Jonatan Wistrand is awarded the Medicine Doctor Axel Hirsch Prize 2025
Medical history researcher and general practitioner Jonatan Wistrand at Lund University is awarded the prize for his outstanding doctoral thesis 'Doctors as Patients', which explores doctors' own experiences of illness throughout history.
Jonatan Wistrand is a doctor affiliated with Lund University, at the Unit for the History of Medicine and a general practitioner, as well as an affiliated researcher at the Birgit Rausing Centre for Medical Humanities (BRCMH).
"Oh, how wonderful. I feel very honored by this fine award. And what an accurate justification. Many thanks," says Jonatan Wistrand.
The prize will be awarded during the autumn inauguration ceremony at Karolinska Institutet and consists of a diploma and a monetary award.
The award citation
"Jonatan Wistrand at Lund University is awarded the Medicine Doctor Axel Hirsch prize 2025 in medicine history for his disseration Doctors as Patients - Documentary and literary testimonies from the 20th and 21st centuries (2019). In his publication, Wistrand is interested in the narrative's ability to depict what cannot be quantified in the mapping of the medical profession's (ill)health."