The Ryti Case: language, gender and the rules of the game in Finnish academic medicine in the 1920s

Hakosalo, Heini

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“…judging by the number of calls for papers to science history conferences or conference sessions that focus on biographical research, we are likely to have some more edited volumes on the topic in the near future. 4 The overall project was called Exclusive Treatment: The First Generations of Finnish Medical Women, and the results have so far been discussed in, e.g., Hakosalo 2012aHakosalo , 2012bHakosalo , 2014aHakosalo , 2014bHakosalo , 2014cHakosalo , 2015aHakosalo , 2015bHakosalo , 2015cHakosalo and 2015d of "horizon of possibilities" 5 . The notion refers to the range of possibilities that an actor has, de jure and de facto, at a specific point in time.…”

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Biography, Gender and History: Nordic perspectives

Lindberg

2017

Scandinavian Journal of History

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honor, which she expected would result in public disapproval: 'some of us who refuse to join will be called narrow-minded and spiteful.' 25 Gripenberg's analysis of the lectures was accurate; they continued Key's criticism of the organised women's movement that she had first summarised in Missbrukad kvinnokraft. For example, her view that 'the civilised women of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries had such a great influence on their contemporaries that they did not attempt to imitate men, but further developed their own feminine natures' 26 repeated the theme that she presented in her polemical work. By saying this, Key wanted to encourage nineteenth-century feminists not to undervalue the importance of women's unique contribution to human progress, namely intuition, emotions, and motherliness. This was a strong historico-political argument. in contrast, Gripenberg was of the opinion that, above all, history evidenced the inequality experienced by women; they had never had any genuine influence and it was contrary to the aims of the women's movement to claim otherwise. 27 Key's ideas were controversial among feminists, but she did not represent reaction in the sense that she would have objected to demands for women's political, legal, economic and social emancipation. However, Key was concerned about the impact of emancipation in terms of what she saw as true femininity, and in her Helsinki lecture, she repeated her warning that the politics of the middle-class women's movement put gender difference in jeopardy. Gripenberg did not accept this argument, and to her, Key was only providing ammunition that opponents could use in preventing women's emancipation. instead of serving the goal of true equality, she interpreted the message of Key's lecture as a celebration of uneducated women.in one of her lectures in Helsinki, Key brought up older women's right to love. 28 This reflects her positive and open attitude towards women's sexuality, which was rather atypical in the era. Her sexual radicalism also included criticism of marriage as an institution, and

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Biography, Gender and History: Nordic perspectives

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“…This led to attempts to dismantle the powerful status of the ‘Swedes', who in turn felt threatened by Finnish nationalists. See Hakosalo (2012: 444–8); Engman (2016).…”

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Sin embodied: Priest-psychiatrist Asser Stenbäck and the psychosomatic approach to human problems

Hyrkäs

2022

History of the Human Sciences

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Combining theological and medical perspectives is indispensable for the historical study of the interconnections between mind, body, and soul. This article explores these relations through the history of Finnish psychosomatic medicine, and uses published and archival materials to examine the intellectual biography of the Finland-Swedish theologian turned psychiatrist Asser Stenbäck (1913–2006). Stenbäck's career, which evolved from priesthood to psychiatry and politics, reveals a great deal about the tensions between religion and medicine, the spiritual and scientific groups that impinged upon psychosomatic medicine, and ideas on how health and Christian morality were interconnected. The biographical approach is adopted to unearth the values encoded in medical concepts, and through this, to point towards another, underexplored dimension of the health–religion relationship. In addition to their emotional aspect, religious doctrines are intended to organise life and give it meaning. Stenbäck's ideas tied these experiential and normative spheres together by defending an irrationalist substratum of the world in the secular age of medicine. His work illustrates how the inner experience of faith can become both medically and politically purposive. It is worth combining these perspectives in historical research as well in order to better understand how the theological, medical, and political worlds are in dialogue when it comes to human problems.

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The Ryti Case: language, gender and the rules of the game in Finnish academic medicine in the 1920s

Cited by 2 publications

References 13 publications

Biography, Gender and History: Nordic perspectives

Biography, Gender and History: Nordic perspectives

Sin embodied: Priest-psychiatrist Asser Stenbäck and the psychosomatic approach to human problems

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