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• On the 14th of december 2007 Abram de Swaan, emeritus professor and co-founder of the Amsterdam School for Social science Research (ASSR), has been awarded the prestigious PC Hooft Price 2008, a literary oeuvre award (i.e. for essays).
  
  He will receive this price on 22th of May 2008.
  
  
• Abram de Swaan (2008), 'Constraints and challenges in building hospitals: The sociological view ' in: Cor Wagenaar (red.), Abram de Swaan, Stephen Verderber, Charles Jencks, Aaron Betsky, Roger Ulrich e.a., The Architecture of Hospitals, NAI publishers, Rotterdam, 2008.