Christine Slobogin
Publisher : University of Rochester Press
Publication date : June 24, 2025
Language : English
Print length : 292 pages
ISBN-13 : 978-1648251054
An interdisciplinary approach to medical history that shows the key role that drawings and photographs had in shaping the material, professional, emotional and aesthetic parameters of plastic surgery.
Plastic surgery in twentieth-century Britain was a medical discipline with deep ties to art, artists and art history. It was also a field still in the process of creating its reputation and its archives. Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper examines these archives, focusing in particular on the works on paper held within these collections by two artists: Diana "Dickie" Orpen and Percy Hennell. Plastic surgeons depended upon the drawings and photographs made by these and other medical illustrators to craft certain narratives about their field and their surgical practice.
In addition to telling an art history of plastic surgery during this period, Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper engages with the affective parameters of archival objects, and with what working as a historian involves when done within potentially traumatic spaces. Paying particular attention to the emotional dimensions and effects of this visual culture and the ways in which it is archived and framed by the discipline of plastic surgery - then and now - Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper explores not only what it meant to make art in a surgical space but also what it means to study these affecting paper objects in the archive today.
Michel Pinault
L'Harmattan
La carrière de médecin et de biologiste d’Auguste PRENANT (1861-1927) le place aux origines de la médecine moderne, fondée sur l’étude des organes, des tissus et de l’organisation cellulaire des êtres vivants, et au sommet de la vie scientifique de son temps. Se concevant comme un serviteur de ses semblables, singulièrement les moins reconnus, Auguste PRENANT fut, toute sa vie durant, à cause de ses engagements sociaux et politiques déterminés, en porte-à-faux vis-à-vis de l’élite universitaire et scientifique. Sa vie incarne un exemple marquant d’intellectuel habité par un « sentiment de révolte existentielle contre la société ».
Revue Voltaire n°25
SUP - Juillet 2025
Barbara Franco
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Publication date : July 1, 2025
Language : English
Print length : 376 pages
ISBN-13 : 978-0811776486
In the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, a thousand surgeons faced an unprecedented medical catastrophe: 25,000 wounded soldiers needing immediate care with only primitive tools and their own determination to save lives.
At Gettysburg's makeshift hospitals—set up in barns, churches, and blood-soaked fields—military and civilian surgeons from both North and South worked around the clock performing life-saving operations under fire. Drawing from a decade of meticulous research, historian Barbara Franco reveals how these courageous medical professionals revolutionized battlefield medicine and established principles still saving lives today.
Through vivid accounts and previously untold stories, readers will discover: How surgeons improvised new techniques that became standard trauma procedures
The harrowing reality of Civil War field hospitals during the three days of battle
How lessons learned at Gettysburg transformed American military medicine
The lasting impact on modern emergency and disaster response
From the founding director of the Gettysburg Seminary Ridge Museum comes an unforgettable narrative of medicine, courage, and innovation that speaks to both history enthusiasts and medical professionals. This definitive account shows how the medical crisis at Gettysburg continues to influence how we treat mass casualties and train combat medics today.
Publication date: 05/06/2025
ISBN: 9781788163880
Throughout history, religious scholars, medical men and - occasionally - women themselves, have moulded thought on what 'makes' a woman. She has been called the weaker sex, the fairer sex, the purer sex, among many other monikers. Often, she has been defined simply as 'Not A Man'.
Today, we are more aware than ever of the complex relationship between our bodies and our identities. But contrary to what some may believe, what makes a woman is a question that has always been open-ended.
Immaculate Forms examines all the ways in which medicine and religion have played a gatekeeping role over women's organs. It explores how the womb was seen as both the most miraculous organ in the body and as a sewer; uncovers breasts' legacies as maternal or sexual organs - or both; probes the mystery of the disappearing hymen, and asks, did the clitoris need to be discovered at all?
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Constructing Moral Babies: The Science of Infancy in Nineteenth-Century America and Britain explores the dynamic interface between philosophy, theology, science, and medicine that gave rise to a culture of modern babyhood that continue to shape and inflect contemporary understandings and treatment of babies in both public and private realms. This study will develop the first comprehensive history of infants that generates new historical and philosophical narratives of infancy. This project places infants at the centre of analysis, rather than as dependents. By interrogating archives, published texts, and objects associated with the ‘science’ of infancy the project will fundamentally shift our understanding of infants and consequently, our treatment of them in both public and private spaces.
The project’s Research Fellow is central to developing and enhancing the research, impact and engagement of this medical humanities project, particularly in relation to public policy. This role requires a passion for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research and for accurate and clear communication of knowledge and research that is meaningful and accessible to those outside of academia. The Research Fellow will assist the Principal Investigator, Wellcome Trust Fellow Dr. Elisabeth Yang, in bringing the gap between theory and practice whilst gaining essential skills, experience, and mentoring in pursuing independent research and engaging with both US and UK public policy audiences. You will co-develop a plan for research with the Principal Investigator, involving both independent and collaborative activities
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