Maladie, santé et Etat

Disease, Health, and the State

Call for Posters

Society for the Social History of Medicine 2014 Conference
10-12 July 2014 Oxford, UK

The Centre for Health, Medicine and Society: Past and Present, Oxford Brookes University and the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford

www.sshm2014.org

The Society for the Social History of Medicine hosts a major, biennial, international, and interdisciplinary conference. In 2014 it will explore the relationships between health, disease, and the state. The biennial conference is not exclusive in terms of its theme, and reflects the broad diversity of the discipline of the social history of medicine.

Call for Posters

As well as a traditional Call for Papers, proposals are invited for a special Poster Exhibit on the conference theme to be held on the second day of the conference. The exhibit will provide participants with an opportunity to showcase their research in a format that is interactive and collegial. It offers an alternative for those eager to share their work through one-on-one discussion, is especially useful for work-in-progress, and may be particularly appropriate for projects where visual or material evidence represents a central component. An award will be given to the best poster displayed at the conference.

Deadline for paper and poster proposals: 1 January 2014.

Please see www.sshm2014.org for more information.

Nouveau Blog

Circulating Now

Nouvea blog de la division Histoire de la médecine de la National Library of Medicine

http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/

Free things like air,
Vital things like blood,
Living things like ideas…
Circulate.

For over 175 years the National Library of Medicine’s historical collections have circulated to generations within the reading rooms of its various locations in and around Washington, DC. Now, these collections—as part of the trillions of bytes of data produced and delivered by the world’s largest biomedical library—circulate daily to millions of people around the world, including scientists, health professionals, scholars, educators, students, and the general public.

Circulating Now sustains the tradition and commitment of the NLM, and libraries everywhere, to provide knowledge and expertise freely and to inspire people and enrich lives.

Circulating Now conveys the vitality of medical history in our 21st-century world: its relevance and importance for research, teaching, and learning about the human condition.

Circulating Now evokes the living quality of the NLM’s historical collections and the stories they offer about the experience of health and disease across ten centuries and around the world.

Circulating Now is managed by:

Beth Mullen
Managing Editor

Jeffrey S. Reznick
Chief, History of Medicine Division

Committee
Michael J. North
Erika Mills
Christie Moffat
Ginny A. Roth
Michael Sappol

Histoire de la polio

Paralysed with Fear: The Story of Polio


GARETH WILLIAMS is Professor of Medicine and former Dean of Faculty at the University of Bristol, UK. 

Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (July 17, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1137299754
ISBN-13: 978-1137299758

For much of the twentieth century, polio inspired terror as the 'morning paralysis' which could invade any home and disable or kill a previously healthy person. The cruelty of the disease is epitomised by the iconic images of the crippled child and the iron lung. 

This is the story of mankind's struggle against polio, is compelling, exciting and full of twists and pardoxes. One of the grand challenges of modern medicine, it was a battleground between good and bad science. Some research won Nobel Prizes; other work was flawed or fraudulent, holding up progress and endangering patients' lives. Gareth Williams takes an original view of the journey to understanding and defeating polio, exploring the profoundly moving experiences of victims alongside the medical and scientific landmarks in the history of the disease.

Médecine et chirurgie militaire

Wars, pestilence and the surgeon's blade

The Evolution of British Military Medicine and Surgery during the Nineteenth Century

Thomas Scotland & Steven Heys


Publisher Helion and Company (July 1, 2013)
Language English
ISBN-10 1909384097
ISBN-13 978-1909384095

Wars in the 19th Century were accompanied by a very heavy loss of life from infectious diseases. Typhus fever, dysentery, malaria, typhoid fever and yellow fever caused many more deaths than wounds inflicted by enemy actions. During the Peninsular War, for example, for every soldier dying of a wound, four succumbed to disease. This book examines the development and evolution of surgical practice against this overwhelming risk of death due to disease. It reviews three major conflicts during this time: the Peninsular War, the Crimean War and the Boer War and also considers many minor wars fought by the British Empire in the intervening years, and highlights significant medical and surgical developments during these conflicts. War surgery in the first part of the 19th Century was brutal and it had to be carried out swiftly. It was performed at speed because there were no anesthetics and the wounded often died during the procedure. Surgeons focused their attention on wounds of the arms and legs, because limbs were both easily accessible to the surgeon (unlike organs inside the abdomen and chest) and lent themselves well to amputation. This was commonly the operation of choice for many war wounds of arms and legs. Some surgeons performed more difficult surgical procedures to try to preserve the limbs and attempted to repair damaged tissues but these operations took longer and caused greater suffering to the patient. Abdominal and chest wounds were not treated since surgeons did not have the means, the ability, or the understanding, to cut into the abdomen and chest to repair the damaged organs successfully. An important development, which contributed to surgery moving forwards, was the discovery of general anesthesia, which became available in time for the Crimean War. However, whilst it certainly rendered operations pain-free, it was associated with significant numbers of deaths during surgery on wounded soldiers because of the poorly understood effects that anesthetics had, particularly on the heart. As a result, operative surgery did not extend its scope a great deal, and military surgery remained focused on surgery of the limbs. However, fewer amputations were performed during the Boer War at the end of this period. Britain sent observers to several wars in which it was not involved to learn military lessons and to understand the medical and surgical aspects of war. The American Civil War and the Franco Prussian War were two such conflicts. The Russo Japanese War resulted in a very significant advance in surgery for abdominal wounds, but Western observers either failed to notice or ignored pioneering work performed by a Russian female surgeon called Vera Gedroits. As a result, when the Great War began in 1914, lessons had to be re-learned by British surgeons, and many soldiers who suffered penetrating abdominal wounds lost their lives when they should have survived. Unfortunately, one of the hallmarks of war surgery is that successive generations of surgeons make the same mistakes as their forebears and the same lessons have to be learned time and again.

Histoire de l'hérédité

Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century


Bernd Gausemeier, Staffan Muller-wille & Edmund Ramsden (Editors)

Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Pickering & Chatto Ltd (July 31, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1848934262
ISBN-13: 978-1848934269

This collection of essays looks at how human heredity was understood between 1900 and the late 1970s. Developments are explored across three themed sections: concepts, practices and institutions. The contributors explore the interaction of science, medicine and society in determining how heredity was viewed across the world during the politically turbulent years of the twentieth century.

Introduction: The history of human heredity – Bernd Gausemeier, Staffan Müller-Wille and Edmund Ramsden 

Part I: Constructing surveys of heredity 

1 Borderlands of heredity: The debate about the hereditary susceptibility to tuberculosis, 1882–1945 – Bernd Gausemeier 

2 Championing a US clinic for human heredity: Pre-war concepts and post-war constructs – Philip Wilson 

3 The disappearance of the concept of anticipation in the postwar world – Judith E Friedman 

4 Remodelling the boundaries of normality: Lionel S Penrose and population surveys of mental ability – Edmund Ramsden 

Part II: Blood and populations 

5 From ‘races’ to ‘isolates’ and ‘endogamous communities’: Human genetics and the notion of human diversity in the 1950s – Veronika Lipphardt 

6 Blood group genetics and the transfusion services during World War II – Jenny Bangham
7 The abandonment of race: Researching human diversity in Switzerland, 1944–1956 – Pascal Germann 

8 Post-war and post-revolution: Medical genetics and social anthropology in Mexico – Edna Suárez and Ana Barahona 

Part III: Human heredity in the laboratory 

9 From agriculture to genomics: The animal side of of human genetics and the organization of model organisms in the longue durée – Alexander von Schwerin 

10 Cereals, chromosomes and colchicine: crop varieties at the Estación Experimental Aula Dei and human cytogenetics, 1948–1958 – María Jesús Santesmases 

11 Putting human genetics on a solid basis: Human chromosome research, 1950s–1970s – Soraya de Chadarevian 

Part IV: Managing disease
12 'The Most Hereditary of All Diseases': Hemophilia and the Utility of Genetics for Hematological Discipline, 1930–1965 – Stephen Pemberton 

13 The Emergence of Genetic Counselling in the Federal Republic of Germany: Continuity, Changes, and Shifts in Eugenics Themes in the narratives of Human Geneticists, c.1968–1980 – Anne Cottebrune 

14 How PKU Became a Genetic Disease – Diane Paul

Part V: Reconstructing discipline(s) 

15 No Revolution: toward a gradualist narrative of American medical genetics – Nathaniel Comfort 

16 Performing anger: H J Muller, James V Neel, and radiation risk – Susan Lindee 

17 The organisation of the 9th International Congress of Genetics in Bellagio and the struggle for authority in Italian Genetics (1948–1953) – Francesco Cassata 

18 Human Objects and Objections: Coerced Experimentation and Hereditary Research in Nazi Germany – Paul Weindling

Histoire de la psychologie appliquée

History of applied psychology

Call for symposia ICAP 2014

Submission process:
Submissions are to be made exclusively electronically via the congress websitewww.icap2014.com
Submissions by e -mail, surface mail or fax will not be accepted for review


Important dates:
Submission deadline for symposia: 15 July 2013
Notification of acceptance to symposia organizers and presenters: mid September 2013
Submission deadline for co-opted symposium abstracts: 1 December 2013

Language:
Submissions shall be done either in English or French

Symposium Format:
A Symposium is designed to be a focused session in which speakers present on a common theme, issue or question.
The symposium would usually consist of a chairperson briefly introducing the topic and providing an introduction to the session. This would usually be followed by at least 4 but no more than 5 individual speakers (ideally 3 from different affiliations or countries), and ending with concluding remarks by a discussant. Every effort shoud be made to ensure close interaction between the speakers to provide new and non-overlapping presentations. There should be opportunity for the audience to ask questions to presenters and for an exchange of views.
A symposium session will run for 90 minutes.
Symposia shall be proposed either in English or in French (for inclusion in the French speaking program). Speakers who will be presenting in a French Symposium will have to submit an abstract in English and will have to prepare slides in English.

Submission rules:
All submissions will be considered on the basis of the interest of the individual submission and will be ranked according to the following criteria:
o Relevance to Congress themes (see topic list hereafter)
o Significance of content in terms of applications
o Relevance of content to audience
All presenters and discussants are required to register and pay to attend the Congress. The acceptance of a submission does not imply funding of registration, travel arrangements, accommodation or other costs by the Congress Organizers.
It is not necessary to be a member of the International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP) to submit a symposium for ICAP 2014.
A submission which does not adhere to these rules is likely to be rejected.

Disclaimer:

The invitation to submit a symposium does not constitute an offer to pay travel, accommodation or registration costs associated with the Congress.

By submitting a symposium:
You confirm that it has not been published before;
You also grant the Organizing Committee permission to publish the abstract in the Congress Handbook in hard copy and electronic format;
You grant a non-exclusive right to publish, reproduce, distribute, display and store the abstract worldwide in all forms, formats and media now known or as developed in the future, including print, electronic and digital forms. You will retain copyright of your abstract, in addition to the moral rights you are entitled to as author of the abstract
You grant permission for your presentation to be audio/video recorded and hereby grant to the Congress a non-exclusive right to reproduce or display and store the recorded material for the purpose of providing Professional Development either by download from the ICAP or the hosts websites or via distribution of a CD/DVD;
You grant permission for the PDF of your presentation to be made available online to all conference delegates following the congress.

If you do not wish to do this but still wish to submit a symposium, please contact the Organizing Committee through the congress office abs@icap2014.com . The Organizing Committee's decision on acceptance of the submission will be final.

Instructions for the preparation of your symposium proposal:


The symposium summary cannot contain more than 3500 characters (Blank spaces and punctuation are included. Title and authors’ list & affiliation are not included). The minimum size is 2000 characters.


The structure of your proposal should be as follows:

o Title of the symposium

o List of authors (including the symposium organizer as first author)

o Introduction & Objectives of the Symposium (2000 characters, spaces included)

o Preliminary program of the symposium including :

Speakers presentation titles, full names, affiliations, cities and countries (250 characters, spaces included, each)


It is not possible to insert tables or images.


Abbreviations may be used after defining them first.


After the submission:


The reviewers will judge the submissions according to the relevance to ICAP 2014, standard of language, objectivity of statements and content.


The submitting authors will be notified by September 2013, to the e-mail address (submitting author) provided during the submission process, whether the symposium has been accepted. It is the author’s responsibility to ensure that emails from ICAP 2014 can reach them.


Submission of speakers abstracts:


Speakers from accepted symposiums will be required to submit their final abstract starting October 2013.


Full presentation guidelines will be included in the acceptance letter and posted on the ICAP 2014 website in September 2013.

L'hystérie démaquillée

Paul Sollier contre Sigmund Freud. L'hystérie démaquillée

Roger Teyssou

L'Harmattan
ISBN : 978-2-343-01060-1

 juillet 2013 

124 pages

Paul Sollier (1861-1933) a été l'un des derniers élèves de Charcot (1825-1893). Il en fut le continuateur, il voyait dans l'hystérie un tempérament et une manière spéciale de réagir au stress plus qu'une véritable maladie. A l'encontre de Sigmund Freud qui faisait du refoulement la cause de l'hystérie, il attribuait à l'hystérie la cause du refoulement. Il démaquillait ainsi le visage d'une affection favorisée par la complexion, les aléas du destin et la place de chacun dans la société.

Poste de doctorant à McGill

PhD Fellowship at McGill University

A fellowship is available for a PhD student in the history of medicine at McGill University, Departments of History and of Social Studies of Medicine. Research will be within the framework of a larger project on the history of Minimally Invasive Surgery (“keyhole surgery”) 1980s-2000, funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) for 4 years. 

Applications will go through the History Department of McGill University. Start Sept. 2014, application between Nov. 1 2013 and Jan. 15 2014. 

For further information please contact Prof. Thomas Schlich (thomas.schlich@mgill.ca).