Les organisations de patients

Acting out disease: How Patient Organizations Shaped Modern Medicine



Talk by professor Ylva Söderfeldt (University of Uppsala, Department of History of Science and Ideas)

 Thursday 21 April 2022, from 4pm to 5.30pm (Central European Time). The talk will be online-only, since our speaker is currently on sabbatical in the United States.

The development of patient organizations has given patients a more central role in contemporary medicine, but does it live up to the hopes of being a democratizing force in medicine? On our website, you will find a brief abstract of this talk.

This is the fifth lecture in our annual Health Humanities Lecture Series, organized by the Leuven Centre for Health Humanities (LCH²), an interdisciplinary research centre in the Group of Humanities and Social Sciences at KU Leuven. This year’s theme is ‘patient agency’ in health care. Much like Söderfeldt, we are interested to know to what extent patients can help change medicine.


The lecture is free, but we kindly ask you to register on our website. We will send you a Zoom-link in the days before the talk.