''Janus'' was an

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published in Amsterdam in the

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from 1896 to 1990, devoted to the

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and the

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. It should not be confused with a different journal by the same name on the history of medicine, published roughly 50 years earlier in Germany as .

Founding and early history

The journal was founded in 1896 by Carel Eduard Daniëls and Hendrik Peypers, with the French subtitle nternational Archive for the History of Medicine and Medical Geography In his 1895 doctoral dissertation in history, Peypers had already quoted Schlegel concerning the

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-like viewpoint of the historian, "the prophet who also looks backwards": From 1915 onward, the journal called itself the ournal of the Dutch Society for the History of Medical, Exact, and Natural Sciences The society was founded at the same time as the journal, and existed primarily to publish the journal. This series of the journal ended in 1941, interrupted by

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Post-war revival

In 1957, the same journal was restarted, this time subtitled nternational Review for the History of Science, Medicine, Pharmacy, and Technology It had as co-editor; Bruins had recently returned to Amsterdam from teaching mathematics in

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, and in 1969 he would be named professor of the

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at the

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. In 1963 he took over full editorship of the journal. Under the influence of Bruins, the journal began including the

in its repertoire of topics. Bruins died in 1990, and his journal ceased publication in the same year.

References

{{Authority control French-language journals History of medicine journals History of science journals Academic journals established in 1896 Publications disestablished in 1990