Géographie de la faiblesse d'esprit

“The Geography of Feeblemindedness”: Environmental Purity, the Maritime Pastoral, and the Atlantic Eugenics Movement

Lecture by Anne Bardaglio, University of Maine at Augusta and Orono

Comment: C. Ian Stevenson, Boston University

Thursday, September 24
5:00 PM (ET)
Free, Virtual Event - hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society

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In June 1912, the State of Maine forcibly evicted a multiracial community from Malaga Island, which lies just off the coast of Phippsburg. The community was dismantled, residents’ homes were burned, and eight islanders were institutionalized in the Maine Home for the Feebleminded. Drawing on a survey of more than a hundred newspaper articles published between 1860–915, this chapter traces how pastoral and environmental ideals converged with eugenic ideology to justify the violent reshaping of both the space of Malaga Island and the lives of its residents.

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La médecine à Édimbourg et dans l'Empire

Medical Edinburgh and Empire

Lecture

 

Wednesday, September 23 • 6 PM - 7 PM


A lecture exploring Edinburgh's medical communities and colonial legacies.

Scotland was disproportionately involved in the expansion, enforcement and administration of the British Empire. Scottish institutions and individuals profited from imperial exploits, gaining wealth and opportunity.

When the Edinburgh Medical School was established 1726, it became the Empire’s main educator for colonial medical personnel. On one hand, the connection provided an opportunity for students from countries living under imperial rule to train in Edinburgh. On the other, large numbers of graduates used their medical training to enforced imperial health policies and to maintain the health and economic viability of an enslaved workforce.

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Join us at the Physicians’ Gallery as our three speakers – Simon Buck, Roger Jeffery, and Theeba Krishnamoorthy – present on three aspects of Edinburgh, medicine and colonial legacies.

Chaired by Professor Catherine Labinjoh

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Dr Simon Buck

Dr Simon Buck is an historian of slavery and medicine in Scotland and the Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He has worked with NHS Lothian, the University of Edinburgh, and the Scottish Episcopal Church on major public history projects concerning Scotland’s legacies of slavery and empire. He has published widely, including recent articles in Social History of Medicine and the Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and is co-editor of a forthcoming edited collection with Edinburgh University Press entitled Race, Empire and the Edinburgh Medical School.

Professor Roger Jeffery

Roger Jeffery is Professor Emeritus of Sociology of South Asia, University of Edinburgh, where he worked from 1972-2024. His many academic publications drew on a series of funded research projects and focused on public health and health policy, especially maternal and reproductive health, access to medicines, and the organisation of clinical trials in South Asia. Since 2015 he has been researching the ‘footprint’ of India in Edinburgh: he recently edited India in Edinburgh (SSP Delhi and Routledge, 2019); a further volume, edited with Friederike Voigt, Perceptions of Empire (SSP Delhi) was published in January 2026. He has also developed a dataset of the lives of women who qualified as doctors in the UK between 1877 and 1916 and published on this in the Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 2025. His chapter 'Edinburgh's Women medical students and the Indian Empire, 1886-1916' is under review with Edinburgh University Press.

Dr Theeba Krishnamoorthy

Dr Theeba Krishnamoorthy is a decolonial public health scholar, educator, and physician whose work explores the intersections of medicine, identity, and colonial history. Over the past four years, their research has focused on recovering the hidden life histories of early South Asian women doctors of the British Empire, examining how race, gender, and empire shaped medical education and professional practice. They have delivered talks and creative workshops on these histories at institutions including the Royal College of Physicians of London and the Whipple Museum of the History of Science. Theeba is currently a Caird Research Fellow at Royal Museums Greenwich, where they are investigating the hidden labour of early South Asian women nurses in the Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital.

Professor Catherine Labinjoh

Professor Catherine Labinjoh is a Consultant Cardiologist in NHS Forth Valley and honorary clinical professor at the University of Stirling. Since 2022 she has been the national clinical lead for Realistic Medicine, a policy area in Scottish Government concerned with personalised care, shared decision making and reducing harm, waste and inequity. She was a founder member of the equality, diversity and inclusivity committee at the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh and is currently an RCPE Trustee. She is Chair of Care Opinion, a non-profit online feedback platform helping health and care services listen, learn and improve.

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Free for students (student card required), under 18s (ID card required) and RCPE Fellows or Members.

Please email library@rcpe.ac.uk if you are a student, under 18, RCPE Fellow or Member and would like to be added to the attendee list.

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Les remèdes de Galien au-delà de la Renaissance

Galen's Remedies Beyond the Renaissance. Early Modern Traditions and Theories of Materia Medica

CSMBR Upcoming Lecture

Fabrizio Bigotti
John Wilkins


21 July 2026 – 5 PM (CET)



Having survived the demise of its humoral pathology and anatomy, Galen’s works on simple and compound remedies — the so-called 'galenicals' — formed the backbone of Western pharmacology until the Industrial Revolution, absorbing new information, methods of preparation (including chemical ones) and new ways of understanding how medicines worked.

Despite its extraordinary longevity and geographical reach, however, the history of Galenic therapy after the Renaissance has received surprisingly little attention.

In this talk, we will explore its resilience and the ways in which Galenic therapy adapted to radically different intellectual, cultural and commercial contexts, drawing on contributions to the recently published Galen’s Remedies in the Early Modern Period (Palgrave–Springer Nature, 2026).

Rather than presenting Galenism as a declining tradition, we will argue that Galenic pharmacology was a dynamic body of knowledge continually reshaped by encounters with new medical practices, theories, substances, and modes of production.


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Les produits de soin parfumés dans les « Libri Medicinales » d’Aetius d’Amida

Staying Fresh in Early Byzantium. Scented Care Products in Aetius of Amida’s «Libri Medicinales»


Lecture by Maciej Kokoszko and Zofia Rzeźnicka


07 July 2026 – 5 PM (CET)


The lecture will focus on a selection of recipes for body cleansers and powdered deodorants taken from Book VIII of Aetius of Amida's medical encyclopaedia, Libri medicinales, which was written in the 6th century. As many of the formulas for these care products were borrowed by Aetius from earlier authors, primarily Titus Statilius Crito (active in the 2nd century AD), exploration of the transmission and adaptation of ancient medical knowledge during the early Byzantine period is also included.

This analysis aims to contextualise the topic by demonstrating the value of medical texts in social and economic historical research. Consequently, the speakers will discuss the gendered nature of Byzantine cosmetology.

Furthermore, the presentation will attempt to specify the social groups for whom these care products were intended. To this end, myrrh will serve as an indicator of social status, and the speakers will analyse factors such as its place of origin, varieties, supply routes, trade routes, and the types of preparations to which it was added in order to sketch a picture of the intended users of both myrrh-based and myrrh-free recipes. The issue of aromatic substance adulteration and substitution in the Byzantine Empire will also be discussed along the way.

Thus, the lecture will demonstrate how cosmetic recipes preserved in medical compilations can provide valuable evidence for reconstructing everyday life in the Byzantine world.


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La physiologie de l'expérience onirique dans les traditions grecque, arabe et latine

The Colour of Dreams. The Physiology of Oneiric Experience in Greek, Arabic, and Latin Traditions



CSMBR Upcoming Lecture


Marco Signori


23 June 2026 – 5 PM (CET)


This talk explores the concept of dream colour as it appears in a selection of medieval Arabic and Latin philosophical and medical texts. Lying at the intersection of psychophysiology, medicine and the doctrine of the rational soul, this subject draws on ancient humoral theory to explain an intriguing aspect of the dream experience. 

The idea of a correlation between the colour of oneiric images and the predominance of one of the four humours originates from a concise yet highly significant doxographic passage attributed to Galen, as recorded in the only surviving manuscript, Arabic MS Baġdād (Awqāf 9763), and is referenced in notable resources such as Avicenna's (Ibn Sīnā, d. 1037) writings and the Persian Book of Science for ʿAlāʾ al-Dawla.

Curiously, however, while other Arabic students of this Galenic excerpt on humoral oneirology, such as Abū l-Faraǧ ibn al-Ṭayyib (d. 1043), omitted references to colour when addressing related topics, this connection reemerges in the Latin tradition, as demonstrated by Albert the Great and, most notably, Boethius of Dacia.

Building on previous scholarship and analysing various intermediary channels, the contribution will discuss the possible historical and doctrinal links between these authors, tracing hypothetical lines of transmission from Greek-Arabic medicine to 13th-century Latin philosophy.


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Prochaine séance de la SFHM

Prochaine séance de la Société Française d’Histoire de la Médecine 

Vendredi 12 JUIN 2026 à 14 heures
à l’Académie Nationale de Médecine, 16 rue Bonaparte 75006 Paris. Salle Simone Veil.



Conférence invitée (60min) :
Jacqueline VONS
Savoir et séduction dans la Fabrique (1543) d’André Vésale
 

Communications (20min) :
Philippe ALBOU
Aperçu de la médecine médiévale à partir de « Renart médecin », épisode du Roman de Renart (XIIe s.) 

Jacques ROBERT
Les premiers temps du Bulletin de l’Association française pour l’étude du cancer

 Benoît VESSELLE
Une blessure par balle reçue à la bataille de Waterloo

La médecine yiddish en période d'épidémie

Yiddish Medicine in Times of Epidemics. Faith, Secrets, and Cures in Early Modern Europe


CSMBR Upcoming Lecture


Daniella Zaidman-Mauer 


11 June 2026 – 5 PM (CET)


Before the advent of modern medicine, healing was never purely physical. Across different religions, illness was understood to be both a physical and a moral event — a disruption to the balance between humanity and God. When epidemics struck early modern Europe, people turned to every available remedy — whether practical, spiritual, natural or supernatural.

This lecture explores how Jewish communities in Central and Western Europe responded to epidemic disease by examining vivid examples drawn from Yiddish books and pamphlets, which was the everyday language of European Jews. 

We will encounter a Yiddish plague treatise that offered rules for surviving an outbreak by blending hygiene, community solidarity and spiritual discipline into a single, coherent guide, together with other instances of Jewish healers and rabbis navigating this world with remarkable creativity, integrating herbal remedies, dietary advice, quarantine regulations and prayer into a unified, practical system of care. 

Together, these stories reveal a world in which prayer and medicine, faith and science were partners in the urgent, deeply human work of survival.



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Les orbes de sang dans la Perse du XIVe siècle

Orbs of Blood in 14th-Century Persia. The «Tānksūqnāmah» and Its Theory of the Rotational Motion of Blood

CSMBR Upcoming Lecture

 

Ben Kavoussi

28 May 2026 – 5 PM (CET)



A 14th-century Persian medical manual on the Medicine of Cathay (Northern China) known as the Tānksūqnāmah-yi Īlkhān dar funūn-i ʿulūm-i Khaṭāʾī (Tānksūqnāmah) explicitly states that blood “makes rounds” within the body, flowing from the liver to the heart, then to the lungs, and returning again to the liver. 

Commissioned by the vizier and physician Rashīd al-Dīn Hamadānī (1247–1318) during Mongol rule in Iran, the manual is an attempt to explain Chinese medicine to a Persian readership, translating a book that summarised Chinese medical knowledge at the time.

Drawing on Chinese cosmology and medicine, as well as the Graeco-Arabic medical tradition, the book ultimately advances its own conception of blood movement, moving beyond simple continuity. This model, which links bodily processes to celestial movements, differs from the philosophical description of pulmonary transit by Ibn al-Nafīs (1213–1288) and the quantitative theory of systemic circulation by William Harvey (1578–1657). 

The Tānksūqnāmah is therefore best understood as a product of the distinctive cross-cultural milieu of Mongol-era Iran, exemplifying how scientific ideas can emerge through reinterpretation within zones of cultural and scientific contact rather than through linear transmission within a single lineage.


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Les femmes à l'œuvre dans la santé

Les femmes à l'œuvre dans la santé. Perspectives historiques
 

Rencontre

 

Lundi 8 juin 2026, 14h-16h

Salle de colloque de l'IHM, av. de Provence 82, Lausanne



Intervenant.es
Mikhaël Moreau, doctorant, IHM, CHUV-UNIL
Prof. Anne Roekens, Département d’histoire de l’Université de Namur

Modération
Dr PD Pauline Milani, Université de Fribourg
Organisation
Dr Amélie Puche, IHM, CHUV-UNIL

Pline l'Ancien, source des traités de gynécologie de la Renaissance

From Natural History to Human Generation. Pliny the Elder as a Source of Renaissance Gynaecological Treatises

CSMBR Upcoming Lecture 

Gabriel Silva

12 May 2026 – 5 PM (CET)


Pliny the Elder's 'Natural History' is one of the most important sources for Renaissance gynaecological treatises. Books 7 and 28 are the most frequently quoted, particularly in explanations of medical phenomena relating to anthropology, extraordinary births, and the miraculous properties of menstrual blood. Apart from the medical knowledge contained within his works, the writings also preserved a particular kind of information, names and figures that would otherwise have been lost, and which became source material for the so-called 'Wunderkammern'.

This presentation will focus on two works which both rely on Pliny's corpus as their main source:

Ludovico Bonaccioli's (1475–1536) Enneas muliebris, which was included in a compendium of treatises on women's medicine known as the Gynaeciorum libri (last edition in 1597), and Rodrigo de Castro Lusitano's (1546–1627/29) De universa mulierum medicina. Castro's work deals more generally with the theory and practice of women's nature and conditions.

My main goal is to use these treatises to demonstrate the Roman naturalists' importance, and to identify how the knowledge he conveyed was used and preserved by physicians.


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L'administration du vaccin contre la variole dans la Grèce du XIXe siècle

Administrating the Smallpox Vaccine in 19th Century Greece: scientific dimensions, practical issues and popular reactions

Online Lecture

Wednesday, 11 June 2025, 17.30 CEST



Athanasios Barlagiannis, Modern Greek History Research Centre, Academy of Athens

Who was vaccinating in 19 th century Greece? How was the effectiveness of the vaccine ascertained? Were there any popular reactions and what forms did they take? The presentation aims to discuss these questions after tracing the history of the smallpox vaccination in the regions of the Ottoman Empire, which would become Greece in 1832, as well as its relations to inoculation, the previous form of smallpox prevention developed by Greek physicians of the Ottoman Empire. It highlights the
factors that influenced vaccination policies and concludes with the importance of public administration in overcoming obstacles such as popular discontent and fears, scientific uncertainty, challenges from local political opposition and practical issues, such as long-distance transportation of the vaccine.

Short CV:
Athanasios Barlagiannis is a tenure-track researcher at the Modern Greek History Research Centre of the Academy of Athens, specialising in the history of the institutions of the Greek state, 19 th - 20 th centuries. He holds a PhD in Modern Greek History from the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris). Since 2016, he has been collaborating with the French research centre TELEMMe (Marseille) on medical and scientific exchanges in the Eastern Mediterranean during the 1820s-
1830s. He is a member of the Network for the History of Health (Greece) and treasurer of the Greek Commission of the DHST/IUHPST. He is interested in the history of public health policies, medicine, pharmacology and the Greek state.

Link: https://kit-lecture.zoom-
x.de/j/6884631281?pwd=R3ZwaXVvQWhEaG5MTmlrdytTUXFPUT09


Access without registration - for additional questions, please contact the organizer by
stefan.poser@kit.edu

Michael Servetus et la circulation du sang

Michael Servetus and the Circulation of Blood. The History of a Mistaken Idea


CSMBR Upcoming Lecture



Justo Hernandez

28 April 2026 – 5 PM (CET)



In 1628, Harvey's anatomical demonstration of the circulation of the blood opened a new path in the history of medicine. However, while this demonstration was groundbreaking, the concept of blood circulation had already been explored by numerous thinkers, ranging from Ibn al-Nafis to Realdo Colombo, Michael Servetus and Andrea Cesalpino.

While briefly touching on their individual merits, this lecture will focus specifically on the contribution of Michael Servetus (c. 1509–1553).

A Spanish theologian and physician, now mostly remembered for two things: being executed for anti-Trinitarian and Anabaptist heresy by the Genevans under Calvin, and publishing a work titled Christianismi Restitutio containing a description of blood passing through the lungs.

Published in early 1553, Servetus's Restitutio went unnoticed by medical scholars for well over a hundred years, until it was rediscovered in the eighteenth century by the French encyclopedists Diderot and D'Alembert, who credited Servetus with discovering the circulation of the blood before Harvey.

By examining Servetus's work, I will assert that this attribution was anachronistic and that his idea of circulation sought to resolve a theological rather than an anatomical dilemma: how the soul entered the body.



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L'histoire de la médecine dans les controverses

Prochaine séance de la Société Française d’Histoire de la Médecine

Prochaine séance de la Société Française d’Histoire de la Médecine 

 

Vendredi 17 AVRIL 2026 à 14 heures
à l’Académie Nationale de Médecine, 16 rue Bonaparte 75006 Paris. Salle Simone Veil.
 

PROGRAMME
Informations générales, présentation et élection des candidats.
 

Conférence invitée (60min) :
Jacques CHEVALLIER
Histoire des grains de beauté : les vilains, les nobles, les faux et les méchants…
 

Communications (20min) :
 

Chantal QUEVILLY
Le fait de Boulogne à l’Académie nationale de médecine de Paris pendant la révolution de 1848 ou les docteurs Gorré et Duchenne se prononçant sur l’utilisation du chloroforme
 

Teunis Willem van HEININGEN
Laurent Garcin (1683-1751), huguenot, chirurgien de bord en chef, médecin, botaniste et protégé de Boerhaave
 

Sophie NIQUEUX
Villes d’eaux : lieux de composition musicale (1791-1845) - Dans le contexte de l’inscription des « Grandes villes d’eaux d’Europe » au patrimoine mondial de l’Unesco
 

Les résumés de ces communications sont disponibles sur notre site internet : https://numerabilis.u-paris.fr/partenaires/sfhm/1523-2/

La diversité au sein des collections d'archives médicales du Canada

Advocating for the importance of disabled, neurodivergent, and chronically ill lived experience within Canada’s medical archival collections
 

Online talk



Tuesday, April 21, 2026

2:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m. EDT


Medical collections are found in government archives, hospital archives, universities, and even dedicated museums such as the Canadian Museum of Healthcare. An under-explored element of such collections is the role they play in the writing and subsequent teaching of disability-history from those with lived experience.

In this talk, archives/museum accessibility consultant Dr. Michael Marlatt and archivist Anna Krentz discuss the importance of disabled, neurodivergent, and chronically ill lived experience within medical collections.

Michael will address what is meant by gaps regarding lived experience within Canada’s medical collections. He will also provide strategies medical collections can take in the collaboration of disability-led research, employment, and curation within Canada’s medical collections.

Archivist Anna Krentz will also speak about the role materials held by medical collections have played in her research on cystic fibrosis history, building on work conducted for the Canadian Museum of Healthcare’s 2022 Margaret Angus Research Fellowship.

Attendance is free. Please register here for the link.

Histoire de la psychiatrie au Japon

Histoire de la psychiatrie au Japon 

Conférences d'Akihito Suzuki 



Le Centre de recherche sur les civilisations de l’Asie orientale (CRCAO) et l’Institut Français de Recherche sur l’Asie de l’Est (IFRAE) organisent, en collaboration avec le Collège de France et le Tokyo College de l’Université de Tokyo, une série de conférences de SUZUKI Akihito (Université de Tokyo) au mois d’avril 2026 : 

Vendredi 10 avril, 17h-18h
« Madness at Home in Tokyo: The Psychiatrist, the Patient, and the Family in Tokyo, 1920-1945 »
Séance publique sous l’invitation de Patrick Boucheron, chaire « Histoire des pouvoirs en Europe occidentale, XIIIe-XVIe siècle »
Lieu: Collège de France, Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs (11 place Marcellin Berthelot, 75005 Paris) 

Lundi 13 avril, 14h30-16h
« The Geographical and Social Establishment of Early Mental Hospitals in Tokyo 1880-1945 »
Dans le cadre de la séance commune du cours « Santé et Société » (L2 études japonaises, Inalco) et du séminaire « Anthropologie et Histoire du corps et de la santé » (Master études japonaises, Université Paris Cité)
Lieu: Inalco, amphi 8 (4e étage, 65 rue des Grands Moulins) 

Mardi 14 avril, 16h-18h
« The Second World War and the Destruction of the Psychiatric Hospitals »
Conférence animée par Ken Daimaru (UP Cité, CRCAO), avec Nicolas Henckes (CNRS, Cermes3) et Sheldon Garon (Princeton University, Sciences Po)
Lieu: Université Paris Cité, salle Léon Vandermeersch (481C, 4e étage, aile C, bâtiments des Grands Moulins, 8 esplanade Pierre Vidal-Naquet, 75013, Paris) 

Mercredi 15 avril, 16h30-18h30
« Police, Korean patients and the Public Sphere of Tokyo »
Conférence animée par Sarah Terrail Lormel (Inalco, IFRAE), avec Marianna Scarfone (SAGE, Unistra) et Jimin Choi (D. Kim Foundation / Cambridge University)
Lieu: Inalco, salle 417 (4e étage, 65 rue des Grands Moulins)



Akihito Suzuki was born in 1963 in Shizuoka, Japan. He received a BA (1986) and an MPhil (1988) from the University of Tokyo. He studied the history of medicine in London and received a PhD in 1992. After completing a few postdoctoral positions in England, Scotland, and Tokyo, he began teaching at Keio University in 1997. Since 2021, he has been teaching the history of medicine at the University of Tokyo. His speciality is the history of psychiatry and infectious diseases in Europe and Japan. He published Madness at Home: The Psychiatrist, the Patient, and the Family in England (2006) and Reforming Public Health in Occupied Japan, 1945-52 (2012, co-authored with Chris Aldous). He was awarded the Gijuku Prize at Keio University (2007) and the Carlson Award at the Cornell Medical School (2014).

La prochaine séance de la Société Française d’Histoire de la Médecine

Prochaine séance de la Société Française d’Histoire de la Médecine 

Vendredi 20 MARS 2026 à 14 heures
à l’Académie Nationale de Médecine, 16 rue Bonaparte 75006 Paris. Salle Simone Veil.
 

PROGRAMME
Informations générales, présentation et élection des candidats.
Assemblée générale annuelle :
 

Conférence invitée (60min) :
Camille JACCARD
Entendre les voix : une histoire de la parole en psychiatrie (XIXe-XXIe siècles)

Remise des prix et présentation des travaux :
Prix ANM-SFHM :
Aliocha SCHEUBLE
L'intrigante histoire de la Maladie de Bouillaud

Prix Georges Robert (Médecine)
Jules MICHAUD
Paysage médical de l’arrondissement de La Châtre dans le second XIXe siècle
 

Prix Georges Robert (Sciences humaines)
Issey LAMBOLEY
Le délire mystique à Sainte-Anne Genre, religion et psychiatrie (années 1880-1905)
 

Les résumés de ces communications sont disponibles sur notre site internet : https://numerabilis.u-paris.fr/partenaires/sfhm/1523-2/

La dysphorie de genre et la fracture sociale dans la médecine transgenre

Gender Dysphoria and the Class Divide of Transgender Medicine

Talk by Jules Gill-Peterson 


Event details
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
4:00–6:00 PM (EST)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100A
170 St. George Street, Toronto


We are pleased to invite you to a public lecture by historian Jules Gill-Peterson that critically examines the historical foundations of contemporary transgender medicine.

The talk, “Gender Dysphoria and the Class Divide of Transgender Medicine,” explores how the gender dysphoria diagnosis—developed at Stanford University in the 1970s and later adopted worldwide—reshaped access to medical transition. While often understood as a liberalizing development, this model shifted the financial burden of transition onto patients themselves, producing an enduring class divide and displacing the poor transsexual women early gender clinics had sought to support.

Bringing together history, political economy, and transgender studies, this talk offers timely insight into current debates over trans healthcare, medical authority, and inequality.


Masks encouraged!


Registration is required via Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/gender-dysphoria-and-the-class-divide-of-transgender-medicine-tickets-1982047573648?aff=oddtdtcreator


Organized by the LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory, with support from the Department of History, and the Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto. 

Contact Information 
aino.pihlak@mail.utoronto.ca

Les débuts de la traite atlantique et l'invention de la corporéité moderne

The Early Atlantic Slave Trade and the Invention of Modern Corporeality


Lecture by Pablo F. Gómez (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Please join us on 11 March at 2:30pm for the annual Dr. Martin A. Entin Lecture in the History of Medicine. 

Room 101, SSOM (3647 Peel)

This talk examines how early Atlantic slave trading communities made human corporeality articulable with a new set of ideas about finance, facts, objectivity, and measurable risk that emerged in the early modern era. These communities drew on centuries of legal, commercial, financial, and maritime material customs and ideas. Through their violent procedures, Iberian Atlantic slave trading communities abstracted and assimilated groups of human bodies to numbers. They did so to protect their financial interests rather than caring for enslaved people. The ruthlessness inherent in these practices became ingrained in the modern corporeal mathematics that emerged from the early slave trade and diffused through its vast political, financial, logistical, and intellectual networks. The model for understanding human bodies these communities created foreshadows and shares basic notions with those sustaining the intellectual edifice of disciplines as varied as political arithmetic, economics, population health, demographics, epidemiology, and contemporary biomedicine. 

Les thérapies psychiatriques

Les thérapies

Séminaire Histoire et Philosophie de la Psychiatrie 2026

PROGRAMME

IHPST et ISJPS

Organisation : Ronan de Calan, Denis Forest, Mathieu Frèrejouan

Contacts : Ronan.De-La-Lande-De-Calan@univ-paris1.fr, Denis.Forest@univ-paris1.fr, Mathieu.Frerejouan-Du-Saint@univ-paris1.fr

Les séances ont lieu de 18h00 à 20h00

17 février 2026 - (salle E628, Sorbonne)
Anatole Le Bras (Univ. de Versailles, CHCSC) : « "Peut-on guérir l’alcoolisme ? Théories, thérapies et pratiques psychiatriques en France après 1945" »

17 mars 2026 - (salle E628, Sorbonne)
Héloïse Athéa (Gustave Roussy, IHPST) : « "Agir sur le cerveau, soigner l’esprit ? Comment les thérapies psychédéliques interrogent la psychiatrie biologique" »

14 avril 2026 - (salle E628, Sorbonne)
Antonine Nicoglou (université de Tours, INSERM) : « "Henri Laborit : De la physiologie du choc aux thérapies médicamenteuses en psychiatrie" »

6 octobre 2026
Philippe Huneman (IHPST/Paris 1) : « Le traitement moral et ses doubles: conflits généalogiques en psychiatrie »

3 novembre 2026
Pierre-Henri Ortiz (université d’Angers) : « Purger, exercer, discipliner : la psychiatrie antique entre médecine et éducation »

1er décembre 2026
Vincent Barras (IHM, CHUV-UNIL, université de Lausanne) : « Thérapie de l’âme et politique : le traité des Facultés de l’âme de Galien (2e s. apr. J.C.) et ses enjeux »