Dr Frank Huisman (F.G.)

Frank Huisman is Professor in the history of medicine. He teaches in the History Department of Maastricht University and at the University Medical Center Utrecht. He is the author of Stadsbelang en standsbesef. Gezondheidszorg en medisch beroep in Groningen, 1500-1730 and co-editor, with Catrien Santing, of Medische geschiedenis in regionaal perspectief: Groningen, 1500-1900, both local case studies of early modern Dutch health care. He co-edited, with John Harley Warner, Locating Medical History. The Stories and Their Meanings (Johns Hopkins UP). He has published on medical historiography, quackery, and the cultural authority of medicine. Currently, he is working on a book exploring the transformation of the Dutch health care system between 1880 and 1940. He is a Board member of the Dutch science society (Gewina) and President of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health (EAHMH).