Narration en médecine et en droit

Narratio in Medicine and The Law. Interpretative and Scientific Knowledge in Medical and Medico-Legal Case Histories from Antiquity to the Renaissance 

 

Call for papers

VivaMente Conference in the History of Ideas 2024


Organised by 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐥 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠 & 𝐍𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐤𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐮

Domus Comeliana - Pisa
𝟐𝟒-𝟐𝟓 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒

This VivaMente conference explores the intersections of narrative, rhetorical persuasion, and factual evidence in medical and medico-legal case histories from Antiquity to the Renaissance focusing on the longue durée development of medical and medico-legal consilia. The event emerges out of the organisers’ research projects on diagnosis (King) and legal medicine (Papakonstantinou). It will allow participants to analyse both the historical development of medical and medico-legal consilia and the complex relationships between medicine, rhetoric, and law at key historical moments.

To register for this event: https://csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/.../2024-narratio-in.../



Keynote Speakers
Thomas Baier
Confirmed Speakers
Alessandra Quaranta
Nicola Reggiani
Biagio Santorelli
Anna Maria Urso

 

Conference Topics

Narrative Structure of Medical Knowledge

Medical Consultation in Ancient, Islamic, and Renaissance Cultures

Medical Narratives in Court Evidence

Patient-Physician Narrative Interaction

Comèl Grant

Bursaries to attend the conference are available under the competitive Comel Grant scheme.

This VivaMente conference explores the intersections of narrative, rhetorical persuasion, and factual evidence in medical and medico-legal case histories from Antiquity to the Renaissance focusing on the longue durée development of medical and medico-legal consilia. The event emerges out of the organisers’ research projects on diagnosis (King) and legal medicine (Papakonstantinou). It will allow participants to analyse both the historical development of medical and medico-legal consilia and the complex relationships between medicine, rhetoric, and law at key historical moments.

Conference Description

Medical case-histories, or consilia, along with related forms, such as medico-legal consilia, played a central role in medical culture, especially in relation to the empirical observation of patient symptoms; they not only provided accounts of disease but also shaped the process of diagnosis and recognition, providing persuasive accounts of medical truths and facts.

Ancient case-histories range from the pared-back accounts of illness in the Hippocratic Epidemics through to more developed narratives of symptoms and treatment in Roman doctors such as Rufus of Ephesus and Galen (e.g. On Affected Parts or On Prognosis). The medieval and Renaissance tradition of medical consilia – which appeared in Bologna at the end of the 13th century – was broadly modelled on the genre of legal consilia, and encompassed the sub-genre of medico-legal consilia. As a form of medical writing, these texts were explicitly inscribed in earlier traditions of ancient and Islamic medical literature: Vallériole’s Observationum medicinales, for example, looks directly to the Epidemics; the case-histories contained in Galen and the works of Islamic doctors (e.g. al Rāzī) also circulated widely throughout Renaissance Europe.

• This event will turn a critical eye to these forms of medical and medico-legal narrative, their history, and their impact; 
• it will raise new questions about: the narrative structure of medical knowledge;
• the relationship between theory and observation-based practice;
• the role of rhetoric (not only as a discipline, but also as a heuristic tool that facilitated knowledge production and ‘professional’ socialisation) in the construction of medical and medico-legal consilia;
• the historical antecedents of Renaissance medical and medico-legal consilia;
• the narrative-oriented physician-patient interactions;
• the idea of medical narratives as a source for evidence in court practice.

Organisation

This VivaMente Conference brings together Classicists, Medieval, Islamic, and Renaissance scholars to investigate both the historical evolution of this form of medical writing and to reassess their literary and rhetorical functions at key moments in the history of medicine.

Participants working on any areas relevant to the conference are encouraged to reach out to the organisers with a title and abstract of their contribution. If selected, they will be invited to finalise their application process. Abstracts of no more than 500 words must contain a small biography or citations of the relevant literature on the topic. Individual papers will be allotted a 30/35 minute slot followed by a 10/15-minute Q&A session.


Bursaries for students (BA, MA and PhD) willing to partake in the event are available under the competitive Comèl Grant scheme.


The conference proceedings will be submitted for peer-reviewed publication in the series Palgrave Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine (PSMEMM).

 
Conference type: Hybrid

Dates: 24-25 October

Venue: Domvs Comeliana

Submission Deadline: 30 May

Registration Deadline: 15 September


Queries and Proposal Submission



Conference Proceedings




Registration Fees

€ 100 = In-Presence
€ 40 = Online



Scientific Direction:
Fabrizio Bigotti

General Coordination:
Tomaso M. Pedrotti Dell’Acqua
Andreas Hylla

Les premières femmes psychanalystes

Early Women Psychoanalysts: History, Biography, and Contemporary Relevance

Editor : Klara Naszkowska 

Publisher : Routledge
Published : March 2024
Cover : Paperback
Pages : 360
Category : Psychoanalysis
ISBN 13 : 9781032595351


Each life story is unique, yet each also entwines with other stories, sharing recurring themes linked to issues of gender, Jewishness, women's education, politics, and migration.

The book's first section discusses the relatively known analysts such as Sabina Spielrein, Lou Andreas-Salomé, and Beata Rank, remembered largely as someone's wife, lover, or muse; and the second part sheds light on women such as Margarethe Hilferding, Tatiana Rosenthal, and Erzsébet Farkas, who took strong political stances. In the third section, the biographies of lesser-known analysts like Ludwika Karpinska-Woyczynska, Nic Waal, Vilma Kovács, and Barbara Low are discussed in the context of their importance for the early Freudian movement; and in the final section, the lives of Eugenia Sokolnicka, Sophie Morgenstern, Alberta Szalita, and Olga Wermer are examined in relation to migration and exile, trauma, loss and memory.

With a clear focus upon the continued importance of these women for psychoanalytic theory and practice, as well as discussion that engages with pertinent issues such as gendered discrimination, inhumane immigration laws, and antisemitism, this book is an important reading for students, scholars, and practitioners of psychoanalysis, as well as those involved in gender and women's studies, and Jewish and Holocaust studies.

La médecine aux marges du monde nordique

Medicine at the Fringes in the Northern World (1000-1500): Manuscripts, Language, and Society
 

Call for Contributions


For consideration by Medieval Institute Publications & De Gruyter Proposals for engaging essays (approximately 9,000 words) are warmly welcomed that explore and challenge our understanding of medicine in the Nordic-Atlantic areas. The essays will challenge conventional perspectives and delve into the intriguing realms of illness, health, body, disability, and medicine as depicted in manuscripts, literature, and society from the Northern Atlantic World during the medieval era.

Our interdisciplinary approach aims to shed light on marginal perspectives and subversive themes prevalent in medical texts from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, and other Norse colonies, including Scotland, Ireland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Medieval England. The collection of
essays will examine the societal significance of the female body, the gendered model of illness, conceptions of body, health, and disability, as well as attitudes towards remedies of dubious nature.
We welcome contributions from scholars at all career stages. Whether you're delving into Old English Studies, Middle English Studies, Old Norse Studies, or exploring themes in Disability Studies and Gender Studies, we want to hear from you. The book will include commissioned and invited
works. Current contributions include medical charms in Anglo-Norman sources, Disability and social function in the works of John Arderne, and Social acceptability of disability in Sigurðar saga þögla.
Selected essays will form a thought-provoking collection submitted for consideration by Medieval Institute Publication & De Gruyter under the series 'The Northern Medieval World.'

Submit your 300-word abstract along with a brief introduction of yourself to the editor, Luthien Cangemi (luthien.cangemi.20@ucl.ac.uk), by May 20th, 2024. First full drafts of contributions are expected in January 2025.

Folie et psychiatrie pendant les guerres de décolonisation

 

Margaret E.S. Merchant Memorial Scholarship

Margaret E.S. Merchant Memorial Scholarship

Call for applications


Applications are invited for the Margaret E.S. Merchant Memorial Scholarship. This scholarship is open to candidates applying to the PhD programme in History. Candidates must study full-time on-campus in the area of History of Medicine, and may be of any nationality. Scholarship will be awarded on the strength of candidates’ overall profiles as presented in their PhD applications including academic and/or professional achievement, research proposal, and letters of reference.

The value of the scholarship is £10,000 per academic year for 36 months of supervised study. If the recipient is a home (UK) student for fee purposes their tuition fee will be waived and the remainder of the funds will be offered as a stipend paid in monthly instalments. If the recipient is an international student for fee purposes, they will be responsible for paying the difference between the £10,000 scholarship and the international fee rate. Tuition fee rates can be found here. One scholarship will be awarded with a start date of 1st October 2024 or 1st January 2025.

The candidate will be encouraged to work with local archives, including the Grampian NHS archives, city archives, University of Aberdeen Special Collections, Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society or others. They will be expected to be involved in appropriate academic and public engagement activities in the medical humanities both locally and nationally. The doctoral candidate will normally be co-supervised by staff with historical expertise and in medicine, and will be associated with the Centre for History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine.

Margaret E S Merchant was born on 30 November 1923 and graduated from the University of Aberdeen with an MA in 1945 and a Diploma in Education from Oxford in 1947. She had a long and illustrious career as a teacher at both Banchory Academy and St Margarets for Girls in Aberdeen. She died in 1986.

Eligibility Applicants must be new applicants to the PhD in History.
Applicants must have studied the History of Medicine at both UG and PG levels.

How to apply

Before applying please contact a potential supervisor within the field. This is an opportunity to discuss your research interests, whether the person you contact would be the best supervisory option, and how you intend to frame your research proposal.
Apply for the PhD in Divinity via the online application portal.
Under “Studentship Title” write “Margaret E.S. Merchant Memorial Scholarship”.
You must include a detailed research proposal (1000-1500 words) which sets out your anticipated research topic. Further guidance may be found here.
You must supply evidence of relevant UG and PG studies in the History of Medicine.
You will be considered on the basis of your PhD application materials. No additional documentation is required to be considered for this studentship.

Deadline for applications: 3rd May 2024

Enquiries: dhpa-pg-admissions@abdn.ac.uk

Proust traducteur de l’inconscient

Saisis-moi si tu peux. Proust traducteur de l’inconscient 

Edward Bizub 

Nombre de pages : 196
Parution : 06/03/2024
Collection : Bibliothèque proustienne, n° 53

Selon Proust, la vocation littéraire implique la traduction de l’inconscient constitué d’un mariage entre une réalité transcendante et les sensations corporelles. Ce livre s’attache à analyser l’influence des traductions de Ruskin et le vécu psychothérapeutique, peu étudié, de l’auteur de la Recherche.

Une histoire sociale de l’avortement en France à l’époque moderne

Défaire son fruit. Une histoire sociale de l’avortement en France à l’époque moderne

Laura Tatoueix


Éditeur: Éditions de l’EHESS
Collection: En temps & lieux
Date de parution: mars, 2024


L’avortement existe-t-il dans la France d’Ancien Régime ? C’est par cette question, rarement posée en ces termes, que Laura Tatoueix aborde les sources de la période, principalement religieuses et judiciaires. Et c’est d’une manière inédite qu’elle y répond. Elle retrace d’abord le parcours qui conduit de la fabrication canonique d’un péché mortel à l’élaboration d’une catégorie criminelle laïque. Ensuite, elle s’intéresse aux dispositifs de répression et à leurs évolutions, qui sont souvent le reflet de changements dans les représentations de l’acte lui- même, mais aussi des femmes et des enfants. Surtout, elle tente de redonner corps aux actrices et acteurs de l’avortement, à travers l’étude des conditions matérielles d’une pratique qui se médicalise, des modes de transmission de ces savoirs clandestins, et des raisons qui ont poussé ces femmes à « défaire leur fruit ».

Confrontée au secret qui recouvre un acte transgressif, souvent lié à la sexualité illégitime, l’historienne s’efforce ici de faire parler les silences des archives et d’éclairer l’ambiguïté des discours. Tout l’enjeu de ce livre est donc de dévoiler ce qui a été dissimulé pour reconstituer une histoire longue de l’avortement, entre normes et pratiques. Laura Tatoueix fait de l’avortement un phénomène social global, encadré par le secret, la rumeur et la dénonciation, et soumis à des mécanismes de classe et de genre qu’elle démonte avec finesse.

Séminaire de l'Edward Worth Library

The Edward Worth Library 2024 Seminar Series

Unless otherwise stated, all lectures take place at  3.00pm in the Worth Library.



Spaces in the Edward Worth Library are limited: to book a place for lectures taking place in the Library itself please e-mail info@edwardworthlibrary.ie


27 March: Dr Elizabethanne Boran (Librarian of the Edward Worth Library, Dublin): ‘Writing medieval Irish history in early modern Ireland: aims, annals and antiquities’. This is the Griselda Steevens’ Memorial Lecture.

11 April: Dr Iona McCleery (University of Leeds): ‘Turtles, oysters and quails: health and natural history in fifteenth-century west Africa'. This is the joint Trinity College Dublin–Worth Library lecture in Medieval and Renaissance Medicine and Science. Please note that it will be a hybrid lecture, taking place at 4.15 pm in the Trinity Medieval History Research Centre Seminar Room (Room PX2.1), 5‒7 South Leinster St. Those wishing to register for the online lecture, please contact the seminar coordinator, Dr David Ditchburn: e-mail: ditchbud@tcd.ie

8 May: Dr Cathy Scuffil (Dublin City Historian in Residence): ‘The South Circular Road on the eve of the First World War: All quiet on the Southern Front’. This is the local history lecture in the Worth Library 2024 series.

4 July: Dr Giles Mandelbrote (Warburg Librarian and Director of Collections): ‘Exploring the London book trade in the seventeenth century’. This is the Charles Benson Memorial Lecture in Book History.

3 October: Dr Elaine Leong (University College London): ‘Book Cultures and Surgical Training in Early Modern London’. This is the Davis Coakley Memorial Lecture in Medical History.

10 October: Dr Paul G. Smith (Independent Scholar and former Bríd McGrath Research Fellows): 'Forfeited estates of 1688 in Ireland: an account of the late proprietors and the purchasers; 1702-1703.' This is the Brendan Prendiville Memorial Lecture.