On March 17, Lisa Bortolotti holds her lecture “Protecting epistemic agency in healthcare“. The lecture is part of the KU Leuven Health Humanities Lecture Series 2021-2022, which has patient agency as its overall theme. How do we avoid undermining a patient’s sense of agency in the clinical encounter? In her lecture, professor Bortolotti will focus…

On April 21, Ylva Söderfeldt holds her lecture “Acting out disease: How patient organizations shaped modern medicine“. The lecture is part of the KU Leuven Health Humanities Lecture Series 2021-2022, which has patient agency as its overall theme. Contrary to previously established periodizations, patient organizations first emerged in the late nineteenth century. Throughout the twentieth…