Prix William Bynum

William Bynum Essay Prize (Medical History)

Call for applications

The William Bynum Prize will be awarded to the author of an original essay on any theme relating to the history of medicine and its related sciences. This international competition is open to doctoral students and early post-doctoral researchers (candidates who have completed their PhDs not longer than 3 years before submission of the entry). The Prize’s awarding committee will be chaired by Professor Bynum himself, supported by the editor and members of the editorial advisory board of the journal Medical History. The Prize is generously supported by Cambridge University Press, publishers of Medical History. The Prize is coordinated by Medical History's editorial office which resides within the Centre for Global Health Histories, Department of History, University of York.

All enquiries regarding the competition should be directed to the editor of Medical History, Professor Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Director of the Centre for Global Health Histories. Please note that the specifications for submissions are the same as for a general article submitted to Medical History (please see www.york.ac.uk/history/global-health-histories/publications-outreach/bynum-prize/ for further information).

All submissions should be sent to the journal editor by 1st January 2017. Details of the winning essay and its author will be announced in mid 2017. The William Bynum Prize will take the shape of a £250 cash award and £250 in Cambridge University Press vouchers. The winning entry will be published in Medical History if it succeeds in undergoing the journal’s usual reviewing processes.

For further information please visit www.york.ac.uk/history/global-health-histories/publications-outreach/bynum-prize/ .

Naissance, maternité et pluralisme médical dans le Vietnam colonial

Childbirth, Maternity, and Medical Pluralism in French Colonial Vietnam, 1880-1945

Thuy Linh Nguyen Hi

Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History

Hardcover: 244 pages

Publisher: University of Rochester Press (November 10, 2016)

Language: English

ISBN-13: 978-1580465687

This book explores the interactions between French medicine and Vietnamese childbirth traditions, examining how these interactions shaped maternal and infant health care in Vietnam. Armed with the language and expertise of modern medicine, French physicians and administrators set out on a mission to relocate Vietnamese childbirth to a clinical setting. But as the French ventured into indigenous communities, they found themselves negotiating with a myriad of Vietnamese cultural practices relating to childbirth and infant care. Thwarted by local resistance, cultural misunderstanding, and ambiguous policy, the Western model of hospital birth neither displaced nor transformed indigenous birthing traditions in the ways the French had envisioned. Instead, as author Thuy Linh Nguyen demonstrates, the emergence of a plural system of maternity services, many of which were based on local practices and beliefs, served as a testimony to the compromises and adaptations made by both the French and Vietnamese populations. Thuy Linh Nguyen is assistant professor of history at Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, NY.

Le goût

Le goût 

Appel à communications

Département de français, New York University

Conférence des étudiants gradués

Dates : 13 et 14 avril 2017

Intervenants :
◊ Allen S. Weiss (NYU Tisch School of the Arts)
◊ Jennifer Tsien (Université de Virginie)

Le goût reflète nos préoccupations morales, notre sensibilité esthétique et notre régime sensoriel. Depuis l’ancien français taster (explorer en touchant, goûter), le goût est une faculté qui se nourrit de nos rencontres sensorielles, esthétiques, imaginaires. Pour Théophile Gautier, « le goût de l’exotisme » peut développer un désir pour un passé inatteignable, irrécupérable, et ce « à travers l’espace » ou « à travers les temps ». Notre goût forme et structure notre expérience du temps, à travers le temps, en altérant la façon dont nous percevons les autres (et notre personne), allant de l’aversion à l’affection, du rejet à l’appropriation. Au sujet de la littérature, Paul Valéry écrit : « Rien de plus original, rien de plus « soi » que de se nourrir des autres. Mais il faut les digérer. Le lion est fait de mouton assimilé » (Tel Quel, 1941). Le goût forme le sujet lisant et écrivant selon des procédés d’ingestion et de digestion : il n’est pas uniquement question de la langue, mais également de la gorge, de l’estomac et des organes digestifs. De plus, comme le suggère l’entrée « goût » de l’Encyclopédie, la faculté gustative est dynamique, peut être aiguisée et perfectionnée, de manière individuelle ou collective, afin de forger des déterminations culturelles de valeur et de définir les normes du canon. Le goût est donc sujet à des forces sociales, culturelles et économiques, obéissant à des régimes de distinction, s’apparentant au capital symbolique.

Cette polysémie pose des questions théoriques et pratiques : qui arbitre le goût ? de quoi avons-nous besoin pour établir une notion historique du goût ? quels sont ses marqueurs et ses traces ? Comment l’approche psychanalytique des enjeux esthétiques ont formé le goût moderne pour l’abject, l’obscène, l’étrangement inquiétant ? La reconsidération du primat phénoménologique des sens a-t-elle altéré le statut du goût ?

Nous invitons les propositions de communication sur de multiples aspects du goût.

Parmi quelques suggestions :

◊ l’abjection, l’affection, la beauté, la laideur, l’ennui
◊ l’admiration, l’inspiration, l’intertextualité et la critique littéraire
◊ affect theory
◊ le camp and le kitsch
◊ le dégoût et la répugnance
◊ le goût comme distinction
◊ esthétique et ekphrasis
◊ fausses perceptions et symptômes psychosomatiques
◊ food studies et cultural studies
◊ formation du/des canon(s), guerres culturelles et critique
◊ genre(s) et goût
◊ mode et design en littérature
◊ obscénité, vulgarité, censure et contre-culture
◊ le goût comme palimpseste, comme performance
◊ la peur et le sublime/grotesque
◊ la phénoménologie
◊ prix et qualité(s)
◊ goût et traduction
◊ salons et marchés
◊ spectacles et performances
◊ l’unheimlich et l’abject en littérature et en psychanalyse
◊ universalité du goût

Veuillez soumettre une proposition de communication de 15 à 20 minutes (en anglais ou en français) à nyutasteconference@gmail.com avant le 15 janvier 2017.

Votre proposition devra comprendre le titre de votre communication, votre nom et affiliation, une biographie d’environ 100 mots, ainsi que toute indication sur vos besoins en matière de technologie.

Humeurs, mixtures et corpuscules

Humours, mixtures, & corpuscles. A Medical Path to Corpuscularism in the Seventeenth Century

Call for papers

International Conference

Domus Comeliana, Pisa, 18-20 May 2017

Organisers
Fabrizio Bigotti & Jonathan Barry


The Centre for Medical History of the University of Exeter (United Kingdom) and the Fondazione Comel - Institutio Santoriana (Italy) are pleased to announce an International Conference Humours, mixtures and corpuscles. a medical path to corpuscularism in the seventeenth century, organised by Dr Fabrizio Bigotti and Prof. Jonathan Barry, to be held at the Domus Comeliana of Pisa on 18-20 May 2017.

The conference aims at exploring the interplay between minima naturalia, corpuscles, and atoms in the medical thought of the seventeenth century (broadly considered, 1550-1720) by especially focusing on the legacy of the Italian physician Santorio Santori (1561-1636). Santorio, who is credited to be the first to introduce a quantitative approach into medicine and biology by means of his studies on the insensible perspiration of the body (perspiratio insensibilis), was also the first to conceive the action of corpuscles and atoms mechanically as a result of his experiments on the properties of drugs and mixtures. As the impetus towards the quantification of compound substances which led European physicians to embrace corpuscular theories remains largely unknown to scholars, this conference will shed light not only on the context and influence of Santorio’s legacy, but also on the many directions taken by medical experimentation in the seventeenth century.

Keynote Speakers:

Georgiana Hedesan (University of Oxford)

Christoph Lüthy (Radbound University)

William R. Newman (Indiana University)

Vivian Nutton (University College of London)


Papers from scholars of any nationality are invited on any aspect of early modern medicine and science. Contributions on general aspects (e.g. Renaissance Aristotelianism and Galenism, Medical School of Padua, alchemical medicine, properties of mixtures, preparation of drugs, etc.) as well as on single authors (Baglivi, Basson, Boyle, Descartes, Falloppia, Fracastoro, Glisson, Iungius, Santorio, Sennert, Spinoza, etc.) are equally welcome. In the spirit of the conference, however, particular attention will be devoted to papers referring to Santorio and the history of perspiratio insensibilis (from Dodart to Keill).

PhD students are strongly encouraged to join the event which will be supported by 5 Santorio Fellowships for Medical Humanities and Science (500 euros each) funded by the Fondazione Comel - Institutio Santoriana, whose application process will be advertised separately in December 2017.

Papers should be a maximum of 20-25 minutes followed by 10 minutes of reply. Abstracts of a max. 300 words should be sent to Dr Fabrizio Bigotti at f.bigotti@exeter.ac.uk by the end of January 2017 with successful papers notified by the end of February.

A publication of the conference proceedings is anticipated from Springer in 2018.

Médecine, philosophie naturelle et religion en Scandinavie

Medicine, Natural Philosophy and Religion in Post-Reformation Scandinavia 

Ole Grell & Andrew Cunningham (Editors)

Series: The History of Medicine in Context

Hardcover: 230 pages

Publisher: Routledge (November 17, 2016)

Language: English

ISBN-13: 978-1472439581

The close relationship between religion, medicine and natural philosophy in the post-Reformation period has been documented and explored in a body of research since the 1990s; however, the direct and continued impact of Melanchthonian natural philosophy within the individual Lutheran principalities of northern Europe in general and Scandinavia in particular still has to be fully investigated and understood. This volume provides insight into how and why medicine and natural philosophy in a 'liberal' and Melanchthonian form could continue to blossom in Scandinavia despite a growing Lutheran uniformity promoted by the State. Inspired by research emanating from the Cambridge Unit for the History of Medicine, here a number of young scholars such as Adam Mosley, Morten Fink-Jensen, Signe Nipper Nielsen and Martin Kjellgren are joined with more established scholars such as Andrew Cunningham, Jens Glebe-Møller, Terhi Kiiskinen and Ole Peter Grell to create a volume which deals with not only the major issues but also the leading personalities of the period.

Rencontre annuelle de la Société canadienne d'histoire et de philosophie des sciences

Rencontre annuelle de la CSHPS/SCHPS

Appel à communications

Le congrès annuel 2017 de la société se tiendra de concert avec le Congrès annuel des sciences humaines (congress2017.ca).

La Société canadienne d'histoire et de philosophie des sciences (SCHPS) tiendra son congrès annuel dans le cadre du Congrès des sciences humaines, Toronto, Ontario, 27-29 mai 2017 (http://www.yorku.ca/cshps1/meeting_fr.html). 

Le comité de programme invite les historiens et philosophes des sciences à soumettre un résumé pour une communication individuelle ou une proposition de séance pour le congrès. Les propositions de séances pour 3 ou 4 communications seront particulièrement bienvenues. À l’occasion du 150e anniversaire de la Confédération canadienne, nous sommes notamment à la recherche de contributions sur le thème du Congrès des sciences humaines 2017, « L’épopée d’une histoire: 150 ans vers l’avenir ». Les contributions qui ne sont pas liées à ce thème seront également considérées.

Langues du congrès : La SCHPS est une société bilingue. Les communications individuelles peuvent être en français ou en anglais, mais les efforts pour faciliter une participation diversifiée sont encouragés (par exemple, une communication en français accompagnée d’une présentation PowerPoint en anglais, ou vice-versa). De façon similaire, les séances peuvent être en anglais ou en français, mais les sessions bilingues sont particulièrement appréciées.

Séances conjointes : Le congrès de la SCHPS se déroule en même temps que ceux de plusieurs autres sociétés membres de la FCSH, comme la Société historique du Canada, l’Association canadienne de philosophie, La Société Canadienne d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Mathématiques, la Société canadienne de sociologie, Women’s and Gender Studies et Recherches Féministes, et la Société canadienne d’histoire de la médecine. Nous encourageons les propositions de séances conjointes avec d’autres sociétés (merci de bien préciser cela dans votre proposition). Cependant, aucune communication ne peut être présentée à plus d’une société.

Nombre de soumissions : Une personne ne peut soumettre qu’un résumé de communication (c.-à-d. soit pour une communication individuelle soit pour une communication faisant partie d’une séance). 

Soumissions

Afin de préserver l’anonymat des auteurs, aucune coordonnée personnelle ne doit être incluse dans le fichier contenant une proposition de communication.

Les propositions de communication individuelle doivent comprendre un titre, un résumé (entre 150 et 250 mots), une liste de mots clés, et, dans le courriel les accompagnant, les coordonnées de l’auteur.

Les propositions de séance doivent comprendre le titre de la séance, les titres et résumés (entre 150 et 250 mots) de chaque contribution, une liste de mots clés, et, dans le courriel les accompagnant, les noms et coordonnées des auteurs et de l’organisateur de la séance.

Les propositions doivent être soumises dans des fichiers de format MS Word, pdf, odt ou rtf.

Date limite de soumission: 20 janvier 2017.

Adresse courriel pour les soumissions: program.cshps@gmail.com

Présentateurs : Tous les présentateurs doivent être membres de la SCHPS au moment du congrès. Pour plus d’information sur l’inscription à la SCHPS, consulter le site: http://www.yorku.ca/cshps1/join_fr.html.

Prix étudiant: La SCHPS décerne le prix Richard Hadden pour le meilleur texte étudiant présenté lors du congrès. Les candidats qui souhaitent concourir devront envoyer par courriel une copie de leur article avant le 5 mai 2017. Pour plus d’information sur le prix, voir: http://www.yorku.ca/cshps1/HaddenPrize_fr.html

Les informations concernant l’inscription et les possibilités d’hébergement pour le congrès se trouveront sur le site Internet du congrès de la FCSH: http://congres2017.ca/.

Comité de programme (2016-2017) : Delia Gavrus (Winnipeg) Chair, Robert Brain (UBC), François Claveau (Sherbrooke)

Organisation locale: Jennifer Hubbard (Ryerson)

Colloque de la Société britannique d'histoire des sciences

British Society for the History of Science Annual Conference 2017

Call for Papers


6-9 July 2017, University of York

The BSHS Annual Conference will take place from Thursday 6 to Sunday 9 July 2017 at the University of York.

The Conferences Committee now invites proposals for individual papers and for sessions from historians of science, technology and medicine, and from their colleagues in the wider scholarly community, on any theme, topic or period. Proposals are welcomed from researchers of all nationalities at all stages of their careers. Participation is in no way limited to members of the Society, although members will receive a discount on the registration fee. Offers of papers and sessions should be submitted via http://bshsconference.org.uk/

All enquiries about the programme arrangements should be addressed to programmes@bshs.org.uk.

Proposals for individual papers should include an abstract of no more than 250 words, be comprehensible to a non-specialist audience and avoid footnotes. Sessions, of either ninety minutes or two hours, should normally consist of three or four papers. They may also have a commentator. Proposals for alternative types of session, such as ‘round-tables’, are strongly encouraged. Please discuss your ideas for such alternative sessions well in advance of the submission deadline.

The deadline for proposals is 19 January 2017.

For further details on how to submit individual abstracts and session proposals, please see http://bshsconference.org.uk/


Conference Venue and Events
The 2017 BSHS conference will take place in the Ron Cooke Hub on the East Campus of the University of York, which lies at the edge of the city. It is conveniently located within walking distance of the city and is well connected to the railway station through public transport. York can be easily reached from London by train and has good links to Leeds/Bradford Airport. As a visitor to York you will be able to explore the Roman, Viking, Medieval and industrial past of this beautiful city through its many attractions, including the famous Minster.

The conference will begin with a plenary lecture by the President of the BSHS, Patricia Fara on the evening of July 6th, and continue over the next three days with parallel themed sessions and the opportunity to visit archives and historical attractions in York such as the National Railway Museum. There will be a lecture and reception in the Tempest Anderson Hall close to the location of the first ever meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1831, and a conference dinner in the Royal York Hotel in the centre of the city.

An inclusive conference package with be available that will include en-suite accommodation on campus, close to the conference venue.

All enquiries relating to the local arrangements should be directed to bshsyork2017@bshs.org.uk.

Host Institution
The University of York was founded in 1963 and has since grown into one of the world's leading institutions. The History Department at York is one of the largest in Britain with forty-three faculty members whose research interests range from the late Roman empire to the present day and span the world. It is ranked 8th in the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide subject league table for 2015, and in the top 50 departments in the world for the advanced study of History and related disciplines.

Prix Roy Porter de l'essai étudiant

Roy Porter Student Essay Prize 

Call for applications 

The Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) now invites submissions to its 2016 Roy Porter Student Essay Prize Competition. This prize will be awarded to the best original, unpublished essay in the social history of medicine submitted to the competition as judged by the SSHM’s assessment panel.

The competition is open to undergraduate and post-graduate students in full or part-time education. The winner will be awarded £500.00, and his or her entry may also be published in the journal, Social History of Medicine.

Further information, regulations and a submission form can be found here:

https://sshm.org/portfolio/prizes/

The deadline for entries is 1st February 2017

Any questions about the competition should be directed to our Prizes & Bursaries Officer:

Dr Anna Greenwood

Department of History

University of Nottingham

Nottingham

NG7 2RD

anna.greenwood@nottingham.ac.uk