Kari Nyheim Solbrække is Professor of Medical Sociology in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo. Her main research interests are critical gender studies, narrative approaches to health and illness, medicalization, IVF, and especially cancer. Her latest publications include 'Cancer Coiffures'; Embodied Storylines of Cancer Patienthood and Survivorship in the Consumerist Cultural Imaginary in Body & Society (2018) and 'Our genes, our selves: Hereditary breast cancer and biological citizenship in Norway', in Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy (2016).