Toine Pieters
Biographic Data
| ID | 1171653 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Toine Pieters |
| GIVEN NAMES | Toine |
| FAMILY NAME | Pieters |
| SIGNATURE | PIETERS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8156-8436 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Living Library: A process-based tool for open literature review, probing the boundaries of open science
The Living Library is a novel tool for opening the scientific process of literature reviewing. We here present its core features, set-up and workflow, and provide the open-source code via GitHub ( https://github.com/Simon-Dirks/living-library ). The Living Library allows researchers to sort articles thematically and temporally, has a built-in open logbook, and uses a responsive methodology. These core features render the Living Library both a pra…
Student assistants as mentor-participants: A case study of distributing leadership in academic co-design education
Student Assistants (SAs) are generally regarded as support to the instructor's teaching agency in a course. This case study assesses SAs taking on the more autonomous role of mentor-participants in student teams during an advanced bachelor's co-design course, advancing our understanding of distributing leadership within such open-ended educational contexts. We use semi-structured interviews and grounded theory analysis to understand how students,…
‘Help ik ben besmet’: De illusie doorgeprikt van een ‘intelligente’ lockdown
‘Help I am infected’. The illusion of an intelligent Dutch lockdown On March 16, 2020, Prime Minister Rutte announced that the government was forced to switch from a strategy of local containment of outbreaks to a national strategy of maximum control. A week later, the first ‘intelligent’ national lockdown became a reality. In this contribution I will show that in the historical interaction between disease, health and social environment, connecti…
That High Design of Purest Gold: A Critical History of the Pharmaceutical Industry, 1880-2020 by Graham Dutfield
Reviewed by: That High Design of Purest Gold: A Critical History of the Pharmaceutical Industry, 1880–2020 by Graham Dutfield Toine Pieters (bio) That High Design of Purest Gold: A Critical History of the Pharmaceutical Industry, 1880–2020 By Graham Dutfield. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2020. Pp. 510. This book is all about the long twentieth century of drug making, patenting, and regulating. It offers a fascinating journey into the e…
Plandemic Revisited: A Product of Planned Disinformation Amplifying the Covid-19 “infodemic”
During the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic, a 26-min documentary entitled Plandemic was released online and fanatically shared via Twitter and other major social media platforms. The producers of the documentary sought to spread misinformation and conspiracy theories and to discredit scientific experts using a sophisticated disinformation campaign. They set out to accomplish this by coaching citizens toward activism to maximize the spee…
Toward a New Model of Understanding, Preventing, and Treating Adolescent Depression Focusing on Exhaustion and Stress
We propose to open up a symptom-based, mood-centered view to a model in which adolescent depression is framed as a consecutive failure of stress coping mechanisms and chronic exhaustion. Addressing exhaustion and coping primarily as a treatment strategy in adolescents and young adults might work in synergy with existing treatments and improve overall outcomes. This perspective warrants further investigation
How Colonial Power, Colonized People, and Nature Shaped Hansen’s Disease Settlements in Suriname
According to the Dutch colonizers in Suriname, leprosy (or Hansen’s disease) was highly contagious and transmitted from human-to-human. A “cordon sanitaire” was constructed around the patients, mainly African slaves and Asian indentured laborers and their descendants. They were tracked down and incarcerated in remote leprosy settlements located in the rainforest. Some patients obeyed the authorities while others resisted and rebelled. Their narra…
Archival, paleopathological and aDNA-based techniques in leprosy research and the case of Father Petrus Donders at the Leprosarium ‘Batavia’, Suriname
OBJECTIVE: We assessed whether Petrus Donders (died 1887), a Dutch priest who for 27 years cared for people with leprosy in the leprosarium Batavia, Suriname, had evidence of Mycobacterium (M.) leprae infection. A positive finding of M. leprae ancient (a)DNA would contribute to the origin of leprosy in Suriname. MATERIALS: Skeletal remains of Father Petrus Donders; two additional skeletons excavated from the Batavia cemetery were used as controls…
Mathew James Crawford, The Andean Wonder Drug. Cinchona Bark and Imperial Science in the Spanish Atlantic, 1630–1800
Drawing extensively on unique primary Spanish archival sources, Mathew James Crawford provides an exciting and illuminating window on the genesis of green imperialism in the Spanish Atlantic. The Andean Wonder Drug uses the story of cinchona bark and its use as a febrifuge to demonstrate how the early-modern merging of the worlds of science, commerce and imperial governance laid the foundation for European global hegemony. Crawford convincingly s…
From Colonial Agro-Industrialism to Agro-Industrialism: Game changing evolution of the Dutch transoceanic cinchona-quinine enterprise (1940s–1960s)
By the turn of the twentieth century, the Dutch colony of the Netherlands Indies dominated the worldwide supply of antifebrifuge (to reduce fever) cinchona bark, the raw material for quinine, an antimalarial medicine. Over the next four decades, the high-quality and laboratory-conditioned cultivation of cinchona became the backbone of a Dutch transoceanic cinchona-quinine enterprise that dominated the international quinine markets. However, in th…
Quinine, Malaria, and the Cinchona Bureau: Marketing Practices and Knowledge Circulation in a Dutch Transoceanic Cinchona–Quinine Enterprise (1920s–30s)
In this study, we will show how a Dutch pharmaceutical consortium of cinchona producers and quinine manufacturers was able to capitalize on one of the first international public health campaigns to fight malaria, thereby promoting the sale of quinine, an antimalarial medicine. During the 1920s and 1930s, the international markets for quinine were controlled by this Dutch consortium, which was a transoceanic cinchona-quinine enterprise centered in…
The Hidden History of a Famous Drug: Tracing the Medical and Public Acculturation of Peruvian Bark in Early Modern Western Europe (c. 1650–1720)
The history of the introduction of exotic therapeutic drugs in early modern Europe is usually rife with legend and obscurity and Peruvian bark is a case in point. The famous antimalarial drug entered the European medical market around 1640, yet it took decades before the bark was firmly established in pharmaceutical practice. This article argues that the history of Peruvian bark can only be understood as the interplay of its trajectories in scien…
Science, industry and the colonial state: A shift from a German- to a Dutch-controlled cinchona and quinine cartel (1880–1920)
This study shows how control over delicately balanced supply chains from raw material to the final product shifted from one national industry to another. By 1920, Dutch cinchona producers and quinine manufacturers dominated the international cartel that controlled the worldwide production and distribution of quinine (an antimalarial), quinine sulphate (a semi-finished product) and cinchona (the raw material). Twenty years earlier, however, this c…
Science in the service of colonial agro-industrialism: The case of cinchona cultivation in the Dutch and British East Indies, 1852–1900
Managing Double Binds in the Pharmaceutical Prescription Market: The Case of Halcion
The epidemic of serious drug safety problems (e.g., Seroxat/Paxil [paroxetine], Vioxx [rofecoxib], Redux [dexfenfluramide] or Ambien [zolpidem]) in the first decade of the twenty-first century has led to public debate on the integrity of the pharmaceutical industry and the effectiveness of drug regulation (Healy, 2004; Moynihan & Cassels, 2005; Anonymous, 2005; Committee on the assessment of the US drug safety system, 2006; Pray, 2007).1 To impro…
From Javanese Coca to Java Coca: An Exemplary Product of Dutch Colonial Agro-Industrialism, 1880-1920
In 1875 the Botanical Garden of Buitenzorg introduced two coca plants on the island of Java, which was then part of the Netherlands East Indies. Within a thirty-year period, starting in 1892, Java succeeded in becoming the world's leading exporter of coca leaves, surpassing the traditional coca producers in Peru and Bolivia. How and why did this occur? We argue that the story of the transformation of Javanese coca into "Java coca" as part of a "b…
Genetic screening and democracy: Lessons from debating genetic screening criteria in the Netherlands
Recent decades have witnessed increasing possibilities for genetic testing and screening. In clinical genetics, the doctor's office defined a secluded space for discussion of sensitive reproductive options in cases of elevated risk for genetic disorders in individuals or their offspring. When prenatal screening for all pregnant women became conceivable, the potential increase in scale made social and ethical concerns relevant for the whole of soc…
The introduction of chlorpromazine in Belgium and the Netherlands (1951–1968); tango between old and new treatment features
Standardizing psychotropic drugs and drug practices in the twentieth century: Paradox of order and disorder
Speed in the Third Reich: Metamphetamine (Pervitin) Use and a Drug History From Below
Journal Article Speed in the Third Reich: Metamphetamine (Pervitin) Use and a Drug History From Below Get access Stephen Snelders, Stephen Snelders * *Rustenburgerstraat 141–11, Amsterdam 1073 EX, The Netherlands. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Toine Pieters Toine Pieters Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Med…
Alcoholism and Hereditary Health in Dutch Medical Discourse, 1900–45: Biology versus Psychology in Coping with Addiction
Since the first constructions of alcoholism and drug addiction in the 19th century concepts of heredity have played an important role in framing substance use and abuse. In the linkage of alcoholism and drug addiction to themes of hereditary defects and biological and racial degeneration the often supposed dichotomy between “medical” and “moral” views of substance abuse was transcended. An analysis of alcoholism and hereditary health in Dutch med…
Nancy Campbell, Discovering Addiction; The science and politics of substance abuse research . Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 2007
On Cannabis, Chloral Hydrate, and Career Cycles of Psychotrophic Drugs in Medicine
This article compares the careers of two psychotropic drugs in Western psychiatry, with a focus on the nineteenth century: Cannabis indica and chloral hydrate. They were used by doctors for similar indications, such as mania, delirium tremens, and what we would now call drug dependence. The two show similar career paths consisting of three phases: initial enthusiasm and therapeutic optimism; subsequent negative appraisal; and finally, limited use…
Managing differences in biomedical research: The case of standardizing interferons
Shaping a new biological factor, ‘the interferon’, in room 215 of the National Institute for Medical Research, 1956/57
From Javanese Coca to Java Coca: An Exemplary Product of Dutch Colonial Agro-Industrialism, 1880-1920
In 1875 the Botanical Garden of Buitenzorg introduced two coca plants on the island of Java, which was then part of the Netherlands East Indies. Within a thirty-year period, starting in 1892, Java succeeded in becoming the world's leading exporter of coca leaves, surpassing the traditional coca producers in Peru and Bolivia. How and why did this occur? We argue that the story of the transformation of Javanese coca into "Java coca" as part of a "b…
Science in the service of colonial agro-industrialism: The case of cinchona cultivation in the Dutch and British East Indies, 1852–1900
Speed in the Third Reich: Metamphetamine (Pervitin) Use and a Drug History From Below
Journal Article Speed in the Third Reich: Metamphetamine (Pervitin) Use and a Drug History From Below Get access Stephen Snelders, Stephen Snelders * *Rustenburgerstraat 141–11, Amsterdam 1073 EX, The Netherlands. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Toine Pieters Toine Pieters Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Med…
The Hidden History of a Famous Drug: Tracing the Medical and Public Acculturation of Peruvian Bark in Early Modern Western Europe (c. 1650–1720)
The history of the introduction of exotic therapeutic drugs in early modern Europe is usually rife with legend and obscurity and Peruvian bark is a case in point. The famous antimalarial drug entered the European medical market around 1640, yet it took decades before the bark was firmly established in pharmaceutical practice. This article argues that the history of Peruvian bark can only be understood as the interplay of its trajectories in scien…
Shaping a new biological factor, ‘the interferon’, in room 215 of the National Institute for Medical Research, 1956/57
Managing differences in biomedical research: The case of standardizing interferons
On Cannabis, Chloral Hydrate, and Career Cycles of Psychotrophic Drugs in Medicine
This article compares the careers of two psychotropic drugs in Western psychiatry, with a focus on the nineteenth century: Cannabis indica and chloral hydrate. They were used by doctors for similar indications, such as mania, delirium tremens, and what we would now call drug dependence. The two show similar career paths consisting of three phases: initial enthusiasm and therapeutic optimism; subsequent negative appraisal; and finally, limited use…
Alcoholism and Hereditary Health in Dutch Medical Discourse, 1900–45: Biology versus Psychology in Coping with Addiction
Since the first constructions of alcoholism and drug addiction in the 19th century concepts of heredity have played an important role in framing substance use and abuse. In the linkage of alcoholism and drug addiction to themes of hereditary defects and biological and racial degeneration the often supposed dichotomy between “medical” and “moral” views of substance abuse was transcended. An analysis of alcoholism and hereditary health in Dutch med…
Nancy Campbell, Discovering Addiction; The science and politics of substance abuse research . Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 2007
Genetic screening and democracy: Lessons from debating genetic screening criteria in the Netherlands
Recent decades have witnessed increasing possibilities for genetic testing and screening. In clinical genetics, the doctor's office defined a secluded space for discussion of sensitive reproductive options in cases of elevated risk for genetic disorders in individuals or their offspring. When prenatal screening for all pregnant women became conceivable, the potential increase in scale made social and ethical concerns relevant for the whole of soc…
The introduction of chlorpromazine in Belgium and the Netherlands (1951–1968); tango between old and new treatment features
Standardizing psychotropic drugs and drug practices in the twentieth century: Paradox of order and disorder
Speed in the Third Reich: Metamphetamine (Pervitin) Use and a Drug History From Below
Journal Article Speed in the Third Reich: Metamphetamine (Pervitin) Use and a Drug History From Below Get access Stephen Snelders, Stephen Snelders * *Rustenburgerstraat 141–11, Amsterdam 1073 EX, The Netherlands. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Toine Pieters Toine Pieters Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Med…
Managing Double Binds in the Pharmaceutical Prescription Market: The Case of Halcion
The epidemic of serious drug safety problems (e.g., Seroxat/Paxil [paroxetine], Vioxx [rofecoxib], Redux [dexfenfluramide] or Ambien [zolpidem]) in the first decade of the twenty-first century has led to public debate on the integrity of the pharmaceutical industry and the effectiveness of drug regulation (Healy, 2004; Moynihan & Cassels, 2005; Anonymous, 2005; Committee on the assessment of the US drug safety system, 2006; Pray, 2007).1 To impro…
From Javanese Coca to Java Coca: An Exemplary Product of Dutch Colonial Agro-Industrialism, 1880-1920
In 1875 the Botanical Garden of Buitenzorg introduced two coca plants on the island of Java, which was then part of the Netherlands East Indies. Within a thirty-year period, starting in 1892, Java succeeded in becoming the world's leading exporter of coca leaves, surpassing the traditional coca producers in Peru and Bolivia. How and why did this occur? We argue that the story of the transformation of Javanese coca into "Java coca" as part of a "b…
Science in the service of colonial agro-industrialism: The case of cinchona cultivation in the Dutch and British East Indies, 1852–1900
Science, industry and the colonial state: A shift from a German- to a Dutch-controlled cinchona and quinine cartel (1880–1920)
This study shows how control over delicately balanced supply chains from raw material to the final product shifted from one national industry to another. By 1920, Dutch cinchona producers and quinine manufacturers dominated the international cartel that controlled the worldwide production and distribution of quinine (an antimalarial), quinine sulphate (a semi-finished product) and cinchona (the raw material). Twenty years earlier, however, this c…
Mathew James Crawford, The Andean Wonder Drug. Cinchona Bark and Imperial Science in the Spanish Atlantic, 1630–1800
Drawing extensively on unique primary Spanish archival sources, Mathew James Crawford provides an exciting and illuminating window on the genesis of green imperialism in the Spanish Atlantic. The Andean Wonder Drug uses the story of cinchona bark and its use as a febrifuge to demonstrate how the early-modern merging of the worlds of science, commerce and imperial governance laid the foundation for European global hegemony. Crawford convincingly s…
From Colonial Agro-Industrialism to Agro-Industrialism: Game changing evolution of the Dutch transoceanic cinchona-quinine enterprise (1940s–1960s)
By the turn of the twentieth century, the Dutch colony of the Netherlands Indies dominated the worldwide supply of antifebrifuge (to reduce fever) cinchona bark, the raw material for quinine, an antimalarial medicine. Over the next four decades, the high-quality and laboratory-conditioned cultivation of cinchona became the backbone of a Dutch transoceanic cinchona-quinine enterprise that dominated the international quinine markets. However, in th…
Quinine, Malaria, and the Cinchona Bureau: Marketing Practices and Knowledge Circulation in a Dutch Transoceanic Cinchona–Quinine Enterprise (1920s–30s)
In this study, we will show how a Dutch pharmaceutical consortium of cinchona producers and quinine manufacturers was able to capitalize on one of the first international public health campaigns to fight malaria, thereby promoting the sale of quinine, an antimalarial medicine. During the 1920s and 1930s, the international markets for quinine were controlled by this Dutch consortium, which was a transoceanic cinchona-quinine enterprise centered in…
The Hidden History of a Famous Drug: Tracing the Medical and Public Acculturation of Peruvian Bark in Early Modern Western Europe (c. 1650–1720)
The history of the introduction of exotic therapeutic drugs in early modern Europe is usually rife with legend and obscurity and Peruvian bark is a case in point. The famous antimalarial drug entered the European medical market around 1640, yet it took decades before the bark was firmly established in pharmaceutical practice. This article argues that the history of Peruvian bark can only be understood as the interplay of its trajectories in scien…
Archival, paleopathological and aDNA-based techniques in leprosy research and the case of Father Petrus Donders at the Leprosarium ‘Batavia’, Suriname
OBJECTIVE: We assessed whether Petrus Donders (died 1887), a Dutch priest who for 27 years cared for people with leprosy in the leprosarium Batavia, Suriname, had evidence of Mycobacterium (M.) leprae infection. A positive finding of M. leprae ancient (a)DNA would contribute to the origin of leprosy in Suriname. MATERIALS: Skeletal remains of Father Petrus Donders; two additional skeletons excavated from the Batavia cemetery were used as controls…
Toward a New Model of Understanding, Preventing, and Treating Adolescent Depression Focusing on Exhaustion and Stress
We propose to open up a symptom-based, mood-centered view to a model in which adolescent depression is framed as a consecutive failure of stress coping mechanisms and chronic exhaustion. Addressing exhaustion and coping primarily as a treatment strategy in adolescents and young adults might work in synergy with existing treatments and improve overall outcomes. This perspective warrants further investigation
How Colonial Power, Colonized People, and Nature Shaped Hansen’s Disease Settlements in Suriname
According to the Dutch colonizers in Suriname, leprosy (or Hansen’s disease) was highly contagious and transmitted from human-to-human. A “cordon sanitaire” was constructed around the patients, mainly African slaves and Asian indentured laborers and their descendants. They were tracked down and incarcerated in remote leprosy settlements located in the rainforest. Some patients obeyed the authorities while others resisted and rebelled. Their narra…
Plandemic Revisited: A Product of Planned Disinformation Amplifying the Covid-19 “infodemic”
During the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic, a 26-min documentary entitled Plandemic was released online and fanatically shared via Twitter and other major social media platforms. The producers of the documentary sought to spread misinformation and conspiracy theories and to discredit scientific experts using a sophisticated disinformation campaign. They set out to accomplish this by coaching citizens toward activism to maximize the spee…
That High Design of Purest Gold: A Critical History of the Pharmaceutical Industry, 1880-2020 by Graham Dutfield
Reviewed by: That High Design of Purest Gold: A Critical History of the Pharmaceutical Industry, 1880–2020 by Graham Dutfield Toine Pieters (bio) That High Design of Purest Gold: A Critical History of the Pharmaceutical Industry, 1880–2020 By Graham Dutfield. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2020. Pp. 510. This book is all about the long twentieth century of drug making, patenting, and regulating. It offers a fascinating journey into the e…
The Living Library: A process-based tool for open literature review, probing the boundaries of open science
The Living Library is a novel tool for opening the scientific process of literature reviewing. We here present its core features, set-up and workflow, and provide the open-source code via GitHub ( https://github.com/Simon-Dirks/living-library ). The Living Library allows researchers to sort articles thematically and temporally, has a built-in open logbook, and uses a responsive methodology. These core features render the Living Library both a pra…
Student assistants as mentor-participants: A case study of distributing leadership in academic co-design education
Student Assistants (SAs) are generally regarded as support to the instructor's teaching agency in a course. This case study assesses SAs taking on the more autonomous role of mentor-participants in student teams during an advanced bachelor's co-design course, advancing our understanding of distributing leadership within such open-ended educational contexts. We use semi-structured interviews and grounded theory analysis to understand how students,…
‘Help ik ben besmet’: De illusie doorgeprikt van een ‘intelligente’ lockdown
‘Help I am infected’. The illusion of an intelligent Dutch lockdown On March 16, 2020, Prime Minister Rutte announced that the government was forced to switch from a strategy of local containment of outbreaks to a national strategy of maximum control. A week later, the first ‘intelligent’ national lockdown became a reality. In this contribution I will show that in the historical interaction between disease, health and social environment, connecti…
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