrrb3wgoUAQuZlC3XQeM8LtXUEaZD.1

Meeting ID: 688 8498 1941
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Med vänlig hälsning
Graham Minenor-Matheson
PhD Student

On behalf of Anna Storm, Kristin Zeiler and Harald Rohracher.