I’m a physician and a historian of science and medicine. My research focuses on the production, circulation, and contestation of medical knowledge among medical experts, patients, and activists. I’m particularly interested in the role of bureaucracy in shaping and regulating medical practices and social medicine as a distinctive thought style and approach to health and illness.

Recently, I’ve become increasingly drawn to analyzing the practices of clinical medicine and research, as well as their material basis.

I'm a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of the History of Medicine and Ethics in Medicine at Charité Berlin. Currently, I’m directing a research project titled “Tools of Clinical Knowledge.”

The project is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and is a praxeographic analysis of clinical research and biological psychiatry in the twentieth century.

My first book in English, Standardizing Sex (University of Chicago Press, 2025), analyzes the recurring attempts to regulate and standardize sex and the politicization and practices of transgender medicine.

I have published my research in both history of science and medical journals, including Isis, Social History of Medicine, and New England Journal of Medicine.

Selected publications include:

• 2025: “Psychiatric Experiences,” Oxford Bibliographies, History of Medicine
• 2024: “How the Idea of Social Contagion Shaped Trans Medicine,”New England Journal of Medicine, 391, 16:1546–1551
• 2024: “Visualizing BDSM and AIDS Activism: Archiving Pleasures, Sanitizing History," Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 78, 3:270-303
• 2024:“Psychiatric Practices Beyond Psychiatry,” in G. Gahlen, V. Hess, M. Scarfone, and H. Voelker (eds.), Doing Psychiatry in Postwar Europe, Manchester University Press
• 2022: Det ligger i blodet. Epidemien som forandret Norge (Oslo: Press)
• 2022: “Bureaucratizing Medicine,” Isis, 113, 469–490
• 2022: “Selling Sex in the Age of HIV/AIDS,” in J. Weston and H. Kershaw (eds.) Histories of HIV/AIDS in Western Europe, Manchester University Press
• 2021: “Society as Cause and Cure,” Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 45, 3:456–478
• 2021: “The Political Nature of Sex,” New England Journal of Medicine, 384, 11:1070–1074
• 2020: “The Amphibious Nature of AIDS Activism,” Medical History, 64, 3, 401–435
• 2020: “The Pasts, Presents and Futures of AIDS,” Social History of Medicine, 34, 2:417–444