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'A Medical Doctor in Politics'. Els Borst-Eilers and the Rise of Evidence-Based Healthcare in the Netherlands
2017
BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review
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
doi:10.18352/bmgn-lchr.10307
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