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Jolien Gijbels is assistant professor of History at the Free University of Brussels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). In 2021, she defended her PhD thesis on religion, medical ethics and difficult births in nineteenth-century Belgium at KU Leuven. Subsequently, she was a postdoctoral fellow at KU Leuven and a Fulbright and BAEF fellow at the Department of the History of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University. In 2024, she has stayed as a Junior Fellow of the Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science at Utrecht University.
Her research interests include the history of medicine, gender and technology in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She currently focuses on the development of gynecological surgery and changing doctor-patient relationships around 1900. She published on obstetric dilemmas, reproductive surgery and the relationship between medicine and religion in, among other journals, the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Journal of Religious History and Annales de Démographie Historique.
She is a book editor of Wonderkamer, a magazine of the history of science, vice president of Gewina, the Belgian-Dutch Society for History of Science and Universities, and board member of the (Belgian-Dutch) Society for Gender History (VVG).
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OZR4238: Negotiating consent: patient agency and surgery from a European perspective, 1900-2000
1/02/24 → 31/01/28
Project: Fundamental
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Koninklijke Vlaamse Schouwburg
Gijbels, J., 2024, Encyclopedie van de Vlaamse Beweging. Fuhrmann, A. & Menu, S. (eds.). ADVN, 9 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Betere overlevingskans, ongewilde keizersneden
Gijbels, J., 2023, EOS Wetenschap 6 p.Research output: Contribution to specialist/vulgarizing publication › Article › Vulgarizing
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Invloedrijke stemmen. Patiëntenverhalen uit het Johns Hopkins ziekenhuis rond 1900
Gijbels, J., 2 Nov 2023, In: Historica. 46, 3, p. 3-9 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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1820 - Waterloo. De ervaring van Napoleons laatste slagveld
Gijbels, J., 2022, Bestemming België. Een geschiedenis van toerisme in dertien etappes (1830-2030). Stynen, A. & Verhoeven, G. (eds.). Aalter: Ertsberg, p. 23-39 17 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Aligning Faith with Medicine: Medical Ethics, Reproduction and Catholic Morality in Francophone and Anglophone Normative Literature, c. 1840-1960
Gijbels, J., Lancaster, C., Maehle, A-H. & Vander Hulst, R., Sep 2022, In: Journal of Religious History. 46, 3, p. 439-459 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Prizes
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Pieter van Foreest aanmoedigingsprijs voor de medische humaniora
Gijbels, Jolien (Recipient), 2020
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Influential Patient Stories: Gynaecologists and their patients in the Utrecht Academic Hospital in the 1920s
Jolien Gijbels (Speaker)
20 Feb 2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a workshop/seminar
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Academic leadership days for early career ZAP
Jachin Van Doninck (Participant), Andreas Debrouwere (Participant), Andres Tabernilla Garcia (Participant), Astrid Vandendaele (Participant), Bruno Tiago da Silva Gomes (Participant), Cleo Crunelle (Participant), Diederik De Cock (Participant), Eline Tommelein (Participant), Gamze Ates (Participant), Giulia Tercovich (Participant), Grace Marie Ku (Participant), Jolien Gijbels (Participant), Kristin Henrard (Participant), Kristof Verfaillie (Participant), Lynn Houthuys (Participant), Martijn Van Heel (Participant), Max Nagel (Participant), Mohamed El Baghdadi (Participant) & Sébastien Kindt (Participant)
7 May 2024 → 31 May 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar
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Finding the patient’s voice in medical records and publications
Jolien Gijbels (Speaker)
28 Mar 2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a workshop/seminar
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Surgical consent: negotiating gynecological operations in the Johns Hopkins Hospital, ca. 1890-1910
Jolien Gijbels (Speaker)
12 Dec 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a workshop/seminar