Medicina Plinii

The Medicina Plinii: Latin Text, Translation, and Commentar

Yvette Hunt

Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (October 7, 2019)

Series: Scientific Writings from the Ancient and Medieval World
Hardcover: 312 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1138934825


This book presents the first ever English translation of the Medicina Plinii, one of the most influential books of applied medicine and self-medication in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

The work, which predates AD 400, was created as a quick reference work for travellers, and became and remained highly influential, as witnessed by frequent references to it and by various later adaptations. Only the rise of scientific medicine and pharmacology led to its demise and confinement in a small corner of specialist studies. It presents more than 1,150 healing methods and recipes mainly adapted from the encyclopedic Natural History of Pliny the Elder, arranged from the patient’s head to foot in order that readers could quickly find treatments for their diseases. The Medicina Plinii is of dual interest to present-day scholarship: The book is a monument for the practical application of classical knowledge which has recently found lively interest in the history of science and medicine. At the same time the Medicina Plinii provides a fascinating insight into the realities of the world of Late Antiquity, and into the anxieties of the people living in the vast Roman empire.

This book will be of particular interest to scholars and advanced students in the History of Science and Medicine, along with a wider audience interested in medicine, and in life in the Roman world.

Médecine, art et science

Exploring the historical links between medicine, science, and art

Call for Contributions


Asclepio. Journal of the History of Medicine and Science - Special Issue

Asclepio. Revista de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia was born in 1948 under the title Archivo Iberoamericano de Historia de la Medicina y Antropología Médica.

Asclepio publishes original papers on the history of science echoing the various historiographic trends in this field of study. It is particularly oriented to Spanish, European, and Latin American science, aiming to an audience specialized in the history of science, but also to variously educated scientists who may find in history elements for epistemological and social reflection in their scientific work.

Asclepio is covered by Web of Science: Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI), SCOPUS, PubMed, CWTS Leiden Ranking (Journal indicators), ERIH Plus, REDIB, DOAJ and other international databases of relevance.

We are now accepting contributions for a special issue on the historical links between science and art.

The papers must be unpublished and have a maximum of 8500 words, including text, images and footnotes. The rules for authors can be read on the journal's website:
http://asclepio.revistas.csic.es/index.php/asclepio/about/submissions#au...

For the reception of proposals, an abstract (250 words) and a short CV (1 page) provided by contact details must be sent to:

Elisa Garrido, University of Oxford: elisa.garrido@rsa.ox.ac.uk

The proposals, without necessarily being limited to them, are suggested to follow any of these topics of research:

- Science, art and creativity

- Scientific illustration (medical treatises, cartography, atlas, entomology, anatomy, etc.)

- Epistemologies of domination and visuality

- Image deconstruction and decolonization of scientific knowledge

- Art-Science collaborations

- Visual perspectives on science, gender and power



The closing date for the reception of proposals is December 10, 2019.

Psychiatrie et décolonisation en Ouganda

Psychiatry and Decolonisation in Uganda

Yolana Pringle 

Palgrave Macmillan UK

2019

ISBN 978-1-137-60095-0 

This open access book investigates psychiatry in Uganda during the years of decolonisation. It examines the challenges facing a new generation of psychiatrists as they took over responsibility for psychiatry at the end of empire, and explores the ways psychiatric practices were tied to shifting political and development priorities, periods of instability, and a broader context of transnational and international exchange. At its heart is a question that has concerned psychiatrists globally since the mid-twentieth century: how to bridge the social and cultural gap between psychiatry and its patients? Bringing together archival research with oral histories, Yolana Pringle traces how this question came to dominate both national and international discussions on mental health care reform, including at the World Health Organization, and helped spur a culture of experimentation and creativity globally. As Pringle shows, however, the history of psychiatry during the years of decolonisation remained one of marginality, and ultimately, in the context of war and violence, the decolonisation of psychiatry was incomplete.

Lire l'esprit humain

Reading the Human Psyche: A History of Technologies

Call for applications 

International Doctoral and Postdoctoral Seminar

Halle (Saale), Germany

Sunday, July 5 to Thursday, July 16, 2020

Organized by the Francke Foundations in Halle

in cooperation with Dr. Simon Grote (Wellesley College)

and Dr. Kelly Whitmer (Sewanee: the University of the South)

DESCRIPTION

Advances in neuroscience, surveillance, and data-analysis offer the promise of unfettered access to the secrets of the individual human psyche. With the help of technology, our inner psychic lives — our mental habits, our linguistic patterns, our memories, our desires and tastes, our intentions — may become legible to ourselves and to others with unprecedented clarity. To encourage a critical and historically well-informed perspective on this prospect, free from assumptions about the inevitability of humanity’s progress toward mastery over nature, the Francke Foundations in Halle will host a two-week summer seminar on the long history of technologies for reading the human psyche in the early modern period, broadly understood. Doctoral candidates and junior scholars whose current research relates to this history, in any relevant discipline (including history, literature, religion, art history/visual studies, theater studies, philosophy, musicology, and the history of science and technology, among others), are invited to apply.

Conducted entirely in English, the seminar will consist of twenty-four sessions, usually ninety minutes long, involving discussion of pre-circulated readings and of relevant objects from the magnificent rare book and manuscript collections of the Francke Foundations. The final three days will be devoted to the work-in-progress of the participants, each of whom will present to the group a technology for reading the human psyche central to their current research. Throughout the seminar, discussions will be supplemented by cultural excursions; introductions to Halle’s other outstanding collections of early modern books, manuscripts, and objects; and time for individual research and study.

The seminar will begin with two days of intensive, critical discussion of foundational scholarship (by Michel Foucault, Bruno Latour, and Ian Hacking, among others), in which methods of reading the human psyche in the early modern period are described as technologies of self-cultivation and social control. For the remainder of the seminar, participants will apply the insights of this and other, more recent scholarship to the investigation of actual technologies, aiming to understand each technology’s origins; the institutional and cultural contexts of its development and application; and its creators’ and users’ purposes, interests, world-views, and presuppositions about the anatomy of the human mind and body. The result will be a large set of case studies, analyzed comparatively in light of the best current research in the history of early modern science and technology. Applicable both to the participants’ ongoing research and to any relevant teaching they may have the opportunity to do, these case studies will be chosen by the conveners and the seminar participants from a vast range of early modern possibilities, including:

• spiritual autobiography
• visual and textual meditation
• theories and practices of affective communication in music and theater
• the history of costume
• diary- and letter-writing
• commonplace books
• confession and penance
• spiritual medicine and pastoral care
• theories of the soul and anatomies of the passions
• experimental and observational methods and regimens of self-cultivation
• thinking machines and artificial life
• pedagogical methods within educational institutions
• interrogation methods in inquisitional and other legal contexts
• psychoanalysis and other psychotherapeutic methods
• asylums and the history of madness
• physiognomy and phrenology
• eugenics and other tools of social engineering
• techniques of diplomacy and espionage
• state surveillance and policing
• commercial surveillance
• advertising and consumer culture

APPLICATIONS

There is no application form. Applicants should send an e-mail to <sgrote@wellesley.edu> and <kwhitmer@sewanee.edu>, including the following:

1. An explanation (ca. 300 words) of their reasons for wishing to participate in the seminar, focusing on how the seminar would benefit their current research and what technology for reading the human psyche they would present.

2. A curriculum vitae describing their academic career to date.

3. The name and contact details (address, e-mail address, and telephone number if possible) of an academic referee who could be asked for a reference if necessary.

The deadline for receipt of applications is JANUARY 1, 2020. 

For more information about this event and its conveners, please click here.

Folie et contrôle de l'immigration en Australie et Nouvelle-Zélande

Insanity and Immigration Control in New Zealand and Australia, 1860–1930

Jennifer Kain 


Palgrave Macmillan

2019

ISBN 978-3-030-26329-4

This book examines the policy and practice of the insanity clauses within the immigration controls of New Zealand and the Commonwealth of Australia. It reveals those charged with operating the legislation to be non-psychiatric gatekeepers who struggled to match its intent. Regardless of the evolution in language and the location at which a migrant’s mental suitability was assessed, those with ‘inherent mental defects’ and ‘transient insanity’ gained access to these regions. This book accounts for the increased attempts to medicalise border control in response to the widening scope of terminology used for mental illnesses, disabilities and dysfunctions. Such attempts co-existed with the promotion of these regions as ‘invalids’ paradises’ by governments, shipping companies, and non-asylum doctors. Using a bureaucratic lens, this book exposes these paradoxes, and the failings within these nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Australasian nation-state building exercises.

Genre, subjectivité et santé quotidienne

Gender, Subjectivity, and "Everyday Health" in the Post-1945 World

Call for Papers

April 16, 2020 to April 18, 2020

United Kingdom

What is the history of “everyday health” in the postwar world, and where might we find it? This conference (University of Essex, 16-18 April 2020) invites participants to explore the history of gender, selfhood, and health from multiple perspectives. It has four main aims: to examine how gender, alongside class, ‘race’, and sexuality, mediated experiences of health and wellbeing; to interrogate the reasons for differences in gendered experiences in different regions of the world; to critically assess the concept of ‘everyday health’; and to develop and share methodologies that allow us to write histories of subjectivity and embodiment from the bottom-up.

We particularly welcome papers that consider:

• What “everyday health” means for different genders and in different contexts;
• Methodological challenges of studying gender, subjectivity, and “everyday health” in this period;
• The intersection of gender, class, ethnicity, sexuality and age in individual and collective experiences of health;
• Approaches to transgender health in historical perspective;
• Comparative, transnational, and non-western experiences of health;
• Different disciplinary perspectives on the history of gender, subjectivity, and “everyday health”;
• The politics and practice of engaging with different publics on these themes.

We also welcome papers on case studies related to particular aspects of health, and from other disciplines that take a historical perspective.

Further information

The conference will be free to attend, including refreshments and lunches, but attendees will be required to make their own breakfast and dinner arrangements. We hope to offer a limited number of bursaries to PGRs and ECRs to contribute towards costs of travel and accommodation, but this is dependent on obtaining further funding. We aim to make this a child-friendly conference, but are unable to provide childcare on site. We will provide a room where carers and children can sit if it is necessary to take a break from panels. Keynote speakers will be announced with the final programme.

Submission of abstracts

The deadline for submission of abstracts is 5pm, Wednesday 10th December 2019. We will confirm speakers by Thursday 16th January 2020.

We welcome proposals for individual papers and for panels.

Abstracts for individual papers of 20 mins should be 500 words or less. Please include on your submission name, institutional affiliation (if any), email address, pronouns, and whether your paper is likely to include content that is unsuitable for children. Please indicate if you are a PGR or an ECR and would like to be considered for a bursary. Please also indicate if you are unable to attend any specific days of the conference.

Proposals for panels consisting of 3 x 20 minutes papers should include a 500 word abstract for each paper, plus a panel title and short description (no more than 500 words) explaining the relationship between papers and how they relate to panel themes. Please include on your submission names, institutional affiliation (if any), email addresses, pronouns of all speakers, and whether papers are likely to include content that is unsuitable for children. Please indicate if any panel speakers are PGRs or ECRs and would like to be considered for a bursary. Please also indicate if you are unable to attend any specific days of the conference.

We welcome papers in non-traditional formats, and papers that deal with teaching, public engagement, and related issues. If you have an idea for a paper but you are not sure whether it is suitable, please get in touch!

Contact Info: 

Abstracts and queries should be submitted to Georgina Randall at admin@bodyselffamily.org

Contact Email: 

admin@bodyselfamily.org

Eugénisme, positivisme et dégénérationnisme dans les pays latins

Eugénisme, positivisme et dégénérationnisme dans les pays latins (1870-1920)

Colloque international

Lundi 2 et mardi 3 décembre 2019

Le colloque sera centré sur la circulation des discours portant sur la dégénérescence et l’eugénisme. On s’intéressera à la façon dont certaines conceptions de la dégénérescence, ou du mélange des races comme facteur de régénération, ont circulé au travers des réseaux positivistes, entre l’Eu-rope latine et l’Amérique du Sud, ou à l’intérieur des pays européens. On prêtera également une atten-tion précise à l’inscription politique des projets concernés, et notamment aux rôles de certains réseaux politiques dans la diffusion de ces thèmes. Plusieurs cas nationaux seront évoqués, mais l’on tentera aussi d’identifier des thèmes transnationaux de confrontation, à l’intérieur du monde latin, et de repen-ser le rapport avec l’eugénisme anglo-saxon. Si un certain nombre de travaux ont déja éte consacrés à la question de l’eugénisme à l’époque des totalitarismes, le moment 1900 sera ici au coeur de l’enquête. 

LUNDI 2 DÉCEMBRE 2019

DES DÉGÉNÉRESCENCES AUX RÉGÉNÉRATIONS
(Présidence : Gilles Pécout, recteur de l’Académie de Paris)

09h15 Ouverture
Françoise Martinez et Xavier Tabet

09h30 Loïc Rignol (Université de Besançon) Les croisements de race comme pensée de la régénération chez les saint-simoniens

10h00 Claude-Olivier Doron (Université de Paris/SPHERE-IHSS) « Le crétin et le marais ». Une genèse du thème de la dégénérescence de l’espèce humaine

10h30 Pause

11h 00 Jean-Christophe Coffin (Université Paris 8) Psychiatrie, dégénérescence et progrès. Le combat d’Enrico Morselli (1852-1929)

11h 30 Romain Robinet (Université d’Angers) « Par ma race parlera l’esprit » : l’historiographie de la pensée raciale au Mexique (XIXe-XXe siècles)

12h00 Discussion

FONDEMENTS ET PROGRAMMES DES EUGÉNISMES
(Présidence : Massimo Baioni, Université de Milan)

14h30 Luc Berlivet (CNRS-Cermes3) « Latins » contre « nordiques » : travail définitionnel, mobilisations scientifiques et luttes politiques dans le mouvement eugéniste international

15h00 Robert Wegner (Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Brasil) Social Thought and history of eugenics in Brazil

15h30 Pause

16h00 Matías Kitever (EHESS) Misera plebs contribuens.L’eugénisme en Colombie

16h30 Emanuele D’Antonio (Université d’Udine) Les eugénistes et les juifs au tournant du siècle en Italie

17h00 Discussion

18h00 Fin de la journée


MARDI 3 DÉCEMBRE 2019

POLITIQUES, SEXES ET CRIMINALITÉS
(Présidence : Fausto Proietti, Université de Pérouse)

09h30 Silvano Montaldo (Université de Turin)Criminalité, dégénérescence et question raciale

10h00 Jean-Yves Frétigné (Université de Rouen) Xavier Tabet (Université Paris 8) Lombroso, Ferri, Garofalo : l’école lombrosienne, la peine de mort et l’eugénisme

10 h30 Pause

11h 00 Ernesto De Cristofaro (Université de Catane) Race et pensée juridique en Italie à la fin du XIXe siècle

11h 30 Elena Bovo (Université de Besançon) Eugénisme et psychologie des foules en France et en Italie : une certaine idée du progrès social à la fin du XIXe siècle

12h00 Discussion

(Présidence : Mercedes Yusta, Université Paris 8)

14h30 Manuelle Péloille (Université d’Angers) Le « chirurgien de fer », remède à la dégénérescence, agent de régénération d’une nation espagnole « moribonde » (1901-1930)

15h00 Françoise Martinez (Université Paris 8) À la recherche de la race perdue. La question de la régénération dans la pensée libérale bolivienne

15h30 Pause

16h00 Lissell Quiroz (Université de Rouen) Dresser le corps des mères et des bébés : l’obstétrique au Pérou (1850-1920)

16h30 Laura Fournier (Université Paris 8) Éducation sexuelle et féminisme en Italie au début du XXe siècle

17h00 Discussion

18h00 Clôture du colloque

L'expérience féminine de la folie au 19e siècle

The ‘Madwoman’ and the Institution: Interrogating the Experience of Female Insanity in the Long Nineteenth Century

Call for Papers

Event date: 01/04/2020

Venue: University of Leicester

CFP Deadline: 17/01/2020

This conference aims to reconfigure our understanding of the ‘madwoman’ in England’s long nineteenth century, asking key questions about the diagnosis, treatment, care and representation of women perceived as ‘insane’.

This period saw the institutionalization of large swathes of the population, including those considered mentally ill. Simultaneously, medical advancements and increased interest in mental illness saw a specific focus on conditions often typified as ‘female’, with disorders attributed to their reproductive organs and bodies. Places of treatment and care – such as public asylums, private madhouses, workhouses or prisons – were typically patriarchal institutions, run by males, with women diagnosed and treated by male doctors. As a result, procuring information about the female experience has proved difficult.

Addressing these core developments in the history of medicine and psychiatry, this conference interrogates the female experience of incarceration, often presented as a way of dealing with ‘difficult’ women. Keeping the methodological challenges of uncovering the incarcerated female voice in mind, papers are invited from a range of critical frameworks and disciplines. The event will provide a forum in which researchers can share findings in order to deepen our understanding of women and madness. We invite proposals for 20-minute papers; some guiding research topics might include:

• Deviance, disorder and immorality
• Female agency within the asylum
• Madness and race/class
• Women and the built environment
• ‘Feminization of madness’ and understandings of mental illness
• Cultural representations of madwomen
• Social and familial conditions of institutionalization
• Female versus male experiences of the institution
• The identity of the ‘madwoman’

The conference will be keen to look at a range of experiences in a variety of institutions, and will encourage presentations from scholars who use a diverse plethora of sources.

Please send a 250-word abstract and a short bio of no more than a paragraph to tmati.2020@gmail.com by the end of 17 January 2020.

There are five bursaries available for students and early-career researchers who are members of the Society of the Social History of Medicine. For details about how to apply for a bursary please see the SSHM website: https://sshm.org/bursaries/

This conference has kindly been funded by the Society for the Social History of Medicine, and the Social History Society. Thanks go to both organisations.

Follow the event on Twitter: @TMATIConf2020 #MWC20