Ilpo Helén
Senior Fellow (docent)
DrSocSc
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Department of Sociology Research Unit P.O. Box 10 (Snellmaninkatu 12) FIN-00014 University of Helsinki |
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Telephone: +358 9 1912 4618 ilpo.helen@helsinki.fi |
Research projects
The ethos of Nordic welfarePsychic health and welfare – a critical history of the Nordic mental health care
The ethos of welfare, liberation and the therapeutic relation to the self – a genealogy of the Nordic sexual policy
Additional research interests
• Bio-politics; focusing on– health policy and health promotion
– application of the medical high-tech and
molecularisation of medicine
– abortion
– the neuropsychiatric turn in current mental health
care; psychopharmacology
• Politics and de-politics of the self; modern psychotechnologies
• History of the sexual science
• Corporeality, embodiment
• Theoretical interests: Michel Foucault, Max Weber,
the analytics of government
