Médecine domestique dans l'Angleterre du 17e siècle

Household Medicine in Seventeenth-Century England 

Anne Stobart

Hardcover: 304 pages

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic (September 8, 2016)

Language: English

ISBN-13: 978-1472580351

How did 17th-century families in England perceive their health care needs? What household resources were available for medical self-help? To what extent did households make up remedies based on medicinal recipes?

Drawing on previously unpublished household papers ranging from recipes to accounts and letters, this original account shows how health and illness were managed on a day-to-day basis in a variety of 17th-century households. It reveals the extent of self-help used by families, explores their favourite remedies and analyses differences in approaches to medical matters. Anne Stobart illuminates cultures of health care amongst women and men, showing how 'kitchin physick' related to the business of medicine, which became increasingly commercial and professional in the 18th century.

Handicap et religion dans l'Europe médiévale

Disability and Religion

Call for papers

Disease, Disability & Medicine in Medieval Europe
0th Anniversary Annual Meeting

Swansea University 2-4 December 2016 at the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea


This three-day conference forms the tenth workshop in the D&D series and aims to explore the interactions between disability and medicine in the Middle Ages by bringing together established scholars and postgraduates, international discourses and theoretical approaches from across a wide range of the humanities and sciences.

Paper proposals are invited on, but certainly not limited to, the following topics:

• Medieval disability and the 'religious model' of disability
• Disability and charity
• Medieval theological concepts of disability
• Canon law and disability
• Interstices of law and medicine in the Middle Ages
• Religion versus science/medicine?
• Devotion, piety and religiosity and voluntary disability
• Disability as form of religious expression
• Corporality and disembodied disability
• Disability between confliciting notions of physical and spiritual health
• Disability and the afterlife

Please submit a 300 word abstract for a 20 to 30 minute paper, together with a brief biography, to I.V.Metzler@swansea.ac.uk by 1 October 2016. If you have any queries please contact Dr Irina Metzler at the same email address.

Attendance at the conference will be free to all participants but numbers are limited to 50 attendees.

Accessibility information: The conference will take place on the first floor of the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea, which has wheelchair accessible lifts. The lecture theatres are wheelchair accessible and special dietary requirements can be catered for.

La reproduction humaine chez les néoplatoniciens

Forms, Souls, and Embryos: Neoplatonists on Human Reproduction

James Wilberding



Series: Issues in Ancient Philosophy
Hardcover: 242 pages
Publisher: Routledge (July 19, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-1138955271

Forms, Souls, and Embryos allows readers coming from different backgrounds to appreciate the depth and originality with which the Neoplatonists engaged with and responded to a number of philosophical questions central to human reproduction, including: What is the causal explanation of the embryo’s formation? How and to what extent are Platonic Forms involved? In what sense is a fetus ‘alive,’ and when does it become a human being? Where does the embryo’s soul come from, and how is it connected to its body? This is the first full-length study in English of this fascinating subject, and is a must-read for anyone interested in Neoplatonism or the history of medicine and embryology.

Lausanne, capitale de l’onanisme

Lausanne capitale de l’onanisme

Table-ronde

Lundi 26 septembre 2016, 17h-19h30
Bibliothèque de l’IUHMSP, Lausanne

La Fondation FINALE (Fondation Internationale d'Arts et Littératures Érotiques) fête ses 20 ans d’existence à Lausanne. FINALE, ce sont 19 000 ouvrages, 6000 ex-libris, 5000 films, 900 affiches de cinéma, ... Elle est unique, il n’existe pas d’autres lieux qui archivent le patrimoine lié à l’érotisme en francophonie. Pour célébrer ce jubilé, FINALE publie un imposant ouvrage et met sur pied une grande exposition en partenariat avec une dizaine d’institutions lausannoises afin de présenter la sensualité singulière.
Dans le programme des animations relatives à cette manifestation, une exposition « La sexualité, toute une histoire » est organisée à la bibliothèque de l’IUHMSP, laquelle propose en outre le 26 septembre 2016 un événement intitulé « Lausanne, capitale de l’onanisme » :
• 17h : Visite guidée de l’exposition « La sexualité, toute une histoire » par Daniela Vaj, responsable de la bibliothèque de l’IUHMSP.
• 17h30-20h : Projection du film de Tanya Wexler « Oh my God ! », suivie d’une table-ronde animée par Vincent Barras et Aude Fauvel, et d’un apéritif.

Informations complètes sur le site : http://www.fondation-finale.org

Traitement du corps et de l'esprit dans l'histoire culturelle

Critical Care: Treatment of Body and Mind in Social and Cultural History

Shannon Lectures, 2016

Co-convenors: Christine Chisholm and Susanne M. Klausen

The Shannon Lectures in History is a series of thematically linked public lectures offered annually at Carleton University made possible through the Shannon Donation, a major anonymous gift from a friend of the Department of History. Click here for further information about the Shannons.

The Shannon Lecture Series for 2016 examines the social, intellectual and cultural history of health, sickness, disease and medicine. The lectures will consider cultural perceptions of the body, health and illness and will tease out the shifting patterns of treatment.

Critical Care: Treatment of Body and Mind in Social and Cultural History

The lecture will take place in the Multi-Media Lab, Discovery Centre (482), 4th floor MacOdrum Library starting at 2:30pm, followed by a reception in the History Lounge (433PA) at 4pm.

Friday, September 30, 2016

“Trials of Madness: Civil Law and Lunacy in a Trans-Atlantic World During the 18th and 19th Centuries”

Dr. James Moran (Department of History, University of Prince Edward Island)

Special Reception Event: During the reception guests will have the opportunity to explore the Remedies, Elixirs, and Medical Men exhibit from the Pinhey’s Point Foundation, which explores health care in nineteenth-century March Township and Bytown, drawing on documentation and artifacts from Ottawa’s Pinhey family and their circle. The Hon. Hamnett Pinhey apprenticed in London with a surgeon, and though he never practised the profession he brought a ship apothecary kit and numerous medical books with him to Canada in 1820 and assisted neighbours with medical problems on the frontier in the absence of physicians. The exhibit also surveys the lives of Dr A.J. Christie of Bytown, Pinhey’s son-in-law Dr Hamnett Hill, and Christie’s grandson who had a pharmacy on Sparks Street in the 1870s and an aerated water factory on Queen. These Ottawa personalities and a selection of Pinhey’s 18th and 19th century medical books are set in the context of changing medical knowledge over the course of the 19th century.

The exhibition will be housed in Carleton University’s Department of History, 4th floor Paterson Hall, from September through December 2016.

Friday, October 14, 2016

“Escaping Judgement/Embracing Judgement: Disability, Protection and Liberty in Twentieth Century Ontario”

Dr. Melanie Panitch (School of Disability Studies, Ryerson University)

Co-sponsored by the Disability Studies Program, Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies

Special Reception Event: During the reception of the October 14th lecture, Carleton University’s Disability Research Group will launch Envisioning Technologies, an accessible exhibit dedicated to the history of educational technologies for people who are blind or partially sighted in Canada from 1820-present.

Friday, November 18, 2016

“Medicare and Medicine Chests: Indian Hospitals and the Construction of National Health in Postwar Canada”

Dr. Maureen Lux (Department of History, Brock University)

Co-sponsored by the Department of Health Sciences

More information to follow.

Friday, December 2, 2016

“A Cultural History of Caring for the Dead Body”

Dr. Thomas Laqueur (Department of History, UC Berkeley)

More information to follow.

La transformation des corps

Transforming Body

Call for Papers

Cornell University, April 21-22, 2017

Presented by the Early Modern Conversions project and Cornell University

In this conference, we propose to explore the centrality of bodies to concepts and practices of conversion in the early modern world. How are bodies – animal, human, vegetal, epistemological – transformed by these concepts and practices, and how do they transform the concepts and practices by their material and virtual presences, by their own performances and practices of conversion, by their resistance to metaphysical and ontological interpretation? This Call for Papers seeks work that crosses disciplinary boundaries even as it questions the boundaries imposed by various knowledge systems on a wide range of bodies. Topics will include, but are not limited to: virtual and corporate bodies as artifacts of conversion; race and conversion; transgender bodies; bodies performing conversion; animality; beauty and seduction; bodies of knowledge; corporeal ecologies; vegetation and bodies of land and water; and monstrous/ magical/ witchlike bodies. 

Please send presentation proposals to conversion.iplai@mcgill.ca by 30 September, 2016. Proposals should be approximately 250 words in length and should provide a brief explanation of how the proposed paper or session relates to the aims of the conference. An adjudication committee will review all submissions and arrive at a decision by early December 2016. 

Conversions project members may apply to the Collaboration Fund for travel support. See here for details: http://earlymodernconversions.com/projectadmin/collaboration-fund/

Send inquiries to Kathleen Perry Long (kpl2@cornell.edu).

La musique comme source de maladie

Mauvaises vibrations, ou la musique comme source de maladie : histoire d'une idée

J. Kennaway


Traduit de l'anglais par Nathalie Vincent-Arnaud

Lambert-Lucas

2016. 

EAN13 : 9782359351514.
240 pages, mai 2016, 18 euros.

L’utilisation de la musique comme remède est aussi ancienne que la lyre de David, mais l’idée qu’elle pourrait être une cause sérieuse de maladie physique ou mentale date de la fin du XVIIIe siècle. Ce sont les médecins des Lumières qui ont commencé à prétendre qu’une musique excessive ou du mauvais genre pouvait conduire à la dépravation, à la maladie (impuissance, stérilité, neurasthénie, hystérie) et à la mort. Depuis cette époque, des vagues successives de panique dénoncent régulièrement les ravages qu’elle cause au système nerveux, depuis Wagner jusqu’au jazz et au rock’n’roll.

Dans l’Allemagne nazie et la Russie soviétique, la musique est prétexte à des persécutions fondées sur un discours psychiatrique. Aux États-Unis, dans les années 1950, où son emploi sous forme de « lavages de cerveau » et de « messages subliminaux » est censé briser les volontés, manipuler les esprits, déclencher des désordres mentaux et pousser au suicide, elle fait l’objet de nouvelles préoccupations. Plus récemment, le développement d’armes soniques et la torture au moyen de la musique dans la « guerre contre la terreur » continuent à faire redouter qu’elle puisse nuire gravement à la santé.

Contribution originale à l’histoire de la médecine et de la musique, ce livre retrace l’origine et l’évolution de l’idée de « musique pathologique » depuis les Lumières jusqu’à nos jours.

Histoire de l'essentialisation et de la biologisation du genre

Historical Perspectives on Essentialisation and Biologisation of Gender

Call for Papers

Interdisciplinary Symposium of the Working Group of Women’s and Gender History (AKHFG) July 6-7, 2017 at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Current debates about gender and gender relations have evolved against the background of two developments: First, the gender category has established itself as part of the academic canon after vigorous discussions. It has arrived as an intersectional or relational category in methodological, theoretical, as well as empirical reflections. This establishment as well as its actual reappraisal as part and principal of “excellence programmes” at German universities does not mean that “gender” is not used additively as a static parameter anymore or in a merely descriptive manner. Secondly, an “anti-genderism” debate has surfaced over the last years in political discussions eager to refute a perceived misuse of gender equality that partially bears traits of a culture war. In an often aggressive tone it articulates reactionary positions according to which the gender of a person is primarily predefined by a dichotomous biological ‘nature’. This serves to legitimise if not demand mostly patriarchal-hierarchic ‘natural’ and ‘healthy’ ways of living that are not to be questioned. To ignore these ‘facts’, in the anti-gender activists’ position, would lead the individual as well as society astray.

Increasingly, attacks have been launched from this position against gender research and concrete individuals; these attacks exceed academic debates by far and claim interpretive authority over central social frameworks. Especially because gender research has been conceived from the very beginning as a critical approach, these conflicting developments call for repositioning its concepts and discourses from/ in a historical perspective.

One of the most influential concepts was developed by Joan W. Scott in 1986 (“Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis”). She defined gender as a socially organised relation. This deconstructive approach brought the relational character of normative definitions of femininity and masculinity into focus. This shifted the vantage point from women as a collective defined by a common biology to the social conditions of individuals in their respective specific historic relations. In her 2001 article (“Millennium Fantasies”) Scott reinforced her definition, even if she denied the analytical benefit of the term “gender” as an anti-affirmative and to criticise biological determinations going forward, due to its uncritical and interchangeable use in politics and scholarship.

Historians as well as researchers from other disciplines have continuously explored historical processes of consolidations of ideologically grounded gender discourses and their social practices. The naturalisation, essentialisation and biologisation of body knowledge and cultural practices, empirical observation and habits of perception/patterns of reception as well as regimes of the gaze and physical conditions were decisive subject areas. The objective consisted and still consists in the deconstruction of ontological concepts of gender, to historicise and thus denaturalise gender. From a historical perspective body concepts manifest themselves always in social, legal, medical-technological and economic practices, but also in institutions and infrastructures. Gendered bodies thus become the interface of political-normative interventions and attributions, which uncover a bio-political set of relations between processes of power and practices of knowledge and subjectivation. Ascertaining when and how gender was and still is ontologised in such a manner remains central to the research.

The symposium aims to tie in closely with these developments to reflect on the status and discuss the presence and future of historical gender research. We want to ask about the history of the mechanisms of the biologisation and/or naturalisation of gender roles in the humanities, social and life sciences, as well as about the change of processes of objectivisation and subjectification, and the formation of bio-political dispositives. Last but not least, we would like to discuss the assumption of the extent to which gender research itself may be responsible for its own decentralisation in particular academic fields. To seek common ground, in the sense of establishing a focal point, we would appreciate historical papers that challenge the reflection about theoretical-methodological aspects and conceptualisations.

Proposed topics may include, but are certainly not limited to:

* Comparison of current and historical approaches toward ontologisation and anthropologisation
* Biologisation and essentialisation of gender in the health and life sciences
* Family, marriage and well-being of the child (as biologically defined entities)
* (Biologically defined) capability of work and performance
* Definition of gender-related intelligence
* Reflection/categorisation of interactional processes of gendered attribution
* Anti-essentialist strategies in past, present and future

We invite proposals for papers (20 minutes in length) that address these and/or other questions. Proposals should include an abstract (200 words maximum) and a short (100 words maximum) CV, and should be sent by 30 September 2016 to:

Dr. Muriel González Athenas
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Fakultät für Geschichtswissenschaft
D-44780 Bochum
muriel.gonzalez@rub.de

Dr. Falko Schnicke
German Historical Institute
17 Bloomsbury Square
London WC1A 2NJ
schnicke@ghil.ac.uk

Prof. Dr. Maren Lorenz
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Fakultät für Geschichtswissenschaft
D-44780 Bochum
maren.lorenz@rub.de


Conference languages will be English and German. A peer-reviewed publication is planned. Accommodation and intra-European travel expenses can be covered for invited speakers.

In case of further enquiries, please do not hesitate to contact the organisers.

http://www.akgeschlechtergeschichte.de