Artikelenreeks over de hoofdredacteuren van het Tijdschrift uit de afgelopen 150 jaar

- The Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde (Dutch Journal of Medicine) possesses painted portraits of all of its former editors-in-chief. Few people remember these physicians or their significance to the journal. This year marks the 150th jubilee year of the journal and provides an occasion to publish a series of 13 brief biographies. According to the first historiographer, the motive for establishing the journal in 1856 was to unite the fragmented medical press into one high-quality medical and scientific journal. However, it may also have been an attempt by a group of reformist physicians, the so-called ‘hygienists’, to gain political and social influence so that they could realise their goal, which was to improve the standard of living and health of the general population.

Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2007;151:653-5