Histoire de la faculté de médecine de la Reichsuniversität de Strasbourg

One Research Scholar (postdoctoral) position for three years

Call for applications

The University Strasbourg in the context of the creation of a Historical commission on the History of the Medical Faculty of the Reichsuniversität Strassburg 1941-1944 under the direction of Prof. Paul Weindling and Dr. Florian Schmaltz is offering one Research Scholar (postdoctoral) position for three years, tenable from October1, 2016. Candidates should hold a doctorate in history / history of science or related field at the time the position begins, and be able to show evidence of scholarly excellence in the field of history of medicine under National-Socialism in the form of initial international publications.

The candidate is expected to fulfil the role of project manager half time and skills in coordinating a research project are therefore desired.

The working language of the commission will be English, skills in German and French are necessary for archival research and coordination of the group.

Research projects may concern any subject connected to the history of the medical faculty of the Reichsuniversität Strassburg including the post war period until the 1950s.

The University of Strasbourg is an internationally renowned research institution (www.unistra.fr).

Applications may be submitted in German, English, or French.

The position is primarily devoted to research with no teaching and to the administrative duties for the historical commission.

The annual brutto salary including social security charges is 60 K€.

Applications should include a
- curriculum vitae (including list of publications),
- -a research proposal on a topic related to the project (750 words maximum),
- a one page reference letter.


Please send your application in electronic form as a single PDF document, addressed to :
Prof. Christian Bonah : bonah@unistra.fr
by September 10, 2016.

Candidates short listed will be auditioned by the commission on September 27th between 13h and 15h in Strasbourg.

Objectifs et fonctionnement de la Commission historique indépendante « Histoire de la Reichsuniversität Strassburg sous le National-Socialisme »

Suite à l’identification au mois de juillet 2015 de trois préparations au sein de la collection de l’Institut de médecine légale de l’Université de Strasbourg provenant de corps des 86 personnes victimes des recherches criminelles d’August Hirt à la Reichsuniversität Strassburg l’Université de Strasbourg souhaite mettre en place une commission historique indépendante afin de mener un travail scientifique qui aura comme objectif d’éclairer selon les standards historiques actuels l’histoire de cette institution.

Sur la proposition du Président de l’Université de Strasbourg Alain Beretz le Conseil d’Administration et la Commission Recherche de l’Université de Strasbourg décident de mettre en place et de missionner en date du 27 septembre 2016 une commission historique indépendante pour éclairer l’histoire de la Reichsuniversität Strassburg (RUS, 1941-1944)..

Objectifs

La mission de cette commission consiste à documenter et à rechercher de manière aussi complète que possible, sans restrictions et sans partialité :

- Le rôle de la faculté de médecine au sein de la Reichsuniversität sous le système national socialiste

- Les activités scientifiques et politiques de ses membres et représentants (1941-1944)

- Les conséquences et les réceptions de l’activité NS de la Reichsuniversität après 1945 ainsi que les continuités et discontinuités entre la RUS et l’Université de Strasbourg.

- L’identification d’éventuelles victimes des recherches, pratiques ou persécutions à la Reichsuniversität.

- L’identification et la formulation de propositions pour la prise en charge de préparations scientifiques ou pédagogiques produites par la RUS.

- La constitution d’une base documentaire sur le sujet.


L’identification de sujets majeurs imprévus est possible au cours des recherches. Si leur exploration semble nécessaire ces résultats pourront donner lieu à des propositions complémentaires en termes d’objectifs de la commission.

La commission produira un rapport final indépendant sur les résultats qui sera remis au président de l’université et rendu public ensuite.

Composition et structure de la commission

Pour atteindre ces objectifs l’Université met en place et finance une commission historique indépendante qui sera formée par 12 personnes, en partie indépendantes et extérieures à l’Université de Strasbourg et en partie des membres de l’université. La commission désignera en son sein deux présidents qui la représentent et deux directeurs du programme scientifique qui veilleront à sa mise en oeuvre.

Proposition : Membres de la commission : (12 membres)

• Prof. Jean-Sébastien Raul, directeur de l'institut de médecine légale UdS (confirmé)
• Prof. Christian Bonah, histoire des sciences de la vie et de la santé, UdS (confirmé)
• Prof. Catherine Maurer, histoire contemporaine, UdS (confirmé)
• Prof. Jean-Marie LeMinor, professeur d’anatomie, UdS (confirmé)
• Prof. Norbert Schappacher, Histoire de mathématiques, UdS (confirmé)
• Dr Raphaël Toledano, Strasbourg (confirmé)
• Dr. Frédérique Neau-Dufour (CERD) (confirmé)
• Prof. Hans Joachim Lang, Tübingen (confirmé)
• Prof. Paul Weindling, Université Oxford Brooks (confirmé)
• Dr. Florian Schmaltz, Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Berlin (confirmé)
• Prof. Volker Roelcke, Histoire de la médecine, Université de Giessen (confirmé)
• Prof. Carola Sachse, Université de Vienne (à confirmer)

L’indépendance de la commission devra être assurée par une double présidence de la commission par deux historiens extérieurs à l’Université de Strasbourg. La réalisation du programme de recherche établit par la commission sera coordonnée par deux directeurs du programme scientifique.

Proposition pour la présidence et la direction du programme scientifique :

Présidents de la commission : Prof. Paul Weindling et Dr. Florian Schmaltz

Coordination locale du programme de recherche: Prof. Christian Bonah et Prof. Norbert Schappacher

La commission peut coopter d’autres membres ou inviter des membres experts à ses réunions.

Pour la constitution de la base documentaire de la commission historique et sa logistique matérielle la commission sera dotée d’un secrétariat à mi-temps.

Procédure de la mise en place de la commission : L’université suscite la mise en place de la commission historique. Un groupe préparatoire pour la commission détermine les objectifs de la commission historique (proposition voir supra). L’université s’entend avec la commission sur les objectifs de celle-ci et pourvoie au financement adéquat de la commission historique. La commission réalise ensuite de manière indépendante les objectifs, mène les débats, communique les résultats et donne accès aux documents scientifiques par la voix des deux présidents extérieurs à l’université. Les résultats seront présentés au président de l’université avant d’être communiqués par les présidents de la commission.

La commission se donnera un règlement intérieur qui affirmera en particulier que :

- l’université garantie un accès intégral et sans restrictions aux archives et aux collections de l’université pour le travail de la commission

- les membres de la commission s’engagent à communiquer au sujet des résultats du programme de recherche et de la commission uniquement à travers la présidence de la commission. Les travaux de la commission sont confidentiels. Les résultats sont présentés et discutés avec la présidence de l’université et le doyen de la faculté de médecine avant toute publication tout en respectant l’indépendance intégrale de la commission.


La commission historique s’adjoint une commission de partenaires composée de représentants d’institutions concernées par l’histoire de la RUS et de personnalités issues de la société civile afin de garantir une interface avec celle-ci.

Histoire de la médecine chinoise

History of Chinese Medicine 

East Asian Science Technology and Medicine #41

Introduction by the Guest Editor Bridie Andrews

The Catchy Epidemic: Theorization and its Limits in Han to Song Period Medicine
by TJ Hinrichs

The Qing Imperial Academy of Medicine: Its Institutions and the Physicians Shaped by Them by Che-chia Chang

Review Article

Gan Fuxi, Robert Brill, and Tian Shouyun (eds.), Ancient Glass Research Along the Silk Road
and Bettina Zorn and Alexandra Hilgner (eds.), Glass along the Silk Road from 200 BC to AD 1000 reviewed by James W. Lankton

Reviews

Cynthia Brokaw and Christopher A. Reed (eds.), From Woodblocks to the Internet: Chinese Publishing and Print Culture in Transition, circa 1800 to 2008 reviewed by Lucille Chia

Dagmar Schäfer (ed.), Cultures of Knowledge: Technology in Chinese History reviewed by Peter J. Golas

Yanzhong Huang, Governing Health in Contemporary China reviewed by Lisa Handwerker

Pascal Crozet and Annick Horiuchi (eds.), Traduire, transposer, naturaliser: La formation d’une langue scientifique moderne hors des frontières de l’Europe au XIXe siècle reviewed by Viatcheslav Vetrov

Carol Benedict, Golden-Silk Smoke: A History of Tobacco in China, 1550-2010 reviewed by Thomas O. Höllmann

Vladimir Tikhonov, Social Darwinism and Nationalism in Korea: The Beginnings (1880s-1910s)—“Survival” as an Ideology of Korean Modernity reviewed by Mike Hawkins

Denise M. Glover, Stevan Harrell, Charles F. McKhann and Margaret Byrne Swain (eds.), Explorers and Scientists in China’s Borderlands 1880–1950 reviewed by Jan Magnus Romgard

John P. Dimoia, Reconstructing Bodies: Biomedicine, Health, and Nation Building in South Korea since 1945 reviewed by Gregg Brazinsky

Race, sexe et reproduction dans le Sud

Race, Sex, and Reproduction in the Global South, c.1800-2000

Call for papers

Workshop

Race and Ethnicity in the Global South and the Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science (The University of Sydney), 18 April 2017

Keynote speaker: Professor Alison Bashford (University of Cambridge)

Biomedical scientists grew preoccupied with the size of the population and patterns of reproduction at the beginning of the nineteenth century. By the end of the same century sexology, a science devoted to the study of human sexual behavior, emerged, and at the beginning of the twentieth century the eugenics movement advocated active social engineering and state intervention in citizens’ private lives and reproductive sexuality. Such medical attention on reproduction and control of human sexual behaviour has been closely intertwined with interest in evolutionary theories, the improvement of hereditary traits and racial differences. Scientific and pseudo-scientific inquiries into race and sexuality increasingly informed national policies in the modern period; for example they were used to support policies to restrict mixed-race unions, control immigration and to promote pronatalist campaigns among some ethnic groups.

This medical and scientific knowledge on race and sexuality has moved across countries and continents to become global through processes of translation, hybridisation and transculturation. However, historical accounts of how science and medicine have shaped modern ideas of race and sexuality in a global context quite often refer only to Western countries in the Global North. Recent innovative histories on the Global South have shown that debates on race and reproduction in the southern hemisphere have their own history; they neither uncritically reflect ideas from the Global North nor have they been simply influenced by theories popular in the northern hemisphere. For example, we can find biomedical scientists in the southern hemisphere who showed greater interest in racial plasticity, environmental adaptation, mixing or miscegenation, and blurring of racial boundaries. Likewise sexologists in the Global South were far more interdisciplinary than their northern counterparts and incorporated criminal anthropology, psychiatry, biology, endocrinology and psychoanalysis in their studies until well into the 1970s.

This workshop aims to explore medical and scientific understandings of race and reproduction in the Global South in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and to illustrate how these understandings have influenced government policies. We invite scholars working on the Global South to submit a proposal and possible topics include:

- Reproduction, sexuality and race

- Gender and race

- Sexology

- Evolutionary, hereditary and ecological theories

- Medical and scientific ideas about racial plasticity, environmental adaptation, miscegenation and assimilation

- Indigeneity and post/colonialism

- Biopolitics, immigration and reproductive policies

We aim to publish the contributions in an international peer-reviewed journal.

Abstracts of proposals and a short CV (max. 2 pages) should be sent to: CBeccalossi@lincoln.ac.uk

Abstracts should be approx. 250 words in length, sent as an email attachment, and list name, organisation, and contact address. They should also include the title of the proposed paper.

The deadline for the submission of proposals is 25 September 2016. Proposers will be informed whether their paper has been accepted by 1 October 2016.

Enquiries about the workshop should be directed to the above email address.

Organisers:

Warwick Anderson (University of Sydney)

Chiara Beccalossi (University of Lincoln)

Hans Pols (University of Sydney)

Histoire du suicide

History of Suicide 

Historical Reflections/Reflexions Historiques (Vol. 42, Issue 2) 

Editors' Introduction
Linda Mitchell and Brian Newsome
http://bit.ly/2aVyQVJ

Articles
"It Is Better to Die": Abbé Rousseau and the Meanings of Suicide

Jeffrey Merrick

From Act to Fact: The Transformation of Suicide in Western Thought

Daniel Gordon

Jules Vallès and Séverine: Romantic Socialism and the Afterlife of a Cross-Sex Friendship in French Political Culture, 1880-1929

Michael Mulvey

Beyond the Myth of Lesbian Montmartre: The Case of Chez Palmyre

Leslie Choquette

"What to Do with the Girls?" The Legacy of Women Farm Workers in Britain, 1919-1939

Bonnie White

"Clear and Present Danger": The Legacy of the 1917 Espionage Act in the United States

Petra DeWitt

Les définitions médicales et religieuses de l'altérité

Religious and/or Medicinal definitions of Otherness

Call for papers

Religion and medicine were in many ways intertwined in the Middle Ages, both in explaining deviance, illness and impairment as well as in the healing practices. They are not anymore seen as competing but rather as supporting, even complementing each other. Both religion and medicine had their own ways of defining the undesirable, which could lead to the construction of ‘The Other’ – be it disability, mental disorder, or heterodoxy. Some features, like lunacy, leprosy, impotence, or infertility were in the nexus of both religious and medicinal explanations. Both religion and medicine could also offer methods for cure and ways to integrate the deviant persons back into a community. The interconnection of both concepts can be found, for example, in hagiography, sermons, medical treatises and herbals. These sessions aim to analyse healing as cultural practice; the focal questions are how religious and medicinal explanation intermingled in the construction of ‘the Other’ and in what ways they complemented or competed in explaining, categorizing and treating different spiritual, mental and bodily conditions. We aim at organizing a double session focusing on following questions:

· Role of medicine and/or religion in constructing the Other

· Role of medicine and/or religion in experiences of the patient

· Religion and medicine – rivalling, complementing or symbiotic?

· Treating the patient, curing the ailment – integration or permanent marginalization?

· Faith healing and placebo – synonyms, interconnection, anachronisms?

We encourage proposals sensitive to temporal and/or geographical changes focusing on various cultural levels and social contexts. Those interested in presenting a paper in this panel, please submit an abstract of roughly 250-300 words to the organisers by 23 September 2016.

Jenni Kuuliala jenni.kuuliala@uta.fi

Sari Katajala-Peltomaa sari.katajala-peltomaa@uta.fi

Trivium, Tampere Centre for Classical, Medieval, and Early Modern Studies

Les mots des mères du XVIIe à nos jours

Les mots des mères du XVIIe à nos jours

de Yvonne KNIBIEHLER et Martine SAGAERT

Broché: 1216 pages

Editeur : Bouquins (14 avril 2016)

Collection : Bouquins

Langue : Français

ISBN-13: 978-2221122235

Longtemps, les hommes ont défini la maternité à leur manière : succédant aux prêtres, les philosophes, les médecins, les politiques ont prescrit des règles de conduite aux " filles d'Ève ". Les femmes n'avaient pas leur mot à dire, à l'exception des mieux nanties ou des plus combatives. Progressivement, l'instruction des filles s'est généralisée, les femmes ont osé revendiquer leurs droits. Puis, grâce aux progrès scientifiques, elles ont pu limiter leur fécondité, devenir mères selon leur volonté et non plus selon leur " nature ". Et en gagnant leur vie, en accédant à l'espace public, elles ont pris la parole de plus en plus librement.

Que disent les femmes, qu'écrivent-elles sur la maternité, sur la relation entre mère et enfant ? En leur donnant ici la parole, en mettant en valeur leurs dits et leurs écrits, présentés dans leur contexte historique et social, cet ouvrage, qui inclut une anthologie littéraire – du XVIIe siècle à nos jours –, offre une histoire passionnante et originale.

D'une grande diversité (lettres, billets d'abandon, conseils de nourrices, traités d'éducation, poèmes, journaux, romans, autofictions, écrits pour la jeunesse, bandes dessinées, blogs...), les textes proposés émanent d'écrivaines célèbres ou d'anonymes. En abordant des thèmes aussi divers que le déni de grossesse, les nouvelles configurations familiales, la transmission maternelle ou la conciliation maternité-travail, ils illustrent des évolutions de la société contemporaine et les nouvelles façons d'être mère.

Femmes, santé et maternité dans les systèmes de justice criminelle anglais et irlandais

‘Women, Health and Maternity in the English and Irish Criminal Justice Systems’

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

University of Warwick - Department of History

Location: Coventry

Salary: £28,982 to £37,768 

Hours: Full Time

Contract Type: Contract / Temporary

Placed on: 9th August 2016

Closes: 6th September 2016

Job Ref: 1578020

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You will be employed as Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Public Engagement) as part of the Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award project ‘Prisoners, Medical Care and Entitlement to Health in England and Ireland, 1850-2000’, a collaborative project between Professor Hilary Marland of the Warwick History Department and Dr Catherine Cox (School of History and Archives, University College Dublin), the project’s two Principal Investigators (PIs). The project runs for 5 years (2014-19), and a full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow is sought for 3 years commencing 1 January 2017.

You will conduct a specified programme of research on ‘Women, Health and Maternity in the English and Irish Criminal Justice Systems’, involving independent and collaborative historical research in archives and libraries in England and Ireland, along lines agreed with the project’s PIs. The Research Fellow will also advance and organise public outreach activities central to the project. The post will be based at the Centre for the History of Medicine (CHM), University of Warwick, and supervised by Professor Marland. During research visits to Ireland, the postholder will report to Dr Catherine Cox.

You will produce high quality academic outputs based on your research. You will work collaboratively within the project’s research team, provide frequent reports on the research conducted, assist in co-convening policy workshops and producing policy reports, and play a lead role in the management of public events, social media activity and the project website. You will be expected to travel to Ireland (funded by the grant) to conduct research and to attend project meetings.

Potential applicants are welcome to contact PI Hilary Marland hilary.marland@warwick.ac.uk to discuss the nature of the post in advance of application.

If you have not yet been awarded your PhD but are near submission or have recently submitted your PhD, any offers of employment will be made as Research Assistant on level 5 of the University grade structure (£28,143 pa). Upon successful award of your PhD and evidence of this fact, you will be promoted to Research Fellow on the first point of level 6 of the University grade structure (£28,982 pa).

Full details of the duties and selection criteria for this role are found in the vacancy advert on the University of Warwick jobs page. You will be routed to this when you click on the Apply button below.

Le sommeil dans l'Angleterre prémoderne

Sleep in Early Modern England

Sasha Handley

Yale University Press

Publication date:15 Aug 2016

296 pages

ISBN:9780300220391

Drawing on diverse archival sources and material artifacts, Handley reveals that the way we sleep is as dependent on culture as it is on biological and environmental factors. After 1660 the accepted notion that sleepers lay at the mercy of natural forces and supernatural agents was challenged by new medical thinking about sleep's relationship to the nervous system. This breakthrough coincided with radical changes shaping everything from sleeping hours to bedchambers. Handley's illuminating work documents a major evolution in our conscious understanding of the unconscious.