Stephen Snelders
Biographic Data
| ID | 7205911 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Snelders |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Snelders |
| SIGNATURE | SNELDERS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | History of Philosophy and Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Plague and intoxicants in the Baltic and North Seas during the long seventeenth century
The article argues that medical responses to plague were a cause of the ‘psychoactive revolution’ during the long seventeenth century. Focusing on four metropoles in the Baltic and North Sea region, it shows that the commodification of sugar, opiates and tobacco during the last century of the Second Great Pandemic correlates both with outbreaks of plague in Amsterdam, Hamburg, London and Stockholm and with the intra-regional prescription of these…
Christopher Hallam, White Drug Cultures and Regulation in London, 1916–1960 . Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
Hans Pols, Nurturing Indonesia: Medicine and Decolonisation in the Dutch East Indies
Leprosy and the Colonial Gaze: Comparing the Dutch West and East Indies, 1750–1950
This article is looking at colonial governance with regard to leprosy, comparing two settings of the Dutch colonial empire: Suriname and the Dutch East Indies. Whereas segregation became formal policy in Suriname, leprosy sufferers were hardly ever segregated in the Dutch East Indies. We argue that the perceived needs to maintain a healthy labour force and to prevent contamination of white populations were the driving forces behind the difference…
Leprosy and Colonialism: Suriname Under Dutch Rule, 1750-1950
Leprosy and colonialism investigates the history of leprosy in the colony of Suriname in the Dutch Caribbean within the context of colonial power and racial conflict - from the plantation economy and the age of slavery to its legacy in the modern colonial state. The book traces the origins of the modern stigmatization and exclusion of people affected with leprosy to the political tensions and racial fears of colonial slave society, tensions exert…
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…
Standardizing psychotropic drugs and drug practices in the twentieth century: Paradox of order and disorder
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…
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…
Leprosy and the Colonial Gaze: Comparing the Dutch West and East Indies, 1750–1950
This article is looking at colonial governance with regard to leprosy, comparing two settings of the Dutch colonial empire: Suriname and the Dutch East Indies. Whereas segregation became formal policy in Suriname, leprosy sufferers were hardly ever segregated in the Dutch East Indies. We argue that the perceived needs to maintain a healthy labour force and to prevent contamination of white populations were the driving forces behind the difference…
Leprosy and Colonialism: Suriname Under Dutch Rule, 1750-1950
Leprosy and colonialism investigates the history of leprosy in the colony of Suriname in the Dutch Caribbean within the context of colonial power and racial conflict - from the plantation economy and the age of slavery to its legacy in the modern colonial state. The book traces the origins of the modern stigmatization and exclusion of people affected with leprosy to the political tensions and racial fears of colonial slave society, tensions exert…
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…
Standardizing psychotropic drugs and drug practices in the twentieth century: Paradox of order and disorder
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…
Leprosy and Colonialism: Suriname Under Dutch Rule, 1750-1950
Leprosy and colonialism investigates the history of leprosy in the colony of Suriname in the Dutch Caribbean within the context of colonial power and racial conflict - from the plantation economy and the age of slavery to its legacy in the modern colonial state. The book traces the origins of the modern stigmatization and exclusion of people affected with leprosy to the political tensions and racial fears of colonial slave society, tensions exert…
Leprosy and the Colonial Gaze: Comparing the Dutch West and East Indies, 1750–1950
This article is looking at colonial governance with regard to leprosy, comparing two settings of the Dutch colonial empire: Suriname and the Dutch East Indies. Whereas segregation became formal policy in Suriname, leprosy sufferers were hardly ever segregated in the Dutch East Indies. We argue that the perceived needs to maintain a healthy labour force and to prevent contamination of white populations were the driving forces behind the difference…
Hans Pols, Nurturing Indonesia: Medicine and Decolonisation in the Dutch East Indies
Christopher Hallam, White Drug Cultures and Regulation in London, 1916–1960 . Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
Plague and intoxicants in the Baltic and North Seas during the long seventeenth century
The article argues that medical responses to plague were a cause of the ‘psychoactive revolution’ during the long seventeenth century. Focusing on four metropoles in the Baltic and North Sea region, it shows that the commodification of sugar, opiates and tobacco during the last century of the Second Great Pandemic correlates both with outbreaks of plague in Amsterdam, Hamburg, London and Stockholm and with the intra-regional prescription of these…
Law (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (4 works) · History (4 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (3 works) · Drug (3 works) · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works)