The Royal Dutch Medical Association (RDMA; in Dutch Koninklijke Nederlandsche Maatschappij tot bevordering der Geneeskunst or KNMG) is the professional organisation for medical practitioners in the
Netherlands
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. It was founded in 1849.
In 1999 several other medical organisations were integrated into the KNMG, the association of the National Association of salaried Doctors (LAD), the National Association of General Practitioners (LHV), the Dutch Association for Occupational Health (NVAB), the Dutch Association for Nursing Home Physicians (NVVA), the Dutch Association of Insurance Medicine (NVVG), the Dutch Order of Medical Specialists (OMS) and a small group of individual KNMG members. Its membership in 2008 was 40,000 doctors.
Declarations
In 2010, they called
male circumcision
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a harmful and painful ritual that violates
children's rights
Children's rights are a subset of human rights with particular attention to the rights of special protection and care afforded to minors. . This announcement was covered internationally over the following years.
Circumcision, the ultimate parenting dilemma
by Cordelia Hebblethwaite of BBC News on August 20, 2012: "In the Netherlands, the Royal Dutch Medical Association recommends a "policy of deterrence" on male circumcision"
Headquarters
Its headquarters is located in Utrecht
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The Association began a library in the field of the history of medicine in the Netherlands in 1849. In 1855, the Association's library collection was loaned to the keeping of the University of Amsterdam
The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, nl, Universiteit van Amsterdam) is a public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The UvA is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being ...
. This collection is, for its field, the largest in the world and has a high degree of completeness.
References
External links
KNMG website
Library of the University of Amsterdam
Special collections. Royal Dutch Medical Association. Accessed April 2008
English Translation.
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Medical associations based in the Netherlands
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