James Burt et la chirurgie de l'amour

The Love Surgeon: A Story of Trust, Harm, and the Limits of Medical Regulation

Sarah B. Rodriguez

Series: Critical Issues in Health and Medicine

Hardcover: 272 pages

Publisher: Rutgers University Press; Critical edition (July 17, 2020)

Language: English

ISBN-13: 978-1978800960

Dr. James Burt believed women’s bodies were broken, and only he could fix them. In the 1950s, this Ohio OB-GYN developed what he called “love surgery,” a unique procedure he maintained enhanced the sexual responses of a new mother, transforming her into “a horny little house mouse.” Burt did so without first getting the consent of his patients. Yet he was allowed to practice for over thirty years, mutilating hundreds of women in the process.

It would be easy to dismiss Dr. Burt as a monstrous aberration, a modern-day Dr. Frankenstein. Yet as medical historian Sarah Rodriguez reveals, that’s not the whole story. The Love Surgeon asks tough questions about Burt’s heinous acts and what they reveal about the failures of the medical establishment: How was he able to perform an untested surgical procedure? Why wasn’t he obliged to get informed consent from his patients? And why did it take his peers so long to take action?

The Love Surgeon is both a medical horror story and a cautionary tale about the limits of professional self-regulation.

Histoire de la Covid-19

Covid-19 Grants for History in the Public Interest 

Call for proposals 

DEADLINE: AUGUST 15, 2020

The Albert Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest at Villanova University is pleased to announce a new funding opportunity to support historical projects related to the Covid-19 pandemic that advance the public interest.

The Center will fund up to 10 projects that creatively engage with the broad range of questions, concerns, policies and practices raised by the study of how past pandemics have affected the course of history and how historical study can further public understanding of the current Covid-19 crisis.

The Center is particularly interested in proposals that adopt a global approach and highlight issues of race, gender, power and structural inequality. We strongly encourage BIPOC and members of minority and underrepresented populations to apply.

ABOUT THE GRANTS

Up to 10 grants will be awarded to projects that promote historical research, scholarship, teaching and public dialogue on global histories of pandemics and their effects on society, with a particular focus on race, gender, power and structural inequality. Individual grant awards will range from $2,500 - $5,000.

As the grant amounts may not be able to support a project in-full, our goal is to provide seed money and/or to help advance a project from conception to execution. The Center is especially committed to supporting work that may require initial funding to get off the ground.

The Center seeks to inspire a wide range of submissions from a diverse pool of applicants that are original and imaginative in content and form. Examples of the types of projects include: a series of blog posts, a series of podcast conversations, an initiative with a local newspaper to write a series of op-eds, a mapping project, a digital timeline, a crowd-sourced syllabus, a new course, an oral history project, a collaboration with local activists, and other creative ideas.

Proposals from BIPOC and members of minority and underrepresented populations will be looked upon especially favorably.

The grants are made possible by a generous donation by Mr. Albert Lepage (VU ’69).

HOW TO APPLY

Proposals are due to the Lepage Center by 11:59 p.m. EST on August 15, 2020.

Proposals should be emailed as a single attachment (PDF or Word document) to lepage@villanova.edu and should not exceed 15 pages. Additional pages will not be reviewed.

APPLICATION & SELECTION

Applications should include:

• A project description, purpose, and its contribution toward the public interest (1-2 pages)
• A plan of execution, including deliverables, partners, and expected outcomes (1-2 pages)
• A proposed budget (1 page)
• C.V. or resumes of principal participants (not to exceed 10 pages)

The Center will award up to 10 grants in amounts ranging from $2,500 - $5,000 depending on the scope, size, ambition and needs of each project. The awards are expected to be distributed along three distinct streams:

• Undergraduate and graduate research and teaching led by Villanova University students and faculty (maximum of 2 awards);
• Public-facing historical research and scholarship led by Villanova University faculty in the Department of History and other Departments doing history in the public interest (maximum of 2 awards);
• Public-facing history content created by local and national historians and historical institutions (maximum of 6 awards).

In evaluating applications, The Center will consider:

• The track record of the applicant(s);
• The importance of the project goals, the originality of the method and perspective, and the fit and relevance to the Center’s mission;
• The feasibility of the proposal;
• The capacity of the project to seek to shed light on the current crisis;
• The articulation of an approach to historical thinking about the past that broadly fits disciplinary standards and perspectives (see here and here).

Proposals will be reviewed by an internal committee with award decisions to be made by the end of September 2020 (precise date TBD).

A one-time disbursement of funds will occur in fall 2020 (precise date TBD).

ELIGIBILITY

Proposals are limited to scholars and/or institutions in the United States. Global perspectives and transnational partnerships are encouraged.

While not limited to professional historians or history institutions, proposals that feature historians and demonstrate an approach to studying the past that broadly fits disciplinary standards and ethics of professional history will be favored.

Grantees should be amenable to having their projects featured on the Lepage Center website, social media, and other communications. The Lepage Center humbly requests that grantees acknowledgment its support in all their public-facing materials.

FINE PRINT

Grant awards are subject to federal, state and local tax regulations. Each grantee is responsible for reporting taxable stipend payments, and for remitting any tax due with their personal or institutional income tax return. For specific questions about your tax responsibilities, please contact the Internal Revenue Service, an accountant, or an income tax service.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Visit: http://lepage.villanova.edu/covid-19

Email: lepage@villanova.edu

L'appétit et ses insatisfactions

Appetite and Its Discontents: Science, Medicine, and the Urge to Eat, 1750-1950 

Elizabeth A. Williams

Hardcover: 416 pages

Publisher: University of Chicago Press; First edition (July 15, 2020)

Language: English

ISBN-13: 978-0226692999

Why do we eat? Is it instinct? Despite the necessity of food, anxieties about what and how to eat are widespread and persistent. In Appetite and Its Discontents, Elizabeth A. Williams explores contemporary worries about eating through the lens of science and medicine to show us how appetite—once a matter of personal inclination—became an object of science.

Williams charts the history of inquiry into appetite between 1750 and 1950, as scientific and medical concepts of appetite shifted alongside developments in physiology, natural history, psychology, and ethology. She shows how, in the eighteenth century, trust in appetite was undermined when researchers who investigated ingestion and digestion began claiming that science alone could say which ways of eating were healthy and which were not. She goes on to trace nineteenth- and twentieth-century conflicts over the nature of appetite between mechanists and vitalists, experimentalists and bedside physicians, and localists and holists, illuminating struggles that have never been resolved. By exploring the core disciplines in investigations in appetite and eating, Williams reframes the way we think about food, nutrition, and the nature of health itself..

Indian Journal of Critical Disability Studies

Indian Journal of Critical Disability Studies

Call for Papers for issue number 2.1 

A new online peer-reviewed international journal "Indian Journal of Critical Disability Studies" (InJCDS), edited by Anita Ghai and Tanmoy Bhattacharya is being launched. The journal’s editorial board boasts of well-known Critical Disabilities Studies scholars who represent a range of disciplinary perspectives. The journal is fully open-source and will be published bi-annually. (https://jcdsi.org/index.php/injcds)

Although, we do not have a specific theme for this first open call for the newly established journal, we would prefer articles directly or indirectly addressing one of the core foundational principles of critical disability studies, namely, intersectionality. Intersectionality (see Crenshaw, 1989; and Crenshaw 2014 for a newspaper interview) has been most widely employed in feminist movement and gender studies (see Bell Hook, 2014). There is widespread acceptance of the role of intersectionality in finding unifying social oppression patterns across different identities (class, gender, ethnicity, caste, sexuality, ability) and help create collaborative coalitions across these identities. However, the inherent complexity of intersectionality (McCall, 2005, Carastathis, 2016) requires a careful approach to the topic.

When it comes to research on disability, the intersectionality aspect of it is often missing. We believe that disability studies cannot be truly inclusive without addressing intersectionality. Critical disability studies (CDS) framework, among other things to be progressively explored through various issues of this journal, filled this gap by making intersectionality as one of the cornerstones of research on disability studies. Based on initial work such as Söder (2009) and Goodley (2010), more and more research within the domain of CDS is addressing intersectionality (see Artiles, Dorn, & Bal, 2016, Artiles, 2013, among others).

Possible themes of the research papers may include (but are not limited to);

• Justification of intersectional perspective in (critical) disability studies;
• Complexity that intersectionality may introduce in disability research;
• History of intersectionality in disability;
• Intersectionality and activism in disability;
• Intersectionality and its relations to other frames of disability reference;
• The role of ‘the body’ and intersectionality;
• Importance of intersectionality in disability research in south Asian context; etc.

Pleas visit the journal site for more information at: https://jcdsi.org/index.php/injcds

Contact Info:  Tanmoy Bhattacharya and Anita Ghai

Contact Email:  editor@jcdsi.org

Le commerce de la santé dans le long dix-huitième siècle britannique

Merchants of Medicines: The Commerce and Coercion of Health in Britain’s Long Eighteenth Century

Zachary Dorner



Hardcover: 280 pages
Publisher: University of Chicago Press; First edition (July 15, 2020)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-0226706801

The period from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century—the so-called long eighteenth century of English history—was a time of profound global change, marked by the expansion of intercontinental empires, long-distance trade, and human enslavement. It was also the moment when medicines, previously produced locally and in small batches, became global products. As greater numbers of British subjects struggled to survive overseas, more medicines than ever were manufactured and exported to help them. Most historical accounts, however, obscure the medicine trade’s dependence on slave labor, plantation agriculture, and colonial warfare.

In Merchants of Medicines, Zachary Dorner follows the earliest industrial pharmaceuticals from their manufacture in the United Kingdom, across trade routes, and to the edges of empire, telling a story of what medicines were, what they did, and what they meant. He brings to life business, medical, and government records to evoke a vibrant early modern world of London laboratories, Caribbean estates, South Asian factories, New England timber camps, and ships at sea. In these settings, medicines were produced, distributed, and consumed in new ways to help confront challenges of distance, labor, and authority in colonial territories. Merchants of Medicines offers a new history of economic and medical development across early America, Britain, and South Asia, revealing the unsettlingly close ties among medicine, finance, warfare, and slavery that changed people’s expectations of their health and their bodies.

Andrea Cesalpino (1519-1603)

Andrea Cesalpino (1519-1603), a Physician, Philosopher, and Botanist in Renaissance Italy

Call for Papers

RSA Dublin 2021



As his activities intersect, and innovatively shape various fields, Andrea Cesalpino was a key figure in Renaissance culture. Alongside with his work as a professor of botany and medicine at the University of Pisa, where he directed the botanical garden, and as a professor of medicine in Rome and a personal physician to Pope Clemente VIII, Cesalpino’s writings testify to a largely innovative approach to natural philosophy. For example, his philosophical work, Quaestionum peripateticarum libri V (1569) provides an Aristotelian perspective with traces of Averroes. In his medical texts, Cesalpino reveals important insights in the aspects of blood circulation. In De plantis libri XVI (1583), he crucially frames botanical studies within an Aristotelian architecture, laying down the foundation of plant morphology and physiology of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Yet, he also focused on magic in Daemonum investigation (1580) and metallurgy in De metallis (1596). While these texts are well-known by specialists, a more complete investigation of Cesalpino as a whole is missing in recent scholarship.

In this panel, we aim to explore Cesalpino’s work in detail, unearthing the importance of his studies in different fields and discussing Cesalpino as a major figure in Renaissance knowledge. While the inspection of Cesalpino’s work per se lags behind, and thus the aim of this panel is to fill a gap in scholarship, investigating the debates over Cesalpino’s in the sixteenth century and the reception and presence of Cesalpino in the early modern time suits the scope of the panel.

Proposals for the panel should be sent to fabrizio.baldassarri@gmail.com by the end of July 2020 and should contain a 15-word title, an abstract of 150-word maximum (word count is mandatory!), max 5 page cv, PhD or other terminal degree completion date (past or expected), and full name, affiliation, email address.

More information about RSA2021 Dublin is here

Brève histoire des épidémies au Québec

Brève histoire des épidémies au Québec. Du choléra à la COVID-19

Denis Goulet


Septentrion
Juillet 2020
180 pages
ISBN : 9782897911867



Du choléra au sida, en passant par le typhus, la variole, la grippe espagnole et la H1N1, le Québec a subi, comme le reste du monde, de grandes épidémies. Entre la peste du XIVe siècle et la pandémie de la COVID-19, la compréhension des modèles de transmission a grandement évolué, et l'on est passé des croyances magico-religieuses à une approche scientifique de la maladie.

Denis Goulet dresse un portrait des grandes épidémies qui ont marqué le Québec depuis le XIXe siècle et présente les différents modèles explicatifs des causes des maladies infectieuses qui ont parsemé cette période. Il fait une analyse originale de l'évolution des réactions, des attitudes et des comportements de la population face à des fléaux qui ont bouleversé sa vie quotidienne. Il met en lumière les difficultés des pouvoirs publics à réagir efficacement face à ces maladies, parfois nouvelles, et dont l'ampleur dépasse les moyens de prévention.

Poste en histoire de la psychologie et de la psychiatrie

Lecturer in Modern British History 

Call for applications

Queen Mary University of London - School of History

Location: London
Salary: £42,433 per annum incl. London allowance (grade 5).
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Fixed-Term/Contract


Placed On: 19th June 2020
Closes: 19th July 2020
Job Ref: QMUL22304

Fixed Term 12 months

About the Role
Joining the School’s research group on Science, Medicine and the Emotions, including the Centre for the History of Emotions, the postholder will contribute to the research life of the School; teach three existing undergraduate modules on psychology, psychiatry and the supernatural in modern Britain; and take part in the care of students, assessment and admissions‐related activities.

About You
The successful candidate will have a PhD in history or in a relevant field, experience of teaching at undergraduate level, a track record of high-quality research and clear future publication plans. Higher education teaching accreditation is desirable.

About the School
Queen Mary University of London enjoys an outstanding international reputation for the excellence of its research and teaching in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The School of History is an innovative leader in a wide range of historical fields, and is renowned for its dynamic and supportive research environment.

About Queen Mary
At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits
We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work-life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.

The post is based at the Mile End Campus in London. It is a full-time fixed term appointment for twelve months, with an expected start date of 1 September 2020. The starting salary will be Grade 5, in the range of £42,433 per annum (pro-rata), inclusive of London Allowance.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

Informal enquiries should be addressed to the Head of School, Professor Daniel Todman at history-head@qmul.ac.uk.

To apply for the role, please click the ‘apply’ button. https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CAK881/lecturer-in-modern-british-history-tandr-qmul22304?uuid=00637c66-b4fe-11ea-8705-064da8edb92a&campaign=jbew20200623&source=jbe 

The closing date for applications is 19 July 2020.

Interviews are expected to be held remotely shortly thereafter.

Queen Mary is committed to equality of opportunities and to advancing BAME and women’s careers. We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, campus facilities and services to support staff from different backgrounds. Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit, we particularly welcome applications from BAME candidates and from women.

Valuing Diversity & Committed to Equality.