mardi 30 juin 2015

Genre et maladie dans l'Angleterre pré-moderne

Ill Composed. Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England


Olivia Weisser 

Yale University Press
Jun 30, 2015
296 p., 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
15 b/w illus.
ISBN: 9780300200706


In the first in-depth study of how gender determined perceptions and experiences of illness in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, Olivia Weisser invites readers into the lives and imaginations of ordinary men and women. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including personal diaries, medical texts, and devotional literature, the author enters the sickrooms of a diverse sampling of early modern Britons. The resulting stories of sickness reveal how men and women of the era viewed and managed their health both similarly and differently, as well as the ways prevailing religious practices, medical knowledge, writing conventions, and everyday life created and supported those varying perceptions.

A unique cultural history of illness, Weisser’s groundbreaking study bridges the fields of patient history and gender history. Based on the detailed examination of over fifty firsthand accounts, this fascinating volume offers unprecedented insight into what it was like to live, suffer, and inhabit a body more than three centuries ago.

Archives et corporalité à l'époque moderne

Corps manuscrits. Archives et corporalité à l'époque moderne

Appel à communications


Le 28 novembre 2015 l'Archivio Storico Diocesano de Gênes (Italie) organise une journée d'études "Corpi manoscritti. Archivi e corporalità nell'età moderna".

A l'époque moderne, le corps - dans le sens de corps physique mais aussi de corps social et institutionnel - trouve son extension dans le langage écrit mais aussi dans le langage figuré des archives (historiques et privées) et plus en général dans les manuscrits (lettres, art, musique). A travers l'analyse de ces sources, nous nous proposons de repérer, avec une approche multidisciplinaire, les fils conducteurs de la corporalité mais aussi - si elles se présentent - les ruptures épistémologiques du corps et des langages qu'il peut générer. Les actes seront publiés en format papier. Nous vous prions d'envoyer un proposition de 200 mots maximum au plus tard le 9 août 2015 en précisant coordonnées et position académique, en copie aux organisateurs: Elena Taddia (Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles) elenataddia@hotmail.fr et Paolo Fontana (Archivio Storico Diocesano di Genova), fontana.orero@gmail.com. Langues acceptées: Italien, Français, Anglais. Une bonne connaissance de la langue italienne est nécessaire pour le déroulement de la journée d'études.

lundi 29 juin 2015

Raconter la maladie au 18e siècle

Raconter la maladie

Revue Dix-Huitième Siècle n°47

éd. La Découverte, juillet 2015
Prix : 45 €
ISBN : 9782707186317
Dimensions : 135 * 215 mm
Nb de pages : 740


Tenaillées entre la volonté d’établir des systèmes généraux et l’attention portée aux cas singuliers, les approches de la maladie au 18e siècle se présentent comme de grandes entreprises nosologiques aussi bien que des récits individuels. Ce numéro de Dix-Huitième Siècle s’intéresse aux différentes formes de mise en récit de la maladie, qu’elles se situent dans le cadre de discours savants, de narrations privées, de fictions, ou même de tableaux.
Raconter la maladie réunit des contributions portant sur la douleur et le plaisir, la sexualité, les pathologies des gens de lettres, la mélancolie, la peste, la nostalgie, ou encore l’électrothérapie. Du soldat à la vaporeuse et du compte-rendu clinique à la lettre intime, c’est tout un pan de l’expérience de la maladie au 18e siècle qui se dévoile à nous. Les récits de maladie ouvrent également sur certains grands chantiers intellectuels des Lumières : progrès de la physiologie, objectivation de la sensation de soi, maux dus au mode de vie, mais aussi rapport soignant-soigné, représentation de la mort et besoin de rire du corps pathologique. Autant de questions qui nous envoient à nos propres attitudes face à la maladie.

Éditorial
I / Raconter la maladie

Avant-propos par Sophie Vasset, Alexandre Wenger

Catégoriser les malades. L’Histoire de la quantification : la guerre-franco-anglaise et le développement des statistiques médicales, par Erica Charters
« La maladie des Suisses » : les origines de la nostalgie, par Charles Rice-Davis
« Malade de son génie… » : raconter les pathologies des gens de lettres, de Tissot à Balzac, par Anne C. Vila et Ronan Y. Chalmin

Consulter à distance
Souffrances et maladies dans les mémoires à consulter (France, 16e-19e siècles). Une approche narratologie quantitative, par Joël Coste
Rendre sensible une souffrance psychique : lettres de mélancoliques au 18e, par Micheline Louis-Courvoisier
« Je décharge quelquefois sans bander parfaitement… » : évocations masculines de la sexualité avec le médecin Samuel-Auguste Tissot, par Nahema Hanafi
La maladie des enfants : quand les parents racontent et s’investissent, par Séverine Parayre

Observer et mettre en récit
La médecine pratique : une activité heuristique à la fin du 18e siècle ?, par Philip Rieder
Histoires(s) de la naissance. L’observation obstétricale au 18e siècle, par Lucia Aschauer
Recherches sur les causes des maladies par un gentilhomme des Lumières. Fermentation de l’air, astrologie et sensations internes, par Jean-François Viaud
Utilisation et mise en forme des récits de maladie dans l’expérimentation de l’électricité médicale, par François Zanetti

Se raconter dans la maladie
La maladie comme triomphe de la nature ? : «My Own Life » de David Hume, par Robert Mankin
De la crise à la formation : le récit de la maladie chez Goethe et Rousseau, par Mathieu Gonod

Sociabilités de la maladie dans les lettres de Mme d’Epinay, Mme de Charrière, Mme Riccoboni, Mme du Deffand et Mlle de Lespinasse, par Marianne Charrier Vozel
« Je tombai malade » : dispositifs romanesques et questionnement éthique dans le roman-mémoire du 18e siècle, par Emmanuelle Sempère
Le médecin narrateur : le roman et l’interprétation de la maladie au tournant des Lumières, par Samuel Macaigne

Figurer la maladie
Le mémoire Blanchet ou l’autobiographie clinique d’un prêtre défroqué. Célibat, sensibilité et droits naturels, par Alessandra Doria
La maladie en récit et en image dans La Vérité des miracles de Louis-Basile Carré de Montgeron, par Barbara Stenz
Peste, texte et contagion : Le Journal de l’année de la peste (1722) de Daniel Defoe, par Hélène Dachez
Du dévoiement aux vapeurs : malades et maladies dans les parades mondaines du 18e siècle, par Jennifer Ruimi
Faire vivre ou laisser mourir : la comédie allégorique comme dispositif thérapeutique, par Martial Poirson

Grand entretien
La « folie Mercier » de Portabéraud. Entretien avec Véronique Bouët-Wuillaumez, Gérard Brady, Jean Ehrard et Pascal Piéra
La bibliothèque d’un sage : les livres de la « folie Mercier », par Jean Ehrard

II / Varia

III / Notes de lecture, sous la direction de Gérard Laudin

Science, magie et technologie

Science, Magic and Technology

Biennial London Chaucer Conference

10-11 July 2015

Institute of English Studies, Senate House, London

Generously supported by the New Chaucer Society and by Boydell & Brewer

Registration fees: Standard fee: £65; IES students/members concessionary fee: £45

PLEASE CLICK HERE TO REGISTER



PROGRAMME

Friday 10 July

09.30- 10.00: Registration

10.00 -11.30: 3-paper sessions

1. Nature 

• Kellie Robertson (University of Maryland): Speaking in Nature’s Voice

• Andrew Higl (Winona State University): The Nature of Nature in the Parliament of Fowls

• Karen Gross (Lewis and Clark College): The Science of the End: The Use of Anglo-Norman Apocalypses in Medieval Reference Works


2. Science: patronage and communication 

• Hilary Carey (Bristol): Eleanor Cobham, Duke Humfrey and the Patronage of Science and Medicine

• Seb Falk (University of Cambridge): “I wel wot it is figured boistosly”: didactic writing in the Equatorie of the Planetis

• Elly Truitt (Bryn Mawr): “I n’am but a lewd compilator:” Translatio and Scientific Knowledge in Chaucer’s Treatise on the Astrolabe


11.30 -12.00:Refreshments

12.00 -13.30: 3-paper sessions


3. Theories of Knowledge 

• Anke Bernau (University of Manchester): ‘Crafty and Curious’: Seeking the Boundaries of Knowledge in the Late Middle Ages

• David Wallace (University of Pennsylvania): in limine

• Bernhard Hollick (University of Cologne): Ovidian Psychology: Poetry, Literary Criticism, and Science in 14th Century England


4. Astrology and Divination 

• Anne Mathers-Lawrence (University of Reading): The weather and the stars: astro-meteorology in late medieval England

• Jo Edge (Cambridge): Chaucer’s poure scoler, the quadrivial curriculum and the ‘Sphere of Life and Death’

• Clare Fletcher (Trinity College Dublin): 'Al is thurgh constellacion': Planetary Influence in John ‎Gower's Confessio Amantis


5. Psychology and Literature 

• Megan Leitch (Cardiff University): Ricardian Dream Visions and the Science of Sleep

• Connie Bubash (Pennsylvania State University): Poetics of the Plague: Melancholia and Prescriptive Reading in The Book of the Duchess

• Alastair Bennett (Royal Holloway): The Franklin’s Tale and the technology of consolation


13.30 -14.30:Lunch

14.30 -16.30: 4-paper session


6. Elemental

• Hetta Howes (Queen Mary, University of London): ‘April with his shoures soote’:
Watery Tropes in Late Medieval Literature’

• Stephanie Trigg (University of Melbourne) ‘Þe borȝ brittened and brent to brondeȝ
and askez’: The City on Fire in Middle English Literature

• Sophia Wilson (King’s College London) ‘Nothinge is fix but earth alon’: The
Uncertainty of Earth and Anxiety of Animacy

• Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (George Washington University): Heavy Atmosphere


7. Medical Narratives and Images

• Marion Turner (University of Oxford): Illness and the Limits of Narrative: Arderne, Hoccleve, and Chaucer

• Peter Murray Jones (King’s College Cambridge): Medicine and narrative in the later Middle Ages

• Sarah Griffin (University of Oxford): Ordering the Internal Body: Constructing the organ diagrams of an English thirteenth-century medical compendium

• Lea Olsan (University of Louisiana at Monroe): Artists’ recipes and medical remedies: useful knowledge in Cambridge University Library MS Dd.5.76


16.30-17.00: Refreshments

17.00 -18.00: Sponsored by the New Chaucer Society


Plenary 1: 
Allan Mitchell (University of Victoria)
'Chaucer’s Translation Machine, or, Astrolabes and Augmented Bodies of Science'

18.00 Reception


Saturday 11 July

09.00- 10.30: 3-paper session


8. Magic and Technology

• Carolina Escobar (Reading): Technology is not magic, or is it? A twelfth-century debate

• Alison Harthill (Cardiff): Necromantic Mechanics: Misunderstood Medieval Technology

• Sara Tagliagamba (Ecole Pratiques des Hautes Etudes, Sorbonne, Paris): Bewitched by demons and angels: Automata, magic and technology in the Renaissance


9. The Science of Experience and the Experience of Science in Chaucerian Dream Poetry

• Charlotte Rudman (King’s College London): Soundscapes in Chaucer’s Dream Poems

• Charlotte Knight (King’s College London): Exploring the Science of Memory in Chaucer’s Dream Poems

• Koren Kuntz (Durham): Ekphrasis, Cognition, and Multimodality in Chaucer’s Dream Poetry


10. Literary Technologies

• Juliette Vuille (University of Oxford): ‘Don’t Shoot the Messenger’: Chaucer’s Experimentation with Messenger Figures

• Jenni Nuttall (St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford): The Techne of Verse-Making: Poetry’s Termes in Middle English

• Sarah Noonan (Lindenwood University): Silent Emendations: Modern Foliation and the Obscured Sophistication of Late-Medieval Technologies of Mise-en-page


10.30 -11.00:Refreshments

11.00 -12.30:3-paper sessions


11. Magic and Medicine

• Katherine Hindley (Yale): ‘Mak a rynge and wryte with in’: Text as Technology in Late Medieval England

• Elma Brenner (Wellcome) 'Between Magic and Religious Culture: Charms in Late Medieval English Medical Manuscripts'

• Mike Leahy (Birkbeck): Relics and Urinals: The Power of Objects in The Canterbury Tales


12. Time in Chaucer

• Kara Gaston (University of Toronto): “Quid enim non carmina possunt?”: Magic and the Poetics of Time Management from Metamorphoses 7 to The Franklin's Tale

• Dawn Walts (Lewis University): The Monk’s Chilindre and the Merchant’s Reckoning in The Shipman’s Tale

• Simon Meecham-Jones (Birkbeck): Technophobia in ‘The Former Age’


13. Philosophical Questions

• Tekla Bude (Newnham College Cambridge): Fetheres of Philosopye: Chaucer and the Metaphysics of Music

• Alexander Gabrovsky (Trinity College Cambridge): Chaucer and the Physics of Sublunary Transformation

• Wan-Chuan Kao (Washington and Lee University): Salvific Energy, Sustainable Faith


12.30 -13.30:Lunch

13.30 -15.00: 3-paper sessions


14. Fertility and Infertility

• Catherine Rider (University of Exeter): Magic, Science and Fertility in Late Medieval England

• Anita Obermeier (University of New Mexico): Birth and Birth Control in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

• Jennifer Alberghini (CUNY): ‘Unkynde Abhouminaciouns’: Monstrous Birth in the Man of Law’s Tale


15. Matter, Spirit and Alchemy

• Susanna Fein (Kent State University): Perceptions of Matter and Spirit: Corpus Christi in Two Canterbury Tales

• Shazia Jagot (University of Southern Denmark): Senior, Sufism and Secrets: The Alchemy of Chaucer’s Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale

• Sandy Feinstein (Penn State University): Teasing Science, Teasing Love: “Dalliance” in “To Rosemounde”


16. Scientific discourses in Chaucer

• Roberta Magnani (University of Swansea): Astronomical Discourse and Queer Identities in the Glosses to The Man of Law’s Tale and The Wife of Bath’s Prologue

• Rebecca Pawel (Columbia University): Chaucer’s Science Fiction

• Ben Parsons (University of Leicester): The Windmills of the Mind: Milling, Madness and ‎Merry-making 


15.00-15.30:Refreshments

15.30 -17.30: 4-paper sessions


17. Magic and Morality

• Jacqueline Borsje (Amsterdam): Gluttony and magic

• Tara Williams (Oregon State University): Moral Chaucer and Magical Gower

• Carole Maddern (Goldsmiths): 'In Rome was swich oon': Virgil the Necromancer

• Robert Epstein (Fairfield University): Magical Properties: The Anthropology of Sorcery and Ownership in Medieval Romance


18. Vision

• Jonathan Hsy (George Washington University): Lyric Devices: Toward a New Cultural History of Medieval Eyeglasses

• Victoria Flood (Phillips-Universität Marburg/ University of Durham): ‘With a look his herte wex a-fere’: The ‘Aggressive Eyes Topos’ and Chaucerian Tragedy

• Jacqueline Tasioulas (Cambridge) Recognition and the ‘Idole of ane Thyng’ in Henryson and Chaucer

• David Raybin (Eastern Illinois University): Stories of Canterbury: Chaucer and the Stained Glass of Canterbury Cathedral


17.45-18.45 Plenary 2
Lisa H Cooper (University of Wisconsin-Madison), On Location: Agronomy and Other Affective Arts


19.00 Conference dinner at Antalya

dimanche 28 juin 2015

Histoire de la grossesse dans le christianisme

A History of Pregnancy in Christianity: From Original Sin to Contemporary Abortion Debates 


Anne Stensvold 

Series: Routledge Music Bibliographies
Hardcover: 218 pages
Publisher: Routledge (June 29, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-0415857581


This book examines changing views of procreation and fetal development throughout the history of the Christian tradition. This is the first comprehensive study of cultural perceptions of pregnancy, an area of scholarship that been understudied in the past. Pregnancy holds a central place in Christian ritual, iconography, and theology, including the dogma of the incarnation and the cult of Virgin Mary. This book provides a broad introduction to the attitudes and ideas within Western Christian communities by focusing on four periods of transition: Antiquity, the Enlightenment, modernity, and the present day. It lays the groundwork for further study of the interactions between biological models, cultural preconceptions, and religious beliefs.

Congrès de l'AAHM

American Association for the History of Medicine 2016 Annual Meeting

Call for Papers


The American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM) invites abstracts for papers in any area of medical history for its 89th annual meeting, to be held in Minneapolis, MN, April 28 to May 1, 2016. The AAHM welcomes papers on the history of health and healing; the history of medical ideas, practices, and institutions; and the history of illness, disease, or public health. Submissions pertaining to all eras and regions of the world are welcome. Papers and panels that expand the horizons of medical history and engage related fields are particularly encouraged. In addition to single-paper proposals, the Program Committee, led by co-chairs Sarah Tracy (swtracy@ou.edu) and Scott Podolsky (scott_podolsky@hms.harvard.edu), encourages proposals for creatively structured panels and for luncheon workshops. Please contact one or both of the Program Committee co-chairs if you are planning a panel or workshop. The Program Committee will judge individual papers in each of these venues on their own merits.

Presentations are limited to no more than twenty minutes. Papers must represent original work not already published or in press. Speakers are encouraged to make their manuscripts available to the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, the official journal of the AAHM.

This year, for the first time, the Program Committee also invites a limited number of poster presentations. Poster proposals likewise will be considered individually.

The AAHM uses an online abstract submissions system, accessible through the organization website at http://histmed.org/cfp2016. If you are unable to submit your proposal online, please contact the Program Committee co-chairs at the email addresses above immediately and be prepared to submit a copy of your paper abstract (no more than 350 words) with title, your name and institutional affiliation, three key words that describe your proposed paper, and three Continuing Medical Education (CME) learning objectives (the learning objectives are not considered part of the word count). For suggestions on developing learning objectives, see http://www.histmed.org/learning-objectives. Late submissions will not be accepted.

Over the past two years, the number of abstracts submitted for consideration has increased significantly. The acceptance rate for proposals has decreased accordingly. With this in mind, the Program Committee offers some guidelines for writing a successful abstract.

1. Provide an overview of the problem or story that your paper addresses; include the major actors and interests involved as well as the specific dates or historical timeframe of your paper. BIG PICTURE.

2. Contextualize your problem or story within the history of medicine and/or scholarly literature. HISTORICAL/HISTORIOGRAPHIC CONTEXT.

3. Discuss the methods your paper employs to address the problem or story. SOURCES, ANALYSIS, AND PERSPECTIVE EMPLOYED.

4. Present your conclusion or interpretation of the narrative or problem you discuss and state its significance. SUMMARY AND IMPLICATIONS.

5. Include three key words that best describe your paper’s focus. KEY WORDS.

6. State three CME learning objectives for those seeking CME credit. Please note that such credit is vital to many AAHM members. CME OBJECTIVES.


Collections of successful abstracts from the 2014 and 2015 programs are available online at http://www.histmed.org/meetings. Individuals are not required to be AAHM members at the time of submitting abstracts, but must join AAHM before registering for and presenting at the meeting.

Abstracts must be submitted by September 28, 2015. We will make your email address available, if your paper is accepted, unless you opt out of this by emailing scott_podolsky@hms.harvard.edu.

samedi 27 juin 2015

Oeuvres complètes de Canguilhem

Œuvres complètes Tome IV : Résistance, philosophie biologique et histoire des sciences 1940-1965

Georges Canguilhem

 

Vrin - Bibliothèque des Textes Philosophiques
1296 pages - 14 × 20,5 cm
ISBN 978-2-7116-2363-1 - mai 2015

Personnage majeur, par ses fonctions institutionnelles et son rôle philosophique, dans l’univers intellectuel de la France de l’après-guerre, Georges Canguilhem exerça une influence profonde sur plusieurs générations d’universitaires et de professeurs de philosophie, ainsi que sur quelques grands noms des sciences humaines et sociales. Il fut longtemps connu pour ses travaux d’histoire des sciences et ses vues originales sur la technique. Il porta une attention plus particulière aux sciences de la vie et aux pratiques de la médecine qu’il aborda avec une grande rigueur conceptuelle. Mais depuis une décennie, en même temps que s’opérait une reconnaissance internationale dépassant largement le cercle de ceux qui l’ont connu, un intérêt nouveau pour la personne et l’œuvre s’est développé, qui déborde la seule spécialité philosophique. Ce quatrième tome des Œuvres complètes réunit une centaine des écrits de Georges Canguilhem rédigés de 1940 à 1965. Plus d’une quarantaine en étaient jusqu’ici peu connus, voire pour bon nombre tout à fait inconnus. Ces écrits de sa maturité, de 36 à 61 ans, permettent de jauger la profondeur et l’ampleur de son engagement dans la Résistance, de cerner les assises de son projet initial d’une philosophie biologique, et aussi de mieux saisir dans quelles conditions il en vint, assez tardivement, au milieu des années 1950, à affirmer son identité d’historien des sciences et d’épistémologue. Le lecteur constatera que ce Canguilhem de la maturité n’aurait pas démérité aux yeux du jeune philosophe fougueux qu’avait révélé le premier tome de ces Œuvres complètes : plusieurs de ses écrits, des années noires de l’Occupation jusqu’à celles de la guerre d’Algérie et des tumultueux débuts de la Ve République, s’avèrent aujourd’hui des modèles de prises de parole responsables, d’authentiques « interventions philosophiques ».

Canadian Historical Review

Canadian Historical Review

Appel de textes/ Call for papers

La Canadian Historical Review – la plus importante revue scientifique consacrée à l’histoire canadienne – publie de la recherche inédite et rigoureuse en français et en anglais. Les articles publiés dans la CHR sont cités plus souvent que ceux publiés dans toute autre revue d'histoire canadienne. Au cours des cinq dernières années seulement, des articles ont été téléchargés plus de 113 327 fois! Les directeurs de la CHR, tout comme les membres du Comité de rédaction, acceptent des manuscrits provenant d’universitaires à tout stade de leur carrière, résidant au Canada ou ailleurs. Ces manuscrits peuvent traiter de n’importe quel aspect ou période de l’histoire canadienne. Nous nous intéressons à un large spectre de sujets, de perspectives et de cadres analytiques et nous encourageons des approches innovatrices et créatives, tout comme des méthodes de recherche et des styles de narration plus classiques. Des études qui analysent le passé canadien dans une perspective transnationale ou comparée sont également les bienvenues.

La Canadian Historical Review publie des articles de longueur « standard » tirés de recherches dans les sources. Nous considérons également des articles plus courts et exploratoires, de nature historiographique, pour la section « Forum » de la revue. L’année 2014 vit le début d’une nouvelle section occasionnelle, « Perspectives historiques », qui met en valeur des discussions entre plusieurs chercheurs à propos de sujets et historiographies importants. Enfin, les directeurs de la revue accueillent avec plaisir les formats d’articles différents, surtout s’ils favorisent le débat et les échanges scientifiques.

Les articles acceptés par la CHR paraissent, en règle générale, de 13 à 18 mois après la soumission initiale. Tout article publié dans la Canadian Historical Review concourt pour le Prix CHR, décerné chaque année au meilleur article.

La collection complète d’articles publiés dans la CHR est disponible sur CHR Online. Cette collection remonte jusqu’en 1897, à une époque où la revue qui est aujourd’hui la CHR (fondée en 1920) était The Review of Historical Publications Relating to Canada. CHR Online (bit.ly/chronline) répond aux besoins de recherche actuels des historiens, des professeurs et des étudiants. La CHR est également disponible en ligne via Project MUSE (bit.ly/ChrPM).

Pour davantage d’informations concernant les soumissions à la CHR (y compris les normes de rédaction), veuillez visiter le site Internet http://bit.ly/CHR_français.

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The Canadian Historical Review, the pre-eminent journal of Canadian history, is dedicated to publishing original scholarship of the highest scholarly standards in French and English. CHR articles are cited more than those published in any other Canadian history journal. In the last five years alone, articles were downloaded over 113,327 times. Both the CHR editors and editorial board welcome academics at any stage of their career, from Canada and beyond, to explore any aspect or period of Canadian history. We invite a broad range of topics, perspectives, and interpretive frameworks, and encourage imagination and innovation along with the more traditional approaches used in historical research and writing. Comparative and transnational approaches to understanding Canada’s past are also welcome.

The Canadian Historical Review publishes standard, full-length articles based on primary research as well as “Forum” pieces that can be more experimental, historiographic in their approach, and shorter. In 2014, a new section was introduced to the CHR, “Historical Perspectives”. This occasional section showcases discussion among multiple scholars of important topics and historiographies. The editors also welcome suggestions for alternative formats, especially those that promote scholarly exchange and debate.

Articles accepted for publication typically appear in the CHR thirteen to eighteen months after submission. Articles published in CHR will automatically be considered for the journal’s annual ‘Best Article’ prize.

Canadian Historical Review’s complete collection of current and past articles is available at CHR Online, including works dating back to 1897 when CHR (launched in 1920) was The Review of Historical Publications Relating to Canada. CHR Online (bit.ly/chronline) addresses the research needs of today's historians, professors, and students. CHR is also available online through Project MUSE(bit.ly/ChrPM).

Visit the http://bit.ly/CHR_Submissions for more information regarding submissions to CHR, including guidelines for submission.

vendredi 26 juin 2015

Maternité et petite enfance dans l'Antiquité

Le sourire d'Omphale : Maternité et petite enfance dans l'Antiquité

Véronique Dasen

Presses Universitaires de Rennes
408 pages ; 24 x 15,5 cm ; broché
ISBN 978-2-7535-4015-6
EAN 9782753540156
Date de parution 25/06/2015




Véronique Dasen présente dans cet ouvrage des études en partie inédites sur la maternité, la naissance et la petite enfance dans le monde grec et romain. Composée de différentes sources, écrites, iconographiques et archéologiques, cette riche documentation jette un éclairage nouveau sur le statut de l’enfant à naître et du nouveau-né, ainsi que sur les pouvoirs que les femmes ont su s’aménager quand la vie et la mort se côtoient.



Art, anatomie et médecine

Art, Anatomy, and Medicine Since 1700

Call for Papers

Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina,
March 31-April 1, 2016.

Deadline: July 15

A two-day symposium sponsored by the University of South Carolina’s Provost’s Office and the School of Visual Art, in partnership with the Columbia Museum of Art To be held @ the Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina, March 31-April 1, 2016
The symposium organizer seeks proposals for papers that address visual, theoretical, cultural, historical and/or contemporary connections, relationships, conflicts and/or collaborations among the visual arts, anatomy/dissection, and medicine from the eighteenth century to the present. Participants may be historians of art, medicine, science or technology, art educators, medical professionals, artists (who may propose to contextualize their own work), etc. Successful papers may also be invited for publication in an edited volume of the same theme.
Broad topics may include (but are certainly not limited to):
  • The role of anatomy in artists’ training (past, present and/or future)
  • Artists’ roles in the creation/dissemination of anatomical knowledge
  • Artistic representation of anatomical and medical professionals
  • Anatomical and medical models: from écorché figures to nano-imagery
  • Anatomy as art, art as anatomy
  • Anatomical displays, exhibitions (e.g. Body Worlds), and collections: from curious to educational to controversial
  • Corpses, dissection and grave-robbing in art, literature and medical history
  • Imaging bodily surface and anatomical depth: from sculpture to M.R.I.s and beyond
  • Beyond human, superhuman, inhuman(e)?: technological ‘improvements’, additions and extensions of human anatomy from prosthetics/implants to Google glasses
  • Zombies and vampires, and the creative/fantastic defiance of or resistance to anatomical, medical and worldly reality
  • The evolutionary human in art and science: looking backward and looking ahead
  • Parts vs. whole: the functions of specificity and generality in aesthetics and visual medical information 
Please send cover letter, abstract (no more than 3 pages, double-spaced typed), and CV to Dr. Andrew Graciano, Associate Professor of Art History and Associate Director, School of Visual Art and Design via email: graciano [at] mailbox.sc.edu.
Image: De dissectione partium corporis humani...Charles Estienne, anatomist; Paris, 1545. Woodcut. National Library of Medicine. As seen in Dream Anatomy, curated by Michael Sappol

Travel and lodging funds available for speakers. 

jeudi 25 juin 2015

La foi qui guérit

La foi qui guérit

Jean-Martin Charcot

Préface de : Philippe GALANOPOULOS


Payot & Rivages
Collection : Rivages Poche / Petite Bibliothèque
Poche | 128 pages. | Paru en : Juin 2015 | Prix : 5.10 €


Publié en 1892, La Foi qui guérit compte parmi les textes plus commentés du maître de La Salpêtrière. Souvent présenté comme le « testament philosophique de Charcot », ce texte interroge la relation étroite entre le corps et l’esprit et attribue les guérisons réputées miraculeuses à une force curative commune à chaque individu. Charcot place sa réflexion sous l’angle de la suggestion et de l’autosuggestion, deux objets d’étude qui, avec l’hypnose, suscitent autant de fascination que de controverses.

Deux postes de recherche sur Galien

Two Research Associates

Call for applications


Closing date : 16/07/2015
Reference : HUM-06639
Faculty / Organisational unit : Humanities
School / Directorate : School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
Employment type : Fixed Term
Duration : 1 December 2015 to 30 November 2019
Location : Oxford Road, Manchester
Salary : £30,434 per annum
Hours per week : Full time

The John Rylands Research Institute was established in 2013 as a unique partnership between The University of Manchester Library (one of the largest academic library services in the UK) and the University’s Faculty of Humanities. Its activity extends across all the University’s faculties and is truly interdisciplinary. The Institute aims to uncover, explore, unravel and reveal hidden ideas and knowledge contained within our world-leading Special Collections. Digital image capture and analysis is a key research area of the Institute, helping it to unlock this research potential. We are creating an international community of scholars and researchers across many disciplines, to support research and to bring this information to the wider academic community and public.

The Institute’s Director has recently received funding for a large-scale (£1m) project entitled ‘The Syriac Galen Palimpsest: Galen’s On Simple Drugs and the Recovery of Lost Texts through Sophisticated Imaging Techniques’.

We are seeking to recruit two Research Associates who will be part of a team comprising of the principle investigator (Professor Peter E. Pormann) and two co-investigators (Dr Bill Sellers and Dr Siam Bhayro). You will be supervised by Professor Pormann and Dr Siam Bhayro. As Research Associate to this project you will identify and transcribe under text of the SGP, analyse the text with reference to British Library manuscripts and Greek versions, disseminate your findings by means of presentation and publication and assist the Principle Investigators in organising workshops and conferences. You will also be expected to play an active role in the Institute, such as attending and contributing to seminars and lectures.

You will have a strong command of Syriac and Greek, a doctorate and proven track record of research in the field of Syria Studies and previous experience of reading Syriac manuscripts. You will also need excellent interpersonal and communication skills, be able to prioritise and manage your own workload meeting deadlines where applicable, be able to work independently and as part of a collaborative team.

As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons. However, as black and minority ethnic (BME) candidates are currently under-represented at this level in this area, we would particularly welcome applications from BME applicants. All appointments will be made on merit.

Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:

Professor Peter E. Pormann

Dr Siam Bhayro

mercredi 24 juin 2015

Dernier numéro du Bulletin canadien d'histoire de la médecine

Bulletin canadien d'histoire de la médecine / Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 

Vol 32, No 1





Editorsʼ Note / Note des rédactrices
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Guest Editors' Introduction / Introduction des rédactrices invitées 
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Articles

Filles et justice : l’ambivalence de la prise en charge institutionnelle des « cas-problèmes » (Belgique, 1922–1965)
Veerle Massin
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Un « Modèle » Bon-Pastorien ? Les institutions pour jeunes filles de la congrégation du Bon-Pasteur en France et en Allemagne entre la première moitié du 19e et la seconde moitié du 20e siècle Catherine Maurer

« Sans honte et sans regret » : Les chemins de traverse entre le pénal et le psychiatrique dans les cas d’aliénation criminelle à Montréal, 1920–1950
Isabelle Perrault
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Heredity As Ideology: Ideas of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of The United States and Ontario on Heredity and Social Reform, 1880–1910
Riiko Bedford
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Portrait d’une institution oubliée : l’hôpital privé à but lucratif, 1900–1960
Aline Charles, François Guérard
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L’infirmière du Québec : Un discours d’élites professionnelles, 1993–2003
Évy Nazon
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Malaria and Miscarriage in Ancient Rome1
Joan Stivala
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“Tobacco Truths”: Health Magazine, Clinical Epidemiology, and the Cigarette Connection
Sara Wilmshurst
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Equine Surgery at the Ontario Veterinary College in the Early 20th Century
Kevin Woodger, Elizabeth Stone
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Book Reviews / Comptes Rendus

Review: Lyle Creelman: The Frontiers of Global Nursing by Susan Armstrong-Reid
Sandra Trudgen Dawson
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Compte Rendu: Les relations médecin-malade. Des temps modernes à l’époque contemporaine, Élisabeth Belmas et Serenella Nonnis-Vigilante, dir.
Alexandre Klein
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Review: The Body Divided: Human Beings and Human “Material” in Modern Medical History, Sarah Ferber and Sally Wilde, eds. & Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires: The History of Corpse Medicine from the Renaissance to the Victorians by Richard Sugg
Elise Juzda Smith
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Review: Small Matters: Canadian Children in Sickness and Health by Mona Gleason
Nina Bozzo
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Compte Rendu: Histoire de la médecine au Québec, 1800–2000. De l’art de soigner à la science de guérir par Denis Goulet et Robert Gagnon
Jacques Bernier
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Review: Against Their Will: The Secret History of Medical Experimentation on Children in Cold War America by Allen M. Hornblum, Judith L. Newman, and Gregory J. Dober
Tarah Brookfield
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Review: “Regimental Practice” by John Buchanan, M.D. An Eighteenth-Century Medical Diary and Manual, Paul Kopperman, ed.
Ernest Hook
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Review: Body Failure: Medical Views of Women, 1900–1950 by Wendy Mitchinson
Nicole Howard
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Review: Conflicts of Interest and the Future of Medicine: The United States, France, and Japan by Marc A. Rodwin
Nava Blum, Angèle Fauchier
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Review: Institutionalizing the Insane in Nineteenth-Century England by Anna Shepherd
Benjamin Levy
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Bridging Two Peoples: Chief Peter E. Jones, 1843–1909 by Allan Sherwin
Frank Stahnisch
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Review: Partnership for Excellence: Medicine at the University of Toronto and Academic Hospitals by Edward Shorter
Jessica Nickrand
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Review: The Making of Modern Anthrax, 1875–1920 by James F. Stark
Elisabeth Heaman
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Compte Rendu: Sorrows of a Century. Interpreting Suicide in New Zealand, 1900–2000 par John C. Weaver
Isabelle Perrault
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Review: Chronic Disease in the Twentieth Century: A History by George Weisz
Kelsey Lucyk
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Review: Medical Consulting by Letter in France, 1665–1789 by Robert Weston
Adriana Benzaquén

Review: The Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Medicine, and Modern American Life by Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
Brittany Cowgill
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Dissertations / Thèses
CBMH ADMIN
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Cover / Couverture
Image: Hôpital St. Jean-de-Dieu, Montréal,photo gracieusement l’Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal, ©iusmm.com
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Bourses de séjours à l'académie de médecine de New-York

New York Academy of Medicine history of medicine fellowships


Call for Applications


The New York Academy of Medicine’s Library and Center for the History of Medicine and Public Health offers two one-month residential fellowships to support research projects focused on the history of medicine and public health. Application forms for the fellowships, the Paul Klemperer Fellowship in the History of Medicine and the Audrey and William H. Helfand Fellowship in the History of Medicine and Public Health, are now available on our website. Please note that both the application and award schedule have changed from previous years. Applications for the next round of fellowships are due by the end of the day on Monday, August 17, 2015,for awards that may be used at any time during the 2016 calendar year.

Complete information and instructions can be found here for the Klemperer fellowship: http://www.nyam.org/grants/klemperer.html

and here for the Helfand fellowship: http://www.nyam.org/grants/helfand.html

Please send questions and requests for assistance (either with the application or for help in determining the utility of the Academy’s collections for projects) to history@nyam.org

Arlene Shaner
Reference Librarian for Historical Collections
Center for the History of Medicine and Public Health
The New York Academy of Medicine
Tel: 212-822-7313
Email: ashaner@nyam.org

mardi 23 juin 2015

Dernier numéro du Bulletin of the History of Medicine

Bulletin of the History of Medicine

Volume 89, Number 2, Summer 2015


Forum

Introduction: Beyond Illustrations: p. 165-170
Carin Berkowitz


The Illustrious Anatomist: Authorship, Patronage, and Illustrative Style in Anatomy Folios, 1700–1840 p. 171-208
Carin Berkowitz

The Rise of Pathological Illustrations: Baillie, Bleuland, and Their Collections p. 209-242
Domenico Bertoloni Meli

Two Australian Fetuses: Frederic Wood Jones and the Work of an Anatomical Specimen p. 243-266
Lisa O’Sullivan, Ross L. Jones

Articles

Women Doctors and Lady Nurses: Class, Education, and the Professional Victorian Woman p. 267-292
Vanessa Heggie

Debating Diseases in Nineteenth-Century Colombia: Causes, Interests, and the Pasteurian Therapeutics p. 293-321
Mónica García


News and Events

Call for Papers, 2016 Annual Meeting p. 322-323

Digital Media and Humanities

What’s in a Game?: A Survey of Digital Game Opportunities for Medical Historians p. 324-329
Lisa Rosner

Website Review: Early Modern Medicine p. 329-330
Michelle DiMeo

Museum Review: Berlin Museum of Medical History p. 331-332
James M. Edmonson

Book Reviews

Memory: Encounters with the Strange and the Familiar by John Scanlan (review) p. 333-334
Jesse F. Ballenger

Life Writing and Schizophrenia: Encounters at the Edge of Meaning by Mary Elene Wood (review) p. 334-336
Gail A. Hornstein

Pornographic Archaeology: Medicine, Medievalism, and the Invention of the French Nation by Zrinka Stahuljak (review) p. 336-337
Christopher E. Forth

The Metamorphoses of Fat: A History of Obesity by Georges Vigarello (review) p. 338-339
Deborah Levine

Walking Corpses: Leprosy in Byzantium and the Medieval West by Timothy S. Miller, John W. Nesbitt (review) p. 339-340
Luke Demaitre

Sir Thomas Browne: A Life by Reid Barbour (review) p. 341-342
Natalie Kaoukji

Nicolaus Steno: Biography and Original Papers of a 17th Century Scientist ed. by Troels Kardel, Paul Maquet (review) p. 342-343
Marco Bresadola

Rhetoric and Medicine in Early Modern Europe ed. by Stephen Pender, Nancy S. Struever (review) p. 344-346
Angus Gowland

From the Womb to the Body Politic: Raising the Nation in Enlightenment Russia by Anna Kuxhausen (review) p. 346-348
Michelle Lamarche Marrese

Medicine and the Workhouse ed. by Jonathan Reinarz, Leonard Schwarz (review) p. 348-350
Graham Mooney

Should a Doctor Tell? The Evolution of Medical Confidentiality in Britain by Angus H. Ferguson (review) p. 350-351
Andreas-Holger Maehle

Doctoring Freedom: The Politics of African American Medical Care in Slavery and Emancipation by Gretchen Long (review) p. 352-353
Adam Biggs

Diagnosing Empire: Women, Medical Knowledge, and Colonial Mobility by Narin Hassan (review) p. 353-355
Maneesha Lal

Modern Colonization by Medical Intervention: U.S. Medicine in Puerto Rico by Nicole Trujillo-Pagán (review) p. 356-357
Mariola Espinosa

Chronic Disease in the Twentieth Century: A History by George Weisz (review) p. 357-358
Daniel M. Fox

Jungle Fever: Exploring Madness and Medicine in Twentieth-Century Tropical Narratives by Charlotte Rogers (review) p. 358-360
Hans Pols

The Spanish Flu: Narrative and Cultural Identity in Spain, 1918 by Ryan A. Davis (review) p. 360-361
Liane Maria Bertucci

Imaging and Imagining the Fetus: The Development of Obstetric Ultrasound by Malcolm Nicolson, John E. E. Fleming (review) p. 361-362
Lisa M. Mitchell

What’s Wrong with the Poor? Psychiatry, Race, and the War on Poverty by Mical Raz (review) p. 363-364
Dennis A. Doyle

Bodies in Formation: An Ethnography of Anatomy and Surgery Education by Rachel Prentice (review) p. 364-365
Delia Gavrus

Scrambling for Africa: AIDS, Expertise, and the Rise of American Global Health Science by Johanna Tayloe Crane (review) p. 366-367
Mari K. Webel

Birth in the Age of AIDS: Women, Reproduction, and HIV/AIDS in India by Cecilia van Hollen (review) p. 368-369
Manjari Mahajan

Clinical Labor: Tissue Donors and Research Subjects in the Global Bioeconomy by Melinda Cooper, Catherine Waldby (review)p . 370-371
Rayna Rapp

Book Notes p. 372-373



Books Received p. 374-377

Regards sur la dé(re)figuration

Face à Face : Regards sur la dé(re)figuration

Exposition 


Du 22 juin au 11 novembre 2015


Historial de la Grande Guerre
Château de Péronne
BP 20063
80201 PERONNE cedex
Tél : (+33) 3 22 83 14 18


A partir de l’histoire des « Gueules Cassées » , ces combattants défigurés de la Première Guerre mondiale, « Face à Face » permettra d’évoquer l’évolution de la pensée médicale et des pratiques médicales grâce aux documents et objets choisis dans les collections étudiées de quelques illustres chirurgiens de la Grande Guerre.
Ces moulages, outils médicaux, photographies, témoignages écrits et filmés seront mis en perspective avec les moyens, techniques et réalisation actuels attestant de l’importante influence de la rencontre des médecins du début du siècle venus de tout horizon au service des soldats défigurés dans la pratique actuelle.
Pour cette exposition temporaire exceptionnelle, l’Historial de la Grande Guerre donne carte blanche au Professeur Bernard Devauchelle ; Président de l’Institut Faire Face, Chef de service Chirurgie Maxillo-Faciale au CHU d’Amiens, le Professeur Devauchelle assure le Commissariat de cette exposition.


Entrée libre et gratuite.

lundi 22 juin 2015

Hermann Lotze

Hermann Lotze: An Intellectual Biography

William R. Woodward



Series: Cambridge Studies in the History of Psychology
Hardcover: 515 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (June 9, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-0521418485

As a philosopher, psychologist, and physician, the German thinker Hermann Lotze (1817-1881) defies classification. Working in the mid-nineteenth-century era of programmatic realism, he critically reviewed and rearranged theories and concepts in books on pathology, physiology, medical psychology, anthropology, history, aesthetics, metaphysics, logic, and religion. Leading anatomists and physiologists reworked his hypotheses about the central and autonomic nervous systems. Dozens of fin-de-siècle philosophical contemporaries emulated him, yet often without acknowledgment, precisely because he had made conjecture and refutation into a method. In spite of Lotze's status as a pivotal figure in nineteenth-century intellectual thought, no complete treatment of his work exists, and certainly no effort to take account of the feminist secondary literature. Hermann Lotze: An Intellectual Biography is the first full-length historical study of Lotze's intellectual origins, scientific community, institutional context, and worldwide reception.

Bourses de recherche Hewton & Griffin

The Hewton & Griffin Bursaries for Archival Research

Call for applications

The Friends of the Archives at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) have established two endowment funds. The Friends of the Archives is dedicated to the history of Canadian psychiatry, mental health and addiction. These funds annually provide bursaries in memory of Ms. E.M. Hewton and Dr. J.D.M. (Jack) Griffin, O.C.

Purpose of the Bursaries:
To provide financial assistance to students and others not necessarily associated with an academic institution
Applicants must intend to undertake archival research on an aspect of the history of mental health or addiction in Canada
The board of the Friends of the Archives at its discretion may approve bursaries to a maximum of $2,500 each
The bursaries funding is for 2016

Application Process:
Candidates are invited to submit a letter of intent not exceeding 300 words. There is not an application form
The letter of intent must be accompanied by a budget and résumé
These awards are conditional on the bursary holders agreeing to submit progress reports within one year and a final report including a financial synopsis within two years of receiving the bursary
Application deadline is November 30, 2015

Submitting Your Application:
To apply, submit an application to Vivienne Gibbs, President, Friends of the Archives, CAMH, 1001 Queen Street West Toronto, Ontario M6J 1H4
Please note that electronic submissions are preferred, via: John.Court@camh.ca

Want to learn more about the Friends of the Archives ? Read the latest newsletter at http://www.camh.ca/en/education/about/services/camh_library/Pages/guide_friends_archives.aspx

dimanche 21 juin 2015

Histoire des traitements ultraviolets

Lichtduschen. Geschichte einer Gesundheitstechnik, 1890-1975

Niklaus Ingold


Chronos 2015 
Intereferenzen - Studien zur Kulturgeschichte der Technik, Bd. 22.
ISBN 978-3-0340-1276-8


«Lichtduschen» war die Bezeichnung für kurze Bestrahlungen des Körpers mit Ultraviolettlicht. In den Strahlenabteilungen deutscher Krankenhäuser entwickelt, vermarktete die Elektroindustrie das Lichtduschen ab den 1920er Jahren als gesundheitsförderndes Handeln, das Männern, Frauen und Kindern zu einem erfolgreichen Leben in der modernen Welt verhelfe. Regelmässige Selbstbestrahlungen mit Heimsonnen sollten den Körper stärken und die Arbeits- und Leistungsfähigkeit steigern. Anders als die 1975 eingeführten elektrischen Solarien waren die älteren Ultraviolettlampen also nicht nur zur Verschönerung des Teints gedacht.

Anhand des Lichtduschens erzählt Niklaus Ingold die Geschichte der Verwissenschaftlichung und Kommerzialisierung der Lichtaussetzung des Körpers. Die Untersuchung folgt einem technowissenschaftlichen Projekt, das im 19. Jahrhundert mit der Verwendung elektrischer Lampen als Sonnenmodelle in lichtbiologischen Experimenten und medizinischen Behandlungsversuchen begann. Neues Wissen und neue Praktiken zirkulierten nun zwischen industriellen Ballungsräumen und alpinen Heillandschaften. In der Forschungsliteratur, in lebensreformerischen Gesundheitsratgebern und in den Massenblättern westlicher Gesellschaften nahm eine spezifische Vorstellung gesunden Lichts Gestalt an.

Prix Paul Bunge

Paul Bunge Prize 2016 : History of Scientific Instruments

Call for applications


The German Chemical Society (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker- GDCh) extends its invitation for international applications for the Paul Bunge Prize 2016. The Prize is awarded by the Hans R. Jenemann Foundation and administered by the German Chemical Society (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker) and the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry (Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie).

The prize is endowed with 7.500,- Euro and honours outstanding publications in German, English or French in all fields of the history of scientific instruments. In addition to the published work, applications must include a curriculum vitae and a list of publications. The deadline for nominations and self-nominations is September 30, 2015.

Nominations and self-nominations may be submitted. The Advisory Board of the Hans R. Jenemann Foundation will decide on the prize winner.

The prize is named after Paul Bunge, the most important maker of analytical, assay and high-performance precision balances in the second half of the 19th century.

The award ceremony will take place in Rostock on the occasion of the conference of the Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie (May 5 – 7, 2016).

Please submit your nomination by September 30, 2015 to Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, Barbara Köhler, b.koehler@gdch.de, P.O.Box 90 04 40 / 60444 FRANKFURT / Varrentrappstr. 40 – 42, 60486 FRANKFURT, GERMANY

For forther information see https://www.gdch.de/gdch/preise-und-auszeichnungen/stiftungen/jenemann-stiftung.html

samedi 20 juin 2015

Les infirmières pendant la première guerre mondiale

The First World War: Nursing

Call for Papers

Saturday, 21 November 2015
University of Worcester, City Campus, Castle Street, Worcester, WR1 3AS.

The Conference is organised by: The Women‟s History Network, Midlands Region
The University of Worcester‟s annual Women‟s History Conference seeks papers for next year‟s event under the heading of „The First World War: Nursing‟.
Edith Cavell was executed by a firing squad in Brussels on 12 October 1915 and as part of our ongoing participation in events to mark the centenary of the First World War, the centenary of Cavell‟s death seemed to provide an important reminder of the contribution made by nurses to that conflict. As a result we are calling for papers on any topic related to the role of nurses in the First World War. As always we encourage contributions that reflect the global nature of this war and the wide variety of women who provided care for those suffering the devastating results of mechanised warfare.
The keynote address entitled ‘Nursing: An International Profession in a World Conflict’will be delivered by Professor of Nursing History, Christine E. Hallett, The University of Manchester.

Send an abstract of 300 words to Dr Wendy Toon w.toon@worc.ac.uk by 31 July 2015.

La psychiatrie pendant la Première Guerre Mondiale

Psychiatry During World War One 

Call for papers

The Heimatpflege des Bezirks Schwaben, the Schwabenakademie Irsee and the Bildungswerk des Bayerischen Bezirketags will host a conference entitled “Psychiatry during WWI” in collaboration with the Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie II of Ulm University at Kloster Irsee.

Calls for papers due 20th July 2015 We invite proposals for contributions of unpublished research of 30 minutes max., followed by a discussion of 15 minutes. We particularly welcome reports dealing with hospitals and asylums in Britain, France and Italy as well as summarising accounts from these countries.

The conference languages are German and English. The event takes place on Thursday and Friday, 4 and 5 February 2016. Publication of the conference results is envisaged as part of the series “Irseer Schriften: Studien zur Wirtschafts-, Kultur- und Mentalitätsgeschichte” (UVK Verlagsgesellschaft).

vendredi 19 juin 2015

Stress dans la Grande Bretagne d'après-guerre

Stress in Post-war Britain. 1945-1985

Mark Jackson (Editor)


Series: Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Pickering & Chatto Ltd (June 15, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-1848934733


In the years following World War II the health and well-being of the nation was of primary concern to the British government. The essays in this collection examine the relationship between health and stress in post-war Britain through a series of carefully connected case studies. Chapters in part one look at the experience and management of stress for both civilians and former military personnel immediately after the war, while part two deals with the development of psychological, physiological and psychosocial theories in the second half of the twentieth century.

L'hôpital de convalescence de Leeds

Temple Newsam House: Convalescent Hospital

Exhibition

A new exhibition has opened at Temple Newsam House in Leeds focussing on the history of the house as First World War convalescent hospital. This new exhibition is in partnership with Legacies of War at the University of Leeds. The collaboration has shone new light on the lives of the nurses who worked at the hospital and working with the university has put the lives of the stories brought forward by members of the community into a wider context.
The hospital was run by Lady Dorothy Wood and unique access to the archives of the Halifax Estate has brought her pragmatic attitude to running the hospital to the fore in the exhibition. Lady Dorothy recalled in her memoirs that she left much of the nursing to the VADs as “they were so keen to practice”. On another occasion she teaches some soldiers returning late and drunk a lesson by confiscating their trousers.
The exhibition runs until 1st November 2015 and is accompanied by a series of public events includes: The Country House & the First World War, Study Day: Nurses & Nursing , The film „Griet‟ ,The Gledhow Scrapbook and Frontline Medicine.


jeudi 18 juin 2015

Journal d'un chirurgien confédéré

Resisting Sherman: A Confederate Surgeon's Journal and the Civil War in the Carolinas, 1865 


Thomas Robertson



Hardcover: 192 pages
Publisher: Savas Beatie (June 17, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-1611212600


Surprisingly little ink has been spilled on the final months of the Civil War in the Carolinas, despite its fascinating cast of characters, host of combats large and small, and its impact on the course of the war. Resisting Sherman: A Confederate Surgeon’s Journal and the Civil War in the Carolinas, 1865, by Francis Marion Robertson (edited by Thomas H. Robertson, Jr.) fills in many of the gaps and adds tremendously to our knowledge of this region and those troubled final days of the Confederacy.

Surgeon Francis Robertson fled Charleston with the Confederate garrison in 1865 in an effort to stay ahead of General Sherman’s Federal army as it marched north from Savannah. The Southern high command was attempting to assemble General Joseph E. Johnston’s force in North Carolina for a last-ditch effort to defeat Sherman and perhaps join with General Lee in Virginia, or at least gain better terms for surrender. Dr. Robertson, a West Pointer, physician, professor, politician, patrician, and Presbyterian, with five sons in the Confederate army, kept a daily journal for the final three months of the Civil War while traveling more than 900 miles through four states. His account looks critically at the decisions of generals from a middle ranking officer’s viewpoint, describes army movements from a ground level perspective, and places the military campaign within the everyday events of average citizens suffering under the boot of war.

Editor and descendant Thomas Robertson followed in his ancestor’s footsteps, conducting exhaustive research to identify the people, route, and places mentioned in the journal. Sidebars on a wide variety of related issues include coverage of politics and the Battle of Averasboro, where one of the surgeon’s sons was shot. An extensive introduction covers the military situation in and around Charleston that led to the evacuation described so vividly by Surgeon Robertson, and an epilogue summarizes what happened to the diary characters after the war. Resisting Sherman is a valuable addition to Civil War literature.

Histoire de la pilosité faciale

Framing the Face. New perspectives on the history of facial hair

Call for Papers


One-day workshop, 28 November 2015

Friend’s Meeting House, Euston Road, London


Over the past five centuries, facial hair has been central to debates about masculinity. Over time, changing views of masculinity, self-fashioning, the body, gender, sexuality and culture have all strongly influenced men’s decisions to wear, or not wear, facial hair. For British Tudor men, beards were a symbol of sexual maturity and prowess. Throughout the early modern period, debates also raged about the place of facial hair within a humoural medical framework. The eighteenth century, by contrast, saw beards as unrefined and uncouth; clean-shaven faces reflected enlightened values of neatness and elegance, and razors were linked to new technologies. Victorians conceived of facial hair in terms of the natural primacy of men, and new models of hirsute manliness. All manner of other factors from religion to celebrity culture have intervened to shape decisions about facial hair and shaving. 

And yet, despite a recent growth in interest in the subject, we still know little about the significance, context and meanings of beards and moustaches through time, or of its relationship to important factors such as medicine and medical practice, technology and shifting models of masculinity. We therefore welcome papers related to, but by no means limited to the following questions: 
  • To what extent were beards a symbol of masculinity and what key attributes of masculinity did they symbolise? 
  • To what extent did the profession of the barber influence beard styles and the management of facial hair? 
  • To what extent were beard trends led by the elite and by metropolitan fashion? 
  • How far did provincial trends influence metropolitan trends through migration? 
  • What impact did changing shaving technologies have on beard fashions/trends?
  • How were beards understood within the medical frameworks of different eras? 
  • How have women responded to facial hair in different eras? 
  • How has the display of facial hair by women been viewed as both a medical and cultural phenomena?

Please send abstracts of up to 300 words, by 30th September 2015, to framingtheface@gmail.com

For further information please contact the organisers
Dr Alun Withey, University of Exeter A.Withey@exeter.ac.uk
Dr Jennifer Evans, University of Hertfordshire J.evans5@herts.ac.uk

mercredi 17 juin 2015

Sociohistoire des pollutions atmosphériques

Un air familier ? Sociohistoire des pollutions atmosphériques

Charvolin Florian , Frioux Stéphane , Kamoun Léa , Mélard François, Roussel Isabelle


Date : 2015 -06
Editions : Presses des mines
Collection : Sciences sociales
ISBN : 978-2-35671-206-6
- 238 pages


Pollutions au mercaptan, particules de moteur diesel dans l’air, odeurs de raffineries, rejets d’anhydrides sulfureux… nous avons tous périodiquement l’impression de vivre dans un monde irrespirable. Cet air, si familier qu’il passe aussi inaperçu que le fait de le respirer, est devenu avec le progrès scientifique et l’industrialisation une affaire d’expertise et de politiques publiques. L’ouvrage montre comment l’air se manifeste dans la vie de nos concitoyens depuis le milieu du XIXe siècle : affaire de perception d’abord, de revendication ensuite, et finalement, depuis les années 1950, d’appareillage technique. La population est acteur à plus d’un titre de la politique de l’air, publique comme privée : elle multiplie les plaintes, s’élève contre la pollution chronique, est la destinataire d’informations techniques comme l’indice atmo, mène des actions locales pour lutter contre les gênes, etc. C’est ce que montre cet ouvrage dans une enquête qui associe historien, sociologue, politiste et géographe. Et l’on pourra ainsi se demander si mesurer l’air est une façon d’exprimer sa foi dans la maîtrise « sur » les problèmes environnementaux par la modernisation technique, ou bien si c’est le début d’une exploration plus démocratique de l’homme « dans » son environnement, avec le retour en grâce de la participation des habitants, comme ce fut récemment le cas dans la cartographie des odeurs.

Histoire, cinéma et professions psy

Brainwash: History, Cinema and the Psy Professions


Workshop 


The 3rd and 4th of July 2015

Birkbeck Cinema
43 Gordon Square
WC1H 0PD London
United Kingdom

The full programme and free registration for this event can be found here:

The history of cinema, like the history of psychoanalysis, psychiatry and psychotherapy, percolates with Western suspicions that our minds are susceptible to covert, even unconscious manipulation. Cinema and psychoanalysis—two essential exponents of subjectivity in the twentieth century—have been celebrated as royal roads to the unconscious, catalysts for our dreams, and means of self-discovery and human emancipation. But cinema and psychotherapy, Freudian or otherwise, have also been castigated for their special capacity to tap the unconscious, and as tools for mind control, even as they have depicted and shaped understanding of what it means to have or to manipulate a mind.

In this workshop we ask whether the Cold War obsession with brainwashing was a break with past narratives and anxieties over mental manipulation and suggestion. We consider how far cinema, television and video have been caught up in this history of hidden or coercive persuasion, and how far they have changed the terms of debate. What forms of human experimentation inspired interest in brainwashing, and vice versa? And how and why did depictions of automatism on screen so often connect to fears of the ‘psy’ professions?

In addressing these questions we revisit some iconic and obscure brainwashing sagas of the past. By re-examining Cold War films and some of their precursors, we invite discussion of the representation of coercively altered states of consciousness—the dangerous spell that film and 'the talking cure' have been said to exert.


_Workshop Programme_



3 July:

Raymond Bellour (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique): Cinema and Hypnoses: Mabuse as an example
Laura Mulvey (Birkbeck, University of London): From Momism to The Feminine Mystique

Maya Oppenheimer & Rod Dickinson (University of West England): Re-enacting Obedience: laboratory on film
Jelena Martinovic (Geneva University of Art and Design): Depatterning desire: Aversion therapy on film

Laura Marcus (University of Oxford): Flicker
Marcie Holmes (Birkbeck, University of London): Flickering lights: mind control on screen


4 July:

Ian Christie (Birkbeck, University of London): The Soviet story: From interrogation to confession
Ana Antic (Birkbeck, University of London): Cinema and education: Building the new communist person

Erik Linstrum (University of Virginia): Interrogating The Interrogator: Cyprus, the BBC, and the performance of violence
Gavin Collinson (BBC) Brainwashing on the Box: Depictions of brainwashing on British TV

Daniel Pick (Birkbeck, University of London): Suddenly: Some thoughts about assassination at the cinema
Simon Schaffer (University of Cambridge): Manchurian automata


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