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Medical disasters or disastrous medicine? Dutch medical care in the Dutch East Indies/Indonesia (1870-1949) - three examples.
Med Confl Surviv
December 2024
Free lance Medical historian, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
The author argues that medical care in the Dutch East Indies, should be re-evaluated from successful to disastrous. The author first defines a medical disaster as one in which medical care has fallen short due to its own shortcomings- or even intentionally. This contrasts with a disaster for humankind, in which also many are to be regretted, but for which healthcare is not to blame, because of, for instance, a lack of resources, manpower or knowledge.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMedical schools in empires: connecting the dots.
Med Hist
May 2024
Centre for History in Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 15-17 Tavistock Place, London, WC1H 9SH.
This article provides an overview of the historiography of medical education and calls for greater attention to the connections between medical schools. It begins by reviewing research on medical education in imperial metropoles. Researchers have compared medical schools in different national contexts, traced travellers between them or examined the hierarchies that medical education created within the medical profession.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFerryman between two cultures: The calling of a historian of science.
Endeavour
March 2024
Department of History, University of Groningen, P.O. Box 716, 9700 AS Groningen, The Netherlands. Electronic address:
In well-established disciplines like history it is not common to find professionals who admit that they are driven by a "calling" or who say they have a "mission" to fulfill. In emerging disciplines, however, the situation is different: in order to gain recognition these new disciplines need highly driven practitioners, who's calling enables them to overcome opposition or neglect from the side of the established disciplines. A clear example of such a practitioner with a mission in an emerging field of knowledge is the Dutch historian of science Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis (1892-1965).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWhy are plants named after witches and devils in north-western Europe?
J Ethnopharmacol
May 2024
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, PO Box, 2300 RA, Leiden, the Netherlands; Biosystematics Group, Wageningen University & Research, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708, PB Wageningen, the Netherlands. Electronic address:
Ethnopharmacological Relevance: Witches in Western Europe are associated with the use of medicinal, abortifacient, hallucinogenic, and toxic plants. Curiously, these associations are not backed up by first-hand evidence and historians are unconvinced that people convicted as witches were herbalists. Local plant names provide an untapped source for analysing witchcraft-plant relationships.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[The ears on the vessel of medicine: Jan van Beverwijck's collection of opinions on medicine in antiquity].
Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd
September 2022
Universiteit Twente, Enschede.
Johan van Beverwijck (1595-1647) is known as the author of two Dutch books in which he made medical knowledge accessible to laymen who did not have command of the Latin language. The Dordrecht doctor was open to the many new insights that arose in his time and shook the foundations of the ancient humoural stronghold of Aristotle, Hippocrates and Galen. A nearly forgotten book, Idea veterum medicinae (Opinions on medicine in antiquity), was recently translated into Dutch by the author of this article.
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