Histoire du ressentiment

On Resentment: Past and Present

Bernardino Fantini ; Dolores Martin Moruno, Javier Moscoso

Hardcover: 310 pages
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (June 1, 2013)
ISBN-10: 1443847720
ISBN-13: 978-1443847728

Resentment has a history. Paintings such as Gericault's Le Radeau de La Meduse, nineteenth-century women's manifestos and WWI war photographs provide but a few examples to retrace the changing physiognomy of this emotion from the second half of the eighteenth century up to our contemporary society. The essays in this collection attempt to shed light on the historical evolution of this affective experience adopting the French Revolution as a "gravitational force", namely as a moment in which the desire to be other was politically legitimised by means of the ideal of a meritocratic society. From Adam Smith's definition as social passion linked with justice, to Nietzsche's interpretation of resentment as a pathological symptom, this emotion has also shaped a plethora of social movements forging their identity out of hatred mixed with fear and indignation. This volume seeks to provide new insights into the history of emotions by showing how resentment is a cultural experience that contributes to a better understanding of the differences between the past and the present world.

Bourse Hewton et Griffin

Hewton and Griffin Bursaries for Archival Research in 2014

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

The main purpose of the bursaries is to provide financial assistance to students, and others not necessarily associated with an academic institution, who propose to undertake archival research on an aspect of the history of mental health or addiction in Canada. The FOA board at its discretion may approve bursaries to a maximum of $2,500 each.

There is no application form. Candidates are invited to submit a letter of intent not exceeding 300 words, together with a budget and résumé, not later than November 30, 2013. 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.

Please submit an application for the year 2014 by the November 30th, 2013 deadline to:

Vivienne Gibbs – President, Friends of the Archives CAMH, 1001 Queen Street West Toronto, Ontario M6J 1H4 Or by e-mail: John.Court@camh.ca

L'assainissement urbain

Urban Sanitation Before the Sanitary Revolution

Call for papers  EAUH 2014

The 12th International Conference on Urban History will be held in Lisbon in 2014. Tim Soens (Centre for Urban History, University of Atnwerp) and Dolly Jørgensen (Umeå University) organize the main session 'Urban Sanitation Before the Sanitary Revolution (middle ages - early 19th century). They welcome paper proposals addressing issues of urban drink water supply and wastewater removal before 1850.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 October 2013.

Call for papers

The introduction of centralized sanitation in the nineteenth century city, in its most advanced form combining the distribution of piped drinking water to individual households and the water-carriage of waste using a piped sewerage system, fundamentally altered the relationship of western urban society with its natural environment. Following path-breaking research by Martin Melosi, Joel Tarr and others the impact of this sanitary revolution, both regarding technological path-dependency, the interconnecting of urban households through technological networks, the commodification of natural resources, the externalization of environmental problems and social inequalities in access to environmental services have been elaborated both by environmental historians, and scholars in the field of Science and Technology Studies and Actor/Network Theory.

Whereas the pre-modern period had longtime been regarded as a pre-paradigm period with regard to urban sanitation (Lewis Mumford), there is an increasing tendency to point at important changes in environmental attitudes and practices already in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. In this session we aim to transpose the essential questions on technology and nature released by the debate on the ‘sanitary revolution’ to the study of drinking water supply and wastewater removal in the entire period of pre-modern European urbanisation, from the Middle Ages to 1850.
We welcome paper proposals addressing issues of urban drink water supply and wastewater removal before 1850, either case-studies or broader and comparative papers, that address one or more of the following questions:
- When and why large technological systems were introduced to ensure drinking water supply and wastewater removal?
- Which degree of technological path dependency was generated by these systems?
- Did pre-modern systems also externalize part of the environmental cost of clean water to specific groups within or beyond urban society, as well as to future generations?
- To what extent scientific and intellectual transformations, like the gradual ‘disenchantment’ of nature inspired new technological solutions?
- Do we see a gradual decrease in the physical contact with water, as well as an increasing commodification of water?
- To what extent the urban population was intentionally or unintentionally “governed” through pre-modern drinking water and wastewater-systems and can we conceive these systems as intentional or unintentional instruments of power, through which urban populations were governed?
- Did such systems engender new types of social relations and destroy others?
By bringing together papers on different parts of urban Europe throughout the pre-modern period, a fundamental re-appreciation of pre-modern urban sanitation throughout Europe will become possible.

Submission of papers
Please submit an English-language abstract of maximum 300 words on the website of the European Association for Urban History: http://www.eauh2014.fcsh.unl.pt)
Deadline: October 15, 2013.
The participants will be notified about their paper proposal by December 15, 2013.

Comité consultatif du collège royal des médecins

The Royal College History and Heritage Advisory Committee

Call for applications

The Royal College actively works to preserve and promote the history of specialty medicine and medical education in Canada and abroad. The History and Heritage Advisory Committee, which provides advice and recommendations to the Fellowship Affairs Committee regarding the identification, preservation, promotion and dissemination of the Royal College’s history and heritage, is a vital part of this ongoing effort.

Led by Fellows, Resident Affiliates and other experts in the history of medicine, this committee also promotes and encourages scholarship related to the history of specialty medicine and medical education. It advises on the Royal College collection, a significant collection of works donated during the past 40 years, including more than 3,800 books and many artifacts. The collection contains health research and findings, surgical technology advances and the evolution of medical knowledge since the founding of Canada. The History and Heritage Advisory Committee plays a vital role in celebrating and preserving Canada’s vibrant history of advancements and excellence in specialty medicine.

New: Join our History and Heritage Advisory Committee. Apply by Sept. 30!

Are you interested in medical history? If so, we strongly encourage you to apply to join the History and Heritage Advisory Committee. There are currently three vacancies on the committee: two for Royal College Fellows and one for a current Resident Affiliate. The committee holds a one-day meeting twice a year (Spring and Fall), normally in Ottawa.

To apply, please send a cover letter detailing your experience relating to the History of Medicine; and a professional CV to Jenn Nelson, Heritage and Special Collections Administrator, jnelson@royalcollege.ca.

Hurry, the deadline for applications is 5 p.m. on Monday, September 30, 2013.

Histoire de l'éthique médicale américaine

Before Bioethics: A History of American Medical Ethics from the Colonial Period to the Bioethics Revolution

Robert Baker

Hardcover: 448 pages
Éditeur: Oxford University Press (18 septembre 2013)
Langue: English
ISBN-10: 0199774110
ISBN-13: 978-0199774111

Before Bioethics narrates the history of American medical ethics from its colonial origins to current bioethical controversies over abortion, AIDS, animal rights, and physician-assisted suicide. The first history of American medical ethics published in more than a half century, Before Bioethics tracks the evolution of American medical ethics from colonial midwives and physicians' oaths, to medical society codes and bioethical principles. Applying the concept of "morally disruptive technologies," it analyzes the impact of the stethoscope on conceptions of fetal life and the criminalization of abortion, and the impact of the ventilator on our conception of death and the treatment of the dying. The narrative offers tales of those whose lives were affected by the medical ethics of their era: unwed mothers executed by puritans because midwives found them with stillborn babies; the unlikely trio - an Irishman, a Sephardic Jew and in-the-closet gay public health reformer - who drafted the American Medical Association's code of ethics but received no credit for their achievement, and the founder of American gynecology celebrated during his own era but condemned today because he perfected his surgical procedures on un-anesthetized African American slave women. The book concludes by exploring the reasons underlying American society's empowerment of a hodgepodge of ex-theologians, humanist clinicians and researchers, lawyers and philosophers - the bioethicists - as authorities able to address research ethics scandals and the ethical problems generated by morally disruptive technologies.

Epuisement

‘Exhaustion’ 

Call for papers

University of Kent, Friday, 25 October 2013

The conference will explore different medical, psychiatric and psychoanalytic narratives on the origins of and cures for exhaustion. It will analyse the ways in which exhaustion features as a main symptom in related diagnostic categories, such as depression, burnout, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and melancholia, neurasthenia and nervous weakness. It will also explore the metaphorical allure of the term and its deployment in other discourses, in particular in the fields of literature, economics and ecology. 

I have invited experts to talk about the different forms exhaustion can take, and different ways of theorizing its aetiologies and effects, including psychiatrists, psychologists, occupational health specialists, historians, sociologists, literary scholars and psychoanalysts. Simon Wessely andAngela Woods are amongst the speakers.

There are still two slots available for presentations, and I would very much welcome your proposals. If you are interested in participating, please email me – A.K.Schaffner[at]kent.ac.uk – with a short abstract by August 31.

Le corps victorien

Victorian Body Parts

Conference


Barts Pathology Museum, Saturday 14 September 2013



Registration is now open for the Victorian Body Parts Conference. The conference fee is £15 (£10 for students/unwaged). Please register here: https://www2.bbk.ac.uk/english/vbp/


PROGRAMME


09.30-09.50 Registration and Refreshments

09.50-10.00 Opening Remarks
Carla Valentine (Technical Assistant Curator, Barts Pathology Museum)
Beatrice Bazell and Emma Curry (Birkbeck College, University of London)


10.00-11.15 Keynote Panel
Dr Katharina Boehm (Universität Regensburg), ‘Body Boundary Object’

Dr Kate Hill (University of Lincoln), ‘A Head for Knowledge: Archaeology, Anthropology and Body Parts in Victorian Museums’

Chair: Dr Victoria Mills (Darwin College, University of Cambridge)


11.15-11.45 Tea Break


11.45-13.00 Panel One: Severed Parts
Ellery Foutch (University of Wisconsin-Madison), ‘Sandow’s Arm’

Dr Graeme Pedlingham (University of Sussex), ‘“I take myne owne”: The Hysteric, The Collector and Anatomical Autonomy in Richard Marsh’s “Lady Wishaw’s Hand” (1895)’

Catherine Oakley (University of York), ‘Laughable Limbs: Comic Dismemberment in Early Cinema 1895-1910’

Chair: Diana Garrisi (University of Westminster)


13.00-13.45 Lunch


13.45-15.00 Panel Two: Prosthetic Parts
Clare Stainthorp (University of Birmingham), ‘The Case of the Artificial Hand: Considering Disability, Prosthesis and the Motif of the Hand in the Nineteenth Century’

Ryan Sweet (University of Exeter), ‘“Down Came the Limb with a Frightful Smash”: Prosthesis as Weapon in Nineteenth-Century Literature’

Emma Curry (Birkbeck College, University of London), ‘Wiggery Pokery: Touching Dickens’s Hair’

Chair: Amanda Sciampacone (Birkbeck College, University of London)


15.00-15.15 Break


15.15-16.30 Panel Three: Gendered Parts
Lisa Coar (University of Leicester), ‘The Surgically Sartorial: Cutting it Fine among Wasp-Waisted Men’

Ally Crockford (University of Edinburgh), ‘Erect Victorians: the Anxious Masculinity of the 19th-Century ‘Diphallic’ Terata’

Beatrice Bazell (Birkbeck College, University of London), ‘’Corset, Camera, Constriction: Articulating the Female Body in Mid-Victorian Culture’’

Chair: Dr Corinna Wagner (University of Exeter)


16.30-16.45 Break


16.45-17.30 Keynote Address
Dr Tiffany Watt-Smith (Queen Mary, University of London), ‘Organs of Imitation: Theatrical Body Parts and Scientific Psychology’

Chair: Dr Nicola Bown (Birkbeck College, University of London)


17.30-17.45 Closing Remarks
Dr Nicola Bown (Birkbeck College, University of London)


For more information, please see: http://victorianbodyparts.wordpress.com/

Les femmes dans la science

Revealing lives : women in science 1830-2000

Call for papers

Thurs 22 May–Fri 23 May 2014: The Royal Society, London

PLEASE SUBMIT ABSTRACTS BY FRIDAY 1 NOVEMBER 2013

This international conference aims to locate and examine women’s participation in science, to identify areas for further research and to reflect on how historical interpretations can inform the role of women in science today. The programme will include contemporary science-led panels to provide context and help build connections between the past and the present.

How are we to recover, interpret and understand women’s experiences in science? Popular history delivers stories of a few ‘heroines’ of science, but perhaps these narratives do more to conceal than reveal? Where were the workaday women scientists – now largely invisible – whose contributions have helped shape science today?

‘Science’ and ‘participation’ will be defined to encourage maximum inclusivity and we welcome contributions from a broad, multidisciplinary perspective. Themes may include (but are not limited to):
Women and learned societies
Women and spaces of scientific production
Women and scientific education and learning
Representations of women scientists: media, fiction, film, art
Scientific collaboration
Women within familial and social networks of science
Gendered roles in science
Science today: issues and challenges
The ‘leaky pipeline’: women leaving science

Selected papers from the conference will appear in a special issue of the Royal Society’s history journal Notes and Records (final papers to be submitted by end of September 2014).

Proposals for panels and for individual papers are encouraged. Please send abstracts for papers (max 20 minutes) of no more than 200 words, and for panels of no more than 400 words, along with brief biographical details, to Dr Claire Jones: C.G.Jones2@liverpool.ac.uk and Dr Sue Hawkins:S.E.Hawkins@kingston.ac.uk by the deadline of Friday 1 November 2013.

Regular updates concerning programme and registration will be posted here.