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标题：Expansion through Separation. The Linguistic Conflicts at the University of Leuven in the 1960s from a Medical History Perspective
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作者：Joris Vandendriessche ; Liesbet Nys
期刊名称：Bijdragen en Mededelingen betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden
印刷版ISSN：0165-0505
电子版ISSN：2211-2898
出版年度：2017
卷号：132
期号：1
页码：1-24
DOI：10.18352/bmgn-lchr.10308
出版社：Koninklijk Nederlands Historisch Genootschap
摘要：This article rereads a well-known chapter in Belgium’s political history – the linguistic struggles that led to the splitting of the University of Leuven in 1968 – as a chapter in medical history. We argue that the particular circumstances in the medical field, such as the struggle for patients’ rights and the ideological competition over the implementation of new academic hospitals, accelerated ongoing disputes over language. We show that the logic of tying academic expansion to linguistic separation, which later underpinned the splitting of the university as a whole, was put into practice first in the Leuven Faculty of Medicine. Our analysis reveals that the matter of linguistic separation was linked to different social, professional and ideological ambitions, and was sometimes regarded as an instrument of medical expansion, rather than as a goal in itself.