François-Vincent Raspail

François-Vincent Raspail. Apôtre de la république et de la science

 
Jean-Pierre Dadoune
 

L'Harmattan
Collection : Acteurs de la Science
Date de publication : 16 février 2023
Broché - format : 13,5 x 21,5 cm • 246 pages
ISBN : 978-2-14-032374-4

François Vincent Raspail (1794-1878), républicain irréductible, s'est opposé avec constance et opiniâtreté à tous les régimes qui se sont succédés depuis la Restauration, avant d'être nommé en 1876, en tant que doyen d'âge, président de l'Assemblée nationale de la toute jeune Troisième République. Son combat résolu pour la démocratie et l'instauration d'une République sociale a posé les bases de bon nombre de réformes politiques et sociales qui deviendront effectives après sa mort. Il s'est affirmé très tôt comme un savant visionnaire, en soutenant dès 1827 que la cellule est l'unité élémentaire de la matière vivante aussi bien végétale qu'animale. Il a fondé une nouvelle science, l'histochimie, qui permet d'analyser la composition chimique des cellules sur la platine du microscope. De façon plus générale, il a été un artisan du décloisonnement des disciplines scientifiques. Enfin, il a été le promoteur d'une véritable médecine sociale qui a trouvé un écho dans les couches sociales les plus défavorisées. On lui doit d'avoir préconisé des règles d'hygiène personnelle et sociale qui n'étaient pas encore à l'ordre du jour, et d'avoir ouvert la voie à la pratique de l'asepsie et de l'antisepsie en milieu chirurgical.

Céline le médecin-écrivain

Céline le médecin-écrivain


David Labreure

Bartillat
Parution : 09/02/2023
238 pages
Format : 140 x 205
ISBN : 9782841007448

Derrière les rebondissements éditoriaux et les polémiques, on oublie souvent que Louis-Ferdinand Céline fut aussi médecin et un auteur prolifique de textes et d’articles sur les questions d’hygiène et de santé publique. La plupart de ces publications scientifiques étaient signés Louis Destouches, à commencer par sa thèse de médecine sur Ignace Philippe Semmelweis (1924). Toute son œuvre littéraire porte également la trace d’un intérêt profond pour la médecine, tant dans ses romans les plus célébrés que dans ses pamphlets qui en témoignent aussi pour le pire.

Chez Céline, le statut du médecin et celui de l’écrivain se retrouvent étroitement et perpétuellement mêlés : à l’époque de Voyage au bout de la nuit (1932), celui-ci se présente avant tout en médecin, alors que c’est le romancier que les journalistes viennent interroger. C’est donc bien parce que Céline est devenu écrivain par la suite que les écrits médicaux apparaissent, a posteriori, dignes d’intérêt. Ce dernier ne s’est contenté ni d’être seulement médecin, ni tout à fait uniquement écrivain. Fort d’une connaissance en histoire sociale, médicale et littéraire, David Labreure s’est attaché à retraverser la vie et l’œuvre de Céline sous cet angle original. C’est ce continuel dialogue à trois voix entre l’homme, le médecin et l’écrivain qui sera au cœur de cet essai biographique.

Docteur en lettres modernes, David Labreure a consacré sa thèse à l’hygiénisme chez Céline. Directeur du musée et du centre d’archives « La Maison d’Auguste Comte », il a publié Le Paris d’Auguste Comte (Éditions Alexandrines, 2022). Il est aussi président de la Fédération nationale des maisons d’écrivains et des patrimoines littéraires.

Postdoctorat sur les plantes psychoactives en Amérique latine

Postdoctoral Researcher: Psychoactive Plants and Tourism in Latin America
 

Call for applications

Employment 0.8 FTE
Gross monthly salary € 3,974 - € 5,439
Required background PhD
Organizational unit Faculty of Arts
Application deadline 03 April 2023
Apply now


The Faculty of Arts at Radboud University is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to collaborate on the project 'Poison, Medicine or Magic Potion? Shifting Perceptions of Drugs in and from Latin America (1820-2020)', which was recently awarded a grant by the Dutch Research Council. As a postdoctoral researcher, you will join the VICI research team (including two PhD candidates, two postdoctoral researchers and the PI) and also be a member of the Radboud Institute for Culture and History (RICH) and the department of Modern Languages and Cultures (MTC).

The Radboud Institute for Culture and History is looking for a postdoctoral researcher for the NWO-funded project Poison, Medicine or Magic Potion? Shifting Perceptions of 'Drugs' in and from Latin America (1820-2020). The conception of drugs has differed greatly over time, and the distinction between 'illegal drugs' and 'legal medicines' continues to be contested. An increasing number of scientists claim that it is necessary to demythologise drugs and to revise the perception that they constitute a threat to society. Latin America plays a key role in this debate, as psychoactive plants are part of its natural resources and Indigenous cultural history.

The main aim of this project is to analyse the changing perceptions of drugs in Latin America from the continent's independence to the present day (1820-2020). The project focuses on the representation of ayahuasca, peyote and coca/cocaine over time. It uses a partially unexplored corpus of discourses on these plants, including literature, ethnography and travel writing. The project will nuance the complex yet often reductive link between drugs and violence by studying the multifaceted perceptions of drugs from a cross-cultural, diachronic and interdisciplinary perspective. Two workshops and a symposium with stakeholders will examine how cultural perceptions of drugs influence policy making and vice versa.

As a postdoctoral researcher, you will analyse and compare tourist practices related to peyote, ayahuasca and coca, using the more established scholarship on ayahuasca tourism as a starting point. You will use the different theoretical frameworks of the project (decolonial theory, posthumanism and affect studies) to study tourist practices and cultural transfer in different geographical and ritual contexts, such as the Amazonian Basin, the Andes region, the Sierra Madre Occidental and the Netherlands. You will contribute to the development of the PhD candidates' methodological and theoretical skills. You will work closely together with your fellow postdoctoral researcher on Drugs and Cultural Heritage in Latin America. In addition, you will work with scientific and societal partners in Latin America and in the Netherlands. You will organise several events for stakeholders in Nijmegen and make a podcast together with the other members of the team.

Your research will be embedded in RICH. Apart from the specific context of the VICI research project, you will participate in one of its research groups and contribute to the institute in general. Together with the present staff of the research institutes, you will set up research collaborations on these topics. You will publish about your research in highly qualified journals, conference proceedings, or edited volumes. Lastly, you will be expected to teach a limited number of Bachelor's and Master's courses.

Profile 

You hold a PhD in a relevant field, such as Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Tourism Studies or a comparable discipline.
You have excellent oral and writing skills in Spanish (C2 or native) and hold a Cambridge Certificate (CPE2 level) in English or equivalent, or you are committed to obtaining this certificate within six months.
You are able to work independently and flexibly, taking initiative where needed, but are also able to communicate and collaborate effectively in a team setting.
You have administrative and organisational skills and you easily manage social media.
You are willing to live in the Netherlands during the contract period and to do field work in Latin America.
You have a track record of international high-profile publications.
Demonstrable experience with fieldwork in Latin America is highly recommended.
Demonstrable experience in interdisciplinary research, including ethnobotany, environmental humanities, historiography or anthropology, is recommended.
Passive knowledge of Indigenous languages of Latin America relevant in this field and of Dutch is considered an advantage.

We are

The Faculty of Arts is committed to knowledge production with a significant scientific and social impact. With over 500 academic and support staff, we teach and conduct research in the fields of history and art, languages and cultures, and linguistics and communication, using innovative methodologies and working in close collaboration between the disciplines. Our research is embedded in two research institutes: the Centre for Language Studies (CLS) and the Radboud Institute for Culture & History (RICH). We currently have approximatively 2,500 students, enrolled in three departments: the Department of History, Art History and Classics, the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, and the Department of Language and Communication. We aim to contribute to a more sustainable and inclusive world, which is why we especially seek applications from candidates who bring diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and skills that will be assets to our study programmes and research profiles.

Radboud University We want to get the best out of science, others and ourselves. Why? Because this is what the world around us desperately needs. Leading research and education make an indispensable contribution to a healthy, free world with equal opportunities for all. This is what unites the more than 24,000 students and 5,600 employees at Radboud University. And this requires even more talent, collaboration and lifelong learning. You have a part to play!

We offer It concerns an employment for 0.8 FTE.
The gross monthly salary amounts to a minimum of €3,974 and a maximum of €5,439 based on a 38-hour working week, depending on previous education and number of years of relevant work experience (salary scale 11).
You will receive 8% holiday allowance and 8.3% end-of-year bonus.
It concerns a temporary employment for 3 years.
You will be able to use our Dual Career and Family Care Services. Our Dual Career and Family Care Officer can assist you with family-related support, help your partner or spouse prepare for the local labour market, provide customized support in their search for employment and help your family settle in Nijmegen.
Working for us means getting extra days off. In case of full-time employment, you can choose between 30 or 41 days of annual leave instead of the legally allotted 20.

Additional employment conditions Work and science require good employment practices. This is reflected in Radboud University's primary and secondary employment conditions. You can make arrangements for the best possible work-life balance with flexible working hours, various leave arrangements and working from home. You are also able to compose part of your employment conditions yourself, for example, exchange income for extra leave days and receive a reimbursement for your sports subscription. And of course, we offer a good pension plan. You are given plenty of room and responsibility to develop your talents and realise your ambitions. Therefore, we provide various training and development schemes.

Would you like more information? For questions about the position, please contact Brigitte Adriaensen, Professor in Hispanic Studies, at brigitte.adriaensen@ru.nl.

Practical information and applying You can apply until 3 April 2023, exclusively using the button below. Kindly address your application to Brigitte Adriaensen. Please fill in the application form and attach the following documents: A letter of motivation, including a description of your research agenda of approximately 500 words.
Your CV, including the contact details of two references, a list of publications and a description of your teaching experience.
A writing sample, relevant for this vacancy (preferably in English, but Spanish will be accepted) The first round of interviews will take place on Friday 14 April. The second round of interviews will take place on Friday 12 May. You would preferably begin employment on 1 September.
We can imagine you're curious about our application procedure. It offers a rough outline of what you can expect during the application process, how we handle your personal data and how we deal with internal and external candidates. 

Apply now Application deadline 03 April 2023

We would like to recruit our new colleague ourselves. Acquisition in response to this vacancy will not be appreciated.


Prof. Adriaensen, B.Y.A. (Brigitte) Professor in Hispanic Studies
brigitte.adriaensen@ru.nl

Les publics et leur santé

Publics and their health: Historical problems and perspectives

Alex Mold, Peder Clark, Hannah J. Elizabeth (Editors) 

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Manchester University Press (February 21, 2023)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 216 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1526156754

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a renewed interest in the relationship between public health authorities and the public. Particular attention has been paid to ‘problem publics’ who do not follow health advice. This is not a new issue. As the chapters in this collection demonstrate, the designation of certain groups or populations as problem publics has long been a part of health policy and practice. By exploring the creation and management of these problem publics in a range of time periods and geographical locations, the collection sheds light on what is both specific and particular. For health authorities, publics themselves were often thought to pose problems, because of their behaviour, identity or location. But publics could and did resist this framing. There were, and continue to be, many problems with seeing publics as problems.

Les discours de la folie

Discourses of Madness

Call for papers


Special volume of Humanities (Journal)

Today I felt pass over me a breath of wind from the wings of madness.

—Charles Baudelaire

Literary artists and textualists have long been fascinated by the alienated, the marginalized, the eccentric; intrigued, if not befuddled, by their non-conformity, their recalcitrance, their obstinate refusal to adhere; seized by their indifference to social norms and prescribed dictates; lured, if not bemused, by their fundamental apartness or uncompromising candor. In this optic, the non-clinical dimensions of madness have been extensively explored in short stories, novels, poems, dramas, comedies, treatises, exposés, essays, epistles, even in post-modern counter-narratives masquerading as autobiographical memoirs. In consequence of this critical and meta-critical abundance, it is not uncommon to discover specialists in applied psychiatric theory, eager to proffer accounts of “textualized” insanity. From Viking berserkers to impassioned lovers in search of elusive soulmates, emotional excess has often served to delineate norms and to assign diagnostic terms to those who fall without prescribed, predisposed boundaries.

This Special Issue invites contributions that span chronology, culture, and genre in an attempt to probe the depths of a heterogenous phenomenon that has fascinated and perplexed writers and readers since the beginning of time. Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural, the essays to inhabit this volume will constitute a trans-temporal illumination—pathological and poetic—of discourse and madness alike.

NOTE

Articles will be published on a continuing basis – shortly after final acceptance.

Prof. M. J. Muratore
Guest Editor

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MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION

Submit manuscripts at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once registered, click here to go to the submission form.

Consult Instructions for Authors before submission.

NOTE: ALL PROCESSING AND OTHER FEES FOR PAPERS ACCEPTED INTO THIS SPECIAL VOLUME WILL BE WAIVED. PUBLICATION WILL BE COST-FREE TO AUTHORS.

Les bains publics

Bains publics. Se laver en ville (1850-2000)

Sophie Richelle

 

Éditions de l'Université de Bruxelles
Collection MSH
2 mars 2023
ISSN 27365956


Avec Bains publics, Sophie Richelle propose un double récit original. Celui de l'histoire des bains communaux, compris comme les endroits où il était possible de se laver en dehors de chez soi à moindre coût aux XIX e et XX e siècles. Et celui de la quête historienne en train d’être menée. 

Trop souvent cantonnée au XIX e siècle, l'histoire des bains publics, se décline pourtant au 20e siècle. Lieux oubliés et méconnus, à l’heure des douches quotidiennes, ils sont un observatoire inédit de l’histoire du corps, de l’histoire de l’intime, de l’hygiène populaire et des inégalités sociales et genrées qui les ont traversées.

En poursuivant une écriture sensible où la subjectivité a sa place, l’historienne Sophie Richelle nous plonge également dans les coulisses de sa recherche. Partagée à l’origine sur Twitter, l’enquête historienne est reprise ici. L’ouvrage est hybride et permet, par la juxtaposition des résultats et de la quête, une réflexion sur le métier et les écritures historiennes.

Les animaux, les rues et la santé

Animals, Streets, and Healh

 

Call for papers

 

Hybrid Workshop, University of Liverpool, 15 June 2023
 

Streets are lively more-than-human spaces. Dogs, cats, monkeys, rats, cows, and pigeons are amongst those animals who share streets with humans. In different places and at different times, animals are variously welcomed, tolerated, or prohibited from streets. Street animals raise a host of questions around urban life and public health, as well as who belongs and who deserves care in urban environments. They are sometimes framed as evidence of healthy urban environments and sometimes as obstacles to urban health. Their presence on the street also invites us to consider animal agency, autonomy, and mobility.

This interdisciplinary workshop will explore the relationship between animals, streets, and health. We welcome proposals from any discipline that tackle any period and place. Topics might include:

· Animals and waste

· Zoonoses

· Affective responses to street animals

· The politics and practices of welfare

· Streets as sites of cruelty and care towards animals

· Campaigns to remove animals from streets

· More-than-human labour and streets as places of work for animals

· Animal agency, autonomy, and mobility

· Animals and urban planning

· Transnational/comparative approaches towards animals, streets, and health

· Representing street animals

· Ownership of street animals

· Researching street animals

· One Health Approaches

The workshop will be hybrid, with expenses covered for those attending in person from the UK. Papers will be considered for inclusion in a journal special issue.

The workshop is part of the Wellcome-funded project “Remaking One Health: Decolonial approaches to street dogs and rabies prevention in India” (ROH-Indies): https://rohindies.org/

Please send an extended abstract of between 500-750 words and a short bio by 31 March 2023 to the ROH-Indies team at the emails below.

For further information, please contact Dr Chris Pearson (chris.pearson@liverpool.ac.uk) or Dr Heeral Chhabra (heeralchhabra.univ@gmail.com)

Explorer les contours du bien-être et de la santé

Exploring the Contours of Wellness & Health
 

International Conference

Sorbonne University
23-25 March 2023


23 March 2023
Sorbonne University, Amphithéâtre Louis Liard
17 rue de la Sorbonne, 75005 Paris 

8.30-9.00 Registration – Welcoming participants

9.00-9.15 Opening remarks: Vice Dean for Research Pascal Aquien, Sorbonne University

9.15-10.15 Keynote speaker: Professor Deirdre Cooper Owens, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, “Why History Matters: Reckoning with Slavery and American Medicine”

10.15-10.45 Coffee break

10.45-12.30 Panel 1 – Chair: Thibaut Clément, Sorbonne University
– Marie ASSAF, EHESS: “Trump contre l’assurance santé, un terrain de lutte pour les personnes handicapées ?”
– Vanessa BOULLET et Julien GUILLAUMOND, Université de Lorraine: “Bien-être et santé en République d’Irlande et en Irlande du Nord post Brexit : une affaire de coopération ?”
– Audrey DUCAFFY, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle: “L’OTC pharmaceutique, une comparaison États-Unis/France”

12.30-14.00 Lunch break

14.00-15.45 Panel 2 – Chair: Steven O’Connor, Sorbonne University
– Cecilia Di MARCO et Stéphane SADOUX, Université de Grenoble Alpes: “Designing Healthier Cities”
– Chloé PASTOUREL, Université Clermont Auvergne: “La mobilisation de la philanthropie américaine dans la diffusion du sport en France de 1914 à la fin des années 1930”
– Rachna SIKARWAR, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi: “Of Noble Intentions and Deficient Executions: Exploring the Understandings and Disjunctions Around the Teaching of Well-Being in the Mainstream Indian Education System”

15.45-16.15 Coffee break

16.15-18.00 Panel 3 – Chair: Nathalie Caron, Sorbonne University
– Ryoa CHUNG, Université de Montréal: ‘‘Penser la justice en santé par le prisme des vulnérabilités structurelles de santé’’
– Julie CROWE, Seattle University, et Colleen DERKATCH, Toronto Metropolitan University: “How Are Wellness Practices Entangled in Discourses About National Identity?”
– Ted SCHRECKER, Newcastle University: “Long, Long Covid: Health and the “Inequality Machine” in the Post-Pandemic World”

18.30 Cocktail, Club des Enseignants, Sorbonne University


24 March 2023
Campus Cordeliers, Amphithéâtre Gustave Roussy
15 rue de l’École de Médecine, 75006 Paris

 
8.30-9.00 Registration

9.00-10.10 Panel 4 – Chair: Thomas Constantinesco, Sorbonne University
– JAGRITI, Indian Institute of Technology: “Christian Medical Missionaries Role in Colonial India: A Case Study of American Baptist Missions in the Assam Province, 1886-1946”
– Lionel LARRÉ, Université Bordeaux Montaigne: “Santé en transition et bien-être en question dans les écrits des intellectuels amérindiens du début du XXe siècle”

10.10-10.30 Coffee break

10.30-11.40 Panel 5 – Chair: Andrew Diamond, Sorbonne University
– Justine COUSIN, Université de Caen Normandie: “Les marins de couleur employés par les compagnies maritimes impériales britanniques, un accès limité à la santé (1890-1945)”
– Judith RAINHORN, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne: “The Green of the Period, ou comment le papier peint devint un poison dans l’Angleterre du XIXe siècle”

11.45-13.00 Lunch break

13.00-15.00 Panel 6 – Chair: Carolin Görgen, Sorbonne University
– Screening of Clean With Me (After Dark), G. Stemmer (2019)
– Joséphine SOURGNES, Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3: ‘‘The Representation of Teenage Human Trauma in 13 Reasons Why: A Public Service TV Show or a Public Health Threat?’’
– Élodie EDWARDS-GROSSI, Université Paris Dauphine: ‘‘Mad with Freedom: The Political Economy of Blackness, Insanity, and Civil Rights in the U.S. South, 1840-1940”

15.00-15.15 Coffee break

15.15-16.15 Keynote speaker: Professor Martin Powell, University of Birmingham: ‘‘Does Britain have a National Health Service?”

16.20-17.30 Guided tour of the History of Medicine Museum

19.00 Conference dinner, Au Petit Riche, 25 Rue Le Peletier, 9ème Arrondissement


25 March 2023
Sorbonne University, Amphithéâtre Milne Edwards
17 rue de la Sorbonne, 75005 Paris 9.00-9.30 Registration

9.30-10.40 Panel 7 – Chair: Arnaud Page, Sorbonne University
– Kim WILTSHIRE & Dawn PRESCOTT, Edge Hill University, Liverpool: “Embedding the Arts into Healthcare Setting: Creative Workshops for NHS Frontline Staff to Improve Wellness and Health”
– Kay SIMPSON, University of Cambridge: ““In the Pink,” or “Feeling Blue:” The Healthy Colors of Howard Kemp Professor”

10.40-10.50 Short break

10.50-12.20 Panel 8 – Chair: Alexandre Escargueil, Sorbonne University
– Yves FIGUEIREDO, Sorbonne University: “Going ‘Back of Thought:’ the Intricacies of Health, Politics and Aesthetics in F. L. Olmsted’s Landscape Architecture”
– Servane ROUPNEL, Université Laval, Québec: ‘‘Médicaliser l’expérience de guerre : les limites du diagnostic de trouble de stress post-traumatique lors de la réintégration à la vie civile des militaires”
– Arielle FLODROPS, Université de Rouen-Normandie, ‘‘Le Néopaganisme britannique et la question du soin : entre sciences et pseudosciences’’

12.30 Concluding remarks – End of the conference




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