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Medical knowledge is always in motion. It moves from the lab to the office, from a press release to a patient, from an academic journal to a civil servants desk and then on to a policymaker. Knowledge is deconstructed, reconstructed, and transformed as it moves. The dynamic, ever-evolving nature of medical knowledge has given rise to different concepts to explain it: diffusion, translation, circulation, transit, co-production. At the same time, its movementsand the ways in which we conceptualize and describe themhave material consequences. For instance, value judgements on the validity of certain forms of knowledge determine the direction of clinical research. Policy decisions are taken in relation to existing knowledge. The acceptance or rejection of treatment protocols based on medical facts impacts on patients, dependents, health providers, and society at large. Simply put, knowledge and the movement of knowledge matter. How do they matter, though? The contributors to this volume examine the complexity of medical knowledge in everyday life. We demonstrate not only the pervasive influence of knowledge in medical and public health settings, but also the range of methodological and theoretical tools to study knowledge. Ours is a multidisciplinary approach to the medical humanities, presenting both contemporary and historical perspectives in order to explore the borderlands between expertise and common knowledge. *** Medicinsk kunskap r alltid i rrelse. Den kan frdas frn laboratoriet till kontoret, med en pressrelease till en patient, via en vetenskaplig artikel till en tjnsteman och kanske vidare till en beslutsfattare. Frflyttningen till olika sammanhang har betydelse fr hur kunskapen uppfattas och anvnds, vilket i sin tur kan pverka inriktningen p bde forskning och politiska beslut. Komplexiteten hos medicinsk kunskap och de konsekvenser som den fr str i fokus i antologin Movement of knowledge. Frfattarna undersker hur kunskap prglar de medicinska och folkhlsoorienterade rummen och granskar samtidigt de metodologiska och teoretiska verktygen vi har fr att studera kunskap och kunskapsflden. I sina texter anlgger forskarna en tvrvetenskaplig syn p medicinsk humaniora och visar med svl samtida som historiska perspektiv p hur grnssnittet mellan experter och allmnhet kan studeras. Medicinsk kunskap dekonstrueras, rekonstrueras och omformas nr den rr sig mellan patienter, vrdgivare och samhllet i stort. Att en behandlingsmetod godknns eller underknns utifrn medicinska fakta r ngot som i slutnden pverkar oss alla. Academic co-ordinator is Daniel Normark, Researcher, Karolinska Institutet: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3509-097X