Dernier numéro de Social history of Medicine

Social History of Medicine
 
Volume 28 Issue 2 May 2015


 
Original Articles

Cristian Berco
The Great Pox, Symptoms, and Social Bodies in Early Modern Spain
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Shannon K Withycombe
From Women's Expectations to Scientific Specimens: The Fate of Miscarriage Materials in Nineteenth-Century America
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Catherine Cox and Hilary Marland
‘A Burden on the County’: Madness, Institutions of Confinement and the Irish Patient in Victorian Lancashire
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Sabine Arnaud
Fashioning a Role for Medicine: Alexandre-Louis-Paul Blanchet and the Care of the Deaf in Mid-nineteenth-century France
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Elise Juzda Smith
Class, Health and the Proposed British Anthropometric Survey of 1904
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Dennis A. Doyle
Black Celebrities, Selfhood, and Psychiatry in the Civil Rights Era: The Wiltwyck School for Boys and the Floyd Patterson House
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Sanem Güvenç-Salgirli
The Image of the Self-Sacrificing Doctor: Medicine, Taxes and Unemployment in 1930s Turkey
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Donna Harsch
Translating Smoke Signals: West German Medicine and Tobacco Research, 1950–1970
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Focus on Learning from Pain

Rob Boddice
Joanna Bourke, The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers
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Daniel Goldberg
Rob Boddice (ed.), Pain and Emotion in Modern History
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Alex Mold
George Weisz, Chronic Disease in the Twentieth Century: A History
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Jane E. Schultz
Shauna Devine Learning from the Wounded: The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science
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Noémi Tousignant
Keith Wailoo, Pain: A Political History
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Book Reviews

Wendy Turner
Sari Katajala-Peltomaa and Susanna Niiranen (eds), Mental (Dis)Order in Later Medieval Europe
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Guido Giglioni
Richard Sugg, The Smoke of the Soul: Medicine, Physiology and Religion in Early Modern England
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Antje Kampf
Liberty Walther Barnes Conceiving Masculinity: Male Infertility, Medicine, and Identity
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Anne Hardy
Leslie Rosenthal, The River Pollution Dilemma in Victorian England. Nuisance Law versus Economic Efficiency
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Virginia Crossman
Ian Miller Reforming Food in Post-Famine Ireland: Medicine, Science and Improvement, 1845–1922
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David Fahey
Matthew Warner Osborn, Rum Maniacs: Alcoholic Insanity in the Early American Republic
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Myriam Mertens
Michael Osborne, The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France
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Deborah Thom
Mathew Thomson, Lost Freedom: The Landscape of the Child and the British Post-war Settlement
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Mical Raz
Marga Vicedo, The Nature and Nurture of Love: From Imprinting to Attachment in Cold War America
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Marika Seigel
Erika Dyck, Facing Eugenics: Reproduction, Sterilization, and the Politics of Choice
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Anne-Kathleen Tillack-Graf
Susan Benedict and Linda Shields (eds), Nurses and Midwives in Nazi Germany: The “Euthanasia Programs”
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Sally Smith Hughes
Nicholas Rasmussen Gene Jockeys: Life Science and the Rise of Biotech Enterprise
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Luc Berlivet
Carsten Timmermann, A History of Lung Cancer: The Recalcitrant Disease
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Carsten Timmermann
David S. Jones Broken Hearts: The Tangled History of Cardiac Care
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Carol-Ann Farkas
Francesca Scott, Kate Scarth and Ji Won Chung (eds), Picturing Women's Health (Warwick Series in the Humanities)
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Jane M. Adams
John S. Haller Jr., Shadow Medicine: The Placebo in Conventional and Alternative Therapies
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Keir Waddington
Mark Jackson, The History of Medicine: A Beginner's Guide
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Mécanique, médecine et anatomie à l’âge classique

Mécanique, médecine et anatomie à l’âge classique

Conférences de Domenico Bertoloni Meli à Paris

Le labex TransferS et l’USR République des Savoirs invitent, du 02 au 31 mai, le Professeur Domenico BERTOLONI MELI - Professeur d’Histoire et de philosophie des sciences à l’Indiana University, Bloomington (États-Unis).

Mercredi 6 mai

Visualizing Disease and the Dutch Tradition of Observationes

dans le contexte de la Journée d’études Observation and Experiments as Forms of Writing : Describing, Registering, Recording and New Scientific Genres in Early Modern Europe, organisée par Claire Crignon, Dana Jalobeanu et Sophie Roux

45 rue d’Ulm, Salle Pasteur 

Recent research identified the emergence of a new literary tradition in the early modern period that has no precedent in classical antiquity : the collection of Observationes. Observationes concerned individual cases, often related to medicine or natural history. Within this broad group, I study a number of works produced in Amsterdam by several anatomists, the most famous being Nicolaas Tulp, immortalized by Rembrandt, and Frederik Ruysch, who established the pre-eminent anatomical museum of his age. All the authors involved were either surgeons or closely tied to surgery – Tulp and Ruysch being both lecturers to the surgeons’ guild. I show how such collections of Observationes, especially those produced in the Low Countries, played an important role in the emergence of the illustrated pathology treatise, joining intellectual transformations to the Dutch visual tradition involving a new attention to detail.

Jeudi 7 mai

Revisiting De humani corporis fabrica by Andreas Vesalius

29 rue d’Ulm, Salle 235C, 17.00-19.00

Images from the great (in all senses) work by Andreas Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica (1543) have become iconic and ubiquitous. Nonetheless, the complexity and range of Vesalius’s iconographic enterprise are considerably richer than standard accounts would suggest. This talk attempts to provide a sense of the variety of challenges faced by Vesalius and posed to us by his images, large and small.

Mercredi 20 mai

Marcello Malpighi on Mechanistic Explanations as Investigative Projects

dans le contexte de la Journée d’études Perspectives croisées sur la notion de mécanisme (xvii^e siècle-xx^e siècle), organisée par Michel Morange et Sophie Roux

45 rue d’Ulm, Salle Pasteur

The problem of generation posed a major challenge to mechanistic anatomists. Some, such as Swammerdam, adopted a radical solution by advocating a form of preformation whereby all living organisms were created by God ab initio. By contrast, Malpighi argued that each organism was created by its parents, generation after generation. His solution posed the question of how this process occurs : he had no detailed answer, though he tried to outline a suitable scenario. My talk reconsiders some of his published texts and examines some preliminary drawings of a monstrous egg that initially seemed to support Swammerdam’s views.

Jeudi 21 mai

Machines of the Body in the 17^th Century

29 rue d’Ulm, Salle 235C, 17.00-19.00

The 17^th century was arguably the golden age of mechanistic anatomy. At the time mechanics was being transformed both conceptually and practically, with the introduction of new notions and devices. Whereas in antiquity the lever was the main mechanical device, by the 17^th century pendulums, springs, hygrometers, thermometers, barometers, and air pumps emerged and often took center stage. My talk investigates how these and other devices transformed the understanding of the body and interacted with anatomical and more broadly naturalistic investigations. In other words, I try to argue that mechanistic anatomy was transformed conceptually and also because the park of mechanical tools and devices was in a state of profound transformations at the time.

Samedi 23 mai

Présentation de son ouvrage Mechanism, Experiment, Disease : Marcello Malpighi and Seventeenth-Century Anatomy, Baltimore, the Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011

dans le cadre du 3e atelier franco-américain d’histoire de la philosophie moderne

Histoire du bébé éprouvette

The many births of the test-tube baby

Public lecture with Dr. Nick Hopwood

Wednesday 6 May 2015 

in the Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building, 

University of York, starting at 6:00​pm​.

Born following in vitro fertilization in Oldham in 1978, Louise Brown made global news as the first ‘test-tube baby’. Yet since the 1940s various researchers had already reported having fertilized human eggs to produce embryos and even infants. The lecture will ask how they pressed these claims and how their colleagues assessed and contested them. The answer will pay special attention to the negotiation of standard criteria in journals, textbooks and newspapers, at conferences and on television. The result will be fresh perspectives on a founding achievement of reproductive biomedicine and on communication in science after World War II.

Please see http://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/public-lectures/summer-2015/test-tube-baby/ for more details.

L’opacité publique de la maladie professionnelle

Construire et déconstruire l’opacité publique de la maladie professionnelle - Un regard historique


Présenté par Judith Rainhorn (Université de Valenciennes, Calhiste et ESOPP (CRH-EHESS) ; discutante : Aline Désesquelles (Ined)

le Lundi 04 Mai 2015 à l’Ined, Salle Sauvy de 11h30 à 12h30

À travers l’histoire de la peinture au plomb et de ses implications sanitaires aux XIXe et XXe siècles, on peut questionner l’invisibilité scientifique et sociale des maladies d’origine professionnelle. Le saturnisme professionnel fait l’objet d’un tableau symptomatique qui se fixe progressivement au cours du XIXe siècle dans la littérature médicale et toxicologique, puis d’une reconnaissance légale en 1919. Ce processus d’édification légale de la maladie professionnelle se heurte à une opacité persistante de l’affection, dont les facteurs sont nombreux : parmi eux, on s’interrogera sur le poids des débats démographiques du XIXe siècle et des tentatives de mise en chiffres de la maladie, à l’heure d’une science statistique en voie d’élaboration.



Judith Rainhorn est maître de conférences en histoire contemporaine à l’université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis, membre junior de l’Institut universitaire de France (IUF, 2008-2013), membre du groupe ESOPP ("Études Sociales et Politiques des Populations, de la protection sociale et de la santé"), EHESS-Sciences Po, Paris et membre correspondante du GRHEn (Groupe de recherche en Histoire de l’Environnement, CRH-EHESS).

Après une thèse de Doctorat d’histoire consacrée à l’étude comparée des migrations italiennes à Paris et à New York à l’ère de l’immigration de masse (1880-1940), elle s’intéresse depuis 2007 à l’histoire de la santé au travail et des maladies professionnelles aux XIXe et XXe siècles. Elle étudie en particulier l’histoire des mobilisations collectives (ouvrières, syndicales, politiques et sociales) au sujet des conditions sanitaires de travail et du saturnisme professionnel, dans une perspective transnationale, en Europe et aux Etats-Unis. Elle s’intéresse également à la figure exceptionnelle d’Alice Hamilton (1869-1970), femme médecin américaine, pionnière de la santé au travail aux Etats-Unis. Judith Rainhorn est accueillie en délégation à l’Ined dans le cadre du Labex iPOPs, de février à juillet 2015.

Approches d'anthropologie chrétienne de la mort

L'au-delà de l'âme et l'en-deçà du corps. Approches d'anthropologie chrétienne de la mort dans l'Eglise syro-orientale


Vittorio Berti


Academic Press

Fribourg
2015 328 pages, broché

Aux environs de l’an 800 après J.C., le chrétien Boktišoʿ, médecin en chef de la cour du calife abbasside Ḥarun ar-Rashid à Bagdad, adresse à son patriarche des questions à propos de la condition de l’âme après la mort. Les réponses de Timothée Ier , Catholicos de l’Église de l’Est, se trouvent dans la lettre 2 de son œuvre épistolaire. Il y expose une synthèse originale de la pensée psychologique développée par des chrétiens de langue syriaque entre les IVe et VIIIe siècles de notre ère. La vision de l’homme qui émerge de sa description de la vie de l’âme mêle, d’un côté, philosophie grecque et anthropologie antiochienne et sécularise, de l’autre, le corps mort en légitimant d’un point de vue religieux l’étude de l’anatomie. C’est aussi pour Timothée l’occasion de défendre l’idée d’une interaction entre le libre arbitre et la providence divine au moment de l’entrée et la sortie de l’âme du corps, témoignant de l’imprégnation du débat musulman relatif aux notions de liberté et déterminisme dans les milieux de médecins chrétiens. Ce livre inscrit la lettre de Timothée à Rabban Boktišoʿ dans l’histoire tardo-antique et médiévale de la réflexion anthropologique syriaque. Le traité, dont la première traduction française figure dans ce volume, apparaît comme le point culminant de cette réflexion.

Les maladies et les phobies victoriennes

The Diseases, Health Risks and Phobias of Modern and Fashionable Living: Victorian Perspectives

Friday, 8 May 2015, 4.00 - 6.30pm
Room 3.38 Armstrong Building, Newcastle University

Professor Sally Shuttleworth (University of Oxford), 'Fears and Phobias in Victorian Culture'

Dr Melissa Dickson (University of Oxford)'Weak Nerves and Fashionable Women in Victorian Literature and Culture'

Dr Jennifer Wallis (University of Oxford) ' "Overheated apartments, balls, tea-parties, and feather beds:" The Risks of Nineteenth-century Fashionable Society'

Sally Shuttleworth, is Professor in the Faculty of English Language and Literature, St Anne's College, University of Oxford, and PI of the ERC funded 'Diseases of Modern Life: Nineteenth-Century Perspectives', a five-year interdisciplinary research project based at St Anne's.

Dr Melissa Dickson is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant on the 'Diseases of Modern Life' project, and focuses upon those diseases and pathologies derived from the Victorian soundscape and new understandings of the auditory experience, as well as on diseases of overpressure relating to education, nervous disorders and phobias.

Dr Jennifer Wallis is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant on the 'Diseases of Modern Life' project, and focuses on climate and health, and addiction in the nineteenth century. She is especially interested in how air was used in nineteenth-century medical technologies - from compressed-air baths to respirators - and how such technologies could alter the individual's relationship with their external environment.

This workshop is organised by the 'Fashionable Diseases: Medicine, Literature and Culture, ca. 1660-1832' project team, a collaboration between colleagues in History of Medicine at Newcastle University and English Literature at Northumbria University.

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Histoire de la médecine en Asie du Sud-Est

6th International Conference on The History of Medicine in Southeast Asia (HOMSEA 2016)

Call for papers


To be held in Siem Reap, Cambodia
13-15 January 2016

Conference Host:
Center for Khmer Studies (CKS), Siem Reap (Cambodia)
http://www.khmerstudies.org/

With support from:
Center for Khmer Studies (Cambodia)
The Canada Research Chair in Health Care Pluralism, Université de Montréal (Canada)
University of Sydney (Australia)
Tembusu College at National University of Singapore (Singapore)


Program Committee:
Dr. Krisna Uk, Center for Khmer Studies, Cambodia
Prof. Laurence Monnais, Université de Montréal, Canada
Assoc. Prof. Hans Pols, University of Sydney, Australia
Dr. Mitch Aso, University at Albany, SUNY, United States
and members of the Local Organizing Committee


As HOMSEA will be celebrating its 10th anniversary in Siem Reap (where everything began ten years ago!), all proposals on the subject of the history of medicine and health in Southeast Asia will be considered, but preference will be given to those on the theme of: “History of Medicine in Southeast Asia: Future Perspectives”

Please submit a one-page proposed abstract for a 20-minute talk, and a one-page CV by July 15 2015 to: Laurence Monnais: laurence.monnais-rousselot@umontreal.ca

Please note that it may be possible to subsidize some of the costs of participation for scholars from the Southeast Asia region, and for graduate and postgraduate students.

If you wish to ask for support, please send a separate email justifying your request by July 15 to Laurence Monnais.

Propositions will be reviewed by September 2015.

Further information regarding the venue, registration, registration fees and accommodation options will be available by then (http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/hist/homsea/; http://www.khmerstudies.org/)

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Les chirurgiens écossais au 18e siècle

What Kind of Work Did Scottish surgeons do int he Eighteenth Century?

Dr Ursula Mulcahy, MA (Durham) FRCSE

Department of Philosophy, University of Durham.

Bioethics/Philosophy of Medicine Reading Group (BPMRG)

28 April 2015

4:00 pm

Elvet Riverside, Room 201

This work is based on the probate records of 237 surgeons and surgeon apothecaries who died between 1700 and 1799. Sixty three of the probate records contained an inventory of the deceased’s possessions. Analysis of the records shows that surgeons and surgeon-apothecaries provided most of the medical care in Scotland in the eighteenth century and that most men practiced without being members of the Edinburgh College of Surgeons or the Glasgow College of Physicians and Surgeons. All of them were equipped to make and dispense drugs and for many, this was probably their main source of income. Outside of the large towns and cities surgeons and surgeon-apothecaries often had other occupations, the commonest of which was farming. Only a minority of surgeons did operative surgery but there was an elite group of wealthy surgeons who were trained and equipped to do the more complex types of surgery. 

Dr Mulcahy is a retired consultant surgeon.  She is currently reading PhD at Durham that addresses medicine and science during the Scottish Enlightenment.