Geen paniek, geen preventie?
Met apocalyptische beelden van de gevolgen van een wijdverspreide ziekteuitbraak zijn we door film en televisie al bekend. Door de mogelijkheid van dergelijke scenario’s weg… Read More »Geen paniek, geen preventie?
Met apocalyptische beelden van de gevolgen van een wijdverspreide ziekteuitbraak zijn we door film en televisie al bekend. Door de mogelijkheid van dergelijke scenario’s weg… Read More »Geen paniek, geen preventie?
Dutch follows English below: Medical museums can play a major role in society by contributing to health and wellbeing. There are over 240 museums displaying… Read More »Upcoming Lecture: The Contemporary Relevance of Medical Heritage
Ad Valvas, the VU University student newspaper, visited one of the first sessions of our brand new MA course running this semester and reported on… Read More »Knowing by Sensing in the News
DisPLACE (Disability in Public Life and Cultural Expression) is a digital platform for the collection and interpretation of experiences of disability, past and present, by… Read More »DisPLACE
DisPLACE (Disability in Public Life and Cultural Expression) is a digital platform for the collection and interpretation of experiences of disability, past and present, by people with disabilities in collaboration with other students, researchers, disability service organizations, and the creative industries.
It has been more than thirty years since people were first diagnosed with AIDS in the Netherlands. Since then, we have learnt how to prevent… Read More »Voices of the Epidemic
A €315,000 research project studying the social relevance of medical museums, culminates in a book and exhibition at Special Collections, University of Amsterdam. While the… Read More »Human Curiosities
Dr. Manon Parry is an academic researcher and exhibition curator. She is Professor of Medical History at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, and Senior Lecturer in American Studies and Public History at the University of Amsterdam.