Academic interests
- Gender
- Latin America Studies
- Actor-Network Theory
- Feminist Theory
- Global Health
- Medical Anthropology
- Sexuality
- Public Health
Background
- Master in International Community Health – UiO
- Medical Residency in Family and Community Medicine – Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná/Brazil
- Doctor of Medicine – Federal University of Paraná/Brazil
Publications
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Borges Rau Steuernagel, Carolina; Resløkken, Åmund Norum & Lillehagen, Ida
(2024).
On Becoming Microbes and People with Texts. Moving Academic Writing Toward Responsible Agency,
The Sociology of Translation and the Politics of Sustainability, Explorations Across Cultures and Natures
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Routledge.
ISSN 9781003285038.
p. 112–138.
doi:
10.4324/9781003285038-8.
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This chapter explores how academic textual production may be understood as a practice of responsible agency, through a dialogue between two scholarly texts about microbes. The first emphasizes the discovery of bacteria, suggesting an asymmetry between humans and nature. The second emphasizes the production of bacterial resistance to drugs, inscribing a symmetric interdependence between humans and nature. By exploring these two texts, the chapter outlines two contrasting ways in which microbes and authors are inscribed as actors in the texts. Ironically, these explorations also work to multiply, complement, attenuate, and fuse inscribed agency, outlining modalities of response through the practice of crafting texts as artefacts. The chapter argues that agency, both as textual device and as responses inscribed through reinterpretation, must be treated as a kind of chimerism, which, as a consequence, means that agency is emergent, and that the ability to respond through the demands elicited by scientific text production has the prime responsibility for translating worlds to words.
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Rau Steuernagel, Carolina; Lam, Carolyn S P & Greenhalgh, Trisha
(2023).
Countering sex and gender bias in cardiovascular research requires more than equal recruitment and sex disaggregated analyses.
The BMJ.
ISSN 1756-1833.
382.
doi:
10.1136/bmj-2023-075031.
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Rau Steuernagel, Carolina; Engebretsen, Eivind; Kristiansen, Hans Wiggo & Moen, Kåre
(2019).
Ethnography of texts: a literature review of health and female homosexuality in Brazil .
Medical Humanities.
ISSN 1468-215X.
p. 1–10.
doi:
10.1136/medhum-2018-011544.
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June 29, 2017 12:32 PM
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June 22, 2023 2:12 PM
