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Thesis on ‘Healing after Prayer’, 24 april 2023.

Thesis on Surinamese medical plants beliefs and practices, 17 februari 2022

Wellness turns back on Covid-science, The Guardian, 11 november 2021

Thesis (July 2020) of intern Nora Smit on vaccine hesitancy and anti-vax (in Dutch)

Homeopathie op haar retour? Website VtdK, 3 June 2019 (in Dutch)

Doe mee aan een enquête over complementaire geneeswijzen, t.b.v. masterscriptie (2019)

WHO accepts criticised Chinese medicine, CNN, 24 May 2019

Placebo effect not a trick?, New York Times, 18 November 2018

Healing yoga for the masses, The Guardian, 18 September 2018

Boom of Alternative Medicine in Germany, Der Spiegel, 18 August 2018

Sophrology as the new Mindfulness, The Guardian, 18 May 2018

New book (in Dutch) on alternative medicine, Amsterdam University Press, January 2018

Panel discussion in Amsterdam (SPUI25) on alternative medicine, 20 December 2017

Folk Healing and Christianity in the Appalachians,  Atlas Obscura b, 22 November 2017

Leech Healing in Russia, The New York Times, 29 April 2017

A popular debate on homeopathy and vaccination in The Guardian, March, 31, 2017

Household Medicine in the 1800s, Atlas Obscura

Cupping at the Olympics in Rio, The Guardian, August 8, 2016.

German ‘Heilpraktiker’ popular among the Dutch, NRC 7 August 2016

Yoga and Healing? The Guardian June 2016

Curing Anxiety? Among Mexican Healers, NY Times, 20 May 2016

Nobel Prize 2015 for Traditional (Chinese) Medicine.

Haiti’s major Voodoo Priest, Max Gesner Beauvoir, passed away, 13 September 2015