Assistant Professor Heini Kakosalo
Assistant Professor Heini Kakosalo specialises in the history of modern medicine, and has published on, for instance, histories of brain sciences, medical education, tuberculosis, epidemiological research methods and the relationship between infectious disease epidemics and urban planning
Heini Hakosalo is an Associate Professor in History of Science at the University of Oulu, Finland. She specialises in the history of modern medicine, and has published on, for instance, histories of brain sciences, medical education, tuberculosis, epidemiological research methods and the relationship between infectious disease epidemics and urban planning. During her visiting fellowship, she is affiliated with the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, and will work on a book on birth cohort studies as a form of epidemiological knowledge-production in the Nordic countries and the UK.
Select publications
- Heini Hakosalo, “The walled-in illness: The twentieth century Finnish tuberculosis sanatorium as lived space”, in Johanna Annola, Hanna Lindberg & Pirjo Markkola (eds.), Lived Institutions as History of Experience. Palgrave Studies in the History of Experience. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
- Heini Hakosalo, Katariina Parhi and Annukka Sailo (eds.), Historical Explorations of Modern Epidemiology: Patterns, Populations and Pathologies. Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-20671-9
- Esa Ruuskanen & Heini Hakosalo (eds.), In Pursuit of Healthy Environments: Lessons from Historical Cases on the Environment-Health Nexus. Routledge Studies in Environment, Culture, and Society. London: Routledge 2021. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367259099
- Heini Hakosalo, “Patterning Tuberculosis: Interwar Tuberculosis Research as a Bridge between Infectious and Risk Factor Epidemiology”, in Heini Hakosalo, Katariina Parhi and Annukka Sailo (eds.), Historical Explorations of Modern Epidemiology: Patterns, Populations and Pathologies. Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023: 29-53. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-20671-9_2
- Heini Hakosalo, “Nothing to write home about? The tuberculosis sanatorium as a site of clinical training (Finland, 1900-60)”, in Delia Gavrus & Susan Lamb (eds.), Transforming Medical Education: Historical Case Studies of Teaching, Learning, and Belonging in Medicine. In Honour of Jacalyn Duffin. Montreal & McGill-Queen’s associated medical services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022: 63-82. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2s0jd98
- Heini Hakosalo. “The Ill(s) of the Nation: The Experience of Tuberculosis in Finland from the 1920s to the 1970s”, in Ville Kivimäki, Sami Suodenjoki & Tanja Vahtikari (eds). Lived Nation as the History of Experiences and Emotions in Finland, 1800–2000. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021: 241-266. ISBN 9783030698812. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69882-9_10OA
- Heini Hakosalo, “Cut out for medicine: Anatomical learning and the formation of medical persona (fin-de-siècle Finland)”, in Kirsti Niskanen and Michael B. Barany (eds). Gender, Embodiment, and the History of the Scholarly Persona: Incarnations and Contestations. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021: 149-180. DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-49606-7
- Heini Hakosalo, “Lust for Life: Coping with Tuberculosis in Late 19th-Century Finland”, Medical History 64 (2020) 4: 516-532. https://doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2020.43
