Postdoctorat en histoire sociale et culturelle de la psychiatrie

Postdoctoral position in social and cultural history (medical humanities)

Call for applications

The Department of English, Germanic and Romance studies, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), and the Centre for Culture and the Mind invite applications for a 24-month post-doctoral researcher position in social and cultural history.

The position is funded by the DNRF Centre of Excellence, Centre for Culture and the Mind (CULTMIND).

The successful candidate will work closely with the Centre leader Ana Antic, Associate Professors Peter Leese and Lamia Moghnieh. He or she will join a dynamic international and interdisciplinary research team.

Job content
The Centre for Culture and the Mind explores the puzzling relationship between cultural difference and the human psyche from a variety of disciplinary perspectives: historical, anthropological, psychiatric, sociological, literary and psychological. It zooms in on the core questions about the universality or otherwise of the human mind, which remain as difficult to answer today as they were a century ago.

The Centre proposes that the issue of culture-mind relationship lays at the core of many social, political and medical debates: within cross-cultural psychiatry/psychotherapy, in trauma studies, and in migration and refugee studies. It explores how the human mind and common humanity have been imagined in different cultural, sociopolitical and disciplinary contexts, examining the assumptions and forces which shaped such definitions. By analysing how different cross-cultural models of the psyche were formulated and critiqued, the Centre’s interdisciplinary team aims to develop a new framework for understanding cross-cultural interventions, which pushes beyond the binary of universalism and cultural relativism in order to arrive at a more nuanced model of interaction between socio-cultural contexts and ideas of the psyche.

The Centre consists of four interrelated thematic strands: cross-cultural research in human sciences; cross-cultural notions of trauma and resilience; cross-cultural therapeutics and creative mind; and cross-cultural encounters and population movements (migration).

The postdoctoral researcher will be a core member of the Centre’s thematic strand on cross-cultural notions of trauma and resilience. This strand focuses on cultural and psychiatric vocabularies of trauma in a variety of cultural and political contexts. It aims to offer a comparative historical analysis of how concepts of trauma, PTSD, resilience and recovery have been applied and translated outside the Western world, and how universalising psychiatric discourses of trauma interacted with broader cultural narratives of emotional suffering and victimhood.

Qualification requirements
In order to be considered for the position applicants must have research qualifications at least corresponding to what can be achieved as part of a successfully completed PhD within a relevant field.

He or she should hold a PhD degree in the field of history (or medical humanities), with a focus on cross-cultural historical trauma studies, and have in-depth knowledge of different understandings of psychological injury or resilience beyond Western scientific models (as well as relevant language proficiency in accordance with the field of expertise). He or she will conduct primary source research in a select range of archives and libraries, and take part in designing and implementing oral interviews if necessary. Experience with interdisciplinary and collaborative work will be an asset.

The successful candidate is expected to work both independently and in collaboration with the research team. Within the Centre, the candidate will take part in broader intellectual and methodological discussions around the Centre’s goals and general directions, and will also be expected to design and work on an original research project (either in the form of a monograph or a series of articles).

The postdoc position is a full-time research position and does not involve any teaching obligations. The candidate is also expected to take active part in the academic life of the Centre and the department.

For further information, including more details on the Centre for Culture and the Mind, please contact Ana Antic at ana.antic@hum.ku.dk.

For further details about the qualification requirements for postdocs, please refer to the job structure for Academic Staff at Universities 2013: https://ufm.dk/en/legislation/prevailing-laws-and-regulations/education/files/job-structure-for-academic-staff-at-universities-2013.pdf

Application
Submit the application online in Adobe PDF or Word format.

Please click on the “Apply now” icon at the bottom of this page.

The application must be written in English and include the following enclosures: Application letter/cover letter (max 1 page).
Curriculum vitae (with applicant’s e-mail & telephone number).
Documentation of qualifications (examination certificates/PhD diploma, etc.).
Complete and numbered list of publications. The enclosed publications must be marked with *.
Research plan, including a short description of previous research and a plan for the coming years that includes an account of how the applicant will contribute to the deliverables in the project description.
Documentation of teaching qualifications and research dissemination, if any
Publications. Applicants may choose a maximum of three publications for assessment. Publication dates must be clearly marked on the publication list. The publications selected must be uploaded as attachments and listed from 1 to 3.

Should any material submitted consist of work with named co-authors, or work that is otherwise the result of collective academic endeavours, the extent of the applicant’s contribution to the work must be clearly stipulated. The Faculty may ask for a signed statement from the co-authors stipulating the extent and nature of each individual’s contribution.

Only material in English can be expected to be assessed.

Appointment procedure
After the application deadline, the Head of Department selects applicants for assessment on the advice of the appointment committee. All applicants are notified whether their application has been accepted for assessment. The Dean subsequently appoints an expert assessment committee tasked with carrying out an assessment of the selected applicants for the specific post. Selected applicants are notified of the composition of the committee. Applicants are ultimately offered the opportunity of commenting on the part of the assessment relating to themselves before the appointment is finalized.

Further information about the application procedure is available from HR, e-mail: hrsc@hrsc.ku.dk. Please refer to ID number 211-1277/22-2I #1.

Salary and conditions of employment
Terms of appointment and salary will be in accordance with an agreement between the Ministry of Finance and The Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (AC). The salary range starts at DKK 35,700, (EUR 4,700) + a 17,1 % contribution to the pension scheme. It is possible to negotiate salary supplements on an annual basis.

The Danish Ministry of Finance and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (AC) have further agreed on a protocol that makes it possible for international researchers employed by the University to achieve a pension exemption, whereby the pension contribution will be paid out as salary. For more information about the different pension schemes, please read more here: https://ism.ku.dk/salary-tax-pension/pension/

If you consider applying from abroad, you may find useful information on how it is to work in Denmark and at UCPH here : http://ism.ku.dk, http://www.nyidanmark.dk/en-us/frontpage.htm and https://www.workindenmark.dk/

UCPH wishes to encourage everyone interested in this post to apply, regardless of personal background.

The closing date for applications is 9 January 2023 at 23:59 [CET]

Applications or supplementary material received thereafter will not be considered.


Københavns Universitet giver sine knap 10.000 medarbejdere muligheder for at udnytte deres talent fuldt ud i et ambitiøst, uformelt miljø. Vi sikrer traditionsrige og moderne rammer om uddannelser og fri forskning på højt internationalt niveau. Vi søger svar og løsninger på fælles problemer og gør ny viden tilgængelig og nyttig for andre. 

Info
Ansøgningsfrist: 09-01-2023
Ansættelsesdato: 01-04-2023
Afdeling/Sted: Institut for Engelsk, Germansk og Romansk

Histoires globales du handicap

Global Histories of Disability, 1700-2015: Power, Place and People

Esme Cleall (Editor)

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge; 1st edition (December 30, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 200 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0367341213

This book offers a global angle to Disability History by exploring global locations as disparate as the Caribbean, Kenya, Mauritius, Natal and Poland as well as taking new approaches to Britain and the US.

Global Histories of Disability seeks to address issues including colonialism, disability, the body, forced labour and indigeneity. A further key issue that reoccurs throughout the volume is the specificity of place. With several chapters examining the Global South, such work challenges the implicit tendency to assume that the western experience of disability is a universal one. The volume intends to do more than add new case studies to our knowledge about disability in the modern period, it intends to use the insights gained from examining disparate global sites to think more about the global histories of disability both empirically and theoretically. Issues addressed by different chapters include colonialism, imperialism, disability, deafness, the body, enslavement, labour and indigeneity. Different chapters also use economic, cultural, legal and political frameworks to explore issues of disability across a range of global locations.

This volume is essential for students, scholars and researchers alike interested in world and international history.

Le sommeil au XIXe siècle

Le sommeil au XIXe siècle. Normes et imaginaires du dormir (années 1770-1914)

Soutenance de thèse de Sophie Panziera



J'ai le grand plaisir de vous inviter à la soutenance de ma thèse intitulée « Le sommeil au XIXe siècle. Normes et imaginaires du dormir (années 1770-1914)», réalisée sous la direction de Dominique Kalifa puis Laurence Guignard à l'Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Elle se déroulera le samedi 7 janvier 2023 à 14h, en salle 216 du Centre Panthéon, (12 place du Panthéon 75005 Paris). Une visioconférence permettra également de la suivre à distance.


Le jury sera composé de :

Monsieur Alain Cabantous, professeur émérite, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, examinateur

Madame Anne Carol, professeure, Université d'Aix Marseille, examinatrice

Madame Jacqueline Carroy, directrice d'étude honoraire, EHESS, examinatrice

Madame Laurence Guignard, professeure, Université Paris-Est Créteil, directrice de la thèse

Monsieur Hervé Guillemain, professeur, Université du Mans, rapporteur

Madame Stéphanie Sauget, professeure, Université de Tours, rapportrice



La soutenance sera suivie d’un pot au Centre d’histoire du XIXe siècle auquel vous êtes très chaleureusement convié·es (Centre Sorbonne, 17 rue de la Sorbonne, Escalier C, 3ème étage, salle G014).

Pour vous permettre d'accéder aux centres Panthéon et Sorbonne, et pour des raisons d’organisation, je vous serais très reconnaissante de m’indiquer votre présence (à tout ou partie de la soutenance, et/ou au pot) au plus tard le 31 décembre. Si vous souhaitez assister à distance, je vous remercie également de bien vouloir m’en informer en m’écrivant à l'adresse sophie.panziera@gmail.com, afin de que je puisse vous envoyer les informations de connexion.



Résumé de la thèse

La thèse propose d’analyser les représentations qui conditionnent les rapports au sommeil et aux expériences du « dormir » au xixe siècle. Elle montre qu’à partir de la fin du xviiie siècle, les médecins s'emparent du sommeil comme un objet d'étude à part entière, questionnant la nature et la fonction de cet état physiologique au moment où le sommeil provoqué réinterroge les frontières veille/sommeil. Les innovations techniques permettent dans le même temps de faciliter la vie nocturne, jusqu’à pouvoir la rendre quotidienne. À partir de 1789, la Révolution française érige l’énergie en valeur essentielle du citoyen, se réappropriant et exaltant une culture de la veille politique. S’installe alors un nouveau rapport au temps social, politique et naturel. Le XIXe siècle définit le besoin de sommeil non plus comme un impondérable calqué sur les rythmes cycliques répondant aux lois de la nature, mais dépendant des rythmes propres au corps, relevant de la physiologie individuelle, que les sciences médicales sont chargées de comprendre et déterminer. Puis la norme d’un sommeil de huit heures est réappropriée et revendiquée par une partie du corps social comme un impératif de santé civilisationnel, avant d’être entériné par la législation. L’analyse des discours tenus sur le sommeil entre les années 1770 et 1910 révèle ainsi une dichotomie entre d’un côté les injonctions à la veille citoyenne, politique, artistique, laborieuse, comme un idéal à atteindre pour accéder à la reconnaissance sociale, et de l’autre, la formulation progressive des prescriptions médicales et sociales au bien dormir, les secondes prenant progressivement le pas sur les premières à partir du second xixe siècle, sans que ces dernières ne s’effacent complètement. En ce sens, le tournant du XXe peut ainsi être lu comme un moment de revendication et de conquête d’un temps de sommeil suffisant pour toutes et tous, dans la formulation sociale d’un « droit au sommeil ». S’appuyant sur les discours médicaux, elle aboutit paradoxalement à une nouvelle naturalisation du besoin de dormir.

Summary:

This thesis intends to analyse the discursive representations that influence the relationship to sleep and the experiences of "sleeping" in the 19th century. Starting from the end of the 18th century, doctors take on sleep as an object of study in its own right, questioning the nature and function of this physiological state as induced sleep ponders the boundaries between wakefulness and sleep. Concurrently, technical innovations facilitate nocturnal activities to the point of making them common. From 1789, the French Revolution establishes energy as an essential value of the citizen, reclaiming and exalting a supposed sleepless political elite. A new relationship to social, political and natural time thus sets in. The 19th century no longer defines the need for sleep as synchronised with the cyclical patterns of nature, but dependent on patterns specific to the body, linked to human physiology and which medical sciences are given the tasks to understand and describe. The need for sleep is presented as a civilizational health imperative by workers unions, before being eventually ratified by the legislation of the eight-hour day. The analysis of the speeches held on sleep between 1770 and 1910 reveals a dichotomy between, on the one hand, injunctions to civic, political, artistic, laborious wakefullness, as an ideal to attain social recognition, and on the other hand, the formulation of medical and social prescriptions for good sleep, the latter gradually taking precedence over the former from the second half of 19th century, without the former disappearing completely. In this sense, the turn of the 20th century can thus be read as a moment of claiming and conquering sufficient time for sleep for all, in the social formulation of a “right to sleep”. Based on medical discourses, this concept paradoxically leads to a new naturalisation of the need to sleep.

Pellagre et folie au XIXe siècle

Pellagra and Pellagrous Insanity during the Long Nineteenth Century

David Gentilcore & Egidio Priani

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2023 edition (December 25, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3031224959



This open access book explores the history of pellagra, a vitamin deficiency disease brought about by a shift in agriculture to maize, and which was first identified in Italy in the 1760s. With a focus on the insanity that was caused by the disease, the authors examine how thousands of patients were treated in Italian psychiatric asylums, shedding light on the sufferer’s point of view. Setting pellagrous insanity in a wider context of man-made or societal (anthropogenic) disease, where poverty, diet and disease meet, the book contributes to the history of medicine and science, the history of psychiatry, economic and social history, agrarian history, and food and nutrition history. Additionally, the authors aim to transnationalise Italian history by making comparisons with related issues, such as tertiary syphilis in the UK. Drawing from a wide range of printed and archival sources, including the writings of Italian medical investigators, the book examines how medical and scientific research was carried out during the long nineteenth century and the uncertainties that this engendered, in terms of classification, explanation, diagnosis and treatment. Offering a unique perspective on an endemic illness which came to be known as the disease of the four ds: dermatitis; diarrhea; dementia; and death, this book provides an engaging account of one of the most perplexing causes of mental illness.

Le choléra dans l'océan Indien depuis le XIXe siècle

Cholera in the Indian Ocean World since the Nineteenth Century

Call for Papers




Workshop on May 24, 2023

Institute for Social Anthropology (ISA), Austrian Academy of Sciences

Organizers: Dr Eva-Maria Knoll, Medical anthropologist and Senior Researcher at ISA &

Dr Vivek Neelakantan, Medical historian, 2023 Brocher Foundation Fellow & ISA Guest Researcher



Keynote: Professor Eric Tagliacozzo, Cornell University



Cholera—first described in the Ganges delta in 1817—spread globally in seven pandemics during the past two centuries. Most recently, some 30 countries worldwide reported cholera outbreaks in 2022 and a Lancet report from October 2022 revealed an alarming shortage of cholera vaccines that resulted in a shift from a two to a less lasting one-dose vaccination strategy. In fact, the 7th pandemic of cholera—which first was identified in the medical station of El Tor among pilgrims returning from Mecca in the early 20th century—is ongoing. A discussion of the scarcity in vaccines, however, was largely limited to relevant health channels and only some outbreak hotspots (such as Haiti in 2010) made it into the international media and gained scholarly attention beyond the medical and aid fields.



Cholera is an acute diarrhoeal infection caused by food or water contaminated with the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. Left untreated it might kill a person within hours. Despite the availability of a prophylactic Oral Cholera Vaccine (OCV) since 1985, cholera still is a life-threatening disease for the disadvantaged and the poor, rarely noticed in affluent parts of the world. Main factors that are congenial to the spread of cholera still include stressed water supplies, insanitary housing and the effects of environmental disasters. These include in particular earthquakes, weather extremes and certain hydrological events that are increasingly associated with climate-change such as floods. Other potentially causal factors are related to armed conflict, underreporting of data on national and local levels, the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and insufficiently resourced national health systems.



We take this alarming situation as an occasion to discuss the V. cholerae El Tor strain in both its historic dimensions and as a pressing public health issue along two main methodological pathways. Firstly, by tracing the historical events of cholera in the littorals and interconnected hinterlands of the Indian Ocean, known as the Indian Ocean World (IOW). The factors conductive to the spread of V. cholera mentioned above resulted in recent outbreaks and predispose countries of the IOW to future outbreaks. We therefore aim, secondly, to bring new insight from the archives on IOW’s cholera history in a fruitful dialogue with the lived experiences of recent and ongoing outbreaks in this region, including but not limited to the civil war-induced cholera in Yemen, more localized outbreaks in Kenya or the annual monsoonal outbreaks of endemic cholera serotypes in Bangladesh.



We invite contributions that focus on cholera in the Indian Ocean World and help to shed new light

· on the ecological geography and the diverse cultural and historic perceptions of disease causation, transmission and control;

· on the multilayered interactions between cholera outbreaks and non/human mobilities; whether assumed, blamed or evidence based;

· on the lived experiences of sufferers, care givers and health care professionals



Contributions might have a rather scholarly or an applied character, drawing on archival studies or on field work; they might be situated inside or between medical anthropology, medical history, geography, IOW studies, public health and allied fields or within the work experience by health professionals and aid organizations.



As the ongoing COVID-19 crisis has upended international travel, we intend to organize the workshop in a hybrid mode: both in a webinar format as well as an in-person presentation at the Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna.

Please send an abstract of about 300 words and a short bio by January 15, 2023 to

eva-maria.knoll@oeaw.ac.at and vivekneelakantanster@gmail.com



The workshop Cholera in the Indian Ocean World since the Nineteenth Century is co-funded by and contributes to the SSHRC Partnership Appraising Risk.



Contact Info:

Institute for Social Anthropology (ISA), Austrian Academy of Sciences

Vienna, Austria

Email: eva-maria.knoll@oeaw.ac.ateva-maria.knoll@oeaw.ac.at

vivekneelakantanster@gmail.com



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Une histoire de la peste à Java

A History of Plague in Java, 1911–1942
 

Maurits Bastiaan Meerwijk

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Southeast Asia Program Publications (December 15, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 258 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1501766824

In A History of Plague in Java, 1911–1942, Maurits Bastiaan Meerwijk demonstrates how the official response to the 1911 outbreak of plague in Malang led to one of the most invasive health interventions in Dutch colonial Indonesia. Eager to combat disease, Dutch physicians and officials integrated the traditional Javanese house into the "rat-flea-man" theory of transmission. Hollow bamboo frames and thatched roofs offered hiding spaces for rats, suggesting a material link between rat plague and human plague. Over the next thirty years, 1.6 million houses were renovated or rebuilt, millions more were subjected to periodic inspection, and countless Javanese were exposed to health messaging seeking to "rat-proof" their beliefs along with their houses.

The transformation of houses, villages, and people was documented in hundreds of photographs and broadcast to overseas audiences as evidence of the "ethical" nature of colonial rule, proving so effective as propaganda that the rebuilding continued even as better alternatives, such as inoculation, became available. By systematically reshaping the built environment, the Dutch plague response dramatically expanded colonial oversight and influence in rural Java.

Bourses de Master en approches critiques de la médecine

Critical Approaches in Science, Technology, and Medicine (CAST-M) Masters Program

Call for applications


CAST-M is a new pathway to encourage doctoral student diversity in the fields of science studies, medical humanities, history of science and technology, and history of medicine. We aim to recruit and support emerging scholars from backgrounds that are traditionally marginalized in STEM-adjacent humanities fields. As a special track in the MA program in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, we strongly welcome applicants critically engaging with science, medicine, technology, and engineering, their intersections with questions of race, gender, sexuality and colonialism, as well as in the Global South and in communities subject to systemic discrimination. A focus on the relevance of these histories to STEM-adjacent humanities fields offers urgently-relevant insights into the production and reproduction of race, gender, sexuality, and colonialism in everyday life.

This competitively-funded MA program provides students with training in different disciplines within science studies, and the opportunity to work with faculty to develop their independent research. It also supports students applying to Ph.D. programs at Hopkins and beyond.

Funding opportunities, including full scholarship with stipends, will be available. Admitted students will be affiliated with the Institute for the History of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Program on Medicine, Science, and the Humanities at the Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.

Applicants must have a BA or equivalent degree by the time of admission. To apply, please submit: A letter of intent between two to three pages, single-spaced, describing your research interests and previous experience.
A writing sample of no less than eight pages and up to 15 pages of continuous prose.
A curriculum vitae.
Finalists will be requested to submit names of three references who can write letters supporting their candidacy.

Application deadline: January 15, 2023

For inquiries, contact CAST_M@jhu.edu 

Apply here: https://applygrad.jhu.edu/

Médecins, chirurgiens, apothicaires français de la marine et des colonies

Médecins, chirurgiens, apothicaires français de la marine et des colonies XVIe-XIXe siècle

Pierre Aubry et Bernard-Alex Gauzere


L'Harmattan
Collection : Médecine à travers les siècles
2022
Broché - format : 13,5 x 21,5 cm • 180 pages
Langue : français
ISBN : 978-2-14-031193-2

Les grands voyages d'exploration entrepris par la France dès le XVIe siècle furent d'emblée grevés par une lourde mortalité parmi les équipages, d'où la nécessité de « médicaliser » les navires ainsi que les implantations des colons dans de nouvelles terres. Les premiers médecins, chirurgiens et apothicaires qui partirent sur les océans à partir du XVIe appartenaient tous à la Marine. Où et comment étaient-ils formés ? Quelle fut leur vie à bord des vaisseaux, puis à terre aux colonies ? Cet ouvrage tente de répondre à ces questions, en étudiant leur formation dans les hôpitaux de la Marine et dans les écoles de chirurgie navale des ports de Rochefort, Toulon et Brest, puis à l'École de santé navale de Bordeaux. Puis, il traite de la formation des médecins militaires ayant participé aux opérations outre-mer, au Val-de-Grâce et à l'École de Strasbourg ; sans oublier les médecins du Roi, affectés aux colonies et les chirurgiens de plantations en charge de la santé des esclaves.