Boel Berner

Boel Berner (b. 3 August 1945) is a Swedish sociologist, historian, and editor.

Early life and education[]

Karin Boel Christina Berner was born 3 August 1945 in Helsingborg. She graduated with a bachelor's degree from Lund University in 1967, and a PhD in sociology from Lund University in 1981.

Research and career[]

Berner became an associate professor in sociology in 1988. She has studied and done research several times in London and Paris. From 1991 she was a professor on the topic of technology and social change at Linköping University. She is a member of the international gender research network Mage, based in Paris. Berner's research has focused on four main areas, using historical analysis and participatory observation and interviews: medical technology and practice; the nature and social role of technical knowledge; gender and technology; and risk and uncertainty.^[1]

She served as editor of the magazine Zenit (1974-85), for Sociological Research (1976–1977), for Acta Sociologica (1980–1981), and for Women's Journal of Science (1981). Berner is a scientific editor of the Pandora series on Arkiv förlag, with a focus on science, technology and medicine in society.

Selected works[]

• Skola, ideologi och samhälle (edited with Staf Callewaert & Henning Silberbrandt, 1977)
• Utbildning och arbetsdelning (edited with Staf Callewaert & Henning Silberbrandt, 1979)
• Teknikens värld (doctoral thesis, 1981, new edition 2012)
• Kunskapens vägar (1989)
• Regeln i undantaget. Om olyckor, kunskap och tekniska system (1992)
• Från symaskin till cyborg (edited with Elisabeth Sundin, 1996)
• Sakernas tillstånd. Kön, klass, teknisk expertis (1996)
• Gendered practices. Feminist studies of technology and society (edited 1997)
• Perpetuum mobile?Teknikens utmaningar och historiens gång (1999)
• Manoeuvering in an Environment of Uncertainty. Structural Change and Social Action in Sub-Saharan Africa (edited with Per Trulsson, 2000)
• Suède: l´égalité des sexes en question (edited with Elisabeth Elgán & Jacqueline Heinen, 2000)
• Constructing Risk and Safety in Technological Practice (edited with Jane Summerton, 2003)
• Vem tillhör tekniken? Kunskap och kön i teknikens värld (2003)
• Ifrågasättanden. Forskning om genus, teknik och naturvetenskap (2004)
• Technology and Medical Practice. Blood, Guts, and Machines (edited with Ericka Johnson, 2010)
• Social Science Research 2004-2010. Themes, results and reflections (on nuclear waste issues) (with Britt-Marie Drottz Sjöberg & Einar Holm, 2011)
• Vad är tvärvetenskap och hur kan den göras. Erfarenheter från forskningen om teknik och samhälle (2011)
• Blodflöden. Blodgivning och blodtransfusion i det svenska samhället (2012)
• Knowledge and Evidence. Investigating Technologies in Practice (edited with Corinna Kruse, 2013)
• Kön, kropp, materialitet. Perspektiv från fransk genusforskning (edited with Isabelle Dussauge, 2014)
• Strange Blood. The Rise and Fall of Lamb Blood Transfusion in 19th Century Medicine and Beyond, transcript Verlag (2020)

References[]

External links[]

• Boel Berner, Professor emerita at Linköping University
• Publications for Boel Berner at Linköping University Electronic Press.
• https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Boel_Berner