Auke van der Woud, Het landschap, de mensen. Nederland 1850-1940 (Prometheus; Amsterdam, 2020), 448 p., ill., € 29,99 ISBN 9789044645934

Om de kwaliteit van het nageslacht: eugenetica in Nederland 1900–1950

factors, such as the influence of the Colonial Office and the medical necessities of war, arise in Jennifer Beinart's essay on tropical medicine. And Jonathan Liebenau's case study of insulin production provides evidence of new difficulties, this time between the MRC and the pharmaceutical industry, and highlights the strong leadership given to the MRC by Fletcher and Henry Dale in dealing with...

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The Phosphorus [1, 2] project focuses on delivering advanced net-work services to Grid users and applications interconnected by heterogeneousinfrastructures. The project is addressing some of the key technical challengesto enable on-demand end-to-end network services across multiple domains. ThePhosphorus network concept makes applications aware of their complete Gridresourc...

Werkplaatsen van wetenschap en techniek. Industriële en academische laboratoria in Nederland 1860–1940. Tijdschrift voor de Geschiedenis der Geneeskunde, Natuurwetenschappen, Wiskunde en Techniek

historians seek to learn the nature of the young Scots doctors who came in droves to England throughout the hundred years straddling the first World War, this autobiography will be essential reading. When Sydney Laird's generation was at its most clinically active, a venereologist was jokingly defined as a doctor with many acquaintances but few friends. The joke stops here. My abiding memory of...

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`De bevordering en volmaking der proefondervindelijke wijsbegeerte': de rol van het Bataafsch Genootschap te Rotterdam in de geschiedenis van de natuurwetenschappen, geneeskunde en techniek (1769–1988)

For all the obvious hazards and problems of using such a compilation, it is an extraordinary resource. It should surely provide the basis for a much-needed prosopography of the medical trade in the pre-reform era. The sheer proliferation ofnumbers (there are clearly well over 35,000 medical practitioners, in the narrow sense, listed here) provides ample confirmation of the arguments, recently a...