Current position(s)

NWO Rubicon postdoctoraal researcher

Current project(s)

Deafness in Transition: Disability and Hearing Difference in Enlightenment Europe

Former position(s)

Curator of Medical Collections

Monographs (and dissertation)

Ruben E. Verwaal, Bodily Fluids, Chemistry and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Boerhaave School (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).

Articles

- Verwaal, Ruben E. ‘Increasing and Reducing: Breastmilk Flows and Female Health’. In Lifestyle and Medicine in the Enlightenment, edited by James Kennaway and Rina Knoeff. 223–39. London: Routledge, 2020.
- Verwaal, Ruben E. "The Nature of Blood: Debating Haematology and Blood Chemistry in the Eighteenth-Century Dutch Republic", Early Science and Medicine 22 (2017): 271–300.
- Hendriksen, Marieke M.A., and Ruben E. Verwaal. "Boerhaave’s Furnace: Exploring Early Modern Chemistry through Working Models." Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 43 (2020): 385–411

List of publications (Url)

https://www.dur.ac.uk/research/directory/staff/?mode=staff&id=19216&publications=1

History of Medicine, Medical Humanities