Maud Jansen

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mjansen@g.harvard.edu

Research Interests: History of medicine; Aging and End-of-Life Care; postwar U.S. history; medicine in Europe, and postcolonial contexts; intellectual history; science and technology studies; history of the body; disability history.

Maud Jansen is a M.D.-Ph.D. candidate in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. She is interested in examining the culture and practice of medicine through the lens of history and ethics. For her dissertation research, she will examine the changing perception, and knowledge of the aging body as a clinically relevant factor.

By focusing on clinical decision-making around treating older bodies, she aims to understand how health care has shaped the lived experience of aging and end-of-life in the 20th and 21st centuries. She is especially interested in probing how medicine adapted to aging bodies, grappling with the physiology of aging against a logic of disease.

Previous Degrees:

BA., Fundamentals: Issues and Texts, University of Chicago 
MA., Applied Ethics, Utrecht University