Gemma Blok

Biographic Data

ID3432025
NAMEGemma Blok
GIVEN NAMESGemma
FAMILY NAMEBlok
SIGNATUREBLOK G
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Amsterdam
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS5
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX1

  • Imagining Communities

    Geke A Blok, Gemma Blok et al.EDITORBOOKImagining Communities2018

  • Imagining Communities

    Open AccessClaire Weeda, Vincent Kuitenbrouwer et al.EDITORARTICLEImagining Communities2018Cited by: 1

    In his groundbreaking Imagined Communities, first published in 1983, Benedict Anderson argued that members of a community experience a "deep, horizontal camaraderie." Despite being strangers, members feel connected in a web of imagined experiences. Yet while Anderson’s insights have been hugely influential, they remain abstract: it is difficult to imagine imagined communities. How do they evolve and how is membership constructed cognitively, soci…

  • We the Avant-Garde'. A History from Below of Dutch Heroin Use in the 1970s

    Open AccessGemma BlokARTICLEBMGN - Low Countries Historical…2017Cited by: 2

    In the 1970s the Netherlands (like many other western countries) was shocked by a sudden wave of heroin use. The heroin 'epidemic' is currently framed as a public health problem that has been solved in a commendably humane fashion. In the mean time heroin users have gained a 'loser image'. Using memoirs written by and interviews with former heroin users, this article argues that heroin use was initially linked to cultural rebellion, self-developm…

  • ‘Insane emigrants’ in transit. Psychiatric Patients' Files as a Source for the History of Return Migration, c. 1910

    Gemma BlokARTICLESocial History of Medicine2015

    This article highlights a source that can contribute to the history of migration and mental health: the case records of Eastern European emigrants who tried to enter America at the beginning of the twentieth century, but were refused entrance because of their alleged insanity. Some of these unfortunates ended up in the Netherlands, on their way back home, having travelled to the United States through Rotterdam with the Holland-America Line. Psych…

  • Pampering “Needle Freaks” or Caring for Chronic Addicts? Early Debates on Harm Reduction in Amsterdam, 1972–82

    Gemma BlokARTICLEThe Social History of Alcohol…2008Cited by: 1

    During the 1970s, the Dutch were suddenly confronted with an epidemic of heroin use. This article analyzes the initial reactions to this epidemic in the Dutch capital of Amsterdam. First of all, this case-study makes clear that many ideas and practices that are now labelled as “harm reduction” were already present in the 1970s. This developing new paradigm in addiction treatment clashed with the old-established “abstentionism.” Heated debates ove…

  • Neurosis and Modernity. The Age of Nervousness in Sweden

    Gemma BlokARTICLESocial History of Medicine2008Cited by: 1

    During his research for this book, the author was struck by the tragedy in the lives of the hysterical, neurasthenic and neurotic patients of old. As he was studying the patients' records from the Nervpoliklinik in Stockholm, the oldest treatment institution (1888) for neurotics in Sweden, he realised that these people were not suffering from existential malaise or a ‘lack of deeper meaning in their lives’ like the self-indulgent neurotics in Woo…

  • Mending Minds

    Gemma BlokARTICLESocial History of Medicine2006

    Journal Article Mending Minds: A Cultural History of Dutch Academic Psychiatry Get access Hans de Waardt, Mending Minds: A Cultural History of Dutch Academic Psychiatry, Rotterdam: Erasmus, 2005. Pp. 312. €49.50. ISBN 978–90–5235–180–5. Gemma Blok Gemma Blok 1University of Amsterdam Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 19, Issue 3, December 2006, Pages 563–564, https://…