Boel Berner

Boel Berner is a sociologist, historian, and professor emerita at Linköping University in Sweden. In her research she investigates the character and power of technical and medical expertise, historically and today. She has studied technical education and work, the gendered nature of technical knowledge, household technology, and issues of risk. Her current work is oriented towards the history of medicine. It focuses, besides issues of blood donation and transfusion, on the politics of blood group analysis in the interwar years.