Browsing by Author "Hansson, Nils"

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    A Baltic Sea region student poster exhibition on cooperation and conflict in medicine
    (RSU Medicīnas vēstures institūts. Paula Stradiņa Medicīnas vēstures muzejs., 2021) Söhner, Felicitas; Gavaller, Yvonne; Hansson, Nils
    Which topics and developments in the field of medicine and health sci- ences are relevant for the Baltic Sea macro-region in the future? How can a wider public be involved in the discourses of cooperation within the Baltic Sea region?
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    History of Medicine in the Baltic Sea region: Introductory remarks by the Editor
    (RSU Medicīnas vēstures institūts. Paula Stradiņa Medicīnas vēstures muzejs., 2021) Hansson, Nils
    A new “Hanseatic League”, “a global hotspot for health”, “one of the most innovative science macro-regions in the world”? In the fields of life science and technology, politicians and managers of current large research projects describe the Baltic Sea region as a hub of cutting-edge research. How did these images emerge?
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    Innovationen im Ostseeraum : Nils Alwall, Lembit Norviit, Adolfs Martins Steins und die künstliche Niere
    (2024) Hansson, Nils; Salaks, Juris; Moll, Friedrich H.; Halling, Thorsten; Tammiksaar, Erki; Institute of the History of Medicine
    In connection with the construction of one of the first practical dialysis machines, medical historians emphasize the work of the Swedish physician Nils Alwall. Together with his colleagues, he developed a device in the 1940s that could implement the combination of dialysis and ultrafiltration with membranes (cellophane tubes). Little known is the involvement of the physicians Lembit Norviit from Estonia and Adolfs Martins Steins from Latvia, both coauthors of the influential research article Clinical extracorporeal dialysis of blood with artificial kidney that was published in The Lancet in 1948 and the transfer of knowledge between Estonian, Latvian and Swedish researchers.
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    Nobel Prize Commemoration in Riga: Media Echo and Objects
    (RSU Medicīnas vēstures institūts. Paula Stradiņa Medicīnas vēstures muzejs., 2018) Salaks, Juris; Hansson, Nils
    This paper is an attempt to investigate the discourses around the Nobel Prize, and it aims at deciphering the commemoration of the award in Riga. The public image of the Nobel Prize in Riga has previously been commented on in a few papers, but has never been studied at length. The first part of the current study contextualises several Nobel links from the city, universities and state printed media, as well as more hidden tracks from the Nobel Prize nominations’ archive. The second part highlights Ilya Mechnikov (Elie Metchnikoff’s, Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine in 1908) collection in Pauls Stradins Museum of the History of Medicine, including a detailed description of his Nobel medal and his ambivalent feelings about this award.