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New book with connection to Dutch massage-physician Johann Mezger
A new study traces the origins of osteopathy and chiropractic, linking them to a seminal yet overlooked 19th-century European therapeutical discourse called “mechanical medicine”. During the 19th century demand for…
Read MoreBook presentation “De poppenspeler van Mengele” by Leo van Bergen
Book presentation – Mini-symposium (in Dutch) De poppenspeler van Mengele van Leo van Bergen Programma (medische) metaforen in nationaalsocialistisch taalgebruik Rassenhygiëne en eugenetica in Nederland Muzikaal intermezzo Liederen van de…
Read MoreWonderkamer issue on the history of the vulva makes the news
In the last newsletter, we pointed to the newly published issue of Wonderkamer, the magazine of the Gewina history of science society. “Het grote kutnummer” focuses on the history of…
Read MoreHHH column: Just a scratch by James Kennaway
The HHH column is a monthly blog in which History, Health & Healing members share their thoughts: on research, current affairs, and anything to do with medical history. Each edition…
Read MoreA biography of the sperm bank by Tinne Claes
In her new book Zaad zonder naam, Een biografie van de spermabank (‘Semen with no name, A biography of the sperm bank’), Tinne Claes tells the story of the Belgian…
Read MoreHHH Patients’ files project: survey report is out now
MA student Eileen van der Burgh (Erasmus University) has completed the survey report that is part of the HHH project “Patient’s files and privacy in medical history”. The survey –…
Read MoreBook on Bastiaans’s LSD treatment by Leo van Bergen
“Bevrijd”, Leo van Bergen’s book about the concentration camp syndrome and the LSD treatment of psychiatrist Jan Bastiaans, has just come out. Bastiaans was well known in the post-war Netherlands…
Read MoreMedical histories of Belgium
Long awaited, Medical histories of Belgium, New narratives on health, care and citizenship in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries edited by Joris Vandendriessche and Benoît Majerus is out now! It…
Read MoreA new medical history journal: EHMH
Another medical history journal? Yes, but one with a very specific agenda and an attractive approach. Associate editor (and HHH chairman) Frank Huisman presents the new European Journal for the…
Read MoreEls Borst biography by Nele Beyens launched
On Friday November 5, HHH member Nele Beyens’s long awaited biography Els Borst – Medicus in de politiek (Els Borst – Physician in politics) was launched under wide media attention.…
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