Postdoctorat à NYU

Post-doctoral position as a Rudin Fellow in the History of Medicine

Call for applications


The NYU Langone Medical Center seeks to recruit a post-doctoral fellow in the history of medicine. The position will begin In July 2017, but starting date is negotiable.

Core qualifications for the positions include: a record of quality scholarship and teaching. Applicants must have a PhD, JD, or MD. Successful applicants will be expected to demonstrate a strong scholarly career track in the history of medicine, law and medicine, or medical humanities.

The appointment will be for one year and may be renewed for a second year. It resides in the Division of Medical Humanities (http://www.med.nyu.edu/medicine/medhumanities/home), which is part of the Department of Medicine. The post-doc will report directly to the Director of the Division of Medical Humanities.

Successful applicants will have significant protected time to pursue research. They will be expected to teach one class at the graduate level per year, to participate in mentoring students in projects and research, and to assist in teaching undergraduate medical students and house staff. Stipend is $55-70,000. Health care and other benefits will be provided.

NYULMC encompasses the NYU School of Medicine, three hospitals (Tisch, Rusk, and the Hospital for Joint Diseases) and a number of affiliates including Bellevue and the Manhattan VA Medical Center.

Applicants should send a cover letter, CV and three letters of reference to both david.oshinsky@nyumc.org and Arthur.caplan@nyumc.org with ‘ NYULMC Search Rudin Fellow’ in the heading. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

Mangeurs extraordinaires et chirurgiens dans le Paris de la fin du 18e siècle

Brouillards toxiques

Brouillards Toxiques. Vallée de la Meuse, 1930, contre-enquête.

Alexis Zimmer

Zones sensibles

272 p. , 19 euros.

20 illustrations.
Sortie le 21 octobre 2016.

ISBN 978 293 0601 23 6.

Du 1er au 5 décembre 1930, un brouillard épais se répand dans la vallée de la Meuse, non loin de Liège. Hommes et bêtes sont profondément affectés lors de sa survenue, et ils sont nombreux à y laisser leur vie. Après sa dissipation, des experts tranchent : « le seul brouillard » est responsable. Pourtant, sur place, nombreux sont ceux à incriminer les émanations des usines de la région, l’une des plus industrialisées d’Europe. Un an plus tard, des experts du parquet rendent d’autres conclusions : la consommation massive du charbon et les composés soufrés des émanations industrielles sont mis en cause. L’exceptionnalité de l’événement est cependant attribuée à la prédisposition des corps et aux conditions météorologiques particulières de cette première semaine de décembre 1930. Mais comment du « charbon » en vient-il à participer à la production de brouillards et à rejoindre ainsi, jusqu’à tuer, les poumons de ceux qui se sont retrouvés contraints de le respirer ? Ces liens « charbon- brouillards toxiques- poumons » n’ont rien d’évident. C’est à tenter de reconstituer les conditions historiques de leurs constructions que s’attache cet ouvrage. En considérant cette catastrophe dans le temps long nécessaire à sa production (comme un processus et non comme une interruption) ; en suivant la piste des matières de sa constitution (leur (a)cheminement et les assemblages techniques, sociaux, politiques et discursifs) nécessaires à leur transformation ; en étudiant le rôle et les effets des pratiques savantes, Brouillards toxiques permet de comprendre la transformation conjointe, par l’industrialisation, des corps et des environnements et la production de nouveaux phénomènes météorologiques.

Poste d'enseignement en humanités médicales

Teaching Fellow in Medical Humanities

Call for applications

Imperial College London

Location: London

Salary: £35,140 to £43,350 per annum pro rata

Hours: Part Time

Contract Type: Permanent

Placed on: 14th November 2016

Closes: 27th November 2016

Job Ref: RB141-16

Consistently rated amongst the world's best universities, Imperial College London has a reputation for excellence in education, scholarship and research in science, engineering, medicine and business. It attracts students and staff of the highest international quality.

We are looking for an excellent teaching fellow to join our teaching team to deliver a new BSc in Medical Sciences with Humanities, Philosophy and Law. The successful candidate will be responsible for the developing and delivering teaching in the history of medicine, and also support medical humanities teaching more widely across the College. We emphasise dynamic, creative teaching that will engage and inspire students.

You will hold at least a master’s degree in a field relevant to the medical or health humanities, with experience of teaching and assessment at university level preferably within a medical school. Your experience must include teaching in and assessment of the history of medicine. Evidence of curriculum development and course administration will be an advantage. Experience of the Blackboard virtual learning environment is highly desirable.

This post is 0.5 fte (17.5 hours per week) open ended and based at the South Kensington campus.

Should you have any queries please contact Giskin Day via e-mail at giskin.day@imperial.ac.uk

Shortlisted candidates will be expected to give a short presentation and will be asked to undertake an exercise in student assessment as part of the interview process.

Interviews are expected to take place on 13 December 2016.

Intended start date: February 2017

Our preferred method of application is online via our website http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/employment (please select “Job Search” then enter the job title or vacancy reference number into “Keywords”). Please complete and upload an application form as directed.

Alternatively, if you are unable to apply online, please email rb.recruitment@imperial.ac.uk to request an application form

Job Reference: RB141-16

Closing Date: 27 November 2016

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Médecine, papier et technologies quotidiennes dans les foyers prémodernes

Paper, medicine and everyday technologies in the early modern household

Lecture by Dr Elaine Leong (Max Planck Institute, Berlin)

Tuesday (22nd November) 

The seminar will take place in the Wellcome Library, 183 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE.
Doors open at 6pm prompt, the seminar will start at 6.15pm.

In recent years, the early modern household has emerged as a central site for medicine and healthcare. Through analysis of personal letters, household account books, diaries and recipe books, we have uncovered the myriad of ways in which householders sought to understand their own bodies and the natural environment around them. Within these activities, paper played a central role. Householders utilised a range of paper technologies such as notebooks and paper slips to collate, categorise and manage the vast volumes of medical knowledge they stored in anticipation of possible sickness and ill health. Concurrently, they also used paper to apply plasters and ointments to the body, to tightly close vessels containing liquid medicines, to shape rolls of pills and to make containers for the mixing of different ‘materia medica’. This talk investigates the multiple ways in which early modern English men and women used paper technologies and technologies with paper to perform quotidian tasks and codify practical knowledge. This focus on the materiality of paper, I argue, offers both a fresh perspective to conceptualise the relationship between knowledge and practice and new ways to talk about medical technologies in pre-modern medicine.

For more details see: http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2016/11/paper-medicine-and-everyday-technologies-in-the-early-modern-household/.

Histoires de la quarantaine

Quarantine: Local and Global Histories

Alison Bashford (Editor)


Hardcover: 344 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (October 14, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-1137524454

Over five centuries, a global archipelago of quarantine stations came to connect the world's oceans from the Mediterranean to the South Pacific, from Atlantic coasts to the Red Sea. In the process, great new carceral structures materialised, many surviving into the present as magnificent ruins or as 5 star hotels with a dark tourism edge. 

This book offers new histories and geographies of quarantine islands and isolation hospitals across the world, bringing their local and global pasts and present into view. An international cast of leading experts examine the enduring historical problems of migration and mobility, segregation, prevention and protection by states with different interests in freedoms, health and commerce. With case studies from as far afield as the Red Sea, Hong Kong and New Zealand, and from the early modern period forward, this book provides an invaluable insight into the history of quarantine.

Bourses de recherche de la bibliothèque universitaire de Princeton

Friends of the Princeton University Library Research Grants 


Call for applications

Each year, the Friends of the Princeton University Library offer short-term Library Research Grants to promote scholarly use of the Library’s special collections. The award is $1,000 per week (up to four weeks) plus transportation costs.

Applications will be considered for scholarly use of archives, manuscripts, rare books, and other rare and unique holdings of the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, including the Seeley G. Mudd Library; as well as rare books in Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology, and in the East Asian Library (Gest Collection). Special grants are awarded in several areas: the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies supports a limited number of library fellowships in Hellenic Studies, and the Cotsen Children’s Library supports research in its collection on aspects of children’s literature. The Maxwell Fund supports research on materials dealing with Portuguese-speaking cultures. The Sid Lapidus '59 Research Fund for Studies of the Age of Revolution and the Enlightenment in the Atlantic World supports relevant special collections research.

For more information, or to apply, please go to http://rbsc.princeton.edu/friends-princeton-university-library-research-grants

The deadline to apply is January 31, 2017. Grants are tenable from May 1, 2017 to April 30, 2018.

Gabriel Swift
Reference Librarian
Rare Books and Special Collections
Princeton University Library
1 Washington Road
Princeton, NJ 08544-2098
Tel. 609-258-8497
gswift@princeton.edu

Histoires du vieillir en santé

Histories of Healthy Ageing

Call for Papers

University of Groningen, 21-23 June 2017

As Western populations grow increasingly older, 'healthy ageing' is presented as one of today's greatest medical and societal challenges. However, contrary to what many policy makers want us to believe, the aspiration to live long, healthy and happy lives is not a problem specific to our times. On the contrary successful ageing has a long history.

The conference Histories of Healthy Ageing is based on the assumption that 'healthy ageing' has informed the medical agenda since Antiquity. With 'healthy ageing' we refer to ways of thinking about and treating the body not only from a medical perspective, but also taking into account questions of what constitutes a happy and fulfilled life. In particular these latter issues were central to medicine before 1800 and relate to healthy living as much as to questions connected specifically to old age. Thus whether we speak of classic ways of training the athlete's body, medieval religious rites, the pre-modern obsession with regimen (rules for living a healthy life), or the upper-class fancy to visit spas, at the root of it all was a wish for wellbeing, health and longevity.

The conference focuses especially (but not exclusively) on the pre-modern period. Submissions for 20-minute papers should include a 250-word abstract and a short CV should be sent to historiesofhealthyageing@gmail.com. Subject to funding small travel grants might be available for junior researchers. Deadline: 1 December 2017

Keynote Speakers: Elizabeth Williams, Onno van Nijf, William Maclehose, Michael Stolberg, Irena Metzler

Organisers: Rina Knoeff, Catrien Santing, James Kennaway, Ruben Verwaal, Rolf ter Sluis

For more information see: http://www.vitalmatters.nl/projects--vital-matters.html