Groups and Projects

On-going research projects in the History of Sciences and Ideas:

Petteri Pietikäinen & Heini Hakosalo: Northern Finland Health Historical Study (Academy of Finland and the University of Oulu: Profiling funding, 2017-2022)

Heini Hakosalo: Lives over time: Birth cohort studies as a form of scientific knowledge-production (LIVES) (Academy of Finland, 2019-2021)

Past research projects:

Petteri Pietikäinen:

• MenSoc: Mental Health, Medicine and Social Engineering in 20th Century Finland (Kone Foundation, 2014-2017)
•  Edward Westermarck and his intellectual network in Finland and Europe, ca. 1900-1940 (The Society of Swedish Literature in Finland, 2014-2017)

Heini Hakosalo:

• Exclusive treatment: The training and career patterns of the first generations of women physicians in Finland and Sweden (Academy of Finland, 2009-12)
• 'A black spot on the tuberculosis map of Europe': Tuberculosis and anti-tuberculosis work in Finland, from the 1880s to the 1980s (Academy of Finland, 2012-17)