Anette Wickström

Background

Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology Linköping University, 2009

Postdoc Researcher, Eramus Mundus, University

of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, 2008

Ph.D. at the Department of Health and Society, Linköping University, 2008

BA (Social Anthropology), Linköping University, 2001

Intermediate-level teacher, 1982

Research interests

Interested in the field of medical anthropology I did fieldwork in rural northeastern South Africa for my Ph.D. thesis. “Love in the Time of the Virus” (2008) is a study of local understandings of health; how people try to preserve an old moral order and at the same time transform their understandings and strategies to today’s needs and conditions. As postdoc I study child health surveillance; on one hand the interaction between practitioners, young people and medical techniques, on the other hand young people’s perspectives of being targeted by interventions or going through treatment in a clinical setting.

Current research

An Improved Smile: how adolescents and orthodontics create corrected bites. Director: Anette Wickström. Funded by the Swedish Research Council. 2013-2015.

Negotiating norms and ideals in orthodontic treatment with fixed appliance Director: Anette Wickström. Funded by the Swedish Research Council. In collaboration with Centre for Orthodontics and Paedodontics in the county of Östergötland. 2011-2012.

Child maltreatment – a dental perspective and clinical features. Director: Therese Kvist, Funded by the Department of Dental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet. 2011-2016.

Child and youth project in Katrineholm. Director: Karin Zetterqvist Nelson. Funded by the National Institute of Public Health. 2011.

Publications

Wickström, A: In press. “Lungisa” - Weaving relationships and social space to restore health. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 2013.

Wickström, A: (2013) From individual to relational strategies; transforming a manual-based psycho-educational course at school. Childhood 20(2):215-228.

Wickström, A: (2012) Depressionsförebyggande kurser krockar med skolans pedagogiska vardag. Venue - tanke- och kunskapsutbyte av erfarenheter och forskning om förskola och skola. http://www.liu.se/uv/lararrummet/venue/depressionsforebyggande-kurser-krockar-med-skolans-pedagogiska-vardag?l=sv, accessed Febr 8, 2013.

Wickström, A: (2010) “Virginity Testing as a Local Public Health Initiative: a 'preventive ritual' more than a 'diagnostic measure'”. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 16(3):532-550. 

Zeiler, K. and Wickström, A. (2009) “Why do ‘we’ perform surgery on newborn intersexual children? The phenomenology of the parental experience of getting a child with unclear sex”. Feminist Theory 10(3):359-377.

Wickström, A. (2008) “Love as action; managing relationships, sickness and medicine in a Zulu society”. Medische Antropologie. 20(1):47-68, June 2008.

Wickström, Anette. (2008) ”Kärlek i virusets tid – att hantera relationer och hälsa i Zululand”. (Diss.) Linköping Studies in Art and Science; 421. Dissertations on Health and Society; 11. Linköping: Univ.

Wickström, A. (2008) “Medicin som hemligt vapen i kärlekslivet” Alba.nu – tidning för kultur, vetenskap och samhälle.  Wigerfeldt, C. (red.) Nr 5. http://www.alba.nu/artikel/artikel.php?id=793

Wickström, A. (2006) “Love, Medicine, and Health.” Umbiko. Bringing Science to People. Mduduzi, M. (red.) Issue 7, May 2006.