Médecine prémoderne et philosophie naturelle

Early Modern Medicine and Natural Philosophy


Peter Distelzweig, Benjamin Goldberg, Evan R. Ragland (eds)



Springer

History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences

Volume 14 2016
ISBN: 978-94-017-7352-2

This volume presents an innovative look at early modern medicine and natural philosophy as historically interrelated developments. The individual chapters chart this interrelation in a variety of contexts, from the Humanists who drew on Hippocrates, Galen, and Aristotle to answer philosophical and medical questions, to medical debates on the limits and power of mechanism, and on to eighteenth-century controversies over medical materialism and 'atheism.'

The work presented here broadens our understanding of both philosophy and medicine in this period by illustrating the ways these disciplines were in deep theoretical and methodological dialogue and by demonstrating the importance of this dialogue for understanding their history.

Taken together, these papers argue that to overlook the medical context of natural philosophy and the philosophical context of medicine is to overlook fundamentally important aspects of these intellectual endeavors.

Bourses en humanités médicales à Swansea University

3 Year Visiting Fellowship in Medical Humanities at Swansea University

Call for applications

As part of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions COFUND scheme, part of Horizon 2020, Swansea University has the opportunity to support a 3 year visiting post for an academic with 3-5 years postdoctoral experience who has not resided in the UK for more than 12 months in the last 3 years to work with our team of medical and disability historians. The scheme is intended primarily to support research in science, technology, medicine and engineering and the applied social sciences, but medical humanities is covered under the scheme's Life Sciences strand.

The application process is two-fold. First, interested applicants are asked to complete the attached Expression of Interest document and return it via ahlhub@swansea.ac.uk by Monday 4 January 2016. We will then select an applicant to go forward to develop a full application which will need to be submitted to the Welsh Assembly Government in March 2016. We will work with the applicant to produce this document. Funding is competitive and we are not guaranteed a fellowship. However, Swansea University, as part of its commitment to developing research in Medical Humanities in general and Disability History in particular, has agreed to support an application in this area.

Further details of the scheme are available here: http://expertisewales.com/marie-sk%C5%82odowska-curie-actions-cofund-fellowship-scheme.

Approches du patient dans le monde antique

Homo Patiens: Approaches to the Patient in the Ancient World

Georgia Petridou, Chiara Thumiger (Editors) 


Series: Studies in Ancient Medicine (Book 45)
Hardcover: 548 pages
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub; Lam edition (December 14, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-9004305557

Homo Patiens - Approaches to the Patient in the Ancient World is a book about the patients of the Graeco-Roman world, their role in the ancient medical encounters and their relationship to the health providers and medical practitioners of their time.
This volume makes a strong claim for the relevance of a patient-centred approach to the history of ancient medicine. Attention to the experience of patients deepens our understanding of ancient societies and their medical markets, and enriches our knowledge of the history of ancient cultures. It is a first step towards shaping a history of the ancient patient’s view, which will be of use not only to ancient historians, students of medical humanities, and historians of medicine, but also to any reader interested in medical ethics.

Perspectives sur les échelles d’étude du passé

Temps et espaces : perspectives sur les échelles d’étude du passé

Appel à communications

Le XXIIIe Colloque International Interdisciplinaire de l'Association des Étudiant(e)s Diplômé(e)s du Département d'Histoire de l'Université de Montréal (AÉDDHUM) se tiendra les 30-31 Mars et 1er avril 2016 sous le thème "Temps et espaces : perspectives sur les échelles d’étude du passé". 

De nouveaux enjeux issus de l’intensification de la globalisation, ainsi que l’apparition de nouvelles approches historiques qui ont remis en cause la pratique de l’histoire centrée sur la nation, ont amené les historiens à opérer un élargissement des échelles d’étude du passé. Plus qu’un « basculement vers le macro après la vague micro* » les approches novatrices que sont la nouvelle histoire impériale, l’histoire transnationale, mondiale, ou encore globale, ont bousculé les cadres de référence traditionnels en étendant l’espace géographique des champs d’étude et en inscrivant les objets d’étude dans un contexte plus large. Le réinvestissement de l’histoire universelle, impliquant par définition un agrandissement considérable des échelles spatio-temporelles, stimule également la discipline.

Le Comité organisateur souhaite ainsi créer un espace de discussion et de réflexion sur l’utilisation des différentes échelles d’analyse en histoire. Quels sont, au juste, les impacts d’un changement d’échelle sur l’étude d’un objet historique? Comment une réflexion sur les échelles peut-elle aider l’historien à ouvrir de nouvelles pistes de recherche? Quels sont les défis de l’historien qui effectue un jeu d’échelle? Quelles sont les approches les plus intéressantes pour répondre aux défis qui touchent l’historien d’aujourd’hui? Les propositions des communications pourront ainsi porter sur les angles suivants :

Réflexions méthodologiques et épistémologiques sur les changements d’échelles

Exemples de travaux effectués avec des échelles élargies (histoire environnementale, mondiale, globale, universelle, interdisciplinarité en histoire, etc.) ou réduites (micro-histoire, études de cas, importance du particularisme en histoire, histoire urbaine, etc.)

Réflexions sur le rapport et l’utilisation des différentes échelles d’analyse

Nous invitons les jeunes chercheurs de cycles supérieurs et de toute discipline dont les travaux portent sur ces thématiques à contribuer au XXIIIe Colloque International Interdisciplinaire des Cycles Supérieurs de l’Université de Montréal. Participer à ce colloque est une occasion unique de présenter vos recherches, d'échanger avec d'autres collègues et professeurs, et par la suite de publier vos résultats.

[*Christian Delacroix. « Échelles », dans Delacroix, Dosse, Garcia, Offenstadt (dir), Historiographie concepts et débats. (p.725-729), Paris, Folio histoire, 2010, p.729.]

Modalités de soumission

Merci d'envoyer vos propositions de communication et de session en anglais ou en français (250 mots maximum)

avant le 11 janvier 2016 à minuit,

à l'adresse qui suit : colloqueaeddhum@gmail.com avec une copie à florence.prevost-gregoire@umontreal.ca

Les communications hors thème pourront également être considérées. Prière d'indiquer votre nom et prénom et affiliation institutionnelle ainsi qu’une demande de subvention avec le coût du voyage estimé, si nécessaire.

Comité scientifique

Thomas Wien, professeur agrégé, département d’histoire de l’Université de Montréal

Dyala Hamzah, professeure adjointe, département d’histoire de l’Université de Montréal

Florence Prévost-Grégoire, étudiante à la maîtrise en histoire, Université de Montréal

Gabrielle Hamelin, étudiante à la maîtrise en histoire, Université de Montréal

David Cadieux, étudiant à la maîtrise en histoire, Université de Montréal

Anaïs Hélie-Martel, étudiante à la maîtrise en histoire, Université de Montréal

Matthieu Caron, étudiant à la maîtrise en histoire, Université de Montréal

Catherine Paulin, étudiante à la maîtrise en histoire, Université de Montréal

Carol-Ann Bellefeuille, étudiante à la maîtrise en histoire, Université de Montréal

Histoire, médecine et santé, n°7

Histoire, médecine et santé, n°7

Dossier thématique : SOINS

L’histoire sociale de la médecine s’est largement constituée autour de l’étude des acteurs, des lieux, des institutions et des pratiques de soin. Si le soin est fréquemment questionné, il est pourtant rarement étudié dans sa dimension relationnelle, dans ses rapports de force et ses interactions.

À la recherche de ce que soigner et prendre soin veulent dire, ce dossier interroge les méthodes et les sources mobilisables par les historiens pour saisir la relation de soin. La diversité des relations thérapeutiques, saisies à domicile ou en institution, fait jouer différents contextes politiques (colonial, autoritaire, laïque) et scientifiques (de la naissance de la médecine clinique au processus de spécialisation disciplinaire). Ce dossier propose des études de cas (XVIIIe-XXe siècle) et bilans historiographiques réalisés par de jeunes chercheurs et des spécialistes en histoire sociale et culturelle de la médecine.

Anne JUSSEAUME, Paul MARQUIS et Mathilde ROSSIGNEUX-MEHEUST, Introduction. Le soin comme relation sociale : bilan historiographique et nouvelles perspectives

Anne JUSSEAUME, La relation entre sœurs et malades dans les hôpitaux parisiens au XIXe siècle, une relation de soin ?

Claire FREDJ, Retrouver le patient colonisé. Les soins aux « indigènes » dans l’Algérie colonisée (fin XIXe s.-années 1930)

Benoît MAJERUS, Surveiller, punir et soigner ? Pratiques psychiatriques en Europe de l'Ouest du 19e e siècle aux années 1950

Fabrice CAHEN, Soin, refus de soin ou maltraitance ? Médecins et avortées dans les hôpitaux parisiens (1900-1975)

Hervé GUILLEMAIN, Le soin en psychiatrie dans la France des années 1930. Une observation à partir des dossiers de patients et des manuels de formation infirmière

Olivier FAURE, Conclusion. Une histoire du soin est-elle possible ?


VARIA

Nicolas SUEUR, Les hygiéniques de la Pharmacie centrale de France : entre semi-médicaments et produits de confort


COMPTES RENDUS

Hervé GUILLEMAIN
MAJERUS Benoît, Parmi les fous. Une histoire sociale de la psychiatrie au XXe siècle

Colin JONES
GOUBERT Jean-Pierre, Malades et médecins à Saint-Malo à la veille de la Révolution
Séverine PARAYRE
QUIN Grégory et BOHUON Anaïs (dir.), L’exercice corporel du XVIIIe siècle à nos jours, de la thérapeutique à la performance

Grégory QUIN
LUTHY Dave, Le Compas et le bistouri. Architectures de la médecine et du tourisme curatif. L’exemple vaudois (1760-1940)

Les organisations internationales de santé

International Health Organizations (IHOs): People, politics and practices in historical perspective

Call for communications

Shanghai, 21 to 24 April 2016
http://www.strath.ac.uk/iho

Co-organisers: The Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (CSHHH) Glasgow and the David F. Musto Center for Drug Policy Studies, Shanghai University

This conference is designed to draw together practitioners currently working in or with international health organizations, those that have done so in the past, and historians researching these agencies and institutions.

The event follows previous meetings in 2013 and 2015 (see www.strath.ac.uk/iho) in a series designed to scope out historical research into IHOs, to refresh agendas in the field, and to connect current concerns with evidence from the past. Confirmed speakers for 2016 include Anne-Emanuelle Birn (Toronto), Iris Borowy (Aachen), Gilberto Hochman (Fundação Oswaldo Cruz) and Jessica Reinisch (Birkbeck).

Among the questions to be addressed are:

1. In what ways have individuals been able to shape the ideas and practices of IHOs since the late nineteenth-century?

2. What ideas lie behind IHOs and how have these changed over time?

3. How have success and failure been measured in assessing the impacts of IHOs?

4. Why do plans, policies and practices often diverge in the history of IHOs?

5. What impact have politics and social or cultural practices had on IHOs and their operations?

Paper titles and abstracts of no more than 200 words should be submitted by Friday 18th December to jim.mills@strath.ac.uk and those to be invited to the meeting will be informed by Friday 22nd January. Presentations will be for 20 minutes and complete papers should be submitted in advance of the meeting. Postgraduates are particularly encouraged to submit proposals.

All accommodation and subsistence costs at the event will be met for participants. Some support for travel may also be available. Please indicate if you would like to apply for this when you submit your abstract. The organisers gratefully acknowledge the support of the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the Wellcome Trust, and the Universities of Shanghai and Strathclyde for this series of events.

Histoire de la science médico-légale

A History of Forensic Science: British beginnings in the twentieth century

Alison Adam

Series: Routledge SOLON Explorations in Crime and Criminal Justice Histories
Hardcover: 250 pages
Publisher: Routledge (December 9, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-0415856423

How and when did forensic science originate in the UK? This question demands our attention because our understanding of present-day forensic science is vastly enriched through gaining an appreciation of what went before. A History of Forensic Science is the first book to consider the wide spectrum of influences which went into creating the discipline in Britain in the first part of the twentieth century.

This book offers a history of the development of forensic sciences, centred on the UK, but with consideration of continental and colonial influences, from around 1880 to approximately 1940. This period was central to the formation of a separate discipline of forensic science with a distinct professional identity and this book charts the strategies of the new forensic scientists to gain an authoritative voice in the courtroom and to forge a professional identity in the space between forensic medicine, scientific policing, and independent expert witnessing. In so doing, it improves our understanding of how forensic science developed as it did.

This book is essential reading for academics and students engaged in the study of criminology, the history of forensic science, science and technology studies and the history of policing.

Les cultures alcooliques

Alcohol Flows Across Cultures. Drinking Cultures in Transnational and Comparative Perspective

Call For Papers

International Research Symposium

St Anne’s College, Oxford, 29 – 30 June 2016

Alcohol consumption is currently seen as a major public health hazard across the globe. The medicalisation of alcohol use has become a prominent discourse that guides policy makers and impacts public perceptions of alcohol and drinking. This symposium intends to map the historical and cultural dimension of these phenomena and to trace the development of changing attitudes to consumption and historical and contemporary representations of alcohol and drinking in different regions, from the pre-modern to the postcolonial period. Emphasis is on the connected histories of different regions and populations across the globe in terms of their consumption patterns, government policies, economics and representations of alcohol and drinking. This transnational perspective facilitates an understanding of the local, transnational and global factors that have had a bearing on alcohol consumption and legislation and on the emergence of particular styles of ‘drinking cultures’. A comparative approach helps identify similarities, differences and crossovers between particular regions and pinpoint the parameters that shape alcohol consumption, policies and perceptions. The exploration of plural drinking cultures within any one particular region, their association with particular social groups, and their continuities and changes in the wake of wider global, colonial and postcolonial economic, political and social constraints and exchanges will be important dimensions of analysis.

Compensation for travel expenditure and local hospitality during the conference is aimed at but cannot be guaranteed. The closing date for abstracts (300 words) is 10 January 2016. Please indicate the primary source data of your contribution in your abstract, and clearly state your research questions, aims and arguments.


Contact for submission of abstracts and for inquiries:
Professor Waltraud Ernst, wernst@brookes.ac.uk
Professor David Foxcroft, David.Foxcroft@brookes.ac.uk