‘A Medical Doctor in Politics’. Els Borst-Eilers and the Rise of Evidence-Based Healthcare in the Netherlands
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 pr... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2017 |
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Koninklijk Nederlands Historisch Genootschap
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Schlagwörter: | History / Netherlands / Healthcare / Evidence-Based Medicine / Els Borst-Eilers |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27588155 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://bmgn-lchr.nl/article/view/6552 |