Joris Vandendriessche
Biographic Data
| ID | 1112048 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joris Vandendriessche |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joris |
| FAMILY NAME | Vandendriessche |
| SIGNATURE | VANDENDRIESSCHE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO), Research Group of the University of Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3845-6655 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Catholicism, Reproduction and Modern Medicine
Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no new data were created or analyzed for this introductory text
One Religion, Two Paths
This article comparatively analyses the development of Catholic hospitals' approaches to In‐Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) in Belgium and the U.S. Our comparison highlights the different cultures of Catholic healthcare in each of these countries, and their different relation to Vatican opinion on medical matters. We first discuss the roots of Catholic healthcare in both countries and the history of IVF as a viable medical therapy for infertility. Next…
Physician-apostles for Christ
This paper examines the medical identity propagated by the Belgian Saint Luc Society. By scrutinizing the society’s journal Saint-Luc Médical, it shows how the society forged and spread a model for being a Catholic physician, a ‘physician-apostle for Christ’. Our analysis reveals that lay apostolate, a central element of the interwar Catholic Action movement, was at the heart of this new professional identity. It imbued an older vocational discou…
Stephen Snelders. Leprosy and Colonialism. Suriname under Dutch rule, 1750–1950
In late eighteenth-century Suriname, the Dutch physician Godfried Wilhelm Schilling bought a ‘secret cure’ from a ‘dress mama’, a female black healer using herbal medicine and magic to treat leprosy and other illnesses on the colonial plantations. The cure consisted of administering purgative herbs, applying other herbs to the affected spots on the skin, having leprosy sufferers exercise and covering them in blankets to sweat. While Schilling con…
Taking Scientists (More) Seriously
Previous articleNext article FreeSecond Look: Isabelle Stengers, L’invention des sciences modernesTaking Scientists (More) SeriouslyValérie Leclercq and Joris VandendriesscheValérie Leclercq Search for more articles by this author and Joris Vandendriessche Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreW…
Setting Scientific Standards
This article examines the publishing procedures of nineteenth-century medical societies, using the Medical Society of Ghent (Belgium) as a case study. It argues, more precisely, that the introduction of formalized review procedures in medical societies can be considered part of the emergence of a professional scientific culture in the first half of the nineteenth century. First, by participating in these procedures physicians took on different st…
Catholicism, Reproduction and Modern Medicine
Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no new data were created or analyzed for this introductory text
Setting Scientific Standards
This article examines the publishing procedures of nineteenth-century medical societies, using the Medical Society of Ghent (Belgium) as a case study. It argues, more precisely, that the introduction of formalized review procedures in medical societies can be considered part of the emergence of a professional scientific culture in the first half of the nineteenth century. First, by participating in these procedures physicians took on different st…
Taking Scientists (More) Seriously
Previous articleNext article FreeSecond Look: Isabelle Stengers, L’invention des sciences modernesTaking Scientists (More) SeriouslyValérie Leclercq and Joris VandendriesscheValérie Leclercq Search for more articles by this author and Joris Vandendriessche Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreW…
Stephen Snelders. Leprosy and Colonialism. Suriname under Dutch rule, 1750–1950
In late eighteenth-century Suriname, the Dutch physician Godfried Wilhelm Schilling bought a ‘secret cure’ from a ‘dress mama’, a female black healer using herbal medicine and magic to treat leprosy and other illnesses on the colonial plantations. The cure consisted of administering purgative herbs, applying other herbs to the affected spots on the skin, having leprosy sufferers exercise and covering them in blankets to sweat. While Schilling con…
Physician-apostles for Christ
This paper examines the medical identity propagated by the Belgian Saint Luc Society. By scrutinizing the society’s journal Saint-Luc Médical, it shows how the society forged and spread a model for being a Catholic physician, a ‘physician-apostle for Christ’. Our analysis reveals that lay apostolate, a central element of the interwar Catholic Action movement, was at the heart of this new professional identity. It imbued an older vocational discou…
Catholicism, Reproduction and Modern Medicine
Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no new data were created or analyzed for this introductory text
One Religion, Two Paths
This article comparatively analyses the development of Catholic hospitals' approaches to In‐Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) in Belgium and the U.S. Our comparison highlights the different cultures of Catholic healthcare in each of these countries, and their different relation to Vatican opinion on medical matters. We first discuss the roots of Catholic healthcare in both countries and the history of IVF as a viable medical therapy for infertility. Next…
Political science (4 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (2 works) · Reproductive Health and Technologies (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Apostle (1 work)