About

Lisa Guntram is associate professor at the Department of Thematic Studies – Technology and Social Change, Linköping University, Sweden. Guntram has an interdisciplinary research background in public health sciences, gender studies, medical sociology and medical humanities. With a specific interest in embodiment and gender, her research often examines how different actors make sense of embodiment and norms in encounters with medicine and health care. Currently, she PI of the project The Many Meanings of Perineal Injuries funded by FORTE – The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare and involved as a researcher in the project “What are you complaining about?” on critique in health care encounters. Previously, she has for example studied the emergence of uterus transplantation in the projects “Shaping ethics – Shrouding ethics” (funded by LiU and RJ) and “A gift for life?” (funded by the Swedish Research Council). Her work has been published in internationally leading journals, such as Social Science and Medicine, Feminist Theory, Bioethics, BMJ Medical Humanities.

Key Publications

Guntram L (2022) Reproduction and Beyond: Imaginaries of Uterus Transplantation in the Light of Embodied Histories of Living Life Without a Uterus. In: Shaw RM (ed.) Reproductive Citizenship: Technologies, Rights and Relationships. Singapore: Springer Nature, pp. 127–152.

Guntram L (2021) May I have your uterus? The contribution of considering complexities preceding live uterus transplantation. Medical Humanities 47(4): 425–437.

Guntram L and Zeiler K (2019) The Ethics of the Societal Entrenchment-approach and the case of live uterus transplantation-IVF. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 22(4): 557–571.