Histoire des systèmes de santé publique

Postdoctoral Researcher in History of Public Health and Welfare Systems

Department of Sociology, Manor Road, Oxford


Grade 7: Salary in the range £29,541 - £31,331 p.a.

The Department of Sociology seeks an enthusiastic quantitative researcher to work on a Wellcome Trust-funded project to evaluate the histories of public health and social protection systems during periods of economic crises. The successful candidate will be working with Dr David Stuckler and his interdisciplinary research team to assess the political economy of policy responses to periods of social and economic changes. The appointed person will take responsibility for leading both quantitative analyses of historical data from the U.S. Great Depression as well as qualitative analyses of archived documents. They will also be engaged in writing and submitting research proposals on related topics, and will be encouraged to further their research portfolios and publication outputs, and to develop their academic career potential. The position offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to the development of a world-leading research programme in the political economy of health at the University of Oxford.

The successful candidate will hold or expect to obtain a PhD or DPhil in history, history of medicine, political science, social epidemiology, demography, or related social science. They will have training and expertise in analysis of secondary data, strong quantitative analysis skills, and be proficient in using STATA and EndNote. They will also show evidence of developing a track record of excellent quality publications in highly ranked peer-reviewed academic journals and/or major presses.

The post will commence from 1 October 2013 (start date is flexible and can be negotiated) and is full-time, fixed-term until 29 February 2016 in the first instance, but with the possibility of extension for a further period.

All applications should include a covering letter, CV, and the names of three referees.

The closing date for applications is 12.00 noon on Wednesday 18 September 2013, interviews will take place as soon as possible afterwards.
Contact Person : Departmental Secretary Vacancy ID : 109076
Contact Phone : 01865 281740 Closing Date : 18-Sep-2013
Contact Email : enquiries@sociology.ox.ac.uk


Apply here

Postes en histoire médicale

Job Opportunities

Centre for Medical History, College of Humanities, University of Exeter


Closing date: 20th September 2013

Research Fellow (Ref. P45359) £32,267, Grade F
The College wishes to recruit a Research Fellow to participate in an interdisciplinary research project led by Professor Mark Jackson. This full time, permanent post, initially funded by the Wellcome Trust, is available from 1 st January 2014.
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Associate Research Fellow (Ref. P45358) £24,766, Grade E
The College wishes to recruit an Associate Research Fellow to support the work of Professor Mark Jackson. This full time Wellcome Trust funded post is available from 1st January 2014 until 31st December 2016..

Applications are invited from individuals who have expertise in one or more disciplines within the medical humanities and social sciences to work with Professor Mark Jackson on an interdisciplinary Wellcome Trust funded research project entitled `Lifestyle, health and disease: changing concepts of balance in modern medicine'. Incorporating methods and approaches from across the humanities, arts and social sciences, this project explores three key aspects of formulations of balance in modern medicine:
The development, application and reception of scientific theories of neurological balance as well as therapeutic strategies for attaining bodily balance.
Scientific and clinical accounts and patient experiences of coping with mental illness and maintaining work-life balance.
Arguments about the relationship between ecological balance and the prevention of chronic diseases, including mental illness, obesity and heart disease.

The research project involves collaboration between historians of medicine and colleagues in Psychology, the University of Exeter Medical School, and the European Centre for Environment and Human Health.

We are seeking applicants with outstanding research potential who can develop their own research agendas but also contribute to the research team. Applicants will possess a relevant PhD and be able to demonstrate sufficient knowledge in one or more disciplines within the medical humanities and social sciences.

For further information please contact Professor Mark Jackson, e-mail m.a.jackson@ex.ac.uk or telephone (01392) 723003.

HOW TO APPLY FOR BOTH POSITIONS:

Please send your CV, covering letter and the details of three referees, along with a completed application and equal opportunities form to Kerrie Brealy, College of Humanities Dean's Office ( humanities-deans-office@exeter.ac.uk ) quoting the relevant job reference in all correspondence.



To download the application and equal opportunities form please follow the below links;

http://www.admin.ex.ac.uk/personnel/jobs/app_form.rtf

http://www.admin.ex.ac.uk/personnel/jobs/EO_form.rtf

Histoire de la tuberculose

A Short History of Tuberculosis

Exhibition Returns


Friday 27 September 2013, 10.00am

In September and October (27 September – 09 October 2013) there will be another chance to see the Centre for Global Health Histories’ exhibition ‘Tuberculosis: A Short History’, which was originally on show during 2013’s York Festival of Ideas. The exhibition presents the history of TB’s impact and the efforts to control it from the nineteenth century up until the present day, featuring extraordinary images reproduced from the Wellcome Library image collection and the World Health Organization's photographic archives. This free, bilingual exhibition will be available in the Ron Cooke Hub exhibition space from Friday 27th September to Wednesday 9th October. An accompanying publication, featuring images from the exhibition and introductions to different episodes in the history of tuberculosis, is available to download from the Centre for Global Health Histories’ website. The exhibition and publication are sponsored by the Centre for Chronic Diseases and Disorders (C2D2).

Event image: A sickly female invalid sits covered up on a balcony overlooking a beautiful view, death (a ghostly skeleton clenching a scythe and an hourglass) is standing next to her; representing tuberculosis. Watercolour by R. Cooper. Courtesy of Wellcome Library, London.





Location: Exhibition Space, Ron Cooke Hub, Heslington East, University of York

Admission: Free

Congrès de la Société Européenne d'Histoire des Sciences

Communicating Science, Technology and Medicine


Call for Papers (First Call)


6th International Conference of European Society of History of Science

Lisbon, 4-6 September 2014

The 6th International Conference of the European Society of History of Science will be held in Lisbon, 4-6 September 2014 and is organized by the Interuniversity Centre for the History of Science and Technology(CIUHCT),a research centre associated with the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon and the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the New University of Lisbon.

The theme of the conference is "Communicating Science, Technology and Medicine”. 

Communicating science, technology and medicine has always been central to the scientific and technological enterprise, but across ages and spaces agents, audiences, means, aims and agendas behind this complex process have varied considerably. The interpretations put forward by historians of science, technology and medicine have also changed considerably. Historians have been compelled recently to move away from former historiographical categories opposing creative producers to passive recipients and consumers, and contrasting the production of knowledge with its transmission. The vertical model of diffusion has been superseded by a horizontal conception of circulation and appropriation of science, technology and medicine, which gives voice to various actors and to their different, often contradictory, agendas. Within this framework, science, technology and medicine are envisaged as active forms of communication, to such an extent as ultimately blurring the distinction between the making and the communicating of science, technology and medicine.

The 6th ESHS aims at stimulating historical and historiographical studies and debates on the communication of science, technology and medicine along the following sub-thematic clusters. 

1) Human and non-human agents: experts, amateurs, and institutions;

2) Networks of circulation and communication of knowledge;

3) Means of communication: correspondence, papers, books, textbooks, popularization outlets, newspapers, radio, theatre, films, cartoons and internet;

4) Spaces and modes of communication: conferences, classrooms, public demonstrations, exhibitions, instruments, collections and museums;

5) Audiences: lay and specialized audiences, consumers;

6) Rhetorical devices;

7) Communication in the European Periphery;

8) Communication in a globalized world: challenges and constraints; ideology of communication, hegemonic values and commercialized science, technology and medicine


Deadlines
Proposal Session Submission (Max 4 papers) and abstract of papers– 15 Dec 2013
Decision of accepted sessions – 1 February 2014
Abstract Submission (for stand-alone papers) – 20 February 2014
Decision of accepted papers – 30 March 2014


Language
Abstracts, presentations and proceedings should be preferably in English.



A second Call for papers, with website address, fees and further information will be sent on 1 October 2013.


For any other information please contact the local secretariat Fátima de Haan (occoe@occoe.pt)

Les sens victoriens

Victorian Senses

Call For Papers NVSA 2014

Stony Brook University,
April 11-13, 2014

Proposals Due: October 15, 2013


The Northeast Victorian Studies Association calls for papers that treat the Victorians and the senses—sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell.

The committee invites papers from all disciplines on topics ranging from the representation of individual sense experience to the scientific, psychological, and philosophical study of the senses; from the sensory impact of mechanization, industry, and the urban city to the extrasensory world of the Victorian séance and spirit rapping. How were the senses categorized and conceptualized in the period? How did Victorian writers and artists understand and represent the sensations of living in their world? What role did capitalism or politics play in the transformation of the Victorian world of the senses—the rise of consumer culture or the publication of Chadwick’s 1842 Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population, for instance, or Victorian censorship? How did the ascendancy of empiricism shape the ways in which Victorian scientists and writers experienced and described the world? In what ways were the senses regarded as unreliable or inadequate for a full understanding of reality? How did the Aesthetic and Decadent movements define or exploit sensory experience? In what ways were sensory interactions with the world enhanced, complicated, or compromised by new communication and sensory technologies? How were sensory deficits—blindness, deafness—understood? What explains the cultural popularity of sensation fiction and public spectacle in Victorian culture?

Topics to be considered can include, but are not limited to, the following:


Senses and the Body:

sensory deficits (blindness, deafness)
illusions
dreaming
mesmerism and hypnotism
anaesthesia
synaesthesia
hallucination
sense illusions
drugs and alcohol
the senses and evolution
extrasensory perception
insanity and nervous disease

Studying the Senses:

psychology of sense perception
experimental study of the senses
physiology and the senses
sexual science
sensory deprivation
animal senses

Communication, Optical, and Acoustic Technologies:

photography and its predecessors
the phonograph
sound recordings
the microscope
the telescope
extending the senses through technology

Senses and the Victorian World:

factories and industrialization
urbanization
the sensory overload of the metropolis
consumerism and the senses

History, Method, and Philosophy:

empiricism—sense experience as the origin of knowledge
rationalism
the unreliability or inadequacy of the senses
sense experience and consciousness
social and cultural history of the senses
sociology and anthropology of the senses
the hierarchy of the senses: vision as the highest sense

Culture and the Arts:

Sensation fiction
the sensational
the representation of sense experience in fiction, poetry, and art
literary realism and empiricism
spectacle
the poetry of sensation, spasmodic poetry, the “fleshly school” of poetry
magic
Decadence and Aestheticism
sentimentality


Proposals (no more than 500 words) by Oct. 15, 2013 (email submissions only, in Word format): Erika Behrisch Elce, Chair, NVSA Program Committee: Erika.Behrisch.Elce@rmc.ca

Please note: all submissions to NVSA are evaluated anonymously. Successful proposals will stay within the 500-word limit and make a compelling case for the talk and its relation to the conference topic. Please do not send complete papers, and do not include your name on the proposal. Please include your name, institutional and email addresses, and proposal title in a cover letter. Papers should take 15 minutes (20 minutes maximum) so as to provide ample time for discussion.

The Coral Lansbury Travel Grant ($100.00) and George Ford Travel Grant ($100.00), given in memory of key founding members of NVSA, are awarded annually to the graduate student, adjunct instructor, or independent scholar who must travel the greatest distance to give a paper at our conference. Apply by indicating in your cover letter that you wish to be considered. Please indicate from where you will be traveling, and mention if you have other sources of funding.

http://navsa.blogspot.ca/2013/08/cfp-nvsa-2014-victorian-senses-10152013.html

La psychologie populaire en Allemagne

The Mind of The Nation. Völkerpsychologie in Germany, 1851-1955

Egbert Klautke is Lecturer in the Cultural History of Central Europe in the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London. 

Berghahn, New York and Oxford

194 pages, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-019-1 

$72.00/£45.00 

Published (August 2013)

Völkerpsychologie played an important role in establishing the social sciences, in Germany and abroad, via the works of such scholars as Georg Simmel, Emile Durkheim, Ernest Renan, Franz Boas, and Werner Sombart. In Germany, the intellectual history of “folk psychology” in Germany was represented by Moritz Lazarus, Heymann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt and Willy Hellpach. This book follows the invention of the discipline in the nineteenth century, its rise around the turn of the century, and its ultimate demise after the Second World War. In addition, it shows that despite the repudiation of “folk psychology” and its failed institutionalization, the discipline remains relevant as a precursor of contemporary studies of “national identity.”

Histoire de l'enseignement de la médecine

Le savoir vagabond : histoire de l'enseignement de la médecine

Patrick Berche

Paris , Éd. Docis -- impr. 2013 --

415 p.
ISBN : 978-2-85525-384-8

..Au début, l’enseignement de l’art de guérir s’est transmis par compagnonnage, sans livres, à la façon dont le centaure Chiron aurait éduqué le demi-dieu Asklépios, par « la parole, le couteau et les herbes ». Les médecins grecs, les Asclépiades, formaient ainsi leurs élèves au chevet des patients. Au IVe siècle avant notre ère, Hippocrate de Cos débarrasse la médecine de ses oripeaux de religion et de magie, en postulant que les maladies ont des causes naturelles. C’est à cette époque que les premières écoles de médecine apparaissent sur le pourtour méditerranéen. Dès lors, le savoir médical va vagabonder selon les vicissitudes des temps. On le verra prospérer, puis s’éteindre dans de nombreux foyers de lumière, à Alexandrie, à Gundishapur, à Bagdad, au Caire, à Kairouan, à Cordoue… L’héritage de la médecine grecque est transmis aux Perses, puis aux Arabes qui ont su le préserver.

……..En Occident, l’enseignement médical connaît un long sommeil dans le haut Moyen Âge, quand la médecine n’est plus exercée que par les moines bénédictins durant près de sept siècles. Renaissant en Occident à Salerne, le savoir médical connaît un renouveau lors de la création des universités, à partir du XIIIe siècle, à Bologne, Montpellier, Paris et Padoue. A la Renaissance, on remet en cause le savoir antique et une profonde révolution culturelle métamorphose la médecine. On explore le corps humain et on se met à quantifier les phénomènes vitaux en mesurant le pouls et la température corporelle… Harvey découvre la circulation sanguine. C’est la naissance de la médecine moderne qui bouleversera l’enseignement médical traditionnel. Suivra l’approche anatomo-clinique qui classe les maladies en fonction des symptômes et des lésions observées à l’autopsie. L’enseignement clinique sera mis au pinacle par l’École française au XIXe siècle, avant de connaître une embellie dans les pays germaniques, qui associent la clinique à l’enseignement et à la recherche, une prémonition des Centres hospitalo-universitaires, mis en œuvre en 1958 par Robert Debré. Aujourd’hui, le cœur battant de l’enseignement et de la recherche médicale se situe Outre-Atlantique, à Baltimore, Boston, Yale, San Francisco… Jamais la médecine n’a connue plus féconde période.

Histoire du corps obèse

Obésité et société

Pierre Fraser

VF/ essai

2013

Chairs incontrôlées en expansion, corps qui occupe plus d’espace que les autres corps, le corps obèse provoque une attention et une réaction toute négative dans son excessivité. L’excédent de graisse submergerait, engloutirait l’identité même des gens obèses, au point que les autres ne verraient que la graisse et non la personne qui vit au milieu de cette graisse. Le corps obèse s’inscrirait dès lors comme miroir, révélerait la manière dont l’existence est menée, démontrerait le niveau de non-conformité aux normes sociales qui régissent le corps et son apparence. Le corps obèse est devenu la cible d’un vaste réseau de surveillance et de stratégies de normalisation.

La téléréalité américaine The Biggest Loser est possiblement la métaphore la plus achevée concernant l’acharnement collectif exercé envers le développement de la masse adipeuse. Elle révèle, sous toutes ses coutures, comment la société a structuré sa vision du corps obèse, les interventions qui doivent être déployées sur celui-ci pour le «normaliser», et ce qu’il faut faire pour contrer l’épidémie d’obésité en reportant sur l’individu tout le fardeau de la preuve. De plus, le seul fait que cette émission soit diffusée depuis plus de dix ans a de quoi interpeller, car son succès commercial est peut-être aussi le reflet de là où la société en est rendue en matière d’apparence du corps. Il s’agit d’une prise de possession sans précédent du corps à travers le corps «normal» versus le corps obèse (pathologique). En ce sens, le corps obèse représente peut-être un phénomène pivot dans la construction de la vision contemporaine de la santé.

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