Join us in our conversation with Jolien Gijbels, a Fulbright and Belgian American Educational Foundation (BAEF) visiting scholar in the Department of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. In this episode, primarily we discuss finding the patient’s voice in the archive, and how listening to the patient and other marginalized groups is vital to the history of medicine and to the medical humanities. We also talk medical consent, radical gynecological surgery and difficult births, and digital humanities methods such as text mining. Thanks for listening! 

SOURCES AND SCHOLARS MENTIONED 

The Chesney Medical Archives 

Roy Porter, “The Patient’s View: Doing Medical History from Below” (1985) 

Marisa Fuentes, Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive (2016) 

Black Beyond Data’s episode of “For the Medical Record” 

Chanelle Delameillieure