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{{Infobox academic
| name = Paula Larsson
| occupation = Historian
| alma_mater = [[University of Oxford]]
| discipline = [[History]]
| sub_discipline = [[Medicine]], [[colonialism]], Canadian history
| workplaces = [[Uncomfortable Oxford]]
| doctoral_advisor = Professor Mark Harrison
| nationality = Canadian
| awards = Mary Lemessurier Award,
James Burns Scholarship
| website = https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/paula-larsson
}}
Paula Larsson is a Canadian historian of medical and colonial history at the [[University of Oxford]]. She is most notable for her research into the history of [[eugenics]], [[Social Darwinism]], the [[First Nations in Canada|First Nations of Canada]], and most prominently the history of anti-vaccine conspiracies in Canada.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Spinney |first=Laura |date=2021-01-26 |title=Could understanding the history of anti-vaccine sentiment help us to overcome it? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society...anti-vaccine-sentiment-help-us-to-overcome-it |access-date=2024-04-27 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Larsson |first=Paula |date=14 June 2021 |title=Vaccine hesitancy: as old as vaccines |url=https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/interviews/vaccine-hesitancy-old-vaccines |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=www.thenakedscientists.com |language=en-gb}}</ref> She is a winner of both the ''The James Burn Scholarship'' and the ''Mary Lemessurier Award.''
== Early life ==
Paula Larsson grew up in a large family based in [[Calgary]], [[Canada]]. She was once a volunteer with a charity organisation known as Feed the Hungry.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2017 |title=Paula Larsson CCSF Award Winner 2017-2018 |url=https://www.canadianscholarshipfund.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/CCSF-Paula-Larsson-2017.pdf |access-date=27 April 2024 |website=www.canadianscholarshipfund.co.uk}}</ref>
== Public engagement ==
Larsson's activities largely involve public engagement with local history in Oxford. She was one of the developers of the Oxford and Empire Network, and the co-founder of [[Uncomfortable Oxford]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Paula Larsson |url=https://oxfordandempire.web.ox.ac.uk/people/paula-larsson-0 |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=oxfordandempire.web.ox.ac.uk |language=en}}</ref> She is also a writer for [[The Conversation (website)|The Conversation]], where she contributes to the history of [[vaccine hesitancy]] in the English speaking world, and topics such as racism within anti-vaccinations movements,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Larsson |first=Paula |date=2020-03-31 |title=Anti-Asian racism during coronavirus: How the language of disease produces hate and violence |url=http://theconversation.com/anti-asi...-of-disease-produces-hate-and-violence-134496 |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=The Conversation |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Larsson |first=Paula |date=2021-07-15 |title=The inherent racism of anti-vaxx movements |url=http://theconversation.com/the-inherent-racism-of-anti-vaxx-movements-163456 |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=The Conversation |language=en-US}}</ref> the polio vaccine heist of 1959,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Larsson |first=Paula |date=2021-02-21 |title=COVID-19 vaccination: What we can learn from the great polio vaccine heist of 1959 |url=http://theconversation.com/covid-19...-the-great-polio-vaccine-heist-of-1959-153840 |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=The Conversation |language=en-US}}</ref> and the recycling of anti-vaccine talking points from the nineteenth century to the present day.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Larsson |first=Paula |date=2020-10-04 |title=COVID-19 anti-vaxxers use the same arguments from 135 years ago |url=http://theconversation.com/covid-19-anti-vaxxers-use-the-same-arguments-from-135-years-ago-145592 |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=The Conversation |language=en-US}}</ref> She is also a contributor to the Canadian Eugenics Archive.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Racial segregation • Encyclopedia • Eugenics Archive |url=https://www.eugenicsarchive.ca/encyclopedia?id=535fe7db7095aa0000000403 |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=www.eugenicsarchive.ca}}</ref>
== Other activities ==
Larsson was one the president of the University of Oxford's Canadian students society.<ref name=":0" />
== Awards ==
* ''Mary Lemessurier Award'' (2017). <ref name=":1" />
* ''The James Burn Scholarship'' (2018).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Paula Larsson, 2018 {{!}} Canadian Centennial Scholarship Fund |url=https://www.canadianscholarshipfund.co.uk/project/paula-larsson/ |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=www.canadianscholarshipfund.co.uk}}</ref>
== Publications: ==
* Larsson, Paula, Diana Mansell, Frank W. Stahnisch, eds. Bedside to Community: Fifty years of Contributions to the Health of Albertans by the University of Calgary. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2019.
* Larsson, Paula, “A History of Aboriginal Health Research within the Faculty (Cumming School) of Medicine, University of Calgary, 1966 – 2016,” in Bedside to Community: Fifty years of Contributions to the Health of Albertans by the University of Calgary, Paula Larsson, Diana Mansell, Frank W. Stahnisch (editors). Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2019.
* Larsson, Paula. "Lessons in Race: Curriculum in Indian Residential Schools, 1930-1950." History of Intellectual Culture 11, 1 (2014-16).
* Larsson, Paula. “Escaping the Asylum: Patient Resistance at the Toronto Asylum for the Insane, 1900-1940,” Proceedings of the 2013 History of Medicine Days Conference. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.
== Citations ==
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{{Infobox academic
| name = Paula Larsson
| occupation = Historian
| alma_mater = [[University of Oxford]]
| discipline = [[History]]
| sub_discipline = [[Medicine]], [[colonialism]], Canadian history
| workplaces = [[Uncomfortable Oxford]]
| doctoral_advisor = Professor Mark Harrison
| nationality = Canadian
| awards = Mary Lemessurier Award,
James Burns Scholarship
| website = https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/paula-larsson
}}
Paula Larsson is a Canadian historian of medical and colonial history at the [[University of Oxford]]. She is most notable for her research into the history of [[eugenics]], [[Social Darwinism]], the [[First Nations in Canada|First Nations of Canada]], and most prominently the history of anti-vaccine conspiracies in Canada.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Spinney |first=Laura |date=2021-01-26 |title=Could understanding the history of anti-vaccine sentiment help us to overcome it? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society...anti-vaccine-sentiment-help-us-to-overcome-it |access-date=2024-04-27 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Larsson |first=Paula |date=14 June 2021 |title=Vaccine hesitancy: as old as vaccines |url=https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/interviews/vaccine-hesitancy-old-vaccines |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=www.thenakedscientists.com |language=en-gb}}</ref> She is a winner of both the ''The James Burn Scholarship'' and the ''Mary Lemessurier Award.''
== Early life ==
Paula Larsson grew up in a large family based in [[Calgary]], [[Canada]]. She was once a volunteer with a charity organisation known as Feed the Hungry.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2017 |title=Paula Larsson CCSF Award Winner 2017-2018 |url=https://www.canadianscholarshipfund.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/CCSF-Paula-Larsson-2017.pdf |access-date=27 April 2024 |website=www.canadianscholarshipfund.co.uk}}</ref>
== Public engagement ==
Larsson's activities largely involve public engagement with local history in Oxford. She was one of the developers of the Oxford and Empire Network, and the co-founder of [[Uncomfortable Oxford]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Paula Larsson |url=https://oxfordandempire.web.ox.ac.uk/people/paula-larsson-0 |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=oxfordandempire.web.ox.ac.uk |language=en}}</ref> She is also a writer for [[The Conversation (website)|The Conversation]], where she contributes to the history of [[vaccine hesitancy]] in the English speaking world, and topics such as racism within anti-vaccinations movements,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Larsson |first=Paula |date=2020-03-31 |title=Anti-Asian racism during coronavirus: How the language of disease produces hate and violence |url=http://theconversation.com/anti-asi...-of-disease-produces-hate-and-violence-134496 |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=The Conversation |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Larsson |first=Paula |date=2021-07-15 |title=The inherent racism of anti-vaxx movements |url=http://theconversation.com/the-inherent-racism-of-anti-vaxx-movements-163456 |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=The Conversation |language=en-US}}</ref> the polio vaccine heist of 1959,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Larsson |first=Paula |date=2021-02-21 |title=COVID-19 vaccination: What we can learn from the great polio vaccine heist of 1959 |url=http://theconversation.com/covid-19...-the-great-polio-vaccine-heist-of-1959-153840 |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=The Conversation |language=en-US}}</ref> and the recycling of anti-vaccine talking points from the nineteenth century to the present day.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Larsson |first=Paula |date=2020-10-04 |title=COVID-19 anti-vaxxers use the same arguments from 135 years ago |url=http://theconversation.com/covid-19-anti-vaxxers-use-the-same-arguments-from-135-years-ago-145592 |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=The Conversation |language=en-US}}</ref> She is also a contributor to the Canadian Eugenics Archive.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Racial segregation • Encyclopedia • Eugenics Archive |url=https://www.eugenicsarchive.ca/encyclopedia?id=535fe7db7095aa0000000403 |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=www.eugenicsarchive.ca}}</ref>
== Other activities ==
Larsson was one the president of the University of Oxford's Canadian students society.<ref name=":0" />
== Awards ==
* ''Mary Lemessurier Award'' (2017). <ref name=":1" />
* ''The James Burn Scholarship'' (2018).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Paula Larsson, 2018 {{!}} Canadian Centennial Scholarship Fund |url=https://www.canadianscholarshipfund.co.uk/project/paula-larsson/ |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=www.canadianscholarshipfund.co.uk}}</ref>
== Publications: ==
* Larsson, Paula, Diana Mansell, Frank W. Stahnisch, eds. Bedside to Community: Fifty years of Contributions to the Health of Albertans by the University of Calgary. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2019.
* Larsson, Paula, “A History of Aboriginal Health Research within the Faculty (Cumming School) of Medicine, University of Calgary, 1966 – 2016,” in Bedside to Community: Fifty years of Contributions to the Health of Albertans by the University of Calgary, Paula Larsson, Diana Mansell, Frank W. Stahnisch (editors). Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2019.
* Larsson, Paula. "Lessons in Race: Curriculum in Indian Residential Schools, 1930-1950." History of Intellectual Culture 11, 1 (2014-16).
* Larsson, Paula. “Escaping the Asylum: Patient Resistance at the Toronto Asylum for the Insane, 1900-1940,” Proceedings of the 2013 History of Medicine Days Conference. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.
== Citations ==
[[Category:Living people]]
Okumaya devam et...