Les constructions du cancer dans l'Angleterre prémoderne

Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England: Ravenous Natures

Alanna Skuse

Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (October 28, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-1137487520

Cancer is perhaps the modern world's most feared disease. Yet, we know relatively little about this malady's history before the nineteenth century. This book provides the first in-depth examination of perceptions of cancerous disease in early modern England. Looking to drama, poetry and polemic as well as medical texts and personal accounts, it contends that early modern people possessed an understanding of cancer which remains recognizable to us today. Many of the ways in which medical practitioners and lay people imagined cancer – as a 'woman's disease' or a 'beast' inside the body – remain strikingly familiar, and they helped to make this disease a byword for treachery and cruelty in discussions of religion, culture and politics. Equally, cancer treatments were among the era's most radical medical and surgical procedures. From buttered frog ointments to agonizing and dangerous surgeries, they raised abiding questions about the nature of disease and the proper role of the medical practitioner.

Histoires naturelles et non-naturelles

Natural and Unnatural Histories

Call for Proposals

Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS) 2016

Keynote Speakers Kate Flint (University of Southern California) and Elaine Freedgood (NYU)

March 10-13, 2016 - Renaissance Asheville Hotel - Asheville, NC

Hosted by Appalachian State University
https://incs2016.appstate.edu/proposals

Historicism achieved its full flowering in the nineteenth century, when the historical methods of inquiry envisioned by figures such as Vico, Herder, and von Ranke were taken up and transformed in philosophy, art criticism, hermeneutics, philology, the human sciences, and, of course, history itself. By 1831, John Stuart Mill was already declaring historicism the dominant idea of the age. Taking human activity as their central subject, some nineteenth-century historicisms extended Hegel’s distinction between historical processes governed by thought and non-historical processes governed by nature. At the same time, scientists like Lyell and Darwin radically challenged nineteenth-century understandings of history by arguing that nature itself is historical. Powered by fossil fuels, industrialization began to prove this point by profoundly altering global ecologies at a previously unimaginable scale. We seek papers that investigate nineteenth-century histories and natures. How do natures, environments, or ecologies interact with histories at different scales—the local, the national, the transnational, or the planetary? What role does the nineteenth century play in the recent idea of an Anthropocene era? How might nineteenth-century natural histories help us to rethink historicism in the present? What are the risks and promises of presentist approaches to the nineteenth century? 

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• Narrating history, narrating nature
• Ideas of the natural, the unnatural, and/or the supernatural
• Nineteenth-century ecologies broadly construed: domestic ecologies, aesthetic ecologies, imperial and postcolonial ecologies, synthetic or technological ecologies
• Evolution and extinction
• Posthuman histories
• History, nature, and/or science in art
• Family histories, social histories
• Climate change, geosystems, geohistories
• Bioregionalisms, transregionalisms, literature and “sustainability”
• Queer ecologies/histories
• Disability histories/Cripping nature
• Life and non-life
• Flora, fauna, and fossils
• Ecopoetics, Environmental justice
• Reporting events/recording nature
• Commemorative musical compositions/performances
• Biopolitics, biopoetics
• Discourses of pollution, toxicity, garbage, waste
• Resource imperialism
• Political ecologies and economies
• Cross-cultural, indigenous, mestizo, subaltern nature writing
• Creaturely life, life forms, nonhumans, monstrosity
• Landscape aesthetics
• Global South studies
• Utopian/dystopian, steampunk, or neo-Victorian natures and/or histories
• Nineteenth-century histories of philosophy, religion and/or theology
• History of science, history of medicine, public health discourses
• Natural disasters, cataclysmic events
• Sexological, criminological, and/or psychiatric narratives
• Resources, capital, economies
• Biography and autobiography, case studies, archives
• History as genre: history painting, Bildungsroman, epic, historical novel, historical drama, etc.

Deadline: November 2, 2015. Upload proposals and a one-page CV via incs2016.appstate.edu. For individual papers, send 250-word proposals; for panels, send individual proposals plus a 250-word panel description. Proposals that are interdisciplinary in method or panels that involve multiple disciplines are especially welcome. Questions? Contact Jill Ehnenn at incs@appstate.edu

Écrits sur l’aliénation et la liberté

Écrits sur l’aliénation et la liberté (Inédits)

Frantz Fanon

Textes inédits réunis, introduits et présentés par Jean Khalfa et Robert. J. C. Young


Sciences humaines

La Découverte

680 pages 

ISBN 2707186384 

Parution le 29/10/2015


La parution de ces Écrits inédits constitue un véritable événement éditorial, par le nouveau regard qu’ils vont permettre de porter sur la pensée de Frantz Fanon (1925-1961), autant que par leur portée toujours actuelle, dans le champ psychiatrique comme dans le champ politique. Écrits psychiatriques et scientifiques, correspondance, deux pièces de théâtre : ces documents exceptionnels ont bénéficié du remarquable travail de deux grands spécialistes de l’œuvre, Jean Khalfa et Robert Young.

L’œuvre de Frantz Fanon, psychiatre et militant anticolonialiste prématurément disparu en 1961 à l’âge de trente-six ans, a marqué depuis lors des générations d’anticolonialistes, d’activistes des droits civiques et d’intellectuels spécialistes des études postcoloniales. Depuis la publication de ses livres (Peau noire, masques blancs, 1952 ; L’An V de la révolution algérienne, 1959 ; Les Damnés de la terre, 1961), on savait que nombre de ses écrits restaient inédits ou inaccessibles. En particulier ses écrits psychiatriques, dont ceux consacrés à l’« aliénation colonialiste vue au travers des maladies mentales » (selon les mots de l’éditeur François Maspero dans sa préface à Pour la révolution africaine, recueil posthume de Fanon publié en 1964).

Ce matériel constitue le cœur du présent volume de textes inédits, établi et présenté à la suite d’un long et difficile travail de collecte par Jean Khalfa et Robert Young.

Le lecteur y trouvera les articles scientifiques publiés par Fanon, seul ou en collaboration, sa thèse de psychiatrie, ainsi que certains documents annexes et une sélection de textes publiés dans le journal intérieur du pavillon dont Fanon avait la charge à l’Hôpital de Blida-Joinville de 1953 à 1956. On y trouvera également deux de ses pièces de théâtre écrites à Lyon durant ses études de médecine (L’Œil se noie et Les Mains parallèles), la correspondance qui a pu être retrouvée ainsi que certains textes publiés dans El Moudjahid après 1958, non repris dans Pour la révolution africaine. Cet ensemble remarquable est complété par la correspondance qu’avaient échangée François Maspero et l’écrivain Giovanni Pirelli pour un projet de publication des œuvres complètes de Fanon, ainsi que par l’analyse raisonnée de la bibliothèque de ce dernier.

Histoire de la schizophrénie

The Strangest Disease: The Peculiar Past but Hopeful Future of Schizophrenia

Lecture by E. Fuller Torrey, M.D. 

38th Annual Osler Lectureship

Wednesday November 4th 2015 6:00PM

This lecture will explore why schizophrenia has historically been regarded as a strange disease, a perception linked to changing understandings of the brain. This strangeness has affected how we think about schizophrenia's causes and how we treat those afflicted. As growing research in the neurosciences has identified schizophrenia as a disease of the brain, we are on the cusp of a new era in which science trumps strangeness, with promising possibilities for all.

Palmer Howard Amphitheatre

McIntyre Medical Sciences Building

Room 504

The Public is cordially invited.

For further information call 514-398-6033

http://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/about-us/dr-e-fuller-torrey

Supplément illustré de la revue Histoire des sciences médicales

e-SFHM. Supplément illustré de la revue Histoire des sciences médicales

2015, Vol. 1 (1) 









Jacques Chevallier. - Le livre : objet du patrimoine dermatologique
p. 04-13

Magdalena Kozluk et Danielle Gourevitch. - Un exemplaire du Dioscoride édité par J. Goupyl (1549) dans la bibliothèque d’Anton Schneeberger (1530-1581)
p. 14-21

Claude Renner et Dalil Boubakeur. - Les ventouses de la Hijama (PDF 1380 Ko)
p. 22-25

Prochaine séance de la Société Française d'Histoire de la Médecine

Prochaine séance de la Société Française d'Histoire de la Médecine 

SAMEDI 14 NOVEMBRE 2015 à 14h30

Salle du Conseil de l’ancienne Faculté
12 Rue de l’École de Médecine, 1er étage,
75006 Paris (métro Odéon)


Jean DUPOUY-CAMET
Quelques aspects de l'histoire de la trichinellose à travers l'analyse du catalogue en ligne de la BNF

Danielle GOUREVITCH
Le banquet des internes en 1855

Alain SEGAL
A propos d'une lettre adressée dans le premier lieu officiel de l’Académie de médecine de Paris

Antoine DESSEAUX
François Humbert, un orthopédiste méconnu, initiateur du traitement curatif des « boiteux »


Signatures de livres à partir de 14 h :
· Pierre Charon et coll., L’Alimentation en Brie des origines à nos jours (Colloque à Meaux, avril 2014), Société historique de Meaux et sa région (SHMR), 2015 ;
· Philippe Charlier et Danielle Gourevitch (ed.), Actes du 5ème congrès de pathographie (Bergues, 2013), De Boccard, Paris, 2015 ; et Philippe Charlier, Enquête d’ailleurs, Frontières du corps et de l’esprit, Balland et Arte éditions, Paris, 2015.

Charles Richet (1850-1935)

Charles Richet (1850-1935) : L'exercice de la curiosité

Jérôme Van Wijland 

Éditeur : Presses universitaires de Rennes
Collection / Série : Histoire
Prix de vente au public (TTC) : 15 €
140 pages ; 24 x 15,5 cm ; broché
ISBN 978-2-7535-4194-8
Date de parution 22/10/2015

En parallèle de son activité de physiologiste, dont les travaux novateurs sur l’anaphylaxie lui ont valu le prix Nobel en 1913, Charles Richet s’est également voulu écrivain, constructeur et propagandiste de l’aéronautique, militant pacifiste, etc. Cet ouvrage procède à l’état de la recherche sur ce savant pluriel et en explorer les multiples facettes, sans esprit apologétique ni polémique, mais avec toute la rigueur qu’impose la recherche universitaire.

Avec le soutien du ministère de la Culture et de la Communication / DPG – SIAF, Mission aux commémorations nationales, et de la bibliothèque de l’Académie nationale de médecine.

Les corps en Amérique

Bodies in the Americas

Call for Papers

Deadline: December 15, 2015

The editors of fiar invite scholars to send articles (English, Spanish, French and Portuguese) for a special issue ‘Bodies in the Americas’.

In recent years the human body has increasingly become an object of research. Across the disciplines different historical, social or cultural aspects, trends and discourses have been analyzed and identified with regard to the body.

However, studies on the theme often remain within the disciplinary/geographic boundaries. Thus, this special issue of fiar also welcomes submissions from different disciplines such as history, sociology, media studies, cultural studies, literary studies, or art history that contribute to reflecting the variety of trends and discourses in society or culture with regard to the body in Canada, North America, Latin America, the Caribbean and the Americas as a whole. Since the forum for inter-american research (fiar) is a journal that focuses on Inter-American Studies, we also welcome papers with a comparative perspective on the topic. We’re interested in topics such as: which ideals or discourses with regard to the human body and its modification/transformation can be found in the Americas, and how/ in what way body ideals are disseminated. We’re also interested in the (e.g. social, cultural) reasons for these trends/phenomena, but also in (reasons for) similar trends/tendencies or differences in the Americas. Furthermore, we also welcome papers that explore how the aforementioned aspects are being reflected in the media, literature and film.

Please submit an article by December 15th 2015 at the latest. After acceptance, a publication is planned for autumn 2016.

The forum for inter-american research (fiar) is the official electronic journal of the International Association of Inter-American Studies. It was established by the American Studies Program at Bielefeld University in 2008.

We foster a dialogic and interdisciplinary approach to the study of the Americas. fiar is a peer-reviewed online journal. Articles in this journal undergo a double-blind review process and are published in English, Spanish, (and starting in 2015) French and Portuguese. We do not charge readers or institutions for full text access. In addition to written work we also publish selected audiovisual material of conference presentations, keynotes, and video features. The editors invite the submission of articles (7,500- 10,000 words, MLA style), event-scenes, interviews and reviews to fiar@interamerica.de. The editorial board consists of a broad range of international scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds. fiar is ASA, EBSCO and MLA registered.

Please contact us via:
E-mail: fiar@interamerica.de
Phone: [49] 521-106-3641
Fax: [49] 521-106-2996
(European Standard Time)

Post:
Postfach 100131
D-33501 Bielefeld
Germany
Visit us at www.interamerica.de

Histoire de la douleur

Histoire de la douleur 

Javier Moscoso


Traducteur : Frederique Langue

Editeur : Prairies Ordinaires
Collection : Singulieres Modernites
Date de parution : 22/10/2015
Ean : 9782350961194
24 x 16 cm, 500 pages

En tant qu'expérience subjective, la douleur est irréductiblement privée. Mais comme chacun le sait, la douleur se dit et la douleur s'expose. Dès lors, elle devient un phénomène culturel et social, une représentation dont on peut étudier les formes et raconter l'histoire.

Malgré les profondes transformations historiques du rapport à la douleur au cours des cinq derniers siècles, celle-ci présente invariablement la structure d'un drame. Elle apparaît comme un état transitoire, un moment de rupture qui demande réparation. La personne qui souffre vit dans un état « liminal ». C'est vrai de Don Quichotte, des pénitentes du xviie vivant à l'ombre des couvents, des vierges martyres du xvie, ou encore des patients anesthésiés du xixe, évoluant entre la conscience et l'inconscience. Mais la douleur possède aussi toutes les caractéristiques de la représentation théâtrale : Elle a des acteurs, une intrigue, une scène, des costumes, des accessoires, une scénographie, et bien évidemment, des spectateurs. Le théâtre de la cruauté, le théâtre anatomique, le théâtre baroque de l'imitation, le spectacle de la violence à l'époque des Lumières, le théâtre d'opération lié à la chirurgie dentaire et à l'obstétrique, sans oublier la comédie du masochiste - dans le drame de la douleur, il s'agit d'emporter la conviction d'autrui, et cela suppose de respecter à la lettre les règles admises de persuasion. C'est pourquoi l'histoire racontée dans ce livre s'organise autour des lieux communs (au sens rhétorique du mot) à travers lesquels la douleur s'est successivement construite : la représentation, l'imitation, la sympathie, la confiance, le témoignage, la correspondance, la narrativité, la réitération.

Voilà pour le cadre épistémologique. Malgré son souci de rigueur et son érudition, l'histoire racontée n'a absolument rien d'aride : Javier Moscoso convoque une riche iconographie à l'appui de son argumentation et puise dans des sources littéraires, personnelles, religieuses, juridiques et médicales pour livrer une réflexion brillante et enlevée sur les transformations de la souffrance en Occident, sur la manière dont cette expérience naguère investie d'une signification religieuse est devenue un symptôme, et à ce titre, la marque d'un mal physique ou psychique à éliminer. À travers l'histoire de la douleur, il ne nous propose rien de moins qu'une réflexion profonde sur la formation de l'individu moderne.

Un très grand livre.

Science, médecine et culture au XIXe siècle

Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Seminars in Michaelmas Term 2015, University of Oxford


We are pleased to announce our Science, Medicine and Culture seminars for 2015. All seminars take place from 5.30 – 7.00, in Seminar Room 3 at St Anne’s College, Oxford. All are welcome, and drinks will be served after each seminar.


Wednesday 28 October 2015
Dr Madeleine Wood, Queen Mary University of London, ‘A ‘heart hard as a nethermillstone’: The relational dynamics of Victorian ‘addiction’’

This paper explores the way in which substance use and compulsive behaviours are represented in mid-Victorian literature and medicine when read not as an individual experience, but as one that operates between selves. By looking at gambling, as well as alcoholism and opium use, we see how the disruption of intimate relationships comes to be situated within the emergent discourse of ‘addiction’ in the nineteenth century.


Wednesday 1 1 November 2015
Dr Claire Jones, King's College London, ‘Septic Subjects: Infection and Occupational Risk in British Hospitals, 1870-1970’

This paper addresses the effects of hospital-acquired infection (and practices surrounding its prevention and control) on hospital staff during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It focuses on four British hospitals associated with the infection control practices of Joseph Lister and Florence Nightingale – King’s College and St Thomas’ in London and the Royal Infirmaries of Edinburgh and of Glasgow in Scotland – and pays particular attention to the experiences of nurses within these hospitals. Hospital nursing registers, alongside other evidence including oral testimonies, reveal that while nurses felt lucky to be part of the nursing profession as a worthy vocation, many also became ill at various points throughout their lives as a direct result of working on wards with infected patients. By framing the discussion in terms of occupational risk, this paper argues that the introduction and enforcement of hospital infection control procedures were not solely for the benefit of the patient but also for the staff who treated them. A healthy workforce also formed an important part of hospital efficiency metrics.


Wednesday 25 November 2015
Professor Karen Sayer, Leeds Trinity University, ‘Radical Requiems: the return of the past in British agriculture, 1850-1950’

Through art and literature, the press and even advertising, we think we know what a farm is, but how it is managed and what it is for? Post-war to the mid-C20th the question of when a farm is not a farm was raised in the British press. ‘Where does one draw the line’, one correspondent to The Guardian asked in 1964, ‘between the traditional farmer and his confrontation with the elements and these new industrialised farmers who create their own hazards (and our consumer hazards) by treating their stock as belt-conveyor units?’ This paper will address this kind of juxtaposition/binary opposition — traditional agriculture vs. industrialised agriculture (at least re the farmed animal) – as an artefact and consider where and when this artefact was produced and what effect it had. Requiem for lost traditions harnessed the public’s conscience, and resulted in legislative change, (improved animal welfare from the point of view of ethologists); but, farmers and producers were not slow to capitalise: the naturalised countryside, rescued for the good of the consumer, was always for sale. In essence, the theme of the paper can be captured by the question ‘what is a farm’?


The Science, Medicine and Culture seminar series is co-hosted by the Diseases of Modern Life and Constructing Scientific Communities projects at the University of Oxford.

Colloque de la Société Française d'Histoire des Sciences Humaines

Colloque de la Société Française d'Histoire des Sciences Humaines 

5 et 6 novembre 2015










9.30-11.30
Sur l’utilisation du dossier de patient comme source d’histoire
Symposium Fanny Le Bonhomme (coord.)
Salle du Centre Cavaillès (29, rue d’Ulm, 3e étage, à droite au fond)

– Marianna Scarfone, Pour une enquête sur les écrits de la pratique : origine et transformations du dossier médical en France et en Italie

– Clément Fromentin, Les dossiers médicaux de la Clinique des Maladies Mentales de Sainte-Anne (1879-1939)

– Fanny Le Bonhomme, « Et si je disais maintenant “Heil Hitler !” » : la névrose du salut hitlérien. Étude de cas autour du dossier d’Otto F. (Berlin-Est, République démocratique allemande, 1968)

– Coline Loison, Les dossiers de patients du centre de lutte contre le cancer de Nantes des années 1940 aux années 1960, quelles sources pour les historiens ?

Philosophie, psychologie et sociologie. Changements cognitifs et choix de carrière (1870-1930)
Symposium Marc Joly (coord.)
 Salle de séminaire République des savoirs(45, rue d’Ulm, Pavillon Pasteur, niveau -1)

– Introduction : Louis Pinto, « Le tracé des frontières »

– Michel Lallement, « Philosophie et analyse sociologique des classes sociales : Edmond Goblot »

– Thibaud Trochu, « Théodule Ribot (1839-1916), une stratégie de rupture avec la philosophie ? »

– Marc Joly, « De la philosophie à la sociologie : Norbert Elias »

11.30-12.00 Pause Pause

12.00-13.00
Session de communications
Salle du Centre Cavaillès (29, rue d’Ulm, 3e étage, à droite au fond)

– Simon Ridley, L’Université de Californie à Berkeley et les sciences humaines et sociales

– Stéphanie Pache, Faire l’histoire d’un courant critique de la psychologie : quel apport pour l’étude des disciplines psychiques au XXe siècle ?

Session de communications
Salle de séminaire République des savoirs (45, rue d’Ulm, Pavillon Pasteur, niveau -1)

– Sébastien Plutniak, « C’est du chinois ? Eh bien le chinois ça s’apprend ! » Quelles organisations collectives pour formaliser l’archéologie ? (1950–2000)

– Mathieu Arminjon, Emergence d’un naturalisme critique dans le milieu universitaire états-unien de l’après 1968 : quelques repères historiques et épistémologiques


13-14.30 Déjeuner

14.30-17.00
Table Ronde - De la spatialité, des lieux et de la circulation : comment la géographie peut-elle contribuer à faire l’histoire des sciences ?
Salle du Centre Cavaillès (29, rue d’Ulm, 3e étage, à droite au fond)

– Sylvain Cuyala, De l’apport de l’analyse spatiale en Science Studies. L’exemple de l’étude des mouvements scientifiques

– Federico Ferretti, Le spatial turn comme outil de recherche en histoire des sciences : spatialités des réseaux scientifiques et militants des géographes anarchistes en Suisse et en Europe (19e– 20e siècle)

– Pascal Clerc, Des savoirs en espaces : Lyon et le Monde dans la deuxième moitié du XIXe siècle

– Jean-Marc Besse, Pratiques spatiales et écriture de la géographie à la Renaissance : la Cosmographie de Sébastien Münster

– Laura Péaud, L’apport du spatial turn en histoire de la géographie : circulations, réseaux et spatialités d’Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859)

Labex : Les passés dans le présent. Les périodes de fondation comme entrée privilégiée pour l’historiographie des sciences sociales et l’étude des effets croisés entre acteurs et institutions 
 Symposium Christelle Dormoy-Rajramanan (coord.)
Salle à préciser

– Marie-Dominique Mouton : « Éric de Dampierre et les livres »

– Sophie Blanchy : « Les débuts de l’ethnologie à Nanterre »

– Emmanuel Monneau : « Socio-histoire de la science économique à l’Université Picardie Jules Verne à travers l’étude de sa faculté et de ses principaux acteurs (1970-2009) »

– Charles Soulié : « La sociologie à l’Université Paris VIII-Vincennes dans les années 1970 : une discipline sous haute pression politique »

– Christelle Dormoy-Rajramanan, « La fondation de la sociologie à Nanterre, 1965-1980 »

17.00-17.30 Pause Pause

17.30-18.30
Session de communications
Salle du Centre Cavaillès (29, rue d’Ulm, 3e étage, à droite au fond)

– Annick Louis, La construction d’un archéologue. Les autobiographies de Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890)

– Emmanuel d’Hombres, L’évolutionnisme culturel comme programme de recherche (1720-1910)

Session de communications 
Salle à préciser

– Laurent Le Gall, Un savoir subalterne : l’hétéronomie du folklorisme comme dimension constitutive de sa piètre qualification (1880-1914)

– Maurizio Coppola, Mission scientifique au Lac Tana (Ethiopie) : une enquête ethnologique du fascisme


Vendredi 6 novembre 2015

9.00-11.00
Des lendemains qui chantent à l’évidence convenue. L’interdisciplinarité comme injonction, ressource et imaginaire
Symposium Serge Reubi et Géraldine Delley (coord.)
Salle du Centre Cavaillès (29, rue d’Ulm, 3e étage, à droite au fond)

– Géraldine Delley, Les promesses de l’atome et la tentation interdisciplinaire : le cas du 14C et de l’archéologie

– Emanuel Bertrand, Le physicien et la philosophe : une Nouvelle alliance sans aucune hiérarchie disciplinaire ?

– Serge Reubi, Technologie pacifique, ressource symbolique et attestation de modernité dans les sciences sociales françaises de l’Entre-deux-guerres. La photographie aérienne comme pratique interdisciplinaire exemplaire

– Discutant : Nathan Schlanger

Les religions du monde anglo-saxon face à l’émergence de l’anthropologie raciale au XIXe siècle
Symposium Vincent Vilmain (coord.)
Salle de séminaire République des savoirs(45, rue d’Ulm, Pavillon Pasteur, niveau -1)

– Neil Davie, Le catholicisme irlandais confronté à l’anthropologie raciale

– Maud Michaud, Les relations entre les missionnaires britanniques en Ouganda et les milieux anthropologiques.

– Chrystal Vanel, Le mormonisme confronté à l’anthropologie raciale »

– Vincent Vilmain, Le judaïsme britannique et la question d’une « race » juive au XIXe siècle


11.00-11.30 Pause

11.30-12.30
Session de communications
Salle du Centre Cavaillès (29, rue d’Ulm, 3e étage, à droite au fond)

– Stève Bessac-Vaure, Les sciences humaines au service du maintien de l’ordre ? Formation et pratiques des agents locaux du maintien de l’ordre sous le protectorat français au Maroc (1912-1936)

– Hélène Solot, Des questionnaires pour gagner la guerre ? Réception et utilisation par l’armée américaine des travaux des social scientists de la section de recherche du département de la guerre (1941-1945)

Session de communications
Salle de séminaire République des savoirs(45, rue d’Ulm, Pavillon Pasteur, niveau -1)

– Dylan Simon, La géographie comme écologie de l’homme. Circulations et indéterminations savantes dans le discours de Max Sorre

– Eric Vandendriessche et Céline Petit, Des prémices d’une anthropologie des pratiques mathématiques à la constitution d’un nouveau champ disciplinaire : l’ethnomathématique


12.30-14.00 Déjeuner


14.00-16.30
La vie savante. Ce que la science fait à la vie (Anthropologie-ethnologie, XIXe – XXe siècles) 
Symposium Nicolas Adell (coord.)
Salle du Centre Cavaillès (29, rue d’Ulm, 3e étage, à droite au fond)

– Nicolas Adell, Introduction

– Jean-François Bert, Michel Foucault à Münsterlingen : une expérience à l’origine d’un style

– Jérôme Lamy, Une ethnologie spéculaire ? L’œuvre de Michel Leiris dans ses journaux et ses écrits autobiographiques

– Christine Laurière, « Il faut savoir vivre dangereusement ». Portrait d’Arnold Van Gennep en ethnographe hors-champ

– Marianne Lemaire, Vies savantes au féminin.

14.30- 16.00
Session de communications 
 Salle de séminaire République des savoirs (45, rue d’Ulm, Pavillon Pasteur, niveau -1)

– Sigrid Leyssen, Vers une histoire matérielle des stimuli visuels en psychologie

– Camille Jaccard, Aller-retour d’un psychologue entre Genève et Paris : Redéfinition du centre et de la périphérie dans la carrière de Jean Piaget

– Renata Latala, Collaborations intellectuelles et échanges scientifiques au gré des configurations idéologiques : itinéraires polonais de Jean Piaget


17.00-18.00
Session de communications
Salle du Centre Cavaillès (29, rue d’Ulm, 3e étage, à droite au fond)

– Marcia Consolim et Sébastien Mosbah-Natanson, Le lancement de la Revue internationale de sociologie de René Worms : un impensé historiographique

– Emilia Plosceanu, La configuration d’un savant « entrepreneur en réforme » : Dimitrie Gusti (1880-1955) et les sciences sociales en Roumanie

16h30-18.00
L’environnement des sciences de l’homme
Symposium Julien Vincent (coord.)
Salle de séminaire République des savoirs (45, rue d’Ulm, Pavillon Pasteur, niveau -1)

– Jean-Luc Chappey, L’Idéologie à l’épreuve de l’histoire environnementale

– Claude-Olivier Doron, Crétins et peuples des marais. Comment le modèle dégénératif permet de penser la formation de types différents au sein de la société française ?

– Julien Vincent, L’environnement de l’économie politique sous la Révolution française : un moment républicain (1794-1803)

18.15-18.45 Discussion générale : Quelles perspectives pour l’histoire des SHS ?

Histoires croisées de la psychologie, la psychiatrie et la psychanalyse

Psychologie, psychiatrie et psychanalyse : Histoires croisées

Séminaire bimensuel

Organisé par Jacqueline CARROY (Directrice d'études à la retraite, E.H.E.S.S.), Jean-Christophe COFFIN (Maître de conférences, Université de Paris VIII Saint-Denis), Annick OHAYON (Maître de conférences honoraire, Université de Paris VIII Saint-Denis) et Régine PLAS (Professeur honoraire, Université Paris Descartes)

VENDREDI (14H.-16H.)

Lieu du séminaire : Centre Alexandre Koyré, 27 rue Damesme 75013 Paris (5° étage). Métro Tolbiac : Ligne 7 – Bus 62 ou 47.

Psychologie, psychiatrie et psychanalyse ont contribué et contribuent à constituer le champ des savoirs et des pratiques sur l’homme. Il nous semble important de développer à leur endroit une approche historienne. Ce séminaire a pour propos de confronter les histoires de la psychologie, de la psychiatrie et de la psychanalyse, et d’explorer les territoires dévolus à l’homme moral, physique et social dans une période allant du 18e au 20e siècle. Nous souhaitons privilégier la confrontation des approches et des points de vue afin de mettre en œuvre une histoire intellectuelle, culturelle et sociale du domaine « psy ».

Ce séminaire est ouvert aux chercheurs et aux étudiants en histoire et en histoire des sciences, aux praticiens et aux chercheurs en psychologie, psychiatrie et psychanalyse et plus généralement en sciences humaines, ainsi qu’à toute personne intéressée.

13 NOVEMBRE 2015 : Jean-Christophe COFFIN (Université Paris 8-CAK), Psychologie et psychanalyse au service de l’enfant : l’exemple d’Ernst Papanek (1900-1973).

27 NOVEMBRE 2015 : Guillermo de EUGENIO (Ehess-CAK), La figure du masochiste en France (1895-1925). Circulation des savoirs psys et statut social du pervers.

11 DECEMBRE 2015 : Marianna SCARFONE (Ehess-CAK), Quand la psychiatrie européenne franchit ses frontières. Élaboration théorique et expériences de soin en milieu colonial.

8 JANVIER 2016 : Arnaud PASSALACQUA (Université Paris 7-Denis Diderot), Jean-Maurice Lahy et la prophylaxie des accidents : aux origines de l’adoption durable de la psychologie appliquée par un secteur industriel.

22 JANVIER 2016 : Marcia CONSOLIM, (Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brésil), Georges Dumas (1866-1946), psychologue et ambassadeur intellectuel au Brésil.

5 FEVRIER 2016 : Wolf Feuerhahn (CNRS, CAK), « Le procès de civilisation » de Norbert Elias. Retour sur un titre provocateur dans le contexte allemand des débats entre sociologie, psychanalyse et marxisme.

19 FEVRIER 2016 : Florent Serina (Lausanne, UNIL, IUHMSP), Traducteurs et traductions de C. G. Jung en langue française au XXe siècle.

18 MARS 2016 (14h.-18h.) : Journée d’études, L’entreprise intellectuelle de Théodule Ribot (1839-1916) et le roman des origines de la psychologie française (intervenants : J. Carroy, W. Feuerhahn, V. Guillin, R. Plas, T. Trochu, G. Vigarello – discutant : S. Soulié).

1er AVRIL 2016 : Lola Kheyar Stibler (Sorbonne Nouvelle), Langue littéraire et psychologie autour de 1880 : Taine et Goncourt.

15 AVRIL 2016 : Fanny Le Bonhomme (CERHIO-Rennes, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin et Centre de recherche sur l'histoire du temps présent, Postdam), Les « délires réunificateurs » ou comment faire tomber le mur de Berlin avec 20 ans d'avance ? (Berlin-Est, République démocratique allemande, années 1960).

20 MAI 2016 : Jean-Christophe COFFIN (Université Paris 8-CAK), Genre et psychiatrie dans le contexte des années 1970.

27 MAI 2016 : Alejandro Dafgal (université de Buenos Aires, CONISET), La psychanalyse en Argentine, une histoire particulière ?

Alfred Binet, fondateur de la psychologie scientifique

Beyond the Metric Scale of Intelligence. Alfred Binet, Founder of French Scientific Psychology

Lecture by Alexandre Klein (Univerity of Ottawa)

September 28th, 2015

McMaster University , Hamilton (ON) 

Health Sciences Library

Room 1B31

The French psychologist Alfred Binet (1857-1911) is the well-known inventor of the first metric scale of intelligence (which had led to the creation of the IQ test). Beyond this fact mentioned in all books pertaining to the history of psychology, Binet was also a multifaceted scientist and most importantly one of the main founders of scientific psychology in France. After his training at La Salpêtrière with Jean Martin Charcot (1825-1893), Binet developed, in the laboratory that Henry Beaunis (1830-1921) had created at La Sorbonne, an individual psychology based on the experimental method. Thanks to l’Année psychologique (the first journal specifically dedicated to psychology in France) that he created in 1894, he established himself as a major figure of Francophone psychology. Defending psychology as an autonomous scientific discipline, distinct from medicine as well as philosophy, he shaped it as the specific human science we now know it as. This new and more complete portrait of Alfred Binet as the nexus of the emergence of scientific psychology in France, which was drawn in the 2014 webdocumentary entitled Alfred Binet. Naissance de la psychologie scientifique (www.alfredbinet-univ.lorraine.fr), will be the object of our presentation.

Rencontre de la Société espagnole pour l'histoire de la psychologie

Spanish Society for the History of Psychology Symposium

Call for papers


Note : Due Dec 31, 2015

The "Spanish Society for the History of Psychology" organizes its XXIX Annual Symposium on University Portucalense (Porto, Portugal) from 4 to 6 May 2016.

The overall theme of the Symposium, the participants proposed, focuses on the "History of Psychopathology and Psychotherapy" assuming full range of theories, models and practices, with special emphasis on the Latin American world.Therefore, the Symposium will provide an opportunity for dissemination, discussion and critical deepening of historical and epistemological issues personalities and institutions in the Latin American world, they have contributed to the theoretical and practical innovation in the context of understanding / explanation psychopathological and psychotherapeutic intervention. It is intended, therefore, to encourage research in a scientific-cultural and geopolitical sphere that has been systematically marginalized.

However, special attention to this general theme does not mean the exclusion of other important themes in the history of psychology, among which we highlight the following:

- Philosophical Foundations of Psychology,

- Psychology at the Ibero-

- History of psychological schools,

- History of the Neurosciences and Neropsicología,

- Biographies reviews Psychologists / as,

- History of psychiatric institutions,

- Psychology, colonialism, racism and multi / inter-cultural,

- Psychology of sexuality and gender,

- Women and feminism in psychology,

- Psychology of religion and spirituality,

- Efemerides held in 2016, including the following anniversaries: Foundation Club Zurich by Carl Gustav Jung (1916), E. Mach (1838-1916), Th Ribot (1839-1916), O. Külpe (. 1862-1916), H. Münsterberg (1863-1916), Leta Hollingworth (1886-1939, PhD 1916), H. Eysenck (1916-1997), Julian Rotter (1916-2014), Virginia Satir (1916-1988 ). 

Summaries will be accepted in Portuguese, English, and Spanish)

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Repas et convivialité

Tous à table ! Repas et convivialité 

Sous la direction de Christiane Demeulenaere-Douyère


(édition électronique)

2015
191 p. | 21 x 29,7 cm | ill.
ISSN : 1173-0899
Collection : Actes des congrès nationaux des sociétés historiques et scientifiques (édition électronique)


Être à table ne signifie pas uniquement satisfaire un besoin ou prendre du plaisir. Le repas est souvent un moment de convivialité, partagé au sein d’un groupe (en famille, entre amis, avec des collègues) et associé à des habitudes, des coutumes, des codes. La bienséance, les manières de la table, la nourriture elle-même définissent aussi la façon d’être ensemble et sont révélatrices de valeurs morales et culturelles. Ce recueil d’actes du 138e Congrès national des sociétés historiques et scientifiques apporte un éclairage sur les fonctions sociales de l’alimentation et nous invite à réfléchir sur les significations d’un acte quotidien.

Textes de Françoise Bayard, Serge Bianchi, Cécile Bouet, Catherine Chadefaud, Benoît Clavel, Christophe Cloquier, Hubert Delorme, Laure Gevertz, Arbia Hilali, Jean-Loup Lemaitre, Jérôme Louis, Federica Masè, Gersende Piernas

La médecine des femmes entre le texte et l'imprimé

Women’s medicine between script and print, c. 1450–1600

Lecture by Dr Gabriella Zuccolin (University of Cambridge)

Tuesday (27th October)
Doors open at 6pm prompt, the seminar will start at 6.15pm.


Wellcome Library, 183 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE.

By 1600 only a few gynaecological texts written in Latin and none of those written in vernacular languages in the Middle Ages had made the transition into print. In spite of this apparent lack of interest in the subject, the 16th century saw the appearance, Europe-wide, of new Latin gynaecological texts, the birth of obstetrical writing, especially in the vernacular, and the creation of a new audience for these texts: midwives. This state of affairs prompts many questions. How ‘new’ were these vernacular texts? To what extent were they the products of local practices? By engaging with the transition from medieval to Renaissance cultures of reading and disseminating knowledge, I will propose a survey of newly authored printed vernacular works on childbirth in Europe, and will seek to understand how these new books emerged from – and related to – a Latinate and manuscript medical culture. Building on recent landmark monographs which seek to understand what happened to ‘women’s medicine’ in the 16th and 17th centuries, the paper will focus on current research on the topic and – by giving due attention to Latin sources circulating in the later Middle Ages and the 16th century – will suggest possible solutions to the apparent gulf separating the medieval manuscript texts, the new early modern print literature, and their respective audiences.

2015/16 History of Pre-Modern Medicine
More info here: http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2015/10/womens-medicine-between-script-and-print-c-1450-1600/

75 ans de pédopsychiatrie à Lausanne

75 ans de pédopsychiatrie à Lausanne. Du Bercail au Centre psychothérapeutique

Taline Garibian

Avec un avant-propos de Jean-Michel Henny, une préface de François Ansermet
et une postface d’Olivier Halfon & Philippe Nendaz



BHMS Editions
Série Hors-série
XVIII et 130 p., 19.7 x 21 cm
ISBN: 978-2-940527-01-4

En 1938 s’ouvre à Lausanne une institution psychiatrique pionnière dévolue aux enfants : Le Bercail. Sa création témoigne de la volonté d’offrir une prise en charge spécifique en réunissant une multiplicité de professionnels : éducateur/trice, médecin, assistant-e social-e, psychologue… L’histoire de cette institution, devenue le Centre psychothérapeutique, témoigne non seulement de l’évolution de la pédopsychiatrie comme spécialité médicale, mais également de la complexité des liens entretenus entre les sphères pénale, éducative et médicale, du souci de l’enfance en difficulté au sein de notre société.

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La psychiatrie dans l'Europe d'après-guerre

Psychiatry in Europe after World War II


Conference


Ocotber 30-31 2015

Karl Jaspers Centre







30.10.15

10.00 Uhr Conference Opening

Maike Rotzoll, Frank Grüner, Georg Lilienthal, Wolfgang U. Eckart


10.15 Uhr – 11.45 Uhr
I. Section/ Sektion I - Time and Space – German Post-War Psychiatry in its Context

Am Ende? Europa nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg und die Psychiatrie – eine Einführung

Wolfgang U. Eckart (Heidelberg)


Psychiatrie(politik) im Nationalsozialismus und ihre Folgen – ein Überblick

Hans-Walter Schmuhl (Bielefeld)


Nachkriegsprozesse zu den Krankenmorden in Ost und West – ein Überblick bis 1970

Gerrit Hohendorf (München)


12.00 Uhr – 13.30 Uhr

II. The Occupation Powers and their Psychiatry

Psychiatrische Genetik, Community Psychiatry und Minderheitenpolitik in den USA in den 1940er und 1950er Jahren
Marion Schmidt (Baltimore)

Zur Psychiatrie in der Sowjetunion vom Ende des 2. Weltkriegs bis zum Beginn der 1970er Jahre
Frank Grüner (Heidelberg)

Some Perspectives on Making the Mental Hospital more Therapeutic in Post-War Britain
Duncan Double (Norwich)

Französische Psychiatrie in den 1940er und 1950er Jahren
Christian Bonah/Chantal Marazia (Strasbourg)


14.30 Uhr – 16.00 Uhr
III. On the Way to ‘Normality’. Asylum Psychiatry in the four German Occupation Zones

Neuorientierung nach Kriegsende? Das Beispiel der Heil- und Pflegeanstalt Klingenmünster in der französischen Besatzungszone
Maike Rotzoll/ Anna Gardon (Heidelberg)

Das Sterben geht weiter. Die Landesanstalt Großschweidnitz und die SBZ/DDR
Dietmar Schulze (Heidelberg/Leipzig)

Reaktionen auf den Krankenmord in der britischen Besatzungszone. Das Beispiel der Hungeranstalt Wehnen
Ingo Harms (Heidelberg/Oldenburg)

Nach dem Krieg in der amerikanischen Besatzungszone. Die Landesheilanstalt Hadamar, 1945-1955
Ralph Höger/Georg Lilienthal (Heidelberg/Hadamar)


16.30 Uhr – 18.00 Uhr
IV. Psychiatry in the Ambit of the Soviet Union/ Psychiatrie im Einflussbereich der Sowjetunion

Sleeping-Therapy and Psychiatry during the Stalinist Pavlov-Campaign at the University of Tartu in 1950s
Ken Kalling/Erki Tammiksaar (Tartu)

Hunger, Death, and Transfer. War Aftermath and German Psychiatric Patients in Bohemia and Moravia, 1945-1947
Michal Šimůnek/Milan Novak (Prag/Kosmanos)

Die Glocken des Kreml gaben den Takt vor. Polnische Psychiatrie in der Stalinzeit)
Tadeusz Nasierowski/Darius Myszka (Warschau)

The Road Not Taken: Forging Mental Health Care in Post-WWII Yugoslavia
Mat Savelli (Hamilton/Ontario)


31.10.2015

09.30 Uhr – 11.00 Uhr
V. Under the Influence of the Marshall Plan

„Nicht ohne blinde Flecken. Die Niederlande – Wiederaufbau und Emanzipation des Sektors Psychiatrie“
Cecile aan de Stegge (Bunnik)

Business as usual. Belgische Psychiatrie in den Nachkriegsjahren
Benoît Majerus (Luxemburg)

Norwegian Psychiatry in the Wake of the German Occupation, 1940-1955
Per Haave (Oslo)

Treating the “Untreatable”. Psychiatric Treatments and Danish Psychiatry after World War II
Jesper Kragh Vaczy (Kopenhagen)


11.15 Uhr – 12.45 Uhr
VI. Shadows of War. Europe and beyond

Der lange Schatten der „Euthanasie“: Psychiatrie in Österreich, ca. 1945 bis 1955
Herwig Czech (Wien)

Italian Psychiatry and the Post-War generation. Franco Basaglia and the Others
John Foot (Bristol)

Psychiatry in Japan after 1945
Akihito Suzuki (Yokohama)

Israeli Psychiatry – the first Decades
Rakefet Zalashik (Philadelphia)

14.00 Uhr – 16.30 Uhr
VII. Beyond the Asylum. The Development of Universitary Psychiatry in East and West Germany

Universitätspsychiatrie in Westdeutschland ab 1945
Volker Roelcke (Gießen)

Rebuilding a Society: German Child- and Adolescent Psychiatry, 1945-1955
Sascha Topp/Heiner Fangerau (Köln)

Sturm auf die Festung Wissenschaft? – Universitätspsychiatrie in Ostdeutschland nach 1945
Ekkehardt Kumbier (Rostock)

Psychiatrie ohne Mauer? – Sozialpsychiatrische Austauschprozesse zwischen DDR und Bundesrepublik im Vorfeld der Psychiatriereform
Christof Beyer (Hannover)

Abschlusskommentar und Ausblick
Georg Lilienthal/Maike Rotzoll

Traductions et réception de Ludwik Fleck

Ludwik Fleck's theory of thought styles and thought collectives – translations and receptions

Call for papers

International conference

10-11.03.2016, Wrocław (Poland)

In 1935 the then unknown Polish doctor and microbiologist Ludwik Fleck (1896-1961) published in German a book in the field of philosophy of science under the long title Entstehung und Entwicklung einer wissen-schaftlichen Tatsache: Einführung in die Lehre vom Denkstil und Denk-kollektiv. It provoked a couple of reviews, but due to historical circumstances – World War II, the Soviet and German occupation of Poland, the Holocaust and Fleck’s deportation to Auschwitz – in the beginning it did not receive a thorough reception. The book was eventually received with great enthusiasm – but only two decades after Fleck had died. In 1979, the University of Chicago Press published an English translation of his book. In the context of the reception of Thomas Kuhn’s pioneering study on scientific revolutions, Fleck was suddenly understood as a previously-unknown forerunner to social constructivist epistemology. The translation of the 150 pages had taken more than five years, and it turned out to be a cumbersome process that occupied several translators and editors. Hints can be found in the preface and introduction of the book where the editors complained about Fleck’s “idiosyncratic” and “complicated” German. Obviously these problems did not foreclose further translations. Meanwhile, Italian (1983), Polish (1986), Spanish (1986), Swedish (1997), Russian (1999), French (2005) and Portuguese (2010) translations of the book have been published with prefaces or afterwords contributed by influential scholars such as Thomas Kuhn, Bruno Latour or Paolo Rossi. Unfortunately, there is still very little knowledge about the initial reception and the process of translating Fleck’s texts, especially in the languages listed above, and in countries outside of Europe and the USA. This is the reason why we would like:

• 1. to gather an overview of the worldwide reception of Fleck’s concepts, and
• 2. to discuss problems of translations/editions of his texts.

We would like to address an international public of scholars to compare and correlate the different local receptions.
Translators as well as theoreticians of translation are welcome to talk about specific problems of translating the legacy of Ludwik Fleck.
We particularly invite focused presentations about specific moments, authors and institutions to promote Fleck’s thought most prominently. Such focus may also be dedicated to the kind of journal articles on Fleck that were published (medical, philosophical, sociological etc.). Presenters may also highlight important controversies about or around Fleck. Discussions of applications of Fleck’s theory in concrete research are welcome, as are arguments about important concepts beyond “thought style and thought collective” adopted from Fleck or yet to be adopted. Also, contributions to (unknown) parts of Fleck’s biography are most appreciated. The conference aims to provide a platform for preparing, sharing, discussing and completing the bibliography of branches of reception concerning languages, nations, etc. Last but not least, a listing of all known translations of Fleck’s
own texts is targeted.

Talks on these foci are of priority, but the organizing committee will also consider other presentations related to Fleck.
Our long-term plan is to publish a new collected edition of Fleck’s writings in English in 2019, 40 years after the publication of the first American edition of Fleck’s book.

The conference is organized by Project Science Foundation (Fundacja Projekt Nauka, Poland, www.projekt-nauka.com)  as a part of the project “Philological analysis of Ludwik Fleck’s Philosophical works and it’s translations in Polish, English and German”. The project is funded by Polish National Science Centre (www.ncn.gov.pl) awarded on the basis of the decision
number DEC-2012/06/M/HS2/00313. Project Science Foundation will try to support those admitted presenters, who cannot be reimbursed by their home institutions for travel expenses and accommodation.
Co-organizers: Ludwik Fleck Centre (Ludwik Fleck Zentrum) at Collegium Helveticum at University of Zürich and Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETHZ, Switzerland), Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Germany), Ludwik Fleck Circle (Ludwik Fleck Kreis).

Members of the organizing committee:
Dr. Paweł Jarnicki, Project Science Foundation and Ludwik Fleck Centre – pawel.jarnicki@projekt-nauka.com
Dr. Martina Schlünder, Ludwik Fleck Circle and Max Planck Institute for the History of Science –
mschluender@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Dr. Ohad Parnes, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science – oparnes@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Dr.Rainer Egloff, Ludwik Fleck Centre – egloff@collegium.ethz.ch
Sandra Lang, Ludwik Fleck Centre – lang@collegium.ethz.ch

Important information:
Deadline for abstracts: 2 November, 2015
Notification of acceptance: 2 December, 2015
Language of the conference: English
To submit an abstract, please send 1) your abstract (max. 300-500 words) and 2) a short bio (max. 300 words) to  pawel.jarnicki@projekt-nauka.com by 2 November, 2015.


Confirmed speakers:
Mauro Condé (Brasil) - THE RECEPTION OF LUDWIK FLECK IN BRAZIL: FROM AN ANONYMOUS VISITOR TO A RENOWNED THINKER

Nathalie Jas (France) - WHAT A JOURNEY! TRANSLATING FLECK AS NON FLECK SPECIALIST AND NON PROFESSIONAL TRANSLATOR

Ilana Löwy (France) - FLECK AND THE ETHICS OF SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY

Mariana Camilo de Oliveira (Argentina) - TRANSLATION COLLECTIVE, TRANSLATION STYLES. ON THE EXPERIENCE OF TRANSLATING LUDWIK FLECK INTO BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE

Stefano Poggi (Italy) - ON-THE-SURFACE REVOLUTIONS AND IN-THE-DEEP EVOLUTIONS. PAOLO ROSSI AND THE ITALIAN TRANSLATION OF FLECK’S ENTSTEHUNG

Wojciech Sady (Poland) - FLECK'S EPISTEMOLOGY, WRITING AND RELATIVISTIC REVOLUTION IN PHYSICS

Hartmut von Sass (Switzerland) - FOR YOUR EYES ONLY. TRANSCENDENTAL PRAGMATISM IN LUDWIK FLECK

Alchimie et chimie dans la santé et la maladie

Alchemy and Chemistry in Sickness and in Health

6th SHAC Postgraduate Workshop 


Friday, 30 October 2015, 9:45 am–5:30 pm, $
Maison Française, 2–10 Norham Road, Oxford, OX2 6SE.


Programme

09:45 Registration

10:15 Welcome and Introduction

10:30 Chemistry Panel
 Dr Elena Serrano (independent researcher)
Against Political and Health Hazards: Guyton’s Fumigating Machine in Spain during the Napoleonic Era

Catherine Rushmore (Oxford Brookes)
Manufacturing, Using and Regulating Chemicals for Domestic Purposes in the Mid-Twentieth Century: The Impact on Health and Well-Being

11:30 Coffee Break

12:00 Keynote Lecture
Prof. Robert J. Flanagan (King’s College)
Schizophrenia from Chlorpromazine to Clozapine: There Is No Gain without Pain

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Alchemy Panel
Lyke de Vries (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Paracelsus and Roman Censorship: A Discussion of Johannes Faber’s Report on Paracelsus (1616)

Elisabeth Moreau (Université Libre de Bruxelles/Radboud U. Nijmegen)
The Chymical Nature of the Vital Principle in Late Renaissance Medicine

Curtis Runstedler (Durham)
Alchemy, Morality, and Healthy Living in John Gower’s Confessio Amantis

15:30 Coffee Break

16:00 Keynote Lecture
Dr Stephen Pumfrey (Lancaster) with Paul Ashcroft (Lancaster)
Corpus Linguistics and Discourses of Early-Modern Alchemy, Chymistry and Chemistry (title tbc)

17:00 Concluding Discussion

17:30 End

Émotions et sociabilité en Grande-Bretagne

Spaces for Feeling. Emotions and Sociabilities in Britain, 1650-1850

Edited by Susan Broomhall

© 2015 

Routledge
242 pages

Spaces for Feeling explores how English and Scottish people experienced sociabilities and socialities from 1650 to 1850, and investigates their operation through emotional practices and particular spaces. The collection highlights the forms, practices, and memberships of these varied spaces for feeling in this two hundred year period and charts the shifting conceptualisations of emotions that underpinned them. 

The authors employ historical, literary, and visual history approaches to analyse a series of literary and art works, emerging forms of print media such as pamphlet propaganda, newspapers, and periodicals, and familial and personal sources such as letters, in order to tease out how particular communities were shaped and cohered through distinct emotional practices in specific spaces of feeling. This collection studies the function of emotions in group formations in Britain during a period that has attracted widespread scholarly interest in the creation and meaning of sociabilities in particular. From clubs and societies to families and households, essays here examine how emotional practices could sustain particular associations, create new social communities and disrupt the capacity of a specific cohort to operate successfully.

This timely collection will be essential reading for students and scholars of the history of emotions.

Assistant libraire aux collections médicales de l'université de Leeds

Medical Collections Project Assistant

Call for applications

Leeds - Main Campus - Library

Closing Date:
Sunday 01 November 2015

This is a fixed-term post available for 2 years.

Hours of work: 17.5 per week (Monday – Friday, morning or afternoon)
Salary:  £18,031 to £20,781 per annum pro rata

The University of Leeds Library has received a Wellcome Research Resources grant to create high quality catalogues and indexes to medical archives and manuscripts, held in the Special Collections. In addition, the grant will ensure appropriate conservation and preservation treatment of all items. Alongside the Wellcome project the Library will digitise selected items from the collections.

You will work as part of the Special Collections Team reporting to the Medical Collections Project Archivist, working in three distinct areas:

• collection processing
• collection care
• digitisation

You will create series and item level descriptions for manuscripts under the guidance of the Archivist to ensure visibility/ discoverability online, undertaking data improvement tasks, ensuring cross-referencing between collections in the collections management system (KE EMu). You will clean and repackage archival material under the guidance of the conservator and prepare material for transportation for external conservation work. You will photograph selected items from the collections using a range of digitisation equipment, ingest images to the Digital Library and link these to catalogue records. You will publicise findings through the Special Collections website to encourage the use of medical collections by researchers.

With substantial experience of working in a Special Collections or Archive environment, and of general clerical work, you be customer-focused with excellent IT skills, including Microsoft Excel. You will have experience of handling and working with manuscripts and archives, be able to work under pressure, prioritising your workload and working accurately and speedily in data input whilst following detailed procedures. You will understand scanning and digitisation, with experience of Photoshop, or other similar editing software. An understanding of collection management systems and archival arrangement and description would be an advantage, as would experience of basic archival cataloguing.

NB. The nature of the work necessitates working with materials that may be dusty or mouldy, in low temperature or low light environments, and lifting and handling of materials, sometimes working at height. Protective equipment and training will be provided.

Information on Special Collections: http://library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections

Information about the Library: http://library.leeds.ac.uk/

Informal enquiries may be made to Joanne Fitton, Acting Head of Special Collections, 0113 343 36377, email j.c.fitton@leeds.ac.uk.


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Dernier numéro de History of the Behavioral Sciences

The History of the Behavioral Sciences

Autumn (Fall) 2015, Volume 51, Issue 4







Original Articles

THE POLITICS OF PSYCHIATRY AND THE VICISSITUDES OF FAITH CIRCA 1950: KARL STERN'S PSYCHIATRIC NOVEL (pages 351–365)
Daniel Burston
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IMPERCEPTIBLE SIGNS: REMNANTS OF MAGNÉTISME IN SCIENTIFIC DISCOURSES ON HYPNOTISM IN LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE (pages 366–386)
KIM M. HAJEK
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KNOWLEDGE ECOLOGIES, “SUPPLE” OBJECTS, AND DIFFERENT PRIORITIES ACROSS WOMEN'S AND GENDER STUDIES PROGRAMS AND DEPARTMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1970–2010 (pages 387–408)
Christine Virginia Wood
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“THE MAN WHO COMMITTED A HUNDRED BURGLARIES”: MARK BENNEY'S STRANGE AND EVENTFUL SOCIOLOGICAL CAREER (pages 409–433)
Raymond M. Lee
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Book Reviews

Michel Jouvet. De la Science et des Rȇves. Memoires d’un Onirologue [Of Science and Dreams: Memoirs of a Sleep Researcher]. Paris: Odile Jacob, 2013. 312 pp. €24.90 (paper). ISBN: 978-2-7381-7712-4. (pages 434–435)
Csaba Pléh

Terry Goldie. The Man Who Invented Gender: Engaging the Ideas of John Money. Vancouver; Toronto: UBC Press, 2014. 276 pp. CAN$29.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780774827935. (pages 436–437)
Lisa Downing

Kate Schechter. Illusions of a Future: Psychoanalysis and the Biopolitics of Desire. Durham; London: Duke University Press, 2014. 276 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8223-5721-6. (pages 437–439)
Julia Gruson-Wood

Grace Davie. Poverty Knowledge in South Africa: A Social History of Human Science, 1855–2005. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 341 pp. $99.00. ISBN: 9780521198752. (pages 439–441)
Wahbie Long

Aaron Panofsky. Misbehaving Science: Controversy and the Development of Behavior Genetics. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2014. 320 pp. $27.50 (Paper). ISBN: 9780226058450. (pages 441–442)
Sarah S. Richardson


Miscellaneous
REPORT OF THE 47TH ANNUAL MEETING OF CHEIRON: THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF THE BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES(pages 443–445)


JOINT MEETING (page 446)

FHHS NEWS (page 447)

NEWS & NOTES—FALL 2015 (pages 448–449)

Chimiothérapie pour la tuberculose en Grande-Bretagne

Trial and evolution: Chemotherapy for tuberculosis in Britain, 1940-1970


Public lecture with Clare Leeming-Latham

Thursday 22 October 2015

Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building

University of York, (starting at 6:00​pm)​. 

Tuberculosis chemotherapy is often presented as a success story dominated by the use of streptomycin in Medical Research Council clinical trials. However, what this standard rhetoric overlooks is the complexity of tuberculosis drug therapy and the relationship between this and two alternative treatment options, bed-rest and thoracic surgery. Initially, these three treatment strands overlapped and the potential of chemotherapy as a curative option was not immediately apparent. This lecture explores the evolution of treatment using drugs alone, where determining best practice from a plethora of prescribing options was clinically challenging.

This is the 2014 William Bynum Prize-winning lecture. Clare won the prize with her paper ‘Unravelling the ‘tangled web’: Chemotherapy for Tuberculosis in Britain, 1940-1970’, on which this lecture is based.

Please see http://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/public-lectures/autumn2015/trial-evolution/ for more details.

La santé publique en Angleterre de 1840 à 1914

Intrusive Interventions. Public Health, Domestic Space, and Infectious Disease Surveillance in England, 1840-1914

Graham Mooney


Publisher: University of Rochester Press (October 15, 2015)
Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History
Hardcover: 318 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1580465277
ISBN-13: 978-1580465274

The politics of public health in modern democracies concerns the balance between rights and responsibilities. This equilibrium of citizenship is under perpetual negotiation, but it was particularly intense in mid-nineteenth-century Britain when public health became deeply embedded as a state practice. Using extensive archival research, Intrusive Interventions examines the contested realm of Victorian liberal subjectivity through an interconnected group of policies: infectious disease reporting, domestic quarantine, mandatory removal to isolation hospital, contact tracing, and the disinfection of homes and belongings. These techniques of infectious disease surveillance eventually became one of the most powerful and controversial set of tools in modern public health. One of the crucial questions for liberal democracies has been how the state relates to the private family in shaping duties, responsibilities, rights, and needs. Intrusive Interventions argues that the gaze of public health was retrained onto everyday behaviors and demonstrates that infectious disease surveillance attempted to govern through the agency of family and through the concept of domesticity. This fresh interpretation of public health practice during the Victorian and Edwardian periods complements studies that have examined domestic visiting, the infant welfare movement, child protection, and school welfare. Graham Mooney is an assistant professor at the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University.

Le rôle des humanités médicales dans le futur de la médecine

How Medical Humanities is Building Bridges to the Future of Medicine


Call for Papers


January 13, 2016 to January 16, 2016

Ireland {Republic}

Papers on the topic of the influence of Medical Humanities on the current and changing state of medicine from various areas of study, including bioethics, literature, sociology, anthropology, public health, history, and medical education, are invited to be considered for Drew University’s Transatlantic Connections 3 Conference, an interdisciplinary conference with a dedicated track for Medical Humanities. The three-day conference will take place in Bundoran, Ireland January 13-16, 2016.

Proposals submitted by graduate students, scholars, faculty, and researchers for presentations, performances, and exhibits are welcome and must be received no later than November 6, 2015. The use of multimedia for presentations is encouraged. Proposals must not exceed 350 words, plus a short presenter bio. All presenters must register as conference presenters and pay registration fee. Accepted applicants will be informed no later than November 13, 2015. For more information on the conference, email drewtransatlantic@gmail.com.

Drew University’s Caspersen School of Graduate Studies is part of an intimate liberal arts university in Madison, New Jersey, and the Medical Humanities program offers degrees at the certificate, master’s, and doctoral level. For more information on the program, visit www.drew.edu/graduate/academics/medical-humanities.

Contact Info:

Tara Jenner

tjenner@drew.edu

Histoire culturelle du sang

Blood Cultures: Medicine, Media, and Militarisms 

Cathy Hannabach


Hardcover: 148 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot (October 14, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1137581581
ISBN-13: 978-1137581587

Blood Cultures traces the cultural history of blood as it enabled the twentieth-century American empire. Spilling blood, managing blood, banking blood, and even sucking blood defined the nation and its practices, from Alcatraz Island to Guantanamo Bay. Bringing together science studies, pop culture, and anti-racist feminist and queer politics, the book examines how blood saturated the twentieth-century cultural imaginary, slipped into laws and policies, flowed across screens, and seeped into our most intimate relationships.

Review

"How does blood circulate? Not simply in bodies, but through politics and over maps and across media? These are the questions that are central to Cathy Hannabach's stunning multi-disciplinary, transnational analysis of the role of blood in giving life to American modernity. This book creates a narrative of the twentieth century, and a means of understanding the nation and its practices, from the American Red Cross to Guantanamo Bay." - Eric Smoodin, author of Regarding Frank Capra: Audience, Celebrity, and American Film Studies, 1930-1960

"Cathy Hannabach assembles an impressive interdisciplinary archive to explore important questions in twentieth century US political and cultural histories. Analyzing blood as both metaphor and material practice, Hannabach's inventive, lively, and important book examines the relationship between race, gender/sexuality, and national belonging in popular culture, medicine, and in the military. Essential reading for transnational American Studies, gender and sexuality, and science and technology studies." - Julie Sze, author of Fantasy Islands: Chinese Dreams and Ecological Fears in an Age of Climate Crisis

L'autisme et la redéfinition du développement de l'enfant

Autism and the Redefinition of Child Development since 1970


Bonnie Evans (Queen Mary, University of London)

Birmingham University History of Medicine & Health Seminars

Thursday 22nd October


College of Medical and Dental Sciences
Institute of Applied Health Research

The second seminar of the 2015 Autumn Term will take place in WF38 on the first floor of the Medical School at 5.30pm

In the 1960s and early 1970s, the meaning of the word autism underwent a radical shift that was contemporaneous with a growth in epidemiological and statistical studies in child psychiatry. This paper explores theories of childhood autism as a sensory and social impairment from the 1970s onwards and looks at how these theories replaced earlier models of autism within human relations psychology. It examines the historical reasons for these changes, in particular concerning the administration and schooling of children with special educational needs. The paper focuses on work supported by the British Medical Research Council and argues this work was most influential in shifting conceptions of autism and in shaping new psychological categories to describe children’s development in the latter half of the 20th century. Researchers such as Michael Rutter, Lorna Wing and Uta Frith argued that theories of sensory and social impairment presented a legitimate challenge to psychoanalytic theories of sensory and social deprivation as the cause of many psychological presentations in infants and children and created a revolution in the approach to children who presented with these problems. The paper examines the impact of these changes in the applied domains of psychological knowledge such as schools, child guidance clinics, pediatric departments, and the wider National Health Service in England. It also reflects on their significant global impact on approaches to child mental health.

ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND

Details of future seminars are available from: Dr Vanessa Heggie, Institute of Applied Health Research, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT.
Email: v.heggie@bham.ac.uk Tel: 0121 415 8184-

Le style sanitaire

Sanitizing Style: Germ Theory and Fashion at the Turn of the Century

Exhibition 


Osler Library
McIntyre Medical Building
3rd floor - 3655 Promenade Sir William Osler
Montreal, Quebec H3G 1Y6

21 Sep 2015 to 30 Nov 2015


No longer with a trailing skirt
She sweeps the sidewalks bare.
Collecting germs, collecting dirt,
All swaddled up for fair.
The cities now hire men adept
At sweeping what those long skirts swept.
(From The Toronto Star, Oct. 9, 1925)

By the time of the publication of these lines, germ theory had pervaded every aspect of daily life in the Western world. Discovered in the latter half of the19th century, the theory, elaborated by scientists such as Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch, led to numerous changes in everyday living. A new exhibition at the Osler Library highlights one such example. Following the discovery of the Tuberculosis baterium, public health advocates rallied to create treatment and prevention programmes, including public health campaigns and anti-spitting legislation. They recognized the danger posed by tuberculosis-infected sputum on the streets swept up by the trailing skirts that fashionable women of the day favoured. Curated by Cynthia Tang, with rare books specialist Anna Dysert and costume curator Catherine Bradley, this exhibition explores the legitimacy that germ theory lent to the late 19th century movement to reform women’s dress, bringing together books, images, artifacts, and clothing pieces from collections across McGill.

The exhibition Sanitizing Style: Germ Theory and Fashion at the Turn of the Century is on now at the Osler Library through November 2015. Stay tuned for a curator’s talk and exhibition walkthrough to be scheduled for October!

La régénération médicale

Pasts, Presents and Futures of Medical Regeneration


Call for Participants

What does it mean to ‘regenerate’, and what are the scientific, social, cultural and ethical implications of regeneration in its various forms? From biomedical engineering to stem cell therapy, the growth of regenerative medicine in the modern context has the potential to address challenges raised by stretched supplies of organ donors, chronic diseases and ageing populations. From a historical perspective, ideas about regeneration have appeared in discourses on diet and exercise, sleep and convalescence, surgery, electrotherapy and hormonal treatments, and have found expression in popular science and in popular culture. How has regeneration reflected and affected our understanding of the health and functionality of the body, and how might it continue to do so?

Funded by a Wellcome Trust Seed Award, the “Pasts, Presents and Futures of Medical Regeneration” project at the University of Leeds brings together a multidisciplinary cohort of researchers with combined expertise in biology, bioengineering, ethnology, sociology, philosophy, psychiatry, history of medicine and cultural studies, to examine the connections between past, present and future manifestations of medical regeneration.

We are looking for up to six UK-based researchers to join our existing team and take part in three creative exploratory workshops in Leeds on the theme of medical regeneration, which will likely take place in January, April and June 2016. These events will combine formal presentations, provocations and semi-structured discussion and debate.

We welcome applicants from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds across the sciences and the humanities at any career stage from PhD level to senior academic, with research interests and/or expertise in regeneration in any form, whether focused on a particular historical period or the modern context. All travel, accommodation and subsistence expenses will be covered and successful applicants will join a team of participants to define current interdisciplinary questions and scope future research agenda relevant across and beyond the medical humanities.

Applicants should submit a one-page statement outlining their interest and/or expertise in medical regeneration, together with an up-to-date CV, to Catherine Oakley (C.M.C.Oakley@leeds.ac.uk) by Friday 20th November, 2015. Successful applicants will be notified in mid-December.

For queries or further information about the project visit the website or contact Principal Investigator Dr James Stark (J.F.Stark@leeds.ac.uk).