Posts Tagged ‘biography’
Save the date for HHH meeting on March 8 – Medical biographies
This year’s HHH spring meeting will focus on the theme of medical biographies. Biography is a contested genre in the historical discipline, sometimes seen as the relic of an older…
Read MoreTwo EAHMH webinars on the history of the prostate and of the menopause
The Kolloquium des Instituts für Geschichte, Theorie und Ethik der Medizin at theHeinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf will host two webinars in collaboration with the European Association for the History of Medicine and…
Read MoreSeminar “A cultural biography of the sperm bank” by Tinne Claes
Abstract The sperm bank appeals to the imagination. Certainly its pioneering years, when there were no laws and doctors could do as they pleased. Yet hardly anyone knows how it…
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.…
Read MoreHHH column: Studying Fré Dommisse by Catharina Th. Bakker
The HHH column is a blog in which History, Health & Healing members share their thoughts: on research, current affairs, and anything to do with medical history. Each author will…
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