Hans Pols

Hans Pols is senior lecturer in the Unit for History & Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney and is interested in the history of medicine. Hans was born in the Netherlands but left for the
USA in 1989 (where he obtained a PhD from the Dept. of the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania) and moved to Australia in 2001. He returns to the Netherlands regularly and, in 2010–11, has conducted in-depth research on the topic of Dutch birthing practices.