G. Hekma, Goed verkeerd. Een geschiedenis van homoseksuele mannen en lesbische vrouwen in Nederland

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...

Geschiedenis van de rekenkunst - van kerfstok tot computer

`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...

Brucellosis with mesangial IgA

'Doll R, Gray R, Hafner B, Peto R. Mortality in relation to smoking: 22 years' observation in female British doctors. Br Med3J 1980;i:967-71. 2Hirayama T. Non-smoking wives of heavy smokers have a higher risk of lung cancer: a study in Japan, Br MedJ7 1981;282:183-5. 3Correa P, Pickle LW, Fontham E, Lin Y, Haenszel W. Passive smoking and lung cancer. Lancet 1983;ii:595-7. 4van der Heide RM. Res...

Boec van Medicinen in Dietsche: een Middelnederlandse Compilatie van medischfarmaceutische Literatuur

This is the kind of book which is given to a doctor, whether he is a gynaecologist or not, or to a midwife, particularly a midwifery teacher, for a birthday or Christmas present, and so it should have had a richer binding and more illustrations. An additional five or seven shillings on the price would not have deterred this class of purchaser and it would have made a much more attractive and du...