This article examines how Els Borst-Eilers, Dutch minister of Health between 1994 and 2002, pursued the cause of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) – an influential movement in the medical field that gained a particularly firm foothold in the Netherlands. It focusses on the way Borst-Eilers operated within the nexus between healthcare and politics, discussing whether or not this made her a boundary person (analogous to the notion of boundary concepts). In particular, the paper analyses how she deliberately cultivated her persona as a specialist minister (‘a doctor, not a politician’) and how she pragmatically utilised EBM as a tool for depoliticising the thorny political issue of cost containment in healthcare. It was not so much the notion of E...
We critically examine the discussion on the role of evidence-based medicine (EBM) in healthcare gove...
This article rereads a well-known chapter in Belgium’s political history – the linguistic struggles ...
Present welfare state arrangements in the Netherlands gradually came into being during the last two ...
This article examines how Els Borst-Eilers, Dutch minister of Health between 1994 and 2002, pursued ...
This article examines how Els Borst-Eilers, Dutch minister of Health between 1994 and 2002, pursued ...
The announcement of the appointment of Hugo de Jonge as the Netherlands Secretary of State for Healt...
In the early 1990s, a new concept was coined: ‘evidence-based medicine’ (EBM). After a remarkably sh...
Els Borst- geboren Eilers - (1932-2014) was van 1994 tot 2002 namens D66 minister van Volksgezondhei...
Public Health: a Cinderella in Dutch politics. Public Health has been a Cinderella in Dutch polit...
This special issue intends to show the potential of medical history to contribute to major historica...
David Sackett, the father of evidence-based medicine (EBM), died recently - exactly 25 years after t...
This article analyses Dutch newspaper advertisements for slimming remedies in the 1920s and 1930s in...
Objectives: In The Netherlands, school health care policy is decentralized to the municipalities and...
This article comments on Schut and van de Ven's overview of the results of purchaser competition in ...
This article outlines the historical development of the principle of patients' free choice of doctor...
We critically examine the discussion on the role of evidence-based medicine (EBM) in healthcare gove...
This article rereads a well-known chapter in Belgium’s political history – the linguistic struggles ...
Present welfare state arrangements in the Netherlands gradually came into being during the last two ...
This article examines how Els Borst-Eilers, Dutch minister of Health between 1994 and 2002, pursued ...
This article examines how Els Borst-Eilers, Dutch minister of Health between 1994 and 2002, pursued ...
The announcement of the appointment of Hugo de Jonge as the Netherlands Secretary of State for Healt...
In the early 1990s, a new concept was coined: ‘evidence-based medicine’ (EBM). After a remarkably sh...
Els Borst- geboren Eilers - (1932-2014) was van 1994 tot 2002 namens D66 minister van Volksgezondhei...
Public Health: a Cinderella in Dutch politics. Public Health has been a Cinderella in Dutch polit...
This special issue intends to show the potential of medical history to contribute to major historica...
David Sackett, the father of evidence-based medicine (EBM), died recently - exactly 25 years after t...
This article analyses Dutch newspaper advertisements for slimming remedies in the 1920s and 1930s in...
Objectives: In The Netherlands, school health care policy is decentralized to the municipalities and...
This article comments on Schut and van de Ven's overview of the results of purchaser competition in ...
This article outlines the historical development of the principle of patients' free choice of doctor...
We critically examine the discussion on the role of evidence-based medicine (EBM) in healthcare gove...
This article rereads a well-known chapter in Belgium’s political history – the linguistic struggles ...
Present welfare state arrangements in the Netherlands gradually came into being during the last two ...