Trajectoires individuelles des personnes infirmes, sourdes et aliénées

 

Humanités infirmières et imaginaires historiques

Nursing Humanities and Historical Imaginations: Exploring the Context and Politics of Nursing Across Time, Place and Medium

CAHN 2026 Conference


May 29 – 31, 2026



Location: Schulich Hotel and Conference Centre at York University
[The entire conference will take place at the Schulich Hotel and Conference Centre]

Address: 56 Fine Arts Rd, North York, ON M3J 1P3




Friday May 29 | Vendredi 29 Mai

18:00-21:30 Opening Panel and Reception – Schulich Private Dining Room


Welcome + Registration (18:00-18:30)

Hannah Panel | Conference Hannah (18:30-19:30)



History, Nursing and Indigenous Health

Chair, Dr. Ruth Green, Director of Social Work, York University



Crystal Point, MSN, RN, University of British Columbia

Christine Fiddler, M.Ed, BA, University of Saskatchewan


Reception: Schulich Private Dining Room (19:30-21:30)




Saturday May 30 | Samedi 30 Mai

8:30 – 9:00 Registration | inscription


9:00 – 10:00 Session 1A: Finding the Nursing Story
Chair: Michelle Danda
Location: Private Dining Room

“The White Cap Catalogue”
Ruth Thompson

“Stories from the Edges: A Personal Narrative Project to Honour Everyday Nursing History”
Kim English

“Eliciting a Narrative: The Contribution of a Peer Professional”
Lynn Hamilton


09:00 – 10:00 Session 1B: Representations in Nursing History
Chair: Sandra Harrisson
Location: Lecture Theatre

“Scénariser le soin : comment fictionnaliser le vécu des soignant.e.s et des patient.e.s pour déconstruire les discours dominants en santé mentale?”
Emily Landry-Lajoie

“Fictionalizing Nursing History: The Sisters of Service and the Spanish Flu Epidemic in 1918 Toronto”
Lucia Gagliese


“Narratives as Resistance and Recognition in Nursing Practice”
Jennifer Dunn


10:00-10:15 Break | pause


10:15-11:15 Session 2A: War & Nursing

Chair: Emily Kaliel

Location: Lecture Theatre

“The Price of Commitment: Nurses in the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War (1936-39)”
Sioban Nelson, Cinta Sadurni-Bassols, Gloria Gallego Caminero

“An Accounting of War: A Canadian Military Nurse’s First World War Expense Record”
Suzanna Wagner

“Nursing Sister Clare Gass’s Visual War: Picturing the First World War”
Andrea McKenzie



10:15-11:15 Session 2B: Nursing Specialization

Chair: Lydia Wytenbroek
Location: Private Dining Room

“De convoité à évité : l’évolution des CHSLD québécois et du concept de milieu de vie”
Fannie Dupont


“Surgical Team Culture, Gendered Power, and the Historical Violence of the OR” Jennifer Dunn

“A New Beat: Cardiac Care Nursing at Vancouver General Hospital, 1955-1959”
Sarina Heidari



11:15-11:30 Break | pause



11:30-12:30 Session 3: Untold Histories and Reconsidered Perspectives

Chair: Sioban Nelson


“Whispers of Care in the Shadow of a Pandemic: Exploring the Untold Journeys of Gay Male Nurses during Canada’s HIV/AIDS Crisis (1981–1998)”
Sandra Harrisson

“Unravelling the Sanitized Timeline: Re-weaving Indigenous Narratives to Unlearn the History of Nursing”
Lesa Fox

“What’s Lamont Got to Do With It?: An Early Site of Negotiated Racial Inclusion in Canadian Hospital-Based Nursing Education (1925-1955)”
Emily Kaliel, Helen Vandenberg, Letitia Johnson


12:30-13:45 Lunch | déjeuner (lunch provided)


13:45-14:45 Session 4A: Rethinking Nursing Politics
Chair: Kyra Philbert
Location: Lecture Theatre

“Nurse Activism in Canada: Historical Perspectives and Leadership Imaginations for the Future”
Michelle Danda and Sheryl Zentner

“Boundaries of Care: Maternalism, Visitation, and Professional Politics in Cold War German Pediatric Nursing”
Christoph Schwamm

“Imagining Youth Mental Health Nursing Across a Century: Historical Contexts and Philosophical Shifts in British Columbia, 1900–Present”
Michelle Danda


13:45-14:45 Session 4B: Reconsidering Nursing Care

Chair: Jennifer Dunn
Location: Private Dining Room

“Feeding and Weighing: The History of Devices and 'Visual History' of Infant Nutrition in Paediatric Nursing at the Beginning of the 20th Century”
Karen Nolte

“What Does Cultural Safety Mean now?”
Yamu Ɂakiⱡ nuhu, Kwik-ga, Sara Daigle-Stevens

“The Seal of Saint Elizabeth: Care of the sick poor and female spirituality in Northern Europe in the high Middle Ages”
Sioban Nelson


14:45-15:00 Break | pause

15:00-16:00 Session 5: Nursing, Health and Colonialism
Chair: Letitia Johnson

“Public Health Nursing in the Yukon”
Alistair White

“Inventing Arctic Hysteria”
Jessica Casey

“Migrant Histories, Colonial Legacies: Filipino Nurses, Canadian Health Care, and Imagining Anti-Racist Futures”
Michelle Danda and Sheryl Zentner


18:00 Dinner | diner (organized, TBA) 

Sunday May 31 | dimanche 31 mai


8:00 Breakfast | Rafraichissements


9:00-10:15 Session 6: Nursing, Gender, Empire
Chair: Fannie Dupont

“Professional Image of Rockefeller Foundation Fellows from Brazil in Toronto: a transnational history (1939-1945)”
Camila de Freitas Lima, Luciana Barizon Luchesi

“From Fellowship to Leadership: Iranian Nurses on the Move”
Mohadeseh Saki

“Empires, Epidemics, War and Empathy: The Untold Story of Nurses in Ottoman Palestine”
Ronen Segev

“Rethinking Military Nurses: The Example of Canadian Nurses Serving in Foreign Forces”
Kate Mcpherson


10:15-10:30 Break | pause


10:30-11:45 Session 7: Teaching Humanities in Nursing

Chair: Kyra Philbert

“Humanities Elective in Nursing”
Geraldine Gorman, Shirley Stephenson, Patricia Walsh

“ Teaching Plans for Nursing History in São Paulo, Brazil (2021): A Documentary Analysis of Institutional Practices in Undergraduate Nursing Education”
Luciana Barizon Luchesi and Carla Cristina da Cruz Almeida Lima

“Documenting Nursing and Healthcare History Through Mapping”
Sally Ellis Fletcher

“Nurses and Pageantry: Performing the Past, Performing Profession”
Lydia Wytenbroek & Kyra Philbert


11:45 Closing Remarks | remarques finales
Student Award | prix étudiants
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Histoire des sciences de la vie et de la médecine

History of Life Sciences and Medicine


Medicine has accompanied human history since its very origins and, unlike any other discipline, it grapples with matters of life and death. Today, understanding the evolution of medicine and life sciences, as well as the features that make them unique, is all the more important as these disciplines are undergoing major transformations.

Perilli, L. (Ed.) History of Life Sciences and Medicine 1. Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Iste-Wiley, 2026

Cherici, C. (Ed.) History of Life Sciences and Medicine 2. Modern Era (16th to 18th Centuries). Iste-Wiley, 2026

Dupont J.-C. (Ed.) History of Life Sciences and Medicine 3. Contemporary Era (19th to -21st Centuries). Iste-Wiley, 2026.

Enfance et handicap

Enfance et handicap. Discrimination, pouvoir d’agir, inclusion

Commend Susanne (sous la direction)



Presses universitaires de Rennes 

Date de parution : 14/05/2026
Collection : Essais
EAN : 9791041310463
Nb de pages : 350

Les enfants en situation de handicap sont-ils reconnus comme des enfants à part entière – ou avant tout comme des handicapés ? Que signifie grandir en marge de la norme ? Ces questions troublantes traversent l’histoire des perceptions, des politiques et des pratiques qui entourent l’enfance en situation de handicap. Invisibilisés, vulnérabilisés ou perçus à travers leur déficience, les enfants handicapés peinent encore à être reconnus comme sujets de droits, plutôt qu’objets de soins. À travers une approche historique, sociale et politique, cet ouvrage met en lumière les parcours des jeunes polyhandicapés, des filles handicapées et des enfants autochtones et racisés. La scolarisation, les réseaux familiaux d’entraide et les représentations du handicap sont autant de thématiques abordées, avec une ouverture sur différentes perspectives internationales, de l’Afrique du Nord au Japon. En croisant les études du handicap, de la psychiatrie et de la surdité, ce livre propose une perspective inédite sur l’enfance handicapée et les barrières qui l’entourent. Une lecture essentielle pour repenser l’inclusion et apporter un nouveau regard sur les enfants handicapés.

Publié avec le soutien de l’université d’Angers

Les orbes de sang dans la Perse du XIVe siècle

Orbs of Blood in 14th-Century Persia. The «Tānksūqnāmah» and Its Theory of the Rotational Motion of Blood

CSMBR Upcoming Lecture

 

Ben Kavoussi

28 May 2026 – 5 PM (CET)



A 14th-century Persian medical manual on the Medicine of Cathay (Northern China) known as the Tānksūqnāmah-yi Īlkhān dar funūn-i ʿulūm-i Khaṭāʾī (Tānksūqnāmah) explicitly states that blood “makes rounds” within the body, flowing from the liver to the heart, then to the lungs, and returning again to the liver. 

Commissioned by the vizier and physician Rashīd al-Dīn Hamadānī (1247–1318) during Mongol rule in Iran, the manual is an attempt to explain Chinese medicine to a Persian readership, translating a book that summarised Chinese medical knowledge at the time.

Drawing on Chinese cosmology and medicine, as well as the Graeco-Arabic medical tradition, the book ultimately advances its own conception of blood movement, moving beyond simple continuity. This model, which links bodily processes to celestial movements, differs from the philosophical description of pulmonary transit by Ibn al-Nafīs (1213–1288) and the quantitative theory of systemic circulation by William Harvey (1578–1657). 

The Tānksūqnāmah is therefore best understood as a product of the distinctive cross-cultural milieu of Mongol-era Iran, exemplifying how scientific ideas can emerge through reinterpretation within zones of cultural and scientific contact rather than through linear transmission within a single lineage.


To register for this event, please click here.

La navigation maritime, la santé et la médecine au XVIIIe siècle

Sea Voyaging, Health and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century 


Eighteenth-Century Life, Volume 50, Number 2, April 2026, 




Introduction
Sandhya Patel ; Sophie Vasset


Articles


“Drawn and Coloured in Drops of Blood”: Insights into Mortality, Injury, and Sickness amongst the Pathfinders of the British Royal Navy in the Late Eighteenth Century
Michael Barritt


Health at Sea: Knowledge and Care: French Medical Men at Sea in the Eighteenth Century
Odile Gannier


Disclosure: Healing Encounters in the Pacific Ocean: The Dolphin Voyage (1766–68)
Sandhya Patel


Transpacific Circulation of Medicine and Medical Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Spanish Shipboard Documents
Wim De Winter


The Musée National de la Marine Network between Paris and Rochefort: A History of Shipboard Hygiene and Medical Collections
Charlotte Drahé; Marianne Tricoire


Naval Medicine in the Reframing of Medical Knowledge: Schools of Surgery and Marine Hospitals in Eighteenth-Century France
Guillaume Linte


“The Poor Crocus Pluckt Up by the Root”: Writing the Self and Social Negotiation: The Case of James Rymer, Royal Navy Surgeon (1750–1829)
Juliette Rigaud


Suffering at Sea: Alexander Falconbridge's Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa (1788)
Sophie Vasset

Les sources de l'histoire infirmière

Narrating Nursing: Methods and Sources in Nursing History and Ethics 

Call for Papers 

ENHE 9/2027

Diaries, letters, and other personal artifacts open up new perspectives on the history and ethics of nursing. As ego documents, these sources illuminate the everyday realities of care and the lived experiences of nurses that often remain invisible in institutional or po-licy documents. In parrallel, qualitative methods, such as interviews and reflective diaries, play an important role in nursing ethics research, enabling scientific examination of ethi-cal practice and nurses‘ moral perspectives.

This planned issue invites contributions that explore the micro-level of nursing practice from both historical and ethical perspectives. It seeks to foreground the historical value of individual experiences, whilst critically reflecting on how these perspectives relate to wider social, cultural and professional developments or people‘s health.

At the same time, the issue welcomes contributions that engage with the role of individual theorists, leaders or reformers in nursing history and ethics. We encourage analyses that go beyond the „great pioneer“ narratives and situate individual actors within their social, cultural and professional contexts.

Methodological reflections on working with ego documents or qualitative material in nursing history and/or nursing ethics are particularly encouraged.

Possible historical questions and topics to consider:
– biographical approaches to nursing history
– diaries and correspondence as sources of nursing history
– visual and material sources in nursing history
– biography and influence of individual actors in nursing reform and theory
– tensions between individual agency and collective professional identities

Possible ethical questions and topics to consider:
– Diaries and/or qualitative interviews as a methodological approach to explore and capture nursing ethical practice
– Biography and influence of individual actors in nursing reform and ethical theory
– the moral agency of nurses
– shifts in the understanding of patient rights
– the use of film or theatre in grappling with ethical questions in nursing education

Deadline for abstracts: June 30, 2026
Deadline for manuscripts: November 30, 2026

Please note the following remarks on the concept of the European Journal for Nursing History and Ethics:
The journal creates a dialogue between the history and the ethics of nursing, while providing new impulses for advancing the subfields of the history as well as the ethics of nursing. Historians are asked to include the ethical dimension of the topic into their sub-mitted manuscript; likewise, researchers interested in ethics are requested to reflect on the historical dimensions of their manuscripts. This does not mean that articles on ethics should be preceded by a historical overview in the style of a manual. Rather the latest developments and socio-political debates that have led to the current issues in the ethics of nursing should be put in their historical context and be used in the analysis. Likewise, papers on the history of nursing should address ethical questions within the historical context or refer to current issues in the ethics of nursing. The linking of historical and ethical dimensions is desired in each article, but not a prerequisite for publication. The journal publishes original research both on European history and the history of the re-ciprocal relationships and connections of European and non-European societies.
The journal only publishes original contributions. When submitting their manuscript, au-thors are required to declare that their text has not already been submitted or published elsewhere. Publishing in this Open Access journal is free of charge.
 

Please submit your abstract (max 500 words) in English and separately a short CV by June 30, 2026 to Prof. Dr. Karen Nolte: karen.nolte@histmed.uni-heidelberg.de, Hugo Schalk-wijk: h.schalkwijk@venvn.nl and Prof. Dr. Geertje Boschma Geertje.Boschma@ubc.ca

 

The European Journal for Nursing History and Ethics is an interdisciplinary Open Access and peer-reviewed e-Journal spanning the Humanities, Nursing Science, Social Sciences, and Cultural Studies. The journal is published online once a year, with each edition having an individual theme and an open section that contains articles on various topics. In addition, the “Forum” and “Lost and Found” sections offer the opportunity to publish shorter artic-les on current debates or to present remarkable objects, texts, pictures or movies with relevance to nursing history and ethics and to discuss their significance.
The Journal is seeking contributions to
• the open section
• themed section
• Lost and Found
• Forum 

Prendre soin de la folie dans l’Europe médiévale et renaissante

Who cares ? Prendre soin de la folie dans l’Europe médiévale et renaissante (appréhender, remédier, représenter)


Appel à communications


Lieux Centre d'Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance - 59 Rue Néricault Destouches, 37013 Tours
Tours, France (37)

Dans une perspective interdisciplinaire, ce colloque souhaite s’intéresser à la perception, au traitement et à la représentation des personnes atteinte de folie dans la période médiévale et celle de la première modernité, que la folie prenne les formes diverses de mélancolie, de possession, d’égarement, de déraison. Pour ce faire, il propose de prendre en compte la notion contemporaine de care, au sens d’éthique du soin, et de l’historiciser en dehors de son ancrage contemporain, afin de penser à nouveaux frais le rapport à la vulnérabilité et à la dépendance (et interdépendance), la dialectique de l’assistance et de la marginalisation au Moyen Âge et à la Renaissance.

Il s’agira notamment, pour ce qui concerne le domaine anglais, de prendre en compte la polysémie du terme care (« mental suffering », « concern », « charge », « official guardianship ») et d’observer ses glissements de sens ainsi que l’évolution de son emploi entre le Moyen Âge et la Renaissance, dans des textes de natures variées et complémentaires (textes de loi, traités médicaux, proclamations, pamphlets, ballades, brochures populaires, pièces de théâtre), miroir sans doute de l’inflexion anthropologique propre à la Renaissance qui s’efforce de replacer l’humain, sa vulnérabilité, au centre des préoccupations.

Il s’agira, d’autre part, d’interroger les différentes pratiques ordinaires du soin. Existait-il un rapport éthique du soin dans les pratiques religieuses (hospices, pèlerinages, formes de soins spirituels), médicales (savantes et vernaculaires) et sociopolitiques, institutionnelles et non institutionnelles, légales et moins légales ? Quelles étaient les formes de prise en charge ? Que nous disent les témoignages qui se veulent objectifs ? Que trouve-t-on dans les représentations fictionnelles qui en ont été faites ?

Ainsi, on pourra revenir sur les justifications théologiques qui avaient cours au Moyen Âge (traités de Nicolas de Cues et de Thomas a Kempis, par exemple) et faisaient que le simple d’esprit ou « l’idiot du village », était certes tourné en dérision mais aussi toléré, voire vénéré (cf. Walter Kaiser dans Praisers of Folly : Eramus, Rabelais, Shakespeare). On pourra tenter de mesurer l’écart entre le recours à la nef des fous et à ce que Michel Foucault a appelé « le grand renfermement ».

On pourra aussi se pencher sur les pratiques plus ou moins douteuses des exorcistes qui prétendaient que les fous étaient possédés par des démons, ou encore examiner les variations de prescriptions et de diagnostics médicaux, ainsi que l’évolution des positions juridiques depuis le Moyen Âge jusqu’au milieu du XVIIe siècle (en prenant en compte, par exemple, les Poor Laws de la période Tudor).

On pourra également tâcher de mesurer et de comprendre l’écart qui sépare ce qui s’affiche comme soin, obligation morale ou charité, mais qui, de fait, met en place des méthodes coercitives (notamment dans les institutions asilaires).

Ce colloque entend ainsi faire dialoguer les champs différents de l’histoire, des études médicales, de la philosophie et de la littérature, en explorant, à travers le prisme de la notion de care, les dynamiques sociales, éthiques et politiques du soin face à la folie dans l’Europe du Moyen Âge et de la Renaissance.
Modalités de contribution

Les propositions (abstract d’environ 250-300 mots + biblio d’environ 100-150 mots) sont à envoyer d’ici le 15 juin 2026 à pascale.drouet@univ-poitiers.fr
frederique.fouassier@univ-tours.fr
 

Organisatrices Pascale Drouet (CESCM)
Frédérique Fouassier (CESR)
 

 

Suggestions bibliographiques

Brugère, Fabienne, L’éthique du care, Paris, PUF, 2011.

Carter, Philippa, Frenzy in Early Modern England. Madness, Brain Disease and the Soul, Cambridge, CUP, 2026.

Equestri, Alice, « ‘This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen’ : Feste, Lear’s Fool and the border between ‘idiocy’ and mental illness », Cahiers Élisabéthains, 99, 2019, p. 23-32.

Foucault, Michel, Histoire de la folie à l’âge classique, Paris, Gallimard, coll. « Tel », 1972.

Foucault, Michel, Maladie mentale et psychologie, Paris PUF, coll. « Quadrige », (1954), 2008.

Garrau, Marie et Alice Le Goff, Care, justice et dépendance. Introduction aux théories du Care, Paris, PUF, 2010.

Gilligan, Carol, In a Different Voice, Cambridge (MA), Harvard University Press, (1982) 2016.

Jackson, Ken, Separate Theaters : Bethlem (‘Bedlam’) Hospital and the Shakespearean Stage, Newark, University Press of Delaware Press, 2005.

Laharie, Muriel, La folie au Moyen Âge (XIe–XIIIe siècles), Paris, Le Léopard d’Or, 1991.

Laugier, Sandra (dir.), Le souci des autres. Éthique et politique du care, Paris, EHESS, 2011.

O’Donoghue, Edward Geoffrey, The Story of Bethlehem Hospital from Its Foundation in 1247, New York, Dutton, 1915.

Quetél, Claude, Histoire de la folie, de l’antiquité à nos jours, Paris, Tallandier, (2012) 2020.

MacDonald, Michael, Mystical Bedlam : madness, anxiety and healing in seventeenth-century England, Cambridge, New York, Cambridge University Press, 1981.

Midelfort, Erik Mad Princes of Renaissance Germany, Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, 1994.

Maldiney, Henry, Penser l’homme et la folie, Grenoble, Éditions Jérôme Millon, 2007.

Roscioni, Lisa, « Soin et/ou enfermement ? Hôpitaux et folie sous l’Ancien Régime », Genèses, 1, 2011, p. 31-51.

Tronto, Joan, Moral Boundaries, New York, 1993.

Turner, Wendy J., Care and Custory of the Mentally Ill, Incompetent, and Disabled in Medieval England, Turnhout, Brepols, 2013.





Contacts Pascale Drouet
courriel : pascale [dot] drouet [at] univ-tours [dot] fr

Frédérique Fouassier
courriel : frederique [dot] fouassier [at] univ-tours [dot] fr