| Name: |
Prof. dr. F.G. Huisman |
| Function: |
Professor in the History of Medicine |
| Department: |
Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care |
| E-mail address: |
f.g.huisman-3@umcutrecht.nl |
| Phone number: |
+31 (0) 88 75 68224 |
| Fax number: |
- |
| Visiting address: |
UMC Utrecht
Heidelberglaan 100
3584 CX Utrecht
Room: STR 6.136 |
| Correspondence: |
Room: STR 6.131
PO Box 85500
3508 GA Utrecht
The Netherlands |
Biographical sketch
Frank Huisman (Leiden, 1956) studied History at Groningen University. In 1992, he earned his PhD at the Free University in Amsterdam with a thesis on early modern Dutch health care, for which he was awarded the five-yearly Lindeboom prize.
As an NWO postdoctoral fellow, he did research on Dutch pharmacy in the late-nineteenth century. In 1998, he became lecturer at the History Department of Maastricht University, and in 2006 he was appointed professor in the History of Medicine at the University Medical Centre in Utrecht, where he is also a member of the Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities (
http://www.descartescentre.com/index.php?page=algemeen ).
In teaching, he is involved in a 'Medical Humanities' course for medical students and in a course on the biomedical sciences in the context of the Interfaculty Research Master 'Historical and Comparative Studies of the Sciences and Humanities' .
He is a member of the Scientific Board of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health (EAHMH).
Interests and focus
Huisman has published on Dutch medicine and health care in both the early modern and the modern era, and on medical historiography. His books include Medische geschiedenis in regionaal perspectief: Groningen 1500-1900 (with Catrien Santing, Groningen University); Farmacie: wetenschap, industrie en markt.De Nederlandse farmaceutische industrie in de negentiende en twintigste eeuw (with Rein Vos, Maastricht University); De 'medische' kleine geloven rond 1900 (with Henk te Velde, Leiden University) and Locating Medical History. The Stories and Their Meanings (with John Harley Warner, Yale University).
Recently, the five-volume Dictionary of Medical Biography was published, to which he contributed as area editor for the Netherlands and Flanders. Currently, he is working on a monograph on the transformation of the Dutch health care system between 1880 and 1940.
Related Links:
The bacholor-/ masterprogramme 'Medical Humanities' starts in august 2008.
http://www.juliuscentrum.nl/julius/Education/MedicalHumanities/Bachelor/tabid/615/Default.aspx