Poisons et médicaments dans l'histoire européenne

It All Depends on the Dose: Poisons and Medicines in European History

Ole Peter Grell, Andrew Cunningham, Jon Arrizabalaga (dir.)


Éditeur ‏ : ‎ Taylor & Francis Ltd (29 août 2022)
Langue ‏ : ‎ Anglais
Broché ‏ : ‎ 244 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1032401911
Poids de l'article ‏ : ‎ 480 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.6 x 1.5 x 23.4 cm

This is the first volume to take a broad historical sweep of the close relation between medicines and poisons in the Western tradition, and their interconnectedness. They are like two ends of a spectrum, for the same natural material can be medicine or poison, depending on the dose, and poisons can be transformed into medicines, while medicines can turn out to be poisons. The book looks at important moments in the history of the relationship between poisons and medicines in European history, from Roman times, with the Greek physician Galen, through the Renaissance and the maverick physician Paracelsus, to the present, when poisons are actively being turned into beneficial medicines.

Histoires de crises

Crisis History


Call for Papers

Canadian Journal of History
Guest editors: Jim Clifford, Erika Dyck, & Elizabeth Scott

Amidst the Covid-19 pandemic American immunologist and Chief Advisor to the US President, Dr. Anthony Fauci, suggested that humanity may be entering a Pandemic Age. As historians we may be sensitive to the naming of periods or eras that coincide with a current moment, but we cannot deny that this pandemic has influenced how we relate to the past or a pre-pandemic world. While Covid 19-related policies overwhelmed our social media feeds and dominated our lives for at least several months, the pandemic eventually competed for our attention with other crises: Black Lives Matter movements, escalating climate crises, a new war in Ukraine, the findings of mass grave sites at Indian Residential Schools in Canada, freedom convoys, and a reversal of Roe v. Wade. If Dr. Fauci is correct that we are entering a pandemic era, we might need to better understand how pandemics trigger, exacerbate, or reveal other tensions, perhaps even enough to warrant a characterization of this moment as a crisis era.

In this special issue we seek contributions from historians working on crisis histories. How has the pandemic context shaped our understanding of crisis? How are historians accommodating a pandemic context when studying other events? Can we tease apart the pandemic from other major historical events? How will the pandemic influence the historical implications of other crises? For example, does the 2022 US Supreme Court decision regarding abortion have particular implications due to the lingering effects of the pandemic that may continue to restrict people’s movement and access to healthcare? How have Ukrainian refugees negotiated the need to move and shelter amidst Covid? In short, how has, or will, pandemic thinking affect the way we do history?

Those interested should send a brief CV and an abstract of 300 words by September 30, 2022 to cjh@utpress.utoronto.ca.

Invited authors will be notified in October 2022 and asked to submit a full 10,000-word article by February 15, 2023.

Manuscripts for consideration will undergo double-blind peer review, with authors notified about publication decisions in May, and accepted papers appearing in the Winter (November/December) 2023 edition of CJH/ACH.

L'association de planification familiale en Grande-Bretagne

The Family Planning Association and Contraceptive Science and Technology in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain

Natasha Szuhan 

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2022 edition (August 19, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 306 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3030812997 

This book offers the first in-depth investigation into the relationship between the National Birth Control Association, later the Family Planning Association, and contraceptive science and technology in the pre-Pill era. It explores the Association’s role in designing and supporting scientific research, employment of scientists, engagement with manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies, and use of its facilities, patients, staff, medical, scientific, and political networks to standardise and guarantee contraceptive technology it prescribed and produced. By taking a micro-history approach to the archives of the Association, this book highlights the importance of this organisation to the history of science, technology, and medicine in twentieth-century Britain. It examines the Association’s participation within Western family planning networks, working particularly closely with its American counterparts to develop chemical and biological means of testing contraception for efficacy, quality, and safety.

Une histoire du syndrome de Down

Downs: A History
 

Online talk by Professor David Wright

Thursday 7 Sep 2022 18:00 - 19:00 (BST)

Online event, book here: https://www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-events/events/lib-downs-a-history-070922


Find out about the medical and social history of Down's Syndrome in an online talk by Professor David Wright.

Down's syndrome is a common condition caused by the presence of an extra chromosome. It is named after John Langdon Down, the British asylum medical superintendent who described the syndrome in a series of lectures in 1866. In 1959, the disorder was identified as a chromosome 21 trisomy by the French paediatrician and geneticist Jérôme Lejeune. But children and adults born with this chromosomal difference have an important collective history beyond the history of medical science. Professor David Wright explains the history of Down's, within healthcare and beyond.



This event is open to all. Please book a ticket to attend and the Zoom link will be emailed to you in advance of the event.

Identités médicales et culture imprimée

Medical Identities and Print Culture, 1830s–1910s

Alison Moulds

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2021 edition (August 12, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 302 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3030743475 

This book examines how the medical profession engaged with print and literary culture to shape its identities between the 1830s and 1910s in Britain and its empire. Moving away from a focus on medical education and professional appointments, the book reorients attention to how medical self-fashioning interacted with other axes of identity, including age, gender, race, and the spaces of practice. Drawing on medical journals and fiction, as well as professional advice guides and popular periodicals, this volume considers how images of medical practice and professionalism were formed in the cultural and medical imagination. Alison Moulds uncovers how medical professionals were involved in textual production and consumption as editors, contributors, correspondents, readers, authors, and reviewers. Ultimately, this book opens up new perspectives on the relationship between literature and medicine, revealing how the profession engaged with a range of textual practices to build communities, air grievances, and augment its cultural authority and status in public life.

Les corps expressifs

Expressive Bodies: Visible Illness, Visible Health 

 

Call for Papers 

International Medieval Congress to be held at the University of Leeds, July 3-6, 2023.


Over the last decades cultural historians of medicine have joined religious and social historians to approach the body as a primary site of the most intimate and at the same time communally shared human experiences. In these sessions we aim to explore one particular aspect of this entanglement: the visible quality of human bodies to express both illness and health.

We invite papers that explore from a variety of disciplines the visibility of some “actions of the body”, their relevance in medieval cultures and how they were interpreted and acted upon by a variety of agents. From the presence or absence of ulcers, buboes or facial hair to the appearance of the skin or the shape of the genitals, bodily surfaces played a central role in medical and religious understandings of the body and determined important aspects of social life.

Topics to be addressed include but are not limited to: 

• explanations of the outward manifestations of the humoral body
• the role of the visible in health practices
• professional and lay interventions on bodily surfaces
• gender and the visibility of the body and of its parts
• who decided to act on bodily surfaces and on what grounds these decisions were made
• technologies used to modify the appearance of bodies
• institutional approaches to the visible nature of human bodies

Please send your proposals of around 250 words to Montserrat Cabré (cabrem@unican.es) and Anna Peterson (peterson.anna.m@gmail.com) before September 15. The sessions will be sponsored by the project VisibleBodyMed (PID2019-107671GB-I00) funded by the Spanish MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033.

La remarquable histoire médicinale de la bière, du vin, des spiritueux et des cocktails

Summary of Doctors and Distillers:: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits and Cocktails
 

Michael J. Hammond

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0B92L7VXG
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (August 11, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 26 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8846096479

Alcohol and Medicine have an inextricably intertwined history, with innovations in each altering the path of the other. The story stretches back to ancient times, when beer and wine were used to provide nutrition and hydration, and were employed as solvents for healing botanicals. Over time, alchemists distilled elixirs designed to cure all diseases, monastic apothecaries developed mystical botanical liqueurs, traveling physicians concocted dubious intoxicating nostrums, and the drinks we’re familiar with today began to take form. In turn, scientists studied fermentation and formed the germ theory of disease, and developed an understanding of elemental gases and anesthetics. Modern cocktails like the Old-Fashioned, Gimlet, and Gin and Tonic were born as delicious remedies for diseases and discomforts. In Doctors and Distillers, cocktails and spirits expert Camper English reveals how and why the contents of our medicine and liquor cabinets were, until surprisingly recently, one and the same.

Guérir du lymphoedème

Guérir du lymphoedème. Histoire et avancées médicales

Becker Corinne & Germain Michel A.

 

L'Harmattan (éd.), Collection Médecine à travers les siècles
Broché - format : 13,5 x 21,5 cm • 234 pages
ISBN : 978-2-14-027445-9

Guérir du lymphoedème est actuellement possible. Évoquer les signes cliniques du lymphoedème en permet la compréhension. L'historique des traitements du lymphoedème illustre le long cheminement de la médecine qui a développé de manière empirique des procédés aux résultats aléatoires de l'Antiquité à nos jours. C'est au XVIIe siècle que l'anatomie des lymphatiques est décrite. Puis, les progrès chirurgicaux s'affinent avec les excisions aponévrotiques et la différence entre lymphoedèmes primitifs, congénitaux et secondaires souvent dus à une chirurgie carcinologique avec curage. L'anatomie et l'embryologie permettent de bien comprendre les perturbations du système lymphatique. La microchirurgie lymphatique apporte des solutions : anastomoses lymphoveineuses, transplantation de ganglions lymphatiques autologues... La génétique marque des progrès constants. Elle apporte de nouvelles opportunités. Véritable message d'espoir, ce traité médical offre de nouvelles perspectives de guérison. Date de publication : 20 juin 2022