Posts Tagged ‘medical history’
First Annual HHH Meeting & Lecture
As you all know, we recently announced a new direction for HHH: from now on, instead of our two separate spring and autumn meetings, we will come together once a…
Read MoreFirst Annual HHH Meeting & Lecture (26th of March) – Register now!
As you all know, we recently announced a new direction for HHH: from now on, instead of our two separate spring and autumn meetings, we will come together once a…
Read MoreHoH Seminars RUG – dr. Timo Bolt – A global epidemic of what? The expansive taxonomy of diabetes and prediabetes
This year, the theme for The History of Medicine and Health Seminars at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen is “diagnosis”. Wednesday 26 November, 16.00-17.00, followed by drinks: dr. Timo Bolt – A global epidemic of…
Read MoreFlorence Nightingale Instituut (FNI) verder als Museum voor de Verpleegkunde
Het Florence Nightingale Instituut heeft een nieuwe naam, nieuwe look en nieuwe website. Voortaan gaat het FNI verder als Museum voor de Verpleegkunde. Daarmee keert het museum terug naar haar…
Read MoreNieuwe online tentoonstelling Nationaal Farmaceutisch Museum
De nieuwe online expositie van het Nationaal Farmaceutisch Museum Prachtige Planten & Krachtige Kruiden staat live. Prachtige Planten & Krachtige Kruiden vertelt de verhalen achter planten, pillen en geneesmiddelen die…
Read MoreNew 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 MoreCfp: Ethical regimes. Doctors, patients and ethics in colonial and postcolonial medicine (Submission deadline 1 November)
On 22 and 23 January 2026 Fenneke Sysling and Caroline Schep are organising a conference focused on ethical practices in medical research and treatment in the colonial and postcolonial context.…
Read MoreVacature Promovendus ‘Een Sociale Geschiedenis van Hiv en Aids in Nederland’ (UvA)
De Universiteit van Amsterdam zoekt een promovendus die de sociale effecten van de hiv-aidsepidemie sinds de jaren tachtig historisch wil onderzoeken via interviews met direct betrokkenen (oral history). Hoewel over…
Read MoreHHH Column: Bodies, selves, and slips of paper – reflections on the donor codicil
The HHH column is a monthly blog in which History, Health & Healing members share their thoughts on research, current affairs, or anything to do with medical history. Each edition…
Read MoreCursus ‘Framing diseases in history’ (Trefpunt Medische Geschiedenis Nederland)
‘Framing diseases in history’. Betekenisgeving aan patho- en epidemiografie in de medische geschiedenis. ‘In some ways disease does not exist until we have agreed that it does, by perceiving, naming,…
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