Les bains publics

Bains publics. Se laver en ville (1850-2000)

Sophie Richelle

 

Éditions de l'Université de Bruxelles
Collection MSH
2 mars 2023
ISSN 27365956


Avec Bains publics, Sophie Richelle propose un double récit original. Celui de l'histoire des bains communaux, compris comme les endroits où il était possible de se laver en dehors de chez soi à moindre coût aux XIX e et XX e siècles. Et celui de la quête historienne en train d’être menée. 

Trop souvent cantonnée au XIX e siècle, l'histoire des bains publics, se décline pourtant au 20e siècle. Lieux oubliés et méconnus, à l’heure des douches quotidiennes, ils sont un observatoire inédit de l’histoire du corps, de l’histoire de l’intime, de l’hygiène populaire et des inégalités sociales et genrées qui les ont traversées.

En poursuivant une écriture sensible où la subjectivité a sa place, l’historienne Sophie Richelle nous plonge également dans les coulisses de sa recherche. Partagée à l’origine sur Twitter, l’enquête historienne est reprise ici. L’ouvrage est hybride et permet, par la juxtaposition des résultats et de la quête, une réflexion sur le métier et les écritures historiennes.

Les animaux, les rues et la santé

Animals, Streets, and Healh

 

Call for papers

 

Hybrid Workshop, University of Liverpool, 15 June 2023
 

Streets are lively more-than-human spaces. Dogs, cats, monkeys, rats, cows, and pigeons are amongst those animals who share streets with humans. In different places and at different times, animals are variously welcomed, tolerated, or prohibited from streets. Street animals raise a host of questions around urban life and public health, as well as who belongs and who deserves care in urban environments. They are sometimes framed as evidence of healthy urban environments and sometimes as obstacles to urban health. Their presence on the street also invites us to consider animal agency, autonomy, and mobility.

This interdisciplinary workshop will explore the relationship between animals, streets, and health. We welcome proposals from any discipline that tackle any period and place. Topics might include:

· Animals and waste

· Zoonoses

· Affective responses to street animals

· The politics and practices of welfare

· Streets as sites of cruelty and care towards animals

· Campaigns to remove animals from streets

· More-than-human labour and streets as places of work for animals

· Animal agency, autonomy, and mobility

· Animals and urban planning

· Transnational/comparative approaches towards animals, streets, and health

· Representing street animals

· Ownership of street animals

· Researching street animals

· One Health Approaches

The workshop will be hybrid, with expenses covered for those attending in person from the UK. Papers will be considered for inclusion in a journal special issue.

The workshop is part of the Wellcome-funded project “Remaking One Health: Decolonial approaches to street dogs and rabies prevention in India” (ROH-Indies): https://rohindies.org/

Please send an extended abstract of between 500-750 words and a short bio by 31 March 2023 to the ROH-Indies team at the emails below.

For further information, please contact Dr Chris Pearson (chris.pearson@liverpool.ac.uk) or Dr Heeral Chhabra (heeralchhabra.univ@gmail.com)

Explorer les contours du bien-être et de la santé

Exploring the Contours of Wellness & Health
 

International Conference

Sorbonne University
23-25 March 2023


23 March 2023
Sorbonne University, Amphithéâtre Louis Liard
17 rue de la Sorbonne, 75005 Paris 

8.30-9.00 Registration – Welcoming participants

9.00-9.15 Opening remarks: Vice Dean for Research Pascal Aquien, Sorbonne University

9.15-10.15 Keynote speaker: Professor Deirdre Cooper Owens, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, “Why History Matters: Reckoning with Slavery and American Medicine”

10.15-10.45 Coffee break

10.45-12.30 Panel 1 – Chair: Thibaut Clément, Sorbonne University
– Marie ASSAF, EHESS: “Trump contre l’assurance santé, un terrain de lutte pour les personnes handicapées ?”
– Vanessa BOULLET et Julien GUILLAUMOND, Université de Lorraine: “Bien-être et santé en République d’Irlande et en Irlande du Nord post Brexit : une affaire de coopération ?”
– Audrey DUCAFFY, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle: “L’OTC pharmaceutique, une comparaison États-Unis/France”

12.30-14.00 Lunch break

14.00-15.45 Panel 2 – Chair: Steven O’Connor, Sorbonne University
– Cecilia Di MARCO et Stéphane SADOUX, Université de Grenoble Alpes: “Designing Healthier Cities”
– Chloé PASTOUREL, Université Clermont Auvergne: “La mobilisation de la philanthropie américaine dans la diffusion du sport en France de 1914 à la fin des années 1930”
– Rachna SIKARWAR, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi: “Of Noble Intentions and Deficient Executions: Exploring the Understandings and Disjunctions Around the Teaching of Well-Being in the Mainstream Indian Education System”

15.45-16.15 Coffee break

16.15-18.00 Panel 3 – Chair: Nathalie Caron, Sorbonne University
– Ryoa CHUNG, Université de Montréal: ‘‘Penser la justice en santé par le prisme des vulnérabilités structurelles de santé’’
– Julie CROWE, Seattle University, et Colleen DERKATCH, Toronto Metropolitan University: “How Are Wellness Practices Entangled in Discourses About National Identity?”
– Ted SCHRECKER, Newcastle University: “Long, Long Covid: Health and the “Inequality Machine” in the Post-Pandemic World”

18.30 Cocktail, Club des Enseignants, Sorbonne University


24 March 2023
Campus Cordeliers, Amphithéâtre Gustave Roussy
15 rue de l’École de Médecine, 75006 Paris

 
8.30-9.00 Registration

9.00-10.10 Panel 4 – Chair: Thomas Constantinesco, Sorbonne University
– JAGRITI, Indian Institute of Technology: “Christian Medical Missionaries Role in Colonial India: A Case Study of American Baptist Missions in the Assam Province, 1886-1946”
– Lionel LARRÉ, Université Bordeaux Montaigne: “Santé en transition et bien-être en question dans les écrits des intellectuels amérindiens du début du XXe siècle”

10.10-10.30 Coffee break

10.30-11.40 Panel 5 – Chair: Andrew Diamond, Sorbonne University
– Justine COUSIN, Université de Caen Normandie: “Les marins de couleur employés par les compagnies maritimes impériales britanniques, un accès limité à la santé (1890-1945)”
– Judith RAINHORN, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne: “The Green of the Period, ou comment le papier peint devint un poison dans l’Angleterre du XIXe siècle”

11.45-13.00 Lunch break

13.00-15.00 Panel 6 – Chair: Carolin Görgen, Sorbonne University
– Screening of Clean With Me (After Dark), G. Stemmer (2019)
– Joséphine SOURGNES, Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3: ‘‘The Representation of Teenage Human Trauma in 13 Reasons Why: A Public Service TV Show or a Public Health Threat?’’
– Élodie EDWARDS-GROSSI, Université Paris Dauphine: ‘‘Mad with Freedom: The Political Economy of Blackness, Insanity, and Civil Rights in the U.S. South, 1840-1940”

15.00-15.15 Coffee break

15.15-16.15 Keynote speaker: Professor Martin Powell, University of Birmingham: ‘‘Does Britain have a National Health Service?”

16.20-17.30 Guided tour of the History of Medicine Museum

19.00 Conference dinner, Au Petit Riche, 25 Rue Le Peletier, 9ème Arrondissement


25 March 2023
Sorbonne University, Amphithéâtre Milne Edwards
17 rue de la Sorbonne, 75005 Paris 9.00-9.30 Registration

9.30-10.40 Panel 7 – Chair: Arnaud Page, Sorbonne University
– Kim WILTSHIRE & Dawn PRESCOTT, Edge Hill University, Liverpool: “Embedding the Arts into Healthcare Setting: Creative Workshops for NHS Frontline Staff to Improve Wellness and Health”
– Kay SIMPSON, University of Cambridge: ““In the Pink,” or “Feeling Blue:” The Healthy Colors of Howard Kemp Professor”

10.40-10.50 Short break

10.50-12.20 Panel 8 – Chair: Alexandre Escargueil, Sorbonne University
– Yves FIGUEIREDO, Sorbonne University: “Going ‘Back of Thought:’ the Intricacies of Health, Politics and Aesthetics in F. L. Olmsted’s Landscape Architecture”
– Servane ROUPNEL, Université Laval, Québec: ‘‘Médicaliser l’expérience de guerre : les limites du diagnostic de trouble de stress post-traumatique lors de la réintégration à la vie civile des militaires”
– Arielle FLODROPS, Université de Rouen-Normandie, ‘‘Le Néopaganisme britannique et la question du soin : entre sciences et pseudosciences’’

12.30 Concluding remarks – End of the conference




L'inscription est requise : merci d’écrire à hdea2023@gmail.com pour faire part au comité d’organisation de votre intention d'assister au colloque.

Faire de l'histoire par le bas en pratique

How to take patients’ histories: Doing medical history from below in practice

Call for papers

Workshop organized by Hieke Huistra (Utrecht University), Noortje Jacobs (Erasmus MC, Rotterdam) and Martijn van der Meer (Erasmus MC, Rotterdam)

28 and 29 September, Utrecht


Almost forty years ago, Roy Porter published his seminal article ‘The Patient’s View: Doing Medical History from Below’. Historians routinely ignored the roles, perspectives, and experiences of sufferers, Porter argued, even though sufferers were the source and origin of any history of healing, and shaped medical encounters and health experiences just as much as healers did. Hence, Porter formulated his ambitious research agenda to shift focus to “the history of the sick,” which he considered central to all medical history and the backbone of social history as well.

In the past decades, historians have taken up the gauntlet. However, as scholars working on patients’ histories will know, doing “medical history from below” can be challenging. First of all, Porter’s research agenda consists of systematic steps that are so all-encompassing—from collecting “the terra firma of the material conditions of communities in times past” to the “basic mappings of experience, belief systems, images and symbols [of classes and communities]”—that executing his vision seems insurmountable, certainly in an age of academia in which research is project-based and limited in resources. Secondly and more practically, the sources left to trace sufferers’ roles, experiences, and perspectives are often scant, difficult to interpret, and fraud with challenges in terms of how representative they are for more general conclusions about sufferers in history.

In this workshop, we want to explore these two challenges with scholars working on patients’ histories. We want to discuss what these historians do in practice: which sources might yield new and important insights, which methodologies help to retrieve and interpret them, what sort of meaningful historical perspectives these sources and methods can—and can’t!—bring, and how we may generalize individual patients’ experiences into broader historical patterns. We want to think practically and hands-on:we invite scholars working on such histories to share their experiences, struggles, and tips and we will read and think along with each other’s work-in-progress. We particularly welcome papers that explore specific sources that help with doing (medical) history from below, such as, but not limited to, ego documents, court proceedings, patient files, health manuals, advertisements, newspapers, and popular magazines, but also medical journals and other professional publications that offer their own—indirect—insights into patients’ histories.

Practical Information

The workshop will take place on 28 and 29 September in Utrecht. We plan to organize an informal opening dinner on Wednesday evening 27 September; the sessions will be scheduled on Thursday 28 and Friday 29.

If you are interested in participating please send an abstract (300-500 words) and a short bio (2-5 lines) to Hieke Huistra (h.m.huistra@uu.nl) before or at April 14th, 2023. We aim to get back to you with a decision at the end of April.

We have some funding available for supporting travel costs. If the travel costs form a barrier for you to participate in the workshop, please contact us to discuss the options.

Les mardis de l'histoire médicale

Les mardis de l'histoire médicale


Le Département d'Histoire des sciences de la Vie et de la Santé (DHVS) de l'Université de Strasbourg propose les mardis de l'histoire médicale.

Mardi 21 mars 2023
Les collections d’anatomie pathologique Dupuytren : entre gestion, conservation et valorisation, Eloïse QUETEL

Mardi 11 avril 2023
Pilule, défaire l’évidence ? La construction d’une norme de prescription pilulocentrée en France (1960-2000), Alexandra ROUX

Mardi 16 mai 2023
Mobiliser la science contre les épidémies. La gestion du choléra et de la peste au Japon à l’ère de l’essor de la bactériologie et de la mondialisation impériale (circa 1880-1930), Shiori NOSAKA

Mardi 6 juin 2023
Le syncrétisme des pratiques et des savoirs médicaux luso-brésiliens (1500-1650), Marion PELLIER

Suivez les conférences en ligne à : https://bbb.unistra.fr/b/mar-y4e-zng-hvx

Santé et socialisme pendant la guerre froide

Connecting three worlds: health & socialism in the Cold War


Call for papers

Conference

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Funded by the Wellcome Trust

Berlin, Germany, June 14th- 16th, 2023

Organizers: Dora Vargha, Sarah Marks and Edna Suárez-Díaz



Keynote: Sean Brotherton (NYU)



This conference is organized under the auspices of the Wellcome Trust Collaborative Award “Connecting three worlds: socialism, medicine and global health after WW2”. The project aims to push the boundaries of the history of global health by identifying the particular health cultures produced by socialism. It is clear, however, that to write the history of how socialism has shaped the health cultures of countries around the world we need to go beyond the identification of socialism with the state and identify certain common practices, values, and ways of organization in medicine, public health, and biomedicine that gave shape to different versions of socialism.



In our working definitions, we have included the distinction between ‘socialist by default’ and ‘socialist by design’(Savelli 2018) to describe practices in health and medicine, suitable to describe the overall context of Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, Cuba, and China after WW2 -also commonly called “real existing socialisms”. “Socialism”, however, is a flexible category, and conditions changed rapidly and radically during the cold war period, as it was the case for some African countries in the decades after decolonization; for which we have added the concept of ‘intermittent socialisms’.



What happens in places where socialism takes place outside of the state? Often, the constellation of socialist networks, practices, and institutions that have shaped the long history of social medicine, as is the case in Latin America, have taken place in the interstices of the state. Social democrats, socialist planners, self-declared communist physicians, and progressive left-wing activists —among them women— squeezed their values, practices, and policies into local projects around health care, sometimes even within some of the most notable developmentalist programs and institutions. For those cases, we can also talk about a socialism in the interstices.



How do these socialist networks, practices and institutions relate to those of state socialisms, or where socialism in some form was endorsed by political leadership? How does the inclusion of various socialist health practices, their relationships and exchanges challenge our ideas of national and international histories of health? This latter question becomes especially crucial when we consider how international conflicts, whether economic, diplomatic, or military overlapped and interacted with tensions over class, ethnicity, and nationalism.



This conference aims to bring together scholars studying situated, highly localized experiences in various regions of the globe, while emphasizing the very international nature of socialist networks and values, and the unexpected connections rising through those collaborations. In telling these stories, we aim to transcend the received periodization and the bipolar confrontation between the US and the USSR, expanding the history of socialist health in the First, Second and Third Worlds.



Participants will be invited to submit their paper to an edited volume, to be published with a leading academic publisher. We will be able to contribute to travel costs and accommodation and cover full expenses for early career researchers.



Please send your title, abstract of 300-500 words, and CV to vivienne.bates@exeter.ac.uk by March 20. More information about the project can be found at https://connecting3worlds.org/

La gestion de la Peste par les Provençaux au XVIIème siècle

La gestion de la Peste par les Provençaux au XVIIème siècle

Conférence de Didier Cremades


Web-conférence (gratuite) le samedi 22 avril 2023 à 20h00.
 

Il sera alors question d'évoquer la gestion des crises sanitaires, tracer la chronologie des vagues les plus meurtrières, aborder les nouvelles approches scientifiques et échanger avec vous sur le thème.
 

Voici le lien Teams de la conférence: https://teams.live.com/meet/9435770169838...

La bataille clandestine contre l'occupation nazie de la France

Doctors at War: The Clandestine Battle against the Nazi Occupation of France 

Ellen Hampton 

 
Publisher ‏ : ‎ LSU Press (March 1, 2023)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0807178737


Doctors at War tells the stories of physicians in France working to impede the German war effort and undermine French collaborators during the Occupation from 1940 to 1945. Determined to defeat the Third Reich’s incursion, one group of prominent Paris doctors founded a medical network to treat injured Resistance fighters who they then secretly transported to Allied countries to avoid forced labor in Germany. Another team of medics organized a cabal focused on intelligence gathering and sabotage that became one of the largest in wartime France, even after the Gestapo arrested and imprisoned its leaders. Deported to concentration camps, these physicians continued to frustrate Nazi efforts by rendering aid and keeping their fellow prisoners alive. Others joined rural guerrilla camps to care for the young conscripts fighting to block German reinforcements from reaching Normandy after the D-Day landing.

These stories, assembled here for the first time, add a crucial dimension to the history of Occupied France. Written for both historians and general readers of World War II history, Doctors at War stands as a dramatic, character-driven account of physicians’ courage and resilience in the face of evil. It serves as a window into life under a fascist regime and the travails of doctors who negotiated the terrifying moral labyrinth that was the German military’s occupation of France.