En vetenskaplig monografi om Det femte Sahlgrenska (A scholarly monograph about The Fifth Sahlgrenska Hospital in Gothenburg in Sweden) (original) (raw)

2024, Lecture and comments at screenings of historical films at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg, Sweden, 23 September 2024. Organised by the Medical History Museum in cooperation with Cultural Heritage Management at NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim

In these two lectures, I present some key findings from the new scholarly monograph: ‘Det femte Sahlgrenska som medicinskt mediesystem. Mediebruk i den göteborgska sjukhusstadens förvaltande, kliniska och museala verksamheter 1933–1959’ (The Fifth Sahlgrenska as a medical media system. Media uses in the clinical, management and museal activities at the hospital site in Gothenburg 1933–1959). An important source material for this monograph, historical films from the Sahlgrenska Hospital in Gothenburg in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s are shown and commented at the two film screenings for hospital staff and interested persons at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital. Published by Makadam förlag (2024), the scholarly monograph presents new knowledge at the intersection of media history, medicine history and museum history. Mattias Bäckström at NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim is the lead author of the scholarly monograph. Robert Wallsson and Lisa Sputnes Mouwitz at the Medical History Museum in Gothenburg are co-authors. In their monograph, they show how the uses of media looked like at the Sahlgrenska Hospital, including at the surgery clinic and the hospital museum. How did key actors produce and use exhibitions, films, photographs, sciopticon images, wire recordings and x-ray images in their clinical, management and museum activities?