Marieke Hendriksen
My name is Marieke Hendriksen and I am a historian of medicine from Utrecht, the Netherlands. I wrote a PhD thesis on how ideas about the perfection are reflected in the eighteenth-century Leiden anatomical collections, and now I delve further into the history of medicine as a post-doctoral fellow.
Basically, I am fascinated by eighteenth-century babes in bottles, medicine chests, drugs and other medical objects – and how the people who made and used them dealt with them and felt about them.
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The Historical Relevance of Reconstructing an Early Modern Lemon Pie
28 May 2021
In the spring of 2021, students of the Huizinga Institute, the Dutch national graduate school for cultural history, took part in the course “The Sensory Archive”. In this course,...
Boerhaave’s furnace: the search for peat
20 April 2020
Last week, I heard on the news that global oil demand is expected to fall to a record low in 2020 due to the corona crisis. Given the significant role of fossil fuel combustion in climate...
A short history of respiratory illness epidemics (2)
6 April 2020
*This blog post first appeared in Dutch on NL-lab.net. * Last week, I discussed that from antiquity until well into the nineteenth century, the idea that contagious diseases were caused...
A short history of respiratory illness epidemics (1)
31 March 2020
*This blog post first appeared in Dutch on the NL-Lab website on 31 March 2020* The Netherlands are in lockdown to curb the covid-19 epidemic since prime minister Mark Rutte announced...