Publications and presentations
I. Peer-reviewed scientific articles, books and book chapters
Bergenheim, Sophy (2019): “Helping troubled children and cultivating the race: The mental hygienic guidance centres of the Public Health Association of Swedish Finland, 1930s–1950s”. Social History of Medicine. Published online ahead of print.
Bergenheim, Sophy (2018): “Cherishing the health of the folk. Finnish non-governmental expert organisations as constructors of public health and the ‘people’”. In Kananen, Johannes – Bergenheim, Sophy – Wessel, Merle (eds.): Conceptualising Public Health. Historical and Contemporary Struggles Over Key Concepts. London & New York: Routledge, 101–118.
Bergenheim, Sophy – Edman, Johan – Kananen, Johannes – Wessel, Merle (2018): “Conceptualising public health: An introduction”. In Kananen, Johannes – Bergenheim, Sophy – Wessel, Merle (eds.): Conceptualising Public Health. Historical and Contemporary Struggles Over Key Concepts. London & New York: Routledge, 1–17.
Kananen, Johannes – Bergenheim, Sophy – Wessel, Merle (eds.) (2018): Conceptualising Public Health. Historical and Contemporary Struggles over Key Concepts. London & New York: Routledge.
Bergenheim, Sophy (2018): “From pronatalism to salvaging relationships. The Finnish Population and Family Welfare League’s conceptions of marriage and divorce, 1951–1988”. Scandinavian Journal of History 43 (1), 141–160. Published online 4 January 2017.
Bergenheim, Sophy (2018): “Säännöstelypelosta suunnitteluoptimismiin. Tulevaisuudennäkymät Sosiaalipoliittisessa yhdistyksessä 1950–1960-luvuilla” [“From the fear of controlled economy to planning optimism. Visions of the future in the Finnish Social Policy Association in the 1950s–1960s”]. In Hakoniemi, Elina – Kärrylä, Ilkka – Silvan, Kristiina – Taavetti, Riikka (eds): AJANKOHTA. Poliittisen historian vuosikirja 2018: Menneet tulevaisuudet. Helsinki: University of Helsinki.
Bergenheim, Sophy (2018): “From barracks to garden cities. The Finnish Population and Family Welfare League as a housing policy expert in the 1940s and 1950s”. Science & Technology Studies. Published online ahead of print.
Bergenheim, Sophy (2017): “‘The population question is, in short, a question of our people’s survival.’ Reframing population policy in 1940s Finland”. In Hempel, Kari G. – Duedahl, Poul – Poulsen, Bo (eds): Reforming Politics and Resources. Aalborg: Aalborg University Press, 109–142.
II. Non-refereed columns and commentaries
Bergenheim, Sophy (2018): “The population, its health and social sciences”. Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs 35 (2), 84–90.
Bergenheim, Sophy (2017): “Satavuotiaan Suomen historiakuvat kaipaavat ristiriitoja, epävarmuutta ja harmaan sävyjä” [“The historical narratives of 100-year-old Finland need conflicts, uncertainty and different shades of grey”]. Historiallinen Aikakauskirja 115 (4), 494–496.
III. Publications intended for the general public
Perhiö, Teemu: “‘Olemme liian pieni kansa’ – Syntyvyys on laskenut jo seitsemän vuotta: Ovatko suomalaisten perheihanteet muuttuneet pysyvästi?” [“‘We are too small a people’ – Birth rates in decline for seven years: Have Finns’ family ideals changed for good?”]. Seura 16.7.2018.
Interview in a feature story on Finland’s declining birth rates and their historical and contemporary reasons.
Nordman, Kerstin: “Då vi mätte skallar” [“When we measured crania”]. Vasabladet 29.5.2016.
Interview in a feature story on racial hygiene in Ostrobothnia and elsewhere in Swedish-speaking Finland in the early twentieth century.
IV. Selected scientific presentations (2017–2018)
Medical terms or historical and political concepts? Twentieth-century history of medicine as conceptual history.
Poster at the 46th International Society for the History of Medicine (ISHM) Congress, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal) 4.9.2018.
“No inferior Swedes shall be found in this country!” The Public Health Association of Swedish Finland, conformity and minority nationalism, 1920s–1950s.
Presentation at the Society for the Social History of Medicine Conference 2018, University of Liverpool (Liverpool, UK) 13.7.2018.
Non-governmental expertise and the welfare state in the making. Finnish social and health policy organisations as experts and policy actors in the 1940s–1960s.
Presentation at European Social Science History Conference 2018, Queen’s University (Belfast, UK) 7.4.2018.
In and/or out: Inclusion and exclusion in the ideas and policies of Finnish social and health organisations, 1930s–1960s.
Presentation at the conference Inclusion and Exclusion in the History of Ideas, Helsinki Centre for Intellectual History (Helsinki) 15.12.2017.
Epänormaaleista lapsista epänormaaleja kansalaisia? Samfundet Folkhälsan ja mentaalihygienia 1930–1950-luvuilla.
[From abnormal children to abnormal citizens? Samfundet Folkhälsan and mental hygiene, 1930s–1950s.]
Presentation at the Finnish Medico-Historical Society’s Autumn Seminar, House of Science and Letters (Helsinki, Finland) 24.11.2017.
Vajaamielisten ja ongelmallisten lasten avuksi. Samfundet Folkhälsanin mentaalihygieeniset neuvontatoimistot 1930–1950-luvuillla.
[Helping the debilitated and problem child. The mental hygienic guidance centres of Samfundet Folkhälsan, 1930s–1950s.]
Presentation at the Finnish Conference for Historical Research, University of Turku (Turku, Finland) 19.10.2017.
Constructing knowledge, expertise and the Finnish welfare state.
Presentation at the 20th International Conference on Conceptual History, University of Oslo (Oslo, Norway) 23.9.2017.
