Maud Jansen is an M.D.-Ph.D. student in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. Jansen is interested in examining the culture and practice of medicine through the lens of history and ethics. For her dissertation research, Jansen will examine the role of healthcare in shaping the lived experience of aging and end-of-life in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Jansen received her BA from the University of Chicago in interdisciplinary literature and philosophy, writing her thesis on rationality in Michel de Montaigne’s Essais. She then completed an M.A. in applied ethics at Utrecht University. Her thesis focused on the place of informed consent in human rights-based bioethics, and how this understanding creates additional duties of tackling low levels of health literacy and incomplete access to healthcare.
