Poste à l'Université de Cambridge

Fixed-Term Lectureship in History of Modern Medicine - University of Cambridge

Call for applications

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Applications are invited for a Fixed-Term Lectureship in History of Modern Medicine to start on 1 September 2021. Appointment will be made at Point 49 (£41,526) on the University Lecturer scale and will be for a period of three years while Professor Nick Hopwood holds a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship to work on 'The Many Births of the Test-Tube Baby'.

Applicants should hold a PhD in a relevant discipline and be able to provide outstanding teaching and research in history of medicine since 1800. We especially welcome applicants whose expertise would expand the range of histories and geographies currently encompassed in the Department's teaching programme. The postholder will be expected to give lectures and lead seminars at undergraduate and master's level, to supervise coursework (assessed essays and dissertations) and to perform other departmental duties including those associated with assessment, examination and running seminars or reading groups. They will also be expected to publish and otherwise communicate their research in such a way as to maintain the Department's national and international reputation for excellence in history of health and medicine.

Please be aware that present conditions may dictate periods of home-working, but that the candidate should be available for office-based work in Cambridge.

Due to the funding position for this post, the successful applicant will be appointed at Point 49 (£41,526) of the salary scale, with the salary rising in annual increments, in line with the University's pay policies and procedures. The funds are available until 31 August 2024 in the first instance. The post is supported by a two-year probationary period.

Applications should include: 1. A full CV, including details of teaching experience; 2. a list of publications; 3. statements about current and proposed research; 4. two samples of recent work; 5. the names of three referees.

Schedule:
· Closing date for applications is midnight (GMT) on 28 February 2021
· Interviews will take place in late March 2021, most likely virtually
· Start date is 1 September 2021

For further information and how to apply visit http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/28356/

Inquiries can be addressed to hpsjobs@hermes.cam.ac.uk. Please quote reference JN25373 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

For information on the Department of History and Philosophy of Science see www.hps.cam.ac.uk, for our history of medicine programme https://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/research/history-of-medicine and for more on the University of Cambridge www.cam.ac.uk. --

Histoire des enfants handicapés au Québec

Vulnérables, tolérés, exclus. Histoire des enfants handicapés au Québec, 1920-1990

 

Susanne Commend

 

Presses de l'Université de Montréal
256 pages / janvier 2021
ISBN 978-2-7606-4334-5 24,99 $

En se penchant sur l’histoire des enfants handicapés physiques du Québec, ce livre éclaire un passé méconnu et rend compte des représentations sociales de ces enfants et de l’évolution des divers services qu’on leur a offerts pendant près d’un siècle, entre 1920 et 1990. L’autrice aborde les thèmes de l’assistance, de l’éducation et de la santé en s’appuyant sur un vaste corpus d’archives qui met au jour l’histoire de certaines associations philanthropiques jusqu’ici demeurées dans l’ombre. Des entrevues enrichissent la narration et brossent un portrait inédit de ces enfants dont le statut a été déterminé par une double tension : entre exclusion et intégration, d’une part, et entre médecine et éducation sociale, d’autre part. Ces dynamiques contradictoires révèlent, de façon nuancée et sensible, trois figures de l’enfance handicapée : la victime angélique, l’enfant-citoyen réadapté et le monstre. Comment se construit une norme ? Comment s’expriment les phénomènes de rejet, de ségrégation et d’exclusion dans une société ? De quelle façon les mouvements de défense des droits de « l’enfance irrégulière » se sont-ils organisés au Québec ? Autant de questions fondamentales qui intéresseront les étudiants, les professionnels et le grand public ouvert aux questions éthiques et sociales touchant l’enfance et le handicap.

Susanne Commend est chercheuse à l’Institut d’études féministes et de genre de l’Université d’Ottawa. Spécialiste de l’histoire du handicap au Québec, elle a publié une monographie sur le passé de l’Institut Nazareth et Louis-Braille, centre de réadaptation en déficience visuelle.

Perspectives historiques sur la neurologie clinique

Historical perspectives on clinical neurology

Online event

 

Date: Wed 17 February 2021

Time: 6:00pm to 7:35pm GMT



This webinar will provide new insights into the recent creation of a clinical neurological specialty and the development of new treatment options for migraine.

Key speakers: Professor Christopher Mathias, Emeritus Professor of Neurovascular Medicine, Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London and Dr Mark Weatherall, Consultant Neurologist, Stoke Mandeville Hospital.

View the full programme >>


Can't watch the live session? Don't worry, this webinar recording will be available for registered delegates up to 30 days after the live webinar, via Zoom.

La médecine avant, pendant et après l'Holocauste

Recognizing the Past in the Present: New Studies on Medicine before, during, and after the Holocaust
 

Sabine Hildebrandt, Miriam Offer, Michael A. Grodin (Editors)

Publisher : Berghahn Books; 1st edition (December 11, 2020)
Language: : English
Hardcover : 412 pages
ISBN-13 : 978-1789207842

Following decades of silence about the involvement of doctors, medical researchers and other health professionals in the Holocaust and other National Socialist (Nazi) crimes, scholars in recent years have produced a growing body of research that reveals the pervasive extent of that complicity. This interdisciplinary collection of studies presents documentation of the critical role medicine played in realizing the policies of Hitler’s regime. It traces the history of Nazi medicine from its roots in the racial theories of the 1920s, through its manifestations during the Nazi period, on to legacies and continuities from the postwar years to the present.

Séminaire d'histoire de la médecine de Cambridge

History of Medicine Seminars
 

Lent Term 2021
 

Department of History and Philosophy of Science
University of Cambridge

Seminars, on Tuesdays at 5:00–6:30pm in Cambridge, UK, will be live on Zoom (entry from 4:45). Please click the links below to register for the seminars.

** History of Modern Medicine and Biology ** organised by Mary Brazelton, Helen Curry, and Staffan Müller-Wille

26 January Amir Teicher (Tel Aviv University)
The concept of 'disease carrier' in Western medicine
Register for this seminar

16 February Elizabeth Hoover (University of California, Berkeley)
Seed sovereignty and 'our living relatives' in Native American community farming and gardening
Register for this seminar

16 March Aro Velmet (University of Southern California)
The making of a Pastorian empire: tuberculosis and bacteriological technopolitics in French colonialism and international science, 1890–1940
Register for this seminar

**Early Science and Medicine** organised by Lauren Kassell

23 February Jack Hartnell (University of East Anglia)
Wound Man: three early modern afterlives of a medieval surgical image
Register for this seminar

9 March Anna Bonnell Freidin (University of Michigan)
Birth, fate, and Roman futures
Joint meeting with Generation to Reproduction
Register for this seminar

** Generation to Reproduction ** organised by Lauren Kassell and Salim al-Gailani

2 February Mackenzie Cooley (Hamilton College)
Renaissance eugenics
Register for this seminar

2 March Elizabeth O'Brien (Johns Hopkins University)
As small as a grain of barley: the Bourbon state and the caesarean operation in New Spain, 1771–1810s
Register for this seminar

9 March Anna Bonnell Freidin (University of Michigan)
Birth, fate, and Roman futures
Joint meeting with Early Science and Medicine
Register for this seminar

All are welcome!

La défense de la médecine expérimentale

Humane Professions. The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876–1914


Rob Boddice, Tampere University

 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Expected online publication date: January 2021
Online ISBN: 9781108780087

In this compelling history of the co-ordinated, transnational defence of medical experimentation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Rob Boddice explores the experience of vivisection as humanitarian practice. He captures the rise of the professional and specialist medical scientist, whose métier was animal experimentation, and whose guiding principle was 'humanity' or the reduction of the aggregate of suffering in the world. He also highlights the rhetorical rehearsal of scientific practices as humane and humanitarian, and connects these often defensive professions to meaningful changes in the experience of doing science. Humane Professions examines the strategies employed by the medical establishment to try to cement an idea in the public consciousness: that the blood spilt in medical laboratories served a far-reaching human good.

Séminaire de l’IHM

Séminaire de l’IHM

Travaux de master FBM


Jeudi 11 février 2021, 17h15-19h

En distanciel uniquement



Estaban Liard, Le service médical de l’armée romaine

Julianne Piergovanni, De la médecine narrative aux humanités en médecine. Racines et controverses

Laura Wuest, Adolf Faller (1913-1989), anatomiste et historien de la médecine sur les traces de Niels Stensen (1638-1686)

Modération : Vincent Barras (IHM)

La grande transformation du sommeil

La grande transformation du sommeil. Comment la révolution industrielle a bouleversé nos nuits

Roger Ekirch


Éditions Amsterdam
17 euros
196 pages
Paru le 21 janvier 2021
ISBN 9782354802158

Contrairement à l’opinion courante, le sommeil d’un bloc d’environ huit heures n’a rien de naturel. Cette manière de dormir ne s’est répandue que très récemment, dans le sillage de la révolution industrielle, à la faveur de la généralisation de l’éclairage artificiel dans les villes et de l’imposition d’une nouvelle discipline du travail. Auparavant, le sommeil était habituellement scindé en deux moments, séparés par une période de veille consacrée à diverses activités comme la méditation, les rapports intimes ou encore le soin des bestiaux.

Telle est la thèse révolutionnaire de Roger Ekirch. Son enquête passionnante sur le bouleversement de nos nuits qu’a constitué la disparition, puis l’oubli du sommeil biphasique a doté cet objet d’une historicité qui lui était jusque-là déniée et conduit à l’émergence d’un nouveau champ de recherche, les Sleep Studies. Surtout, cette découverte invite à questionner l’identification de l’insomnie de milieu de nuit à un « trouble du sommeil ». Et à envisager les conséquences d’une transformation qui nous a barré un accès privilégié aux rêves et, par-là, à la conscience de soi.

 

Roger Ekirch est professeur à l’Institut polytechnique de Virginie. Spécialiste de l’histoire transatlantique et de l’histoire coloniale de l’Amérique du Nord, il est lauréat de la bourse Guggenheim.