Histoire de la perception du corps

Le Sentiment de soi. Histoire de la perception du corps (XVIe-XXe siècle)

Georges Vigarello

Le Seuil
L'Univers historique

Date de parution 04/09/2014
324 pages - 21.00 € TTC

Yoga, méditation et autres techniques de bien-être : l’idée est aujourd’hui largement répandue que nous pouvons agir sur notre humeur et nos états d’âme par un travail sur le corps. Or cette idée a une histoire que Georges Vigarello révèle ici, proposant un parcours fascinant à travers l’histoire des représentations de l’intime.

Jusqu’au XVIIIe siècle, le moi était circonscrit à la pensée et à l’esprit : « je pense, donc je suis ». C’est avec les Lumières qu’apparaît, dans les textes de Diderot ou de l’ Encyclopédie, l’idée d’un sixième sens pour désigner les perceptions internes du corps. Cette conscience inédite s'exprime dans la notion nouvelle de sentiment de l'existence. Le corps coïncide avec le moi : véritable révolution de la perception de soi, qui s’exprimera bientôt abondamment dans les journaux intimes.

Le XIXe siècle approfondit ces réflexions en s’interrogeant sur le rêve, la folie, l’effet des drogues, le somnambulisme. Le début du XXe siècle introduit plus qu’on ne le croit à la culture d’aujourd’hui : de la relaxation aux exercices de prise de conscience, de la détente à l'étourdissement, la conscience corporelle devient un lieu de vertige autant que d’exploration de l’intime.

Georges Vigarello est directeur d’études à l’EHESS. Il a publié au Seuil de nombreux ouvrages et dirigé avec Alain Corbin et Jean-Jacques Courtine une Histoire du corps (2005-2006) et une Histoire de la virilité (2011). Parmi ses derniers titres : Les Métamorphoses du gras (2010) et La Silhouette du XVIIIe siècle à nos jours (2012).

Histoire de la santé globale

Assistant professor in the history and sociocultural study of global health

Call for applications

The University of Pennsylvania has begun a faculty search in the history and sociocultural study of global health at the assistant professor level. The announcement is pasted below and a live link can be found here: https://hss.sas.upenn.edu/story/tenure-track-position-global-health

The University of Pennsylvania’s Department of History and Sociology of Science invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level in the history and sociocultural study of global health, to begin July 1, 2015.  In addition to contributing to the graduate program, the successful candidate will play a crucial role in the Health and Societies Program, a thriving interdisciplinary undergraduate major administered through the department.

Interested candidates should submit a letter of application, CV, statement of research, and the contact information for three individuals who have agreed to provide a letter of recommendation at http://facultysearches.provost.upenn.edu/postings/274.   

Recommenders will be contacted by the University with instructions on how to submit a letter to the website.  Review of applications will begin October 1, 2014, and continue until the position is filled.  For additional information, contact Beth Linker, chair of global health search committee, Department of History and Sociology of Science, at linker@sas.upenn.edu.  

The Department of History and Sociology of Science is strongly committed to Penn’s Action Plan for Faculty Diversity and Excellence and to establishing a diverse faculty (for more information see: http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/volumes/v58/n02/diversityplan.html).  

The University of Pennsylvania is an EOE.  Minorities/Women/Individuals with disabilities/Protected Veterans are encouraged to apply.  

La vie de Sir John Pringle

Saving the Army: The Life of Sir John Pringle

Morrice McCrae


Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: John Donald Short Run Press (September 4, 2014)
ISBN-10: 1906566755
ISBN-13: 978-1906566753

Sir John Pringle was born in 1707 in the Scottish Borders, where his ancestors had held land since the thirteenth century. He studied philosophy at St Andrews University and medicine at the universities of Edinburgh and Leiden. During the War of the Austrian Succession, Pringle was made Physician General to the British Army and was appalled to see the huge number of deaths resulting not from casualties of battle but from diseases such as typhus and dysentery. He introduced a wide range of improvements in hospital management and discipline, and in standards of care and sanitation/hygiene. His reforms helped to reduce the appalling number of deaths from disease that had previously been thought inevitable. His published account of this achievement, Observations on the Diseases of Army, brought him fame across Europe. Honoured by learned societies, he was made physician to King George III and the royal family, and was elected President of the Royal Society in London. At a time when medical practice was still guided by theories that had hardly changed for two thousand years, Pringle's revolutionary approach and scientific investigations earned him a place in medical history.

La médecine thermale à la Renaissance

Nicolas Dortoman et Balaruc. La médecine thermale à la Renaissance


Colloque


Du jeudi 18 septembre 2014 au samedi 20 septembre 2014

Salle des Colloques 01 - Rue du Professeur Henri Serre
Montpellier, France (34090)

Salle Montgolfier
Balaruc-les-Bains, France (34)



Jeudi : Faculté de Médecine de Montpellier, Salle des Actes

14h : Accueil des participants

14h15 : Ouverture par M. le Doyen de la Faculté de Médecine.

Introduction : Jean Meyers et Brigitte Pérez-Jean, professeurs à l’Université Paul-Valéry de Montpellier.

Présidente de séance : Geneviève Xhayet
14h25 : Philippe Poindron (professeur à l’Université de Strasbourg), La thérapeutique au temps de Dortoman : continuité, ruptures, innovations et nouvelles approches.
15h : Evelyne Berriot-Salvadore (professeur à l’Université Paul-Valéry de Montpellier), Nicolas Dortoman : l’esprit et la méthode d’un professeur de Montpellier.
15h45 : Nicolas Breton (doctorat à l’Université de Franche-Comté), Dortoman et son temps.

16h30 : Pause et visite de la Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Médecine avec un conservateur.
17h : Marie-Francoise Delpeyroux (maître de conférences à l’Université Paul-Valéry de Montpellier), Les sources du De causis et effectibus thermarum Belilucanarum. Dortoman a-t-il lu le traité De balneis de Gentile da Foligno ?

Vendredi : Université Paul-Valéry, site Saint-Charles, Salle des Colloques 01

Le matin :
Président de séance : Thierry Lavabre-Bertrand
9h30 : Iouri Bermond, Christophe Pellecuer (archéologues, Ministère de la Culture), « Le vrai portrait » de Balaruc à l’époque romaine, de Dortoman à l’archéologie contemporaine.
10h15 : Didier Boisseuil (maître de conférences à l’Un diversité de Tours), Marilyn Nicoud (professeur à l’Université d’Avignon), Le thermalisme en Italie (XIVe-XVIe siècles).

11h : Pause café
11h30 : Jean-Pierre Jougla (avoué, coordinateur du D.U. Emprise et processus de vulnérabilité, Faculté de Médecine de Paris-Descartes), L’alchimie chez les médecins au XVIe siècle, son extension au cours des deux siècles suivants.

L’après-midi :
Présidente de séance : Béatrice Bakhouche
14h30 : Thierry Lavabre-Bertrand (professeur à l’Université de Montpellier I), L’université de médecine de Montpellier dans les vicissitudes du XVIe siècle.
15h15 : Geneviève Xhayet (docteur, chef de travaux FNRS de l’Université de Liège), Modalités de la cure à Balaruc (usages de l’eau, régime des curistes).
16h : Concetta Pennuto (maître de conférences à l’Université François Rabelais de Tours), Soigner les organes génitaux par les eaux: Dortoman et la source de Balaruc.

Samedi : Balaruc-les-Bains, Salle Montgolfier
(en face du Syndicat d'Initiative)

Une table ronde réunira, outre les intervenants du colloque, Carlos Lévy Professeur à la Sorbonne Paris 4, Pierre Cassado spécialiste d’onomastique et les organisateurs Régis Ayats, Jean Meyers, Brigitte Pérez-Jean.

10h : Ouverture par Régis Ayats

12h : Conclusions par Jean Meyers et Marie-Françoise Delpeyroux

Santé et bien-être dans l'Amérique du 19e siècle

Health and Wellness in 19th-Century America 

John C. Waller



Series: Health and Wellness in Daily Life
Hardcover: 274 pages
Publisher: Greenwood (August 31, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-0313380440

Health and Wellness in 19th-Century America covers a period of dramatic change in the United States by examining our changing understanding of the nature of the disease burden, the increasing size of the nation, and our conceptions of sickness and health. With topics ranging from the unsanitary tenements of New York's Five Points, the field hospitals of the Civil War, and to the laboratories of Johns Hopkins Medical School, author John C. Waller reveals a complex picture of tradition, discovery, innovation, and occasional spectacular success.

This book draws upon an extensive literature to document sickness and wellness in environments like rural homesteads, urban East-coast slums, and the hastily built cities of the West. It provides a fascinating historical examination of a century in which Americans made giant strides in understanding disease yet also clung to traditional methods and ideas, charting how U.S. medical science gradually transformed from being a backwater to a world leader in the field.

Histoire de la médecine ibérique

History of Iberian Science & Medicine

Call for Papers

Panels and Roundtables to be held during the 46th annual conference of the ASSOCIATION FOR SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE HISTORICAL STUDIES (ASPHS) at The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (USA), March 19-22, 2015.

Dear Colleagues:

We would like to invite you to participate in a series of panels and roundtables bringing together historians of Iberian and colonial Latin American science to discuss recent historiographical developments in the field, new research and to explore the field’s future direction. Some possible roundtables and panels are described below, but we welcome additional proposals.

Travel subventions are available for a limited number of accepted participants.

Prof. Maria M. Portuondo and Prof. Gabriel Paquette serve as the sub-committee on history of science of the ASPHS program committee and will assist coordinating papers and panels.

We ask that you please contact us directly indicating your interest in participating. Since the deadline for all final panel and roundtable submissions is1 October 2014, we ask that you communicate with the sub-committee well in advance of this date. Subventions will be awarded based on the timely submission and quality of the paper/panel proposals.

With our best wishes,

María Portuondo [mportuondo@jhu.edu]

Gabe Paquette [gabriel.paquette@jhu.edu]

Possible sessions of History of Iberian Science:

• Roundtable #1: Ten years after ‘Beyond the Black Legend’ (Valencia 2005). What has ten years wrought?

The purpose of the roundtable is to discuss the development of the field and its historiography since the groundbreaking ‘Beyond the Black Legend’ Conference held in Valencia in 2005. On that occasion historians from the United States, Spain and Portugal gathered to discuss the role Iberian science played in the ‘Scientific Revolution’ — a historical label understood as both a historiographical construct and as a period of epistemic and methodological transformation. This roundtable invites scholars to discuss a number of themes, among them: the conferences’ legacy, the interaction between scholars working in the field, compare approaches, describe research programs, etc. Our objective is to publish a synthesis of our discussion in the ‘Focus” section of Isis.

• Roundtable #2: Future Directions in Iberian History of Science and Medicine.

As the title suggests, the objective is for panelists to discuss where they see the future of the field going in terms of themes, approaches and methodologies. It can also be an opportunity to discuss the field’s visibility, growth and development strategies.

Panel: New Studies in the History of Science in Colonial Latin America

Panel: Colonial Hybrids: Indigenous Beliefs, Natural philosophy and Early Modern Science

Panel: Science, Medicine and Literature in the Iberian World

General Call for Papers:

The 46rd Annual Conference of the ASPHS will take place on March 19-22, 2015 at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

The ASPHS invites session proposals for panels and/or individual presentations on any aspect of Iberian history, art history, or literature. The typical panel will include three papers, a chairperson, and a discussant. We welcome proposals for roundtable discussions of a particular work or theme.

Proposals should include a 200-word abstract for each paper and a one-page curriculum vitae for each participant, including chairs and discussants. Please include each participant's name and e-mail address, along with any requests for audio/visual equipment or other special requirements.

Participants in the conference must be members of the ASPHS. Graduate students presenting a paper for the first time at an ASPHS conference will receive a free membership for their first year, but must still submit the necessary paperwork.

Please direct questions about membership to the General Secretary, Katie Harris (akharris@ucdavis.edu) or the Membership Secretary, Sandie Holguín (sholguin@ou.edu) or see the website for membership information:http://asphs.net/membership.html

The conference will take place at The Johns Hopkins University, which is located in Baltimore, Maryland. Baltimore is home to a vibrant arts and restaurant scene, as well as the Walters Art Museum and the Peabody Library. The local organizers are Erin Rowe (erowe@jhu.edu) and Gabriel Paquette (gabriel.paquette@jhu.edu). Information about hotels and registration fees will follow soon.

For more information about ASPHS, visit the website at http://asphs.net.

La résistance médicale juive pendant l'Holocauste

Jewish Medical Resistance in the Holocaust 

Michael A. Grodin (Editor)



Hardcover: 316 pages
Publisher: Berghahn Books (September 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1782384170
ISBN-13: 978-1782384175

Faced with infectious diseases, starvation, lack of medicines, lack of clean water, and safe sewage, Jewish physicians practiced medicine under severe conditions in the ghettos and concentration camps of the Holocaust. Despite the odds against them, physicians managed to supply public health education, enforce hygiene protocols, inspect buildings and latrines, enact quarantine, and perform triage. Many gave their lives to help fellow prisoners. Based on archival materials and featuring memoirs of Holocaust survivors, this volume offers a rich array of both tragic and inspiring studies of the sanctification of life as practiced by Jewish medical professionals. More than simply a medical story, these histories represent the finest exemplification of a humanist moral imperative during a dark hour of recent history.

Connaissance urbaine

Urban Knowledge

Call for papers


Urban History Group 2015
University of Wolverhampton, 26-27 March


“You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.”

This quotation from Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities illustrates the ways in which urban places stimulate the production of knowledge. Cities have long been the locus of information-gathering both on a municipal and on an individual scale. Developing ways to ‘know’ the inequalities in London prompted the development of spatially defined statistics, whereas the wide boulevards of Haussmann’s Paris gave rise to the flaneur and intimate knowledge of the street. Historically towns and cities have empowered, inhibited and conditioned the production of knowledge as has long been recognised by those working across the arts, humanities and social sciences.

This conference seeks to engage with a number of questions concerning the relationship between the city and knowledge. How is knowledge in, and of, the city formed and expressed? How is this knowledge used to manage and inform urban change? What constitutes ‘expert’ knowledge? How is knowledge contested between and within interest groups? The conference has three main areas for enquiry:

1. Knowledge in the City: This strand seeks to engage with the development of urban spaces and institutions for knowledge exchange. Suggestions for topics include: 

• How were cities used as places to disseminate knowledge through, for example, itinerant lecturers, print culture, scientific meetings and learned societies?; 
• Libraries, reading rooms, museums, and halls as spaces that condition knowledge; 
• The development of medical, scientific and technical knowledge, and professional societies, in relation to towns and cities; 
• The intelligentsia and the production of knowledge. 

2. Knowledge of the City: This strand seeks to examine how urban dwellers developed understandings of their surroundings. Suggestions for topics include: 

• The extent to which conflict and crisis disrupted and changed urban dweller’s knowledge of the city 
• The role of the senses in shaping knowledge and behaviour in the city; 
• The ways in which formal knowledge-gathering exercises such as mapping, measuring and numbering informed individual behaviour and urban change; 
• The use of literary and visual sources such as photographs and travel writing in revealing understandings of the city. 

3. Knowledge and the City: This strand seeks to uncover how the nature of the urban environment shaped the knowledge produced and communicated in the city. Suggestions for topics include: 

• How did the social, economic and demographic characteristics of towns and cities influence the way people acquired and communicated knowledge?; 
• Did civic leaders seek to foster knowledge as an element of civic boosterism and place marketing? 
• What are the relationships between knowledge and social capital? 
• Are there hierarchies of urban knowledge? 

The conference committee invites proposals for individual papers as well as forpanel sessions of up to 3 papers. Sessions that seek to draw comparisons across one or more countries, or open up new vistas for original research, are particularly encouraged.

Abstracts of up to 500 words, including a paper or panel title, name, affiliation and contact details should be submitted to the conference organiser and should indicate clearly how the content of the paper addresses the conference themes outlined above. Those wishing to propose sessions should provide a brief statement that identifies the ways in which the session will address the conference theme, a list of speakers, and abstracts. The final deadline for proposals for sessions and papers is 30 September 2014.

The conference will again host its new researchers’ forum. This is aimed primarily at those who, at an early stage of a PhD or research project, wish primarily to discuss ideas rather than present findings. Short new researchers’ papers need not be related to the main conference theme. Additionally, there will be some limited opportunities for first-year PhD students to present a 10 minute introduction to their topic, archival materials and the specific urban historiography. The intention is to obtain feedback from active researchers in the field of Urban History.

Bursaries. Students registered for a PhD can obtain a modest bursary on a first come, first served basis to offset expenses associated with conference registration and attendance. Please send an e-mail application to Professor Richard Rodger at richard.rodger@ed.ac.uk and also ask your PhD supervisor to confirm your status as a registered PhD student with an e-mail to the same address. Deadline 1 December 2014. The Urban History Group would like to acknowledge the Economic History Society for its support for these bursaries.

For further details and to submit your abstract please contact the Conference Organiser:

Dr Rebecca Madgin,
Urban Studies
School of Social & Political Sciences
University of Glasgow
Tel: 0141 330 3847
Email: rebecca.madgin@glasgow.ac.uk


For New Researchers
Maarten Walraven
School of Arts, Languages & Cultures
University of Manchester
maarten.walraven@manchester.ac.uk


Website: http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/urbanhistory/uhg