Ericka Johnsson

Institution/Department: Sociology, Section for Science and Technology Studies
Previous studies: Vassar College, USA; Oxford, UK; University of Linköping
Thesis: Situating Simulators: The integration of simulations in medical Practice
Research areas: How the medical subject is reproduced and constructed in and by medical technologies.
Current research: Currently I am studying the changing concepts of ­masculinity associated with the introduction of Viagra to the Swedish market and the prescription of healthy subjectivities associated with anti-aging ­pharmaceuticals. My previous work has examined how knowledge and facts about the body are gathered, articulated and represented in material artifacts used to teach medical practice. I have looked at the practices, ideas and ­understandings of professionals and patients as reproduced in the construction and introduction of simulators. In my Ph.D. dissertation I analysed how ­computer simulators are used in medical education, which focused on the details of practice when people and machines interact and intra-act, and how the use of simulators contributes to both learning and identity formation.

E-mail address: ericka.johnson@sts.gu.se
www.sts.gu.se/english/staff/johnson_ericka/