Misère de la psychiatrie
Steeves Demazeux
Presses universitaires de France
Collection : Sciences dans la cité
Date de parution : 26/03/2026
Réseau de recherche en histoire de la santé
Misère de la psychiatrie
Phd opportunity "Spaces of Health: Connecting Past and Present Experiences of Health and Wellbeing in Heritage"
Historic England and the University of Leeds are pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded, four-year Collaborative Doctoral Studentship from 1 October 2026 under the AHRC’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships (CDP) scheme.
From historic hospital buildings to medical museums, England’s health heritage has a powerful role to play in supporting wellbeing — but we don’t yet know how. This PhD project will uncover how these unique sites can draw on their own histories and collections to benefit communities now and in the future. It explores how England’s rich medical and healthcare heritage can be used to support public health and community wellbeing today. While heritage engagement is widely recognised as beneficial, we know surprisingly little about how sites with historic ties to medicine – from former hospital buildings and clinics to medical museums – might offer unique opportunities for promoting wellbeing. These health-related heritage institutions (HRHIs) have distinctive histories that shape how people experience them, yet their potential as public health assets remains underexplored.
The research project will investigate that potential through a national study of HRHIs in England, complemented by at least two in-depth case studies with additional project partners: St Bartholomew’s Hospital and the Thackray Museum of Medicine. This combination of breadth and depth will allow the researcher to map the landscape of England’s health heritage while also examining, up close, how specific institutions engage visitors, interpret their histories, and design wellbeing-focused programmes.
Working with archives, collections, heritage professionals, and community participants, the project will develop new insights into how HRHIs can use their unique legacies to benefit local communities.
You will have the opportunity to shape the project based on your interests, background and experience. Indicative research questions might include:
The project will be jointly supervised by researchers at the University of Leeds (James Stark and Helen Graham) and heritage professionals at Historic England (Linda Monckton and Simon Taylor).
The student will be expected to spend time at both Historic England and the University of Leeds, as well as becoming part of the wider cohort of CDP funded students across the UK under the AHRC’s CDP scheme.
This PhD opportunity provides full tuition fees, a maintenance stipend set at UKRI rates (£21,805 for full-time in 2026/27, pro-rata for part-time candidates), and generous travel and training allowances, and is open to both Home and International fee applicants. You can find full details of the award and application process here.
Deadline: 5pm (UK time) 1 May 2026, with interviews for shortlisted candidates in early June.
Histoire de la psychiatrie au Japon
Conférences d'Akihito Suzuki
Le Centre de recherche sur les civilisations de l’Asie orientale (CRCAO) et l’Institut Français de Recherche sur l’Asie de l’Est (IFRAE) organisent, en collaboration avec le Collège de France et le Tokyo College de l’Université de Tokyo, une série de conférences de SUZUKI Akihito (Université de Tokyo) au mois d’avril 2026 :
Vendredi 10 avril, 17h-18h
« Madness at Home in Tokyo: The Psychiatrist, the Patient, and the Family in Tokyo, 1920-1945 »
Séance publique sous l’invitation de Patrick Boucheron, chaire « Histoire des pouvoirs en Europe occidentale, XIIIe-XVIe siècle »
Lieu: Collège de France, Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs (11 place Marcellin Berthelot, 75005 Paris)
Lundi 13 avril, 14h30-16h
« The Geographical and Social Establishment of Early Mental Hospitals in Tokyo 1880-1945 »
Dans le cadre de la séance commune du cours « Santé et Société » (L2 études japonaises, Inalco) et du séminaire « Anthropologie et Histoire du corps et de la santé » (Master études japonaises, Université Paris Cité)
Lieu: Inalco, amphi 8 (4e étage, 65 rue des Grands Moulins)
Mardi 14 avril, 16h-18h
« The Second World War and the Destruction of the Psychiatric Hospitals »
Conférence animée par Ken Daimaru (UP Cité, CRCAO), avec Nicolas Henckes (CNRS, Cermes3) et Sheldon Garon (Princeton University, Sciences Po)
Lieu: Université Paris Cité, salle Léon Vandermeersch (481C, 4e étage, aile C, bâtiments des Grands Moulins, 8 esplanade Pierre Vidal-Naquet, 75013, Paris)
Mercredi 15 avril, 16h30-18h30
« Police, Korean patients and the Public Sphere of Tokyo »
Conférence animée par Sarah Terrail Lormel (Inalco, IFRAE), avec Marianna Scarfone (SAGE, Unistra) et Jimin Choi (D. Kim Foundation / Cambridge University)
Lieu: Inalco, salle 417 (4e étage, 65 rue des Grands Moulins)
Akihito Suzuki was born in 1963 in Shizuoka, Japan. He received a BA (1986) and an MPhil (1988) from the University of Tokyo. He studied the history of medicine in London and received a PhD in 1992. After completing a few postdoctoral positions in England, Scotland, and Tokyo, he began teaching at Keio University in 1997. Since 2021, he has been teaching the history of medicine at the University of Tokyo. His speciality is the history of psychiatry and infectious diseases in Europe and Japan. He published Madness at Home: The Psychiatrist, the Patient, and the Family in England (2006) and Reforming Public Health in Occupied Japan, 1945-52 (2012, co-authored with Chris Aldous). He was awarded the Gijuku Prize at Keio University (2007) and the Carlson Award at the Cornell Medical School (2014).
Les Logiques du corps. Une autre manière de penser le temps
Georges Vigarello
Le seuil
20/03/2026
Mobilisant aussi bien les savoirs scientifiques que les conceptions philosophiques et religieuses, ou encore les œuvres de fiction et l’histoire de l’art, Georges Vigarello explore les différentes façons par lesquelles les sociétés occidentales ont pensé le corps humain dans son unité. Avec un souci d’intelligibilité remarquable, il met en lumière la succession de modèles (le modèle humoral, fibreux, énergétique, informationnel) par lesquels le corps a été appréhendé depuis l’Antiquité jusqu’au temps présent.
Au-delà d’une telle succession, il porte une attention subtile à ses usages, aux manières d’être et d’agir qui ne cessent d’évoluer au cours de l’histoire. Le livre montre comment le corps occidental est travaillé par des principes décisifs d’affranchissement, d’individualisation et de sensibilité, ouvrant sur une manière totalement inédite de penser le temps : dynamique centrale, originale, traversant la longue durée, d’où les individus tirent leur force, comme leur possible fragilité. Notre propre conception contemporaine du corps en sort singulièrement dépaysée.
Directeur d’études à l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Georges Vigarello a notamment publié au Seuil Histoire du viol (XVIe-XXe siècle) (1998), Histoire des pratiques de santé (1999), La Silhouette (2012), Le Sentiment de soi (2014) et Histoire de la fatigue (2020). Il a dirigé par ailleurs plusieurs ouvrages collectifs, avec Alain Corbin et Jean-Jacques Courtine, dont une Histoire du corps en 2006.