Séminaires d'histoire de la médecine de Cambridge

History of Medicine Seminars - Michaelmas Term 2018

Department of History and Philosophy of Science
University of Cambridge

**History of Modern Medicine and Biology**
Organised by Mary Brazelton and Nick Hopwood

9 October
Bibia Pavard (Panthéon-Assas University, Paris)
'Living differently from now on': the utopia of abortion activism in 1970s France

23 October
Gareth Millward (University of Warwick)
'Since the introduction of the Sick Pay Scheme, sick absence has increased': sick pay, sick leave and sick notes in the nationalised industries c. 1948–1959

13 November
Marissa Mika (University College London)
Living archives and dying wards: ethical records preservation at the Uganda Cancer Institute


**Early Science and Medicine**
Organised by Dániel Margócsy

16 October
Oded Rabinovitch (Tel-Aviv University)
Writing the Scientific Revolution in Louis XIV's France

6 November
Jessica Hamel-Akré (HPS, Cambridge)
From angel food to vegetable diets: medicalizing the feminine appetite in the British 18th century

27 November
Peter Jones (King's College, Cambridge)
Missing friars: rethinking late medieval medicine


**Generation to Reproduction**
Organised by Nick Hopwood and Dániel Margócsy

30 October
Wendy Kline (Purdue University / University of Strathclyde)
Psychedelic birth: bodies, boundaries and consciousness in the 1970s

20 November
Katherine Harvey (Birkbeck, University of London)
From pustulent penises to death by celibacy: thinking about sexual health in medieval Europe


Seminars are held in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RH.
Tea and biscuits are available from 4:40pm; seminars run from 5:00 to 6:30pm.


Full seminar programme: https://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/news-events/seminars-reading-groups

Images et icones pour l'histoire de la médecine

"The Fabric of the Human Body" (Vesalius, 1543): Images and Icons for the History of Medicine

 

Lecture given by Hélène Cazes, Professor at the University of Victoria (Department of French) and the Director of the Program of Medieval Studies


30Oct 2018

17:30 to 19:30

McLennan Library Building Rare Books and Special Collections (4th floor), 3459 rue McTavish, Montreal, QC, H3A 0C9, CA


The fifth centenary of Vesalius’s birth has been celebrated in North America and Europe with thousands of events and publications, recognizing his Fabric of the Human Body (1543, 1555) as a keystone in history of medicine and a major work of art. Now, few people have read this Latin description of the body —the first English translations date of the end of the 20th century — but many people know the illustrations that accompanied it. The engravings of the book — often cited as Vesalius’s work as their author remained, for a long period, unknown — have been, since the first publication in 1543, admired, copied, reproduced. The Fabric has profoundly changed the use of images for medical knowledge: it has linked understanding and seeing in a new way, that we can recognize in our contemporary medical imaging; it has also established the beauty of anatomical representations, which is now perceivable in the fascination for Body Worlds or Street Anatomy. Looking at the Fabric’s pages, we’ll explore how Vesalius conceived a new kind of book, where he presents himself as the genial hero of a new science and of a new manner of writing science.


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Presented by in collaboration with Le Département de langue et littérature françaises and Rare & Special Collections, Osler, Art, and Archives (ROAAr)

Hélène Cazes is the Director of the Program of Medieval Studies and the Faculty coordinator of the Humanities Diploma Program. She is also the President of the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies and Associate Editor for Renaissance et Réforme/Renaissance and Reformation. Professor Cazes is the recipient of the Faculty of Humanities Award for Research Excellence for 2013.

This event is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

100 ans de cannabis

Architecture et hôpital

Architecture and the Modern Hospital: Nosokomeion to Hygeia

Julie Willis, Philip Goad & Cameron Logan



Series: Routledge Research in Architecture
Hardcover: 260 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (October 11, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-0415815338

More than any other building type in the twentieth century, the hospital was connected to transformations in the health of populations and expectations of lifespan. From the scale of public health to the level of the individual, the architecture of the modern hospital has reshaped knowledge about health and disease and perceptions of bodily integrity and security. However, the rich and genuinely global architectural history of these hospitals is poorly understood and largely forgotten.

This book explores the rapid evolution of hospital design in the twentieth century, analysing the ways in which architects and other specialists reimagined the modern hospital. It examines how the vast expansion of medical institutions over the course of the century was enabled by new approaches to architectural design and it highlights the emerging political conviction that physical health would become the cornerstone of human welfare.

La Grippe espagnole de 1918 en Suisse

La Grippe espagnole de 1918 en Suisse

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Vendredi 16 novembre 2018
Institut des humanités en médecine, Lausanne

La grippe espagnole, probablement originaire d'Asie, toucha la Suisse en deux vagues, infectant quelque 2 millions de personnes et entraînant le décès de 24’449 personnes entre juillet 1918 et juin 1919. Plus meurtrière que la Première Guerre mondiale, cette épidémie, considérée comme la pire catastrophe démographique du XXe siècle, engendra de multiples réactions dans les différentes régions suisses. Un siècle plus tard, les enjeux et questionnements, historiographiques aussi bien qu'épidémiologiques ou biologiques, posés par cette célèbre pandémie demeurent à évaluer.

09:00 Accueil
Session 1
Modérateur: Fred Paccaud

09:30 Vincent Barras, IHM
L’historiographie de la grippe espagnole

10:00 Laurent Kaeser, Service des maladies infectieuses et du laboratoire de virologie, HUG
La grippe et sa biologie : un virus qui dicte l’histoire

10:40 Frédéric Vagneron, Institut für Biomedizinische Ethik und Medizingeschichte,UZH
La grippe, une histoire aux frontières de la maladie

11:20 Laura Marino, Département d’endocrinologie, diabétologie et métabolisme, CHUV
Effets et réactions dans le Valais : la pandémie de 1918

12:00 Pause repas

Session 2
Modérateur: Laurent Kaeser

13:50 Andreas Tscherrig
La grippe espagnole en Suisse allemande. Expériences de la pandémie à Nidwald, Bâle-Campagne et Bâle-Ville

14:30 Christophe Vuilleumier, SHSR/SSH
Les conséquences de la grippe espagnole à Genève

15:10 Kaspar Staub & Joel Floris, Institute of Evolutionary Medicine, UZH
Were Language Borders “Cultural” Barriers for the Spread of Influenza 1889-94
and 1918-19 in the Canton of Bern

15:50 Pause café

16:00 Alain Bosson, Université de Fribourg
La grippe espagnole dans le canton de Fribourg : expériences et bilan

16:40 Fred Paccaud, Faculté de biologie et de médecine, Unil
La grippe au temps des maladies chroniques

17:20 Débat de clôture

Modérateur: Christophe Vuilleumier

Organisation et contact : Christophe Vuilleumier (chris.vuilleumier@gmail.com), Vincent Barras, IHM (ihm@chuv.ch)

Le cabinet médical de Diderot

Le cabinet médical de Diderot. La part de la médecine dans l’élaboration d’une philosophie matérialiste

Gilles Barroux

Éditions matériologiques

Novembre 2018

312 p.

ISBN 978-2-37361-148-9

Encyclopédiste, philosophe, romancier et auteur de théâtre, critique d’art, libertin ou encore révolutionnaire, Denis Diderot a été évoqué sous de multiples facettes. Mais existe-t-il un Diderot «médecin» ?

Que Diderot ait écrit sur la médecine n’est un secret pour aucun lecteur attentif de son œuvre. Depuis la traduction du Dictionnaire universel de médecine de Robert James, dans les années 1746 à 1748, jusqu’à la parution du Rêve de D’Alembert, en 1769, la pensée du philosophe s’enrichit au contact de l’univers scientifique et médical de son temps, sur lequel il porte une attention soutenue, éveillant en lui une curiosité toujours insatisfaite.

Si Diderot n’a jamais songé à devenir médecin, son œuvre, à travers des figures imaginaires et réelles, à l’exemple du médecin Théophile de Bordeu, donne progressivement vie à un véritable «cabinet médical» au sein duquel Diderot confronte autant qu’il expérimente les effets des observations et des expériences médicales et physiologiques de son époque.

En empruntant à la médecine des concepts, en reprenant les conjectures issues des nombreuses observations et expériences rapportées dans les journaux de médecine, Diderot esquisse une anthropologie matérialiste : les sources de la santé physique comme morale de l’Homme se logent au sein même de la matière, matière sensible, matière vivante. C’est ainsi que son «cabinet médical» participe à l’élaboration d’une philosophie matérialiste.

Congrès nordique d'histoire de la médecine

Nordic Medical History Congress


Call for Papers

Copenhague

Abstract Submission Guidelines
Participants who would like to contribute with an oral or poster presentation must submit an abstract for consideration by the Scientific Committee. Please find an abstract example below.
All themes and topics within the history of medicine are welcome.

Ten bursaries for (PhD) students: Win free congress registration upon accepted abstract
The 27NMHC offers up to ten bursaries consisting of free registration to the congress for (PhD) Students (worth 1.599 DKK). Eligible are (PhD) students, who are working in Europe and whose abstract has been accepted (presenting author). You will have to register for the congress before being reimbursed by the organizers, and the offer does not include social dinner & excursions.

– Only electronic submissions will be accepted for review.
Send your abstract by mail to: dmhs.1917@gmail.com.

– The abstracts should be submitted in English no later than 23 November.

– The abstracts submitted must include the following 7 items:
1) Title
2) Presenting author and co-authors, incl. contact information
3) Affiliation(s)
4) Applying for free congress registration upon accepted abstract
5) Preference for oral presentation or poster presentation
6) Audio-visual equipment requirements
7) Abstract text (no more than 250 words)

– The Scientific Committee will determine whether the abstract will be accepted for oral presentation or for a poster presentation, with consideration to be given to the author’s preference.

– Oral presentations: Speakers should confirm upon submission of their abstract which audio-visual equipment they will require for presentation.

– An author may submit no more than 2 abstracts as presenting author.
You may be co-author to an unlimited number of abstracts.

– The presenting author is required to ensure that all co-authors are aware of the content of the abstract before submission to the Scientific Committee.

– In submitting paper(s), you certify that the paper(s) is/are your contribution and give permission for the Organizing Committee to publish it/them – if accepted – in the Congress Interactive ePDF, including all abstracts etc.

– You further agree that if your paper(s) is/are accepted, you promise to appear and present your paper(s) or arrange for its/their poster presentation(s).

Abstract Example (200 words)
1. Title: The globalization of chronic disease
2a. Presenting author: John Doe (1), john@doe.com.
2b. Co-author(s): Jane Doe (1,2), jane@doe.com & Janet Doe (2), janet@doe.com.
3. Affiliation(s): (1): University of Gothenburg, Sweden; (2): University of Lund, Sweden.
4. Applying for free congress registration upon accepted abstract (students only): Yes.
5. Preference for oral presentation or poster presentation: Oral presentation.
6. Audio-visual equipment requirements: Nothing to declare.
7. Abstract:
Chronic noncommunicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries have recently provoked a surge of public interest. This paper examines the policy literature, notably World Health Organization archives and publications going back to the 1970s, to analyze the emergence and consolidation of this new agenda.

Starting with programs to control cardiovascular disease in the 1970s, experts from eastern and western Europe had by the late 1980s consolidated a program for the prevention of noncommunicable diseases risk factors at the WHO. These diseases remained a minor concern until the collaboration of World Bank health economists with WHO epidemiologists led to the Global Burden of Disease study that provided an “evidentiary breakthrough” for noncommunicable diseases activism by quantifying the extent of the problem.

Soon after, WHO itself underwent major reform. Noncommunicable diseases advocacy contributed to revitalizing WHO’s normative and coordinating functions. By leading a growing advocacy coalition, within which The Lancet played a key role, WHO established itself as a dominant institution in this domain. However, ever-widening concern and advocacy has not yet led to major reallocation of funding in favor of noncommunicable disease programs in the developing world.

We look forward to your participation in this hopefully exciting and inspiring event and we would love to see you as our guest in Copenhagen.

Ulrik Bak Kirk
Organizing Committee President

Histoire de la folie avant la psychiatrie

Histoire de la folie avant la psychiatrie

Sous la direction de Boris Cyrulnik et Patrick Lemoine

Odile Jacob
Septembre 2018


Absurdités, dérives, abus et même maltraitances ont jalonné l’histoire de la folie.

Comment comprendre autrement le succès de Mesmer et de son baquet ? Comment rendre compte de l’attribution à Saturne des troubles de l’humeur et au démon des tourments de l’âme ? Comment justifier l’enfermement psychiatrique des dissidents sous Staline ?

Entourés d’une dizaine d’experts – des psychiatres mais aussi une historienne, un interniste ou un neurologue – Patrick Lemoine et Boris Cyrulnik débattent du passé de la psychiatrie. Ils nous proposent de nous concentrer sur quelques questions très actuelles et pour le moins épineuses : quelle nécessité de fonder une nouvelle psychiatrie aujourd’hui, et quel avenir pour cette discipline, longtemps branche folle de la médecine ?

Boris Cyrulnik est neuropsychiatre et directeur d’enseignement à l’université de Toulon. Il est l’auteur de très nombreux ouvrages qui ont tous été des best-sellers, parmi lesquels, tout récemment, Psychothérapie de Dieu qui est un immense succès.

Patrick Lemoine est psychiatre. Spécialiste du sommeil, docteur en neurosciences, professeur associé à l’Université de Pékin, il a publié plus d’une trentaine d’ouvrages, parmi lesquels Le Mystère du placebo.

Avec Patrick Clervoy, Jean Furtos, Jacques Hochmann, Danielle Jacquart, Pierre Lamothe, Pierre Lemarquis, Stéphane Mouchabac, Gérard Ostermann.