legal history – History Health & Healing

Arjan Nuijten defends PhD thesis on the history of Dutch drug policy

HHH member Arjan Nuijten has recently defended his PhD thesis entitled “Regulating Paradise. The Local Origins of Harm Reduction in the Netherlands” at the University of Amsterdam. His dissertation examined…

Narratio in Medicine and The Law. Interpretative and Scientific Knowledge in Medical and Medico-Legal Case Histories from Antiquity to the Renaissance

By Chiara Lacroix

This VivaMente conference explores the intersections of narrative, rhetorical persuasion, and factual evidence in medical and medico-legal case histories from Antiquity to the Renaissance focusing on the longue durée development of medical…