lundi 30 avril 2018

La corporalité antique et médiévale

La corporalité antique et médiévale

Les Annales de Janua n°6


Éditorial
Alessia CHAPEL et Sara CASANO-SKAGHAMMAR


Antiquité


Ne nudarent corpora : le corps du soldat romain exposé à la violence de guerre (de la deuxième guerre punique aux Flaviens)
Sophie HULOT

Les deux corps du prince : corporalités impériales et traitement littéraire à travers l’exemple d’Hadrien
Caroline HUSQUIN

Le corps du philosophe dans les biographies néoplatoniciennes : représentations du corps et exercices spirituels (iiie-ve siècles)
Maël GOARZIN

Moyen Âge

Condamnées à être un corps ? Les saintes travesties dans l’hagiographie médiévale française
Joanna AUGUSTYN

La posture du corps dans le chantier médiéval
Thierry GREGOR

Le corps féminin est-il un miroir de l'honneur ? Quelques pistes de réflexion autour des sources judiciaires de la fin du Moyen Âge
Charlotte PICHOT

Penser la présence de Dieu dans les corps. L'eucharistie et ses analogies dans un matériau de prédication du xiiie siècle
François WALLERICH

Les représentations modernes du corps

The Kiln, the Alembic, and the Clockwork. Early Modern Representations of the Body and its Changing Matter

International Summer School

Pisa, 8-10 August 2018

Organised by Fabrizio Bigotti & Fabiola Zurlini for the Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance (CSMBR) in cooperation with Fondazione Comel–Institutio Santoriana, University of Padua and Studio Firmano for the History of Medicine and Science


Confirmed Speakers: 
Vivian Nutton (First Moscow State Medical University)
Hiro Hirai (Radboud University)
Fabrizio Bigotti (University of Exeter)
Fabio Zampieri (University of Padua)
Fabiola Zurlini (Studio Firmano for the History of Medicine and Science)


The Summer School will explore how representations of the body and its functions changed from antiquity to the early modern period and how technology altered the perception of what we are as human animals. By adopting three of the most iconic analogies ever used in the history of medicine, The Kiln, the Alembic, and the Clockwork will explore the early modern imagery of the body, in connection to the methods of investigation and its overlapping with disciplines such as alchemy and astronomy. Particular attention will be devoted to processes such as the 'combination and the concoction of humours' (the Kiln), 'distillation, spirits refinement and perspiration' (the Alembic), and the 'mechanical action of innate heat' (the Clockwork) whilst considering, for each analogy, the visual impact it exerted on the Renaissance and early modern representations of human physiology.

The summer school is directed to undergraduates, postgraduates as well as PhD students wishing to deepen their knowledge of the history of medicine and its connection to other disciplines of knowledge in the early modern period. Sources and papers will be pre-circulated in order for attendees to engage fruitfully in conversation with speakers and in a roundtable at the end of each day.

The location of the event is the outstanding DOMVS COMELIANA in Piazza dei Miracoli (Pisa). The provisional programme of the event is already available at csmbr.fondazionecomel.org.

Registration fee to attend the Summer School is €244 and includes the cost of all breaks and lunches. Payment can be made directly to Fondazione Comel via Bank Transfer with the specification "CSMBR 2018 " by the registration deadline of Saturday 30th June 2018. For information and details please contact csmbr@fondazionecomel.org or f.bigotti@exeter.ac.uk

Santorio Fellowship 2018
The International Summer School runs along with the 2018 edition of the Santorio Fellowship for Medical Humanities and Science, which will be advertised separately. Selected winners will attend the Summer School for free and will receive a travel grant of €300. Applicants must send a Cover Letter, a copy of their CV (2 pages max.) and a Referee Letter to santoriofellowship@fondazionecomel.org by the 30th of June 2018. Winners will be notified by mid-July 2018. 


For information and details please contact Dr Fabrizio Bigotti at f.bigotti@exeter.ac.uk or visit csmbr.fondazionecomel.org

dimanche 29 avril 2018

La circulation de la pénicilline en Espagne

The Circulation of Penicillin in Spain. Health, Wealth and Authority


María Jesús Santesmases



Palgrave Macmillan
2018
ISBN 978-3-319-69717-8

This book reconstructs the early circulation of penicillin in Spain, a country exhausted by civil war (1936–1939), and oppressed by Franco’s dictatorship. Embedded in the post-war recovery, penicillin’s voyages through time and across geographies – professional, political and social – were both material and symbolic. This powerful antimicrobial captivated the imagination of the general public, medical practice, science and industry, creating high expectations among patients, who at times experienced little or no effect. Penicillin’s lack of efficacy against some microbes fueled the search for new wonder drugs and sustained a decades-long research agenda built on the post-war concept of development through scientific and technological achievements. This historical reconstruction of the social life of penicillin between the 1940s and 1980s – through the dictatorship to democratic transition – explores political, public, medical, experimental and gender issues, and the rise of antibiotic resistance.

Les sources de l’histoire des sens

Quelles sources pour l’histoire des sens ?

Appel à communications

Atelier du XIXe siècle de la Société des études romantiques et dix-neuvièmistes

organisé par Érika Wicky (FNRS/Université de Liège)

21 septembre 2018

Fondation Biermans-Lapôtre
Cité internationale universitaire, Paris



PRESENTATION

S’inscrivant dans le prolongement du Material Turn, mais également redevable de l’histoire du corps et de celle des sensibilités, l’histoire des sens s’ancre toujours plus au cœur de l’actualité de la recherche sur le XIXe siècle. De même que l’histoire de la culture visuelle, qui a souvent été comprise comme une histoire du regard, elle étudie la signification et les fonctions des sens et de la perception sensorielle, également considérés comme une construction culturelle et sociale.

Envisageant les cinq sens comme un système, elle s’intéresse aussi aux rapports de concurrence, de hiérarchie et d’analogie entre les sens. L’histoire des sens a ainsi pour vocation d’étudier les modèles sensoriels en vigueur à différentes époques afin de mesurer la manière dont ceux-ci ont façonné le rapport au monde des contemporains.

Outre ses contributions aux recherches historiques menées dans des domaines connexes (histoire des émotions, de la gastronomie, de l’hygiénisme, etc.), sa capacité à révéler les mécanismes de différenciation rend l’histoire des sens particulièrement utile aux approches transversales telles que les études genre et les études postcoloniales. Enfin, l’histoire des sens est très prisée pour la faculté qu’on lui prête à rendre l’histoire plus vivante et incarnée, plus personnelle aussi, ce dont témoignent, par exemple, les recherches et expériences visant à restituer l’odeur des batailles, menées dans le cadre du centenaire de la Première Guerre Mondiale.

L’histoire des sens est donc caractérisée par l’analyse de sources variées, dont le corpus est d’autant plus difficile à établir que la perception sensorielle reste un phénomène éphémère et individuel, en dépit de ses traits culturels. Le langage et son histoire, tout d’abord, recèlent une multitude d’indices que l’on peut déceler dans des expressions familières (être doté de goût, de tact ou de flair évoque ainsi trois qualités bien distinctes).

Parmi les documents convoqués par l’histoire des sens figurent des traités médicaux ou religieux ainsi que des ouvrages techniques et scientifiques, mais les sources artistiques et littéraires sont souvent privilégiées, car elles peuvent rendre compte efficacement des conceptions attachées aux sens, quoiqu’elles nécessitent une méthodologie spécifique, en raison notamment de leur statut singulier d’œuvre.

La popularité, au XIXe siècle, de l’affiche et du roman, par exemple, les rendent particulièrement à même de modeler et de diffuser largement de telles conceptions. Elles permettent alors à l’historien.ne de retracer et de mesurer les partages sociaux des différentes conceptions du sensible. En outre, le recours à des sources littéraires et artistiques est particulièrement fréquent parmi les dix-neuviémistes dont la période a abondamment questionné le rapport des arts au réel et les enjeux de la perception sensorielle dans la création.

Il s’agira, lors de cette journée d’étude, d’interroger cette multiplicité des sources et le recours tout particulier qu’ont les historien.ne.s des sens aux sources artistiques et littéraires, mais aussi de voir comment l’histoire de l’art, la musicologie, les études théâtrales et littéraires convoquent les questions spécifiques de l’histoire des sens pour enrichir leurs analyses. La nécessité de croiser les sources pour approcher la connaissance du sensible conduit à composer des approches pluridisciplinaires. Les contributeur.rice.s seront donc invité.e.s à partager leur expérience de manière à dégager des éléments méthodologiques et critiques pour établir l’histoire des sens au XIXe siècle.



CONTRIBUTIONS

Les propositions de contribution (environ 300 mots) accompagnées d’une notice bio-bibliographique doivent être adressées à Érika Wicky [erika.wicky@uliege.be] avant le 15 mai 2018.



BIBLIOGRAPHIE 

- L’Emprise des sens, Temenuzhka Dimova, Martial Guédron, Mylène Mistre-Schaal (dir.), Paris, Hazan, 2016.

- Histoire du corps, volume 2, Alain Corbin, Jean-Jacques Courtine, Georges Vigarello (dir.), Paris, Seuil, 2005

- Histoire des émotions, volume 2, Alain Corbin, Jean-Jacques Courtine, Georges Vigarello (dir.), Paris, Seuil, 2016.

- A Cultural History of the Senses in the Age of Empire, 1800-1920, Constance Classen (dir.), Londres, Bloomsbury, 2014.

- « L’Anthropologie sensorielle en France: un champ en devenir ? », L’Homme, n°217, 2016.

- « La voie des sens », Hermès, Brigitte Munier et Éric Letonturier (dir.), n°74, 2016.

- « L’Artification du culinaire », Éveline Cohen et Julia Csergo (dir.), Sociétés et représentations, n°34, 2012.

- L’acide dans la littérature, Véronique Duché (dir.), Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2015.

- Art, History and the Senses: 1830 to the Present, Patrizia Di Bello et Gabriel Koureas (dir.), Ashgate Pub., 2010.

- « Méthodes et objets en histoire du corps, entretiens avec Georges Vigarello », dans Le corps dans l’Histoire et les histoires du corps précédé d’entretiens avec Georges Vigarello, Mickaël Bouffard, Jean-Alexandre Perras et Érika Wicky (dir.), Paris, Hermann, 2013.

- Sophie-Valentine Borloz, « Les femmes qui se parfument doivent être admirées de loin », Les odeurs féminines dans Nana de Zola, Notre cœur de Maupassant et L’Ève future de Villier de L’Isle-Adam. Postface de Martha Caraion, Lausanne, Archipel, 2015.

- Aimée Boutin, City of Noise: Sound and Nineteenth-Century Paris, University of Illinois Press, 2015

- Alain Corbin, « Les historiens et la fiction : usages, tentation, nécessité… », Le Débat, 2011, Vol. 3, n°165, p. 57-61.

- Alain Corbin, Une histoire des sens: Le Miasme et la jonquille, Le Village des cannibales, Le Monde retrouvé de Louis-François Pinagot, préface de Pascal Ory, Paris, Robert Laffont, 2016.

- Nélia Dias, La Mesure des sens : Les anthropologues et le corps humain au XIXe siècle, Paris, Aubier, 2006.

- Andrea Goulet, Optiques: the Science of the Eye and the Birth of Modern French Fiction, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.

- David Howes, Sensual Relations: Engaging the Senses in Culture and Social Theory, Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Press, 2003

- Chantal Jaquet, Philosophie de l’odorat, Paris, PUF, 2010.

- Robert Jütte, A History of the Senses from Antiquity to Cyberspace, Cambridge, Polity, 2005.

- Judith Lyon-Caen et Dinah Ribard, L’historien et la littérature, Paris, La Découverte, 2010.

- Denys Riout, « Art et olfaction : des évocations visuelles à une présence réelle », Cahiers du MNAM, n°116, été 2011.

- Geneviève Sicotte, Le Festin lu. Le repas chez Flaubert, Zola et Huysmans, Liber, 2009.

- Mark Smith, Sensory History, Londres, Bloomsbury, 2007.

- Georges Vigarello, Le Propre et le sale. L’hygiène du corps depuis le Moyen Âge, Seuil, Collection « Points-Histoire », 1987.

samedi 28 avril 2018

Au temps de Galien

Au temps de Galien, un médecin grec dans l’empire romain 

Exposition

Du 26 mai au 2 décembre 2018
Musée royal de Mariemont- Belgique

En suivant la vie du médecin grec Galien de Pergame (129 - env. 216 ap. J.-C.) comme fil conducteur, l’exposition se propose de décrire les pratiques médicales, pharmacologiques et sanitaires de l’empire romain aux premiers siècles de notre ère.

Commissariat scientifique : D. Gourevitch , V. Boudon-Millot , A. Verbanck-Piérard (Musée royal de Mariemont)

Galien est un homme de son temps. Les écrits prolifiques du célèbre praticien, ses centres d’intérêt très variés, ses voyages et l’ampleur de sa clientèle permettent de traiter de nombreux thèmes et nous offrent un parcours géographique et sociologique autour de la Méditerranée sous la Pax Romana.

Vingt ans après l’exposition Au temps d’Hippocrate. Médecine et société en Grèce antique, qui avait connu un réel succès à Mariemont, l’actuel projet Au temps de Galien soulignera l’évolution thérapeutique et anatomique, mais également la constance de la pharmacopée et du système des quatre humeurs, pendant les sept siècles qui séparent Hippocrate, « le Père de la Médecine », et Galien « le Prince de la Médecine ».

La réflexion autour de l’œuvre de Galien, de ses questionnements et de sa postérité permettra d’apprécier, sans anachronisme, quels furent effectivement son apport et son rôle, non seulement de son vivant, depuis les gladiateurs de Pergame jusqu’aux empereurs de Rome, mais aussi dans l’histoire des sciences et dans notre actualité.

Pour en savoir plus : http://www.musee-mariemont.be/index.php?id=16251

Prix McCarthy

McCarthy Award for History of Medicine Research 


Call for applications


The purpose of this award is to support and develop the study of the history of medicine in Scotland.  
The prize for this award is £500.

Eligibility
This award is open to all researchers in the history of medicine, or related social and cultural history fields. Researchers can be based in the United Kingdom or overseas. Please be aware that for overseas finalists, travel expenses to the event will only be paid from their point of entry into the United Kingdom.

Application and Selection Procedure
Research must be unpublished and must have been undertaken in the last 3 years. Research which has been submitted for publication will be considered, but details should be given of when and where it has been submitted, and if it has been accepted for publication. Abstracts must be based on original research in the field.

The deadline for submissions is 31 August 2018.

Abstracts must be submitted in either PDF or Word format along with a completed application form and curriculum vitae. The abstract must not exceed 1000 words in length. The curriculum vitae must not exceed two sides of A4.

Applicants, if chosen, must be willing to present their research on Friday 19 October 2018. This is a public event, to encourage engagement with the history of medicine in Scotland.

The Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh will publish the winning paper. The winner will also be asked to submit a guest blog post on their research for publication on the College’s heritage blog.

The award can only be awarded to an individual once.
Click here to download the McCarthy Award application form

vendredi 27 avril 2018

La stimulation cérébrale profonde

The Pleasure Shock: The Rise of Deep Brain Stimulation and Its Forgotten Inventor

Lone Frank

Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Dutton (March 20, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-1101986530 

The technology invented by psychiatrist Robert G. Heath at Tulane University in the 1950s and '60s has been described as one of "the most controversial yet largely undocumented experiments in US history"--controversial to us because Heath's research subjects included incarcerated convicts and gay men who wished to be "cured" of their sexual preference; controversial in its day because his work was allegedly part of MKUltra, the CIA's notorious "mind control" project. As a result, Heath's cutting-edge research and legacy were put under lock and key, buried in Tulane's archives. The ethical issues raised by his work have also been buried: This very same experimental treatment is becoming mainstream practice in modern psychiatry for everything from schizophrenia, anorexia, and compulsive behavior to depression, aggression, anxiety, and even drug and alcohol addiction.

In the first book to tell the full story, the award-winning science writer Lone Frank has uncovered lost documents and accounts of Heath's pioneering efforts. She has tracked down surviving colleagues and patients. And she has delved into the current embrace of deep brain stimulation by scientists and patients alike. What has changed? Why do we today unquestioningly embrace this technology as a cure? How do we decide what is a disease of the brain to be cured and what should be allowed to remain unprobed and unprodded? The Pleasure Shock weaves together biography, neuroscience, psychology, the history of science, and medical ethics to explore our views of the mind and the self. How do we decide whether changes to the brain are acceptable therapy or are simply bias and bigotry?

Les cultures matérielles de la psychiatrie

Materielle Kulturen der Psychiatrie


Workshop

(Monika Ankele – Universität Hamburg und Benoît Majerus – Universität Luxemburg)

Mittwoch, 2. Mai 2018 (Institut für Geschichte und Ethik der Medizin des Universitätsklinikums Hamburg-Eppendorf / Medizinhistorisches Museum Hamburg)

17:00 R e g i s t r i e r u n g

17:30 B e g r ü ß u n g u n d E i n f ü h r u n g

Monika Ankele / Benoît Majerus, Materielle Kulturen der Psychiatrie

K ü n s t l e r i s c h e F o r s c h u n g z u m a t e r i e l l e n K u l t u r e n d e r Psyc h i a t r i e

Kirsi Heimonen (University of Arts Helsinki) / Sari Kuuva (University of Jyväskylä), Corridor that moves. Bringing forth the materiality of objects of mental hospital. Approaches to artistic research and study of visual culture

Michelle Williams Gamaker (Goldsmiths College, University of London), [performance lecture, Titel folgt]

Präsentation von Arbeiten der Studierenden der Hochschule für Künste im Sozialen, Ottersberg (einführende Worte: Céline Kaiser)

Donnerstag, 3. Mai 2018 (Institut für Geschichte und Ethik der Medizin, Hamburg)

10:00-12:00 Uhr T r a n s f o r m a t i o n e n
Moderation: Heinz-Peter Schmiedebach (Historisches Kolleg, München)

Lisa Landsteiner (Universität Halle-Wittenberge), Have a seat! Kulturwissenschaftliche Annäherungen an den Gegenstand des Stuhls am Ort der Psychiatrie

Martina Wernli (Universität Frankfurt), Die Lehre der Schlüssel. Objekte der Psychiatrie zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts

Anna Urbach (Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg), Bedecken, zerreißen, enthüllen – Stoffszenen aus der „Irrenanstalt“

12:00-13:00 Uhr Mittagspause

13:00-15:00 Uhr K o n t a k t z o n e n
Moderation: Philipp Osten (Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf)

Marianna Scarfone (Université de Strasbourg), Behind the cloakroom door. Patients’ lives through clothes and personal belongings

Natalie Mullen (University of Lancaster), Clocks, clothing and tea-cups: patient agency through the material world of Lancaster County Asylum, 1840-1915

Ian Tucker (University of East London) / Laura McGrath (University of East London), Objects of feeling in a forensic psychiatric environment

15:00-15:45 Uhr Kaffeepause

15:45-17:45 M a t e r i e l l e P h ä n o m e n e
Moderation: Monika Ankele (Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf)

Karin Eli (Oxford University) / Anna Lavis (University of Birmingham), Anorexia nervosa and the materialities of mental health

Maia Isabelle Woolner (University of Los Angeles), Materializing time and temporality in modern francophone psychiatry

Kai Sammet (Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf), Stumme „Nacht des Wahnsinns“: Licht und Beleuchtung, Stimme, Geräusche und Raum in C.F.W. Rollers „Die Irrenanstalt nach allen ihren Beziehungen“, 1831

18:00 Uhr P e r f o r m a n c e

Kirstin Burckhardt (Hamburg), [Titel folgt]

20Uhr30 gemeinsames Abendessen im Abaton Bistro, Grindelhof 14a

(Anmeldung bitte bis 1. März 2018 per Mail an m.ankele@uke.de)

Freitag, 4. Mai 2018 (Institut für Geschichte und Ethik der Medizin, Hamburg)

9:00-9:40 Uhr Ö k o n o m i e n
Moderation: Benoît Majerus (Universität Luxemburg)

Elena Llinas (Tulane University, New Orleans), Food wars among the mad: science, corruption, and class in Mexico’s city asylum, 1850-1910

09:40-11:40 Uhr A p p a r a t u r e n
Moderation: Eva Brinkschulte (Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg)

Anatole Le Bras (Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po, Paris), “Le cabanon des fous.” Uses of the shed as a confinement device for the insane in household, hospital and colonial settings (France and its empire in the second half of the 19th century)

Novina Göhlsdorf (Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin), The Magical Device. Temple Gardins “Umarmungsmaschine”

Max Gawlich (Universität Heidelberg), Materialität in der Therapie. Körper, Apparate und Räume der Elektrokrampftherapie

11:40-12:15 “A g e n t s o f h e a l i n g”
Moderation: Monika Ankele (Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf)

Ute Oswald (University of Warwick), ‚Healthful Indulgences’: Recreational objects and spaces in the 19th c. British asylum

12:15-13:00 Uhr Mittagspause

13:00-14:20 Uhr “A g e n t s o f h e a l i n g”
Moderation: Monika Ankele (Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf)

Linnea Kuglitsch (University of Manchester), “Music, Flowers [and] Open Air”: Exploring the connections between patient, cure, and the natural world at the historic asylum

Stefan Wulf (Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf), Das Klavier in der psychiatrischen Anstalt

14:20-15:40 Uhr M a t e r i e l l e R e k o n f i g u r a t i o n e n
Moderation: Benoît Majerus (Universität Luxemburg)

Louise Hide (Birkbeck University of London), How everyday objects became instruments of control in English psychiatric hospitals, 1950s-70s

Hannah Proctor (ICI Berlin), Instruments of disalienation. The material cultures of radical psychiatry

15:40-16:00 Uhr Verabschiedung und Ende des Workshops

Adresse:
Institut für Geschichte und Ethik der Medizin /
Medizinhistorisches Museum Hamburg
(Gebäude N30b; „Fritz Schumacher Haus“)
Martinistraße 52 (Seiteneingang über Frickestraße / Ecke Schedestraße nehmen)
20246 Hamburg

jeudi 26 avril 2018

La santé des gens de lettres

De la santé des gens de lettres

Samuel-Auguste Tissot 

Éditeur scientifique: Vila (Anne), Chalmin (Ronan)

Éditeur: Classiques Garnier
Nombre de pages: 212
Collection / Revue: Bibliothèque du xviiie siècle, n° 34
Série: Medicalia, n° 3
Date de parution: 14/03/2018
ISBN: 978-2-406-06915-7

Au xviiie siècle, la santé des intellectuels devient un nouvel enjeu médical et littéraire. Avec De la santé des gens de lettres (3e éd., 1775) le docteur Tissot propose aux lettrés un livre classique mêlant tableaux de cas cliniques et remèdes pour traiter les maux dus à « l’intempérance littéraire ».

Bourses Marie Curie

Marie Curie Fellowships

Call for applications

The European Commission has just opened the call for the Marie Curie Fellowships: https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/msca-if-2018.html

The goal of the Individual Fellowships is to enhance the creative and innovative potential of experienced researchers, wishing to diversify their individual competence in terms of skill acquisition through advanced training, international and intersectoral mobility.

Individual Fellowships provide opportunities to researchers of any nationality to acquire and transfer new knowledge and to work on research and innovation in Europe (EU Member States and Horizon 2020 Associated Countries) and beyond. The scheme particularly supports the return and (re)integration of European researchers from outside Europe and those who have previously worked here, as well as researchers displaced by conflict outside the EU and Horizon 2020 Associated Countries. It also promotes the career restart of individual researchers who show great potential.

mercredi 25 avril 2018

Le handicap dans la révolution industrielle

Disability in the Industrial Revolution. Physical impairment in British coalmining, 1780–1880

David Turner and Daniel Blackie


Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Hardcover
Published Date: April 2018
Pages: 264 
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1815-8


The Industrial Revolution produced injury, illness and disablement on a large scale and nowhere was this more visible than in coalmining. Disability and industrial society 1780-1880 sheds new light on the human cost of industrialisation by examining the lives and experiences of those disabled in an industry that was vital to Britain's economic growth. Although it is commonly assumed that industrialisation led to increasing marginalisation of people with impairments from the workforce, disabled mineworkers were expected to return to work wherever possible, and new medical services developed to assist in this endeavour. This book explores the working lives of disabled miners and analyses the medical, welfare and community responses to disablement in the coalfields. It shows how disability affected industrial relations and shaped the class identity of mineworkers. The book will appeal to students and academics interested in disability, occupational health and social history.

Postdoctorat sur l'anatomie à Padoue au 16e siècle

Postdoctoral Researcher “Anatomy in 16th-century Padua” (University of Würzburg, Germany)

Call for applications


The Institute for the History of Medicine at the University of Würzburg, Germany, is looking for candidates for the position of a post-doctoral researcher. The successful candidate will be working on a project on the teaching of anatomy and on anatomical demonstrations at the University of Padua, 1540-1600. Research will focus on an analysis of various sets of extensive, handwritten, Latin student notes that have survived from this period, mostly from German students who studied in Padua. 

The position will be for three years. The starting date is negotiable. The salary is the standard salary for full-time positions of this kind in Germany. In addition, there are some funds for trips to archives, libraries and conferences and for a student assistant. The successful candidate will be based in Würzburg and will join a group of other researchers working on different aspects of early modern medicine.

Candidates must hold a PhD or an equivalent degree and must be fluent in either German or English or both. Good Latin skills are indispensable. Experience with early modern Latin manuscripts, previous work in the history of medicine or science and some basic knowledge of Italian would be of advantage. 

The University of Würzburg seeks to increase the number of its female researchers and especially encourages suitably qualified female researchers to apply. Candidates with a certified, severe physical handycap will be given preference over other candidates with essentially the same qualification for the position. 

Please send your application (cover letter, CV and a list of publications only) via email to michael.stolberg@uni-wuerzburg.de.

Application deadline is May 31, 2018. Interviews are expected to take place in June or July.


Those interested may contact Prof. Dr. Dr. Michael Stolberg (michael.stolberg@uni-wuerzburg.de) for more detailed information.

mardi 24 avril 2018

Le mesmérisme et la Révolution française

Le mesmérisme et la Révolution française

Annales historiques de la Révolution française 2018/1 (n° 391)

Introduction
David Armando, Bruno Belhoste
Le mesmérisme entre la fin de l’Ancien Régime et la Révolution : dynamiques sociales et enjeux politiques




Articles
Bruno Belhoste
Franz Anton Mesmer : magnétiseur, moraliste et républicain
François Zanetti
Contretemps et contrepoints au mesmérisme. Savoirs et acteurs des marges à la fin de l’Ancien Régime

Bernard Gainot
Des baquets sous les Tropiques. À propos de la diffusion du magnétisme animal à Saint-Domingue en 1784

Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire
Le baquet entre l’équerre et le compas. Luttes d’influence maçonnique autour du magnétisme animal et des Sociétés de l’Harmonie

David Armando
Crises magnétiques, convulsions politiques : les mesméristes à l’Assemblée constituante

Francisco Javier Ramón Solans
Le mesmérisme à la rencontre de la prophétie. Le cercle de la duchesse de Bourbon

Karine Rance
Entre Lumières et Romantisme, un mesmérisme contre-révolutionnaire ?

Bruno Belhoste, Robert Darnton
La fin des Lumières, cinquante ans après : entretien avec Robert Darnton



Histoire de l'agression sexuelle et de sa condamnation

The Psychology and History of Sexual Violation and Its Condemnation


Call for Papers



The Fall 2018 Special Feature Issue of Clio’s Psyche

Why has sexual violation by powerful men—covered up, denied, suppressed, and repressed for so long—become a powerful theme in the media since the fall of 2017? Why are men, whose predecessors usually got away with sexual assault, now being exposed, shamed, forced to retire, and sometimes fired for unwanted touching and worse? What makes for this change of standards? Blaming the victim by saying they were “asking for it” is now being challenged. In the Fall 2018 Special Feature Issue we are searching for psychodynamic reasons.

We are looking for articles commenting on the following and other topics, especially from the perspective of psychological/psychoanalytic anthropology:
  • sexual privilege/harassment/exploitation/violation in cross-cultural perspective
  • cultural childrearing practices and sexual violation around the world
  • symbols and myths as they relate to sexual privilege/exploitation
  • sexual exploitation/violation of children and teenagers
  • blaming victims (as “asking for it”)
  • the equivalent of the #MeToo movement outside North America
  • defense mechanisms and sexual violation
  • thresholds of sexual violation as mental illness
  • Why in America and why now have the barriers to making these issues public broken down?
  • To what extent is the openness about these abuses related to Donald Trump and the Trump presidency?
  • varied responses to charges of sexual abuse, especially denial by authorities
  • charges for political purposes and fantasies of sexual intrusion
  • cases of a rush to judgment without due process, ruining a person’s career
  • sexual abuse and sexual fantasy in the Freudian tradition
  • sexual privilege and exploitation in the workplace, in athletics and the military, in medical and therapeutic relationships
  • sexual violation in history
  • case studies
  • contributors to the study of cross-cultural sexual violation – profiles and discussion of their work

We seek articles from 500-2,500 words—including seven to ten keywords, a 100-word abstract, and your brief biography ending in your e-mail address—by May 31, 2018. An abstract or outline by May 1 or before would be helpful. Send them as attached Microsoft Word document (*.docx) files to cliospsycheeditor@gmail.com.

It our style to publish thought-provoking, clearly written articles based upon psychological/psychoanalytic insight; developed with examples from history, current events, and the human experience; and without psychoanalytic/psychological terminology or jargon and without foot/endnotes or a bibliography (use internal citations for quotations). Submissions the editors deem suitable are anonymously refereed.

Clio's Psyche is in its 24th year of publication by the Psychohistory Forum. Please visit our website at cliospsyche.org.

Contact co-editors Paul Elovitz, PhD, at cliospsycheeditor@gmail.com or Eva Fogelman, PhD, at evafogman@aol.com regarding this CFP.

lundi 23 avril 2018

Les monstres humains à la Renaissance

Portraits of Human Monsters in the Renaissance. Dwarves, Hirsutes, and Castrati as Idealized Anatomical Anomalies

Touba Ghadessi

220 pages
Hardback (March 2018)
ISBN-13 9781580442756




At the center of this interdisciplinary study are court monsters--dwarves, hirsutes, and misshapen individuals--who, by their very presence, altered Renaissance ethics vis-à-vis anatomical difference, social virtues, and scientific knowledge. The study traces how these monsters evolved from objects of curiosity, to scientific cases, to legally independent beings. The works examined here point to the intricate cultural, religious, ethical, and scientific perceptions of monstrous individuals who were fixtures in contemporary courts.



Introduction
Difference as an Inquiry
Renaissance Portrait and Intellectual Frame
Perfected Miniatures - Dwarves at Court
A Civilized Savage - The Hirsute's Conquest
Audible Absence - The Castrato's Voice
Epilogue
Bibliography

Les archives des institutions de santé

Archives of Healthcare Institutions: History and Documentation

Conference


General State Archives
Historical Archive of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Historical Archive of the Municipality of Athens and Network for the History of Health

25-27 April 2018
Athens, General State Archives, 61 Dafnis St., Psychiko

PROGRAMME

Wednesday 25 April 2018

16:00-19:00

16:00 | Greetings

16:30 | INTRODUCTORY TALKS: HISTORY OF HEALTH AND ARCHIVAL MANAGEMENT POLICY

Katerina Gardikas: What are historians looking for in the archives of healthcare institutions?

Nikos Karapidakis: Conceptualising the question “Health’s archives”

17:20 | Break

17:30 | 1ST SESSION: HEALTHCARE PROTAGONISTS: EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND MEDICAL BODIES
Chair: Anastasia Papadia-Lala

Vangelis Karamanolakis, Chaido Barkoula: The University of Athens and the Greek healthcare network (1837-1937): archival records and research questions

Maria Stefanidou, George Loutsidis, Sotirios Athanaselis: The archives of the Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, School of Medicne, University of Athens

Evgenia Bournova: The archive of the Medical Association of Athens: exploring the formation of the medical body

Christos Dinos, George Dounias: Athens School of Hygiene (YSA). Alumni profiles, 1931-1940

18:30 | Discussion

Thursday 26 April 2018

10:00-14:00

10:00 | 2ND SESSION: ARCHIVES OF MUNICIPAL AND STATE HOSPITALS
Chair: Efi Poulakou-Rebelakou

Zetta Antonopoulou: The historical records of the Athens Municipal Hospital “ELPIS”.

Yannis Gonatidis: “…since they began keeping books…”. The historical archive of the Municipal Hospital of Hermoupolis, 1834-1954

Annita Prassa: Treating diseases in Magnesia. Hospital archives in the Regional General State Archives of Magnesia

Dimitris Anoyatis-Pelé and Costas Tsiamis: Sotiria Hospital, Parnitha Sanatorium, Penteli Sanatorium: the records of patients as a demographic, historical and medical source

Costas Tsiamis and Dimitris Anoyatis-Pelé: The hospital proceedings as a medico-historical source: the case of Hospital "Evangelismos" (1927-1939)

11:15 | Discussion

11:45 | Coffee Break

12:15 | 3RD SESSION: ARCHIVAL INSTITUTIONS AND HEALTHCARE DOCUMENTS
Chair: Marietta Minotou

Symeon Tsempoglou: Sorting and selection of public health archives by the Department of Contemporary Archives of the Central Service of General State Archives

Katerina Zografou: Healthcare and archives: an overview of the resources of the General State Archives (GSA) of Greece (Central Service)

Dimitris Bacharas: The health-related archives in ELIA-MIET / Les archives de ELIA-MIET sur la santé

Nikolaos Melios, Evangelia Bafouni: Greek Documentation Centre for the history of Hansen’s Disease: from a conventional archive to a documented archive

13:15 | Discussion

17:00-20:00

17:00 | 4TH SESSION: MENTAL HEALTHCARE

INSTITUTIONS
Chair: Yannis Evdokimidis

Despo Kritsotaki: The archive of the Centre for Mental Health and Research (1956-1978)

Vasia Lekka: Writing Eginition Hospital’s oral history (1950-1979): research questions and perspectives

Marianna Kolyva: The archives of the “Madhouse” / Psychiatric Hospital of Corfu (1838-2000)

17:45 | Discussion

18:15 | A documentary The man who disturbed the world, by Stavros Psyllakis, (on the Psychiatric Hospital of Chania)”, 52', co-produced with Ε.Κ.Κ.© 2000

With an introduction from Stavros Psyllakis.

Friday 27 April 2018

10:00-13:30

10:00 | 5TH SESSION: ADMINISTRATIVE INSTITUTIONS AND HEALTHCARE
Chair: Lydia Dracaki-Sapounaki

Thanasis Barlagiannis: Police and health during king Otto's reign: an archival approach

Foteini Lekka: “What the Municipality, our politicians and even the rich of our town failed at, was accomplished by the bishop himself”: the hospital “Saint Seraphim” (1935) and the debate about public health in the first half of the 20th century in Karditsa (Thessaly)

Yannis Stoyannidis: Archives and the restoration of anti-TB policy. The Greek state and private sanatoria in the early 20th c.

Evangelos Chekimoglou: The religious communities of Thessaloniki as healthcare providing institutions: their archival remnants

11:00 | Discussion

11:30 | Coffee Break

12:00 | 6TH SESSION: HEALTHCARE POLICY AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Chair: Maria Stratigaki

Zetta Antonopoulou, Vassiliki Sfika: Healthcare in local government. The “Metropolitan” example

Myrto Dimitropoulou, Evgenia Bournova: The Civil Act Registry as a source for the history of health

Efstathia (Evi) Tzavella: Primary healthcare in the Municipal Clinics of Athens. Establishment, progression and development

Ipakoi Chatzimichail: The First Aid Station of the Assistance Department of the Greek Red Cross (1931-1995): approaches to the archive through the eyes of a researcher

13:00 | Discussion

17:00-21:00

17:00 | 7TΗ SESSION: ARCHIVES OF INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
Chair: Vassiliki Theodorou

Katerina Konstantinidou: Plague, the historian and the Venetian State Archive

Lena Korma: Infectious diseases in times of war. The case of the Armée française d’Orient, 1915-1918

Katerina Gardikas: The UNRRA archive

Andreas Vourtsis and Sylva Haralampous, The historical archive of the Hellenic Pasteur Institute: preserving a century of history

18:00 | Discussion

18:30 | Coffee Break

18:45 | ROUND TABLE: CONCLUSIONS AND PROSPECTS

Evgenia Bournova, Giorgos Dounias, Yannis Evdokimidis, Amalia Pappa

20:00 | Légion d’honneur, a film produced by the

Historistai Group with Loft12 and COSMOTE TV (45'), 2018

With an introduction from Maria Sabatakaki of the Historistai Group.

An exhibition of documents will be on display during the Conference.

ORGANISING - SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Zeta Antonopoulou
Chaido Barkoula
Evgenia Bournova
Katerina Gardikas
Vangelis Karamanolakis
Marietta Minotou
Christina Sarra
Yannis Stoyannidis
Secretariate: Myrto Karageorgi-Gyftodimou

Participants
  • Anoyatis-Pelé, Dimitris, Historian, Department of History, Ionian University, anopele@gmail.com
  • Antonopoulou, Zetta, PhD in Art History from National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Head of City of Athens Historical Archives, g.antonopoulou@athens.gr
  • Athanaselis, Sotirios, Professor of Toxicology, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, sathan@med.uoa.gr
  • Bacharas, Dimitris, Historical Archives, ELIA-MIET, dbacharas@yahoo.com
  • Bafouni, Evangelia, Historian, Institute for the Study of Local and Business History, ebafouni@gmail.com
  • Barkoula, Chaido, Laboratory teaching staff, Historical Archive, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, cbarkou@pspa.uoa.gr
  • Barlagiannis, Thanasis, Historian, athbag@yahoo.gr
  • Bournova, Evangelia, Historian, Professor, Department of Economics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, bournova@econ.uoa.gr
  • Chatzimichail, Ipakoi, Philologist, Historian, General State Archives, Central Service, ipakoi@sch.gr
  • Chekimoglou, Evangelos, Director, Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki, echekimoglou@gmail.com
  • Dimitropoulou, Myrto, PhD, Historian, Researcher, myrtodem@hotmail.com
  • Dounias, Georgios, Dir. MPH Occupational & Environmental Health, National School of Public Health, gdounias@esdy.edu.gr
  • Dracaki-Sapounaki, Lydia, Professor, Department of Economic and Regional Development, Panteion University, ldracaki@panteion.gr
  • Evdokimidis, Yannis, Professor emeritus, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, ievdokim@med.uoa.gr
  • Gardikas, Katerina, Historian, Department of History and Archaeology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, kgardika@arch.uoa.gr
  • Gonatidis, Yannis, Historian, PhD candidate in modern history, University of Crete, gonatidis@gmail.com
  • Haralambous, Sylva, Dr., Senior Researcher, Hellenic Pasteur Institute, sharalambous@pasteur.gr
  • Karageorgi Gyftodimou, Myrto, Philologist, General State Archives, Central Service, mkarageorgi@sch.gr
  • Karamanolakis, Vangelis, Historian, Chairman of Governing Committee, Historical Archive, University of Athens, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Athens, karamanolaki@arch.uoa.gr
  • Karapidakis, Nikos, General State Archives, President of the Supervisory Council, pakar1@otenet.gr
  • Kolyva, Marianna, Professor of Archives Science, Ionian University, mkolyva@ionio.gr
  • Konstantinidou, Katerina, Assistant Professor, Department of History and Archaeology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, kkonstantin@arch.uoa.gr
  • Korma, Lena, Historian, École Française d’Athènes, lenakorma80@gmail.com
  • Kritsotaki, Despo, Historian, Post-doctoral Researcher, University of Crete, despo.kritsotaki@gmail.com
  • Lekka, Foteini, PhD, Museologist, Historian, University of Thessaly, Municipal City Museum of Karditsa, fenia.lekka@gmail.com
  • Lekka, Vasia, Historian, Adjunct Academic Staff, Hellenic Open University, vasia_lekka@hotmail.com
  • Loutsidis, Georgios, Historian, Research Assistant, Laboratory of Toxicology and Forensic Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, giorgosloutsidis@gmail.com
  • Melios, Nikolaos, Historian, Institute for the Study of Local and Business History, meliosni@otenet.gr
  • Minotou, Marietta, General State Archives, Director of the Central Service, director@gak.gr
  • Ntinos, Christos, Public Health Officer, ‘Gennimatas’ Hospital, xtin@otenet.gr
  • Papadia-Lala, Anastasia, Professsor of History of Early Modern Hellenism, Department of History and Archaeology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, apapadia@arch.uoa.gr
  • Pappa, Amalia, Archivist, General State Archives, Head of Department of Library and Reading Room & Deputy Director of the Central Service, anagn1@gak.gr
  • Poulakou-Rebelakou, Efi, Associate Professor of History of Medicine, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, efpoulrebel@med.uoa.gr
  • Prassa, Annita, Archivist, Historian, General State Archives, Head of the Regional Service of Magnesia, annita_prassa@yahoo.gr
  • Psyllakis, Stavros, Film Director, stavrospsill@gmail.com
  • Sampatakaki, Maria, Historian, historistai Group for the Production of Public History, sampmaria@hotmail.com
  • Sarra, Christina, Archivist, General State Archives, Head of Department of Planning, Coordination and Studies of the Central Service, organosis@gak.gr
  • Sfika, Vasiliki, Archaeologist, Msc HOU, City of Athens Historical Archives, b.sfika@athens.gr
  • Stefanidou, Maria, Professor of Toxicology, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens,mstefan@med.uoa.gr
  • Stoyannidis, Yannis, Historian, University of West Attica, yannis.stoyannidis@gmail.com
  • Stratigaki, Maria, Vice Mayor for Social Solidarity Welfare & Equality, Municipality of Athens, Associate Professor of Social Policy, Panteion University, m.stratigaki@athens.gr
  • Theodorou, Vassiliki, Professor of Modern History, Democritus University of Thrace, vtheodor@eled.duth.gr
  • Tsempoglou, Symeon, Archivist, General State Archives, Head of Department of Appraisal and Disposal of the Central Service, synchrona@gak.gr
  • Tsiamis, Costas, Laboratory of Microbiology, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, ctsiamis@med.uoa.gr
  • Tzavella, Evi, Dental Surgeon, Msc of School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Head of Department of Social Solidarity & Public Health Care, Athens Municipality, e.tzavella@athens.gr
  • Vourtsis, Andreas, Historical Archive, Hellenic Pasteur Institute, andreasw19@gmail.com
  • Zografou, Katerina, Archivist, General State Archives, Central Service, ina.zogr@gmail.com

dimanche 22 avril 2018

La pratique médicale de Richard Napier

Medicine, Religion, and Magic in Early Stuart England: Richard Napier's Medical Practice 

Ofer Hadass

Series: Magic in History
Hardcover: 232 pages
Publisher: Penn State University Press; 1 edition (March 26, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-0271080185


The astrologer-physician Richard Napier (1559-1634) was not only a man of practical science and medicine but also a master of occult arts and a devout parish rector who purportedly held conversations with angels. This new interpretation of Napier reveals him to be a coherent and methodical man whose burning desire for certain, true knowledge contributed to the contemporary venture of putting existing knowledge to useful ends.

Originally trained in theology and ordained as an Anglican priest, Napier later studied astrological medicine and combined astrology, religious thought, and image and ritual magic in his medical work. Ofer Hadass draws on a remarkable archive of Napier’s medical cases and religious writings—including the interviews he claimed to have held with angels—to show how Napier’s seemingly inconsistent approaches were rooted in an inclusive and coherent worldview, combining equal respect for ancient authority and for experientially derived knowledge. Napier’s endeavors exemplify the fruitful relationship between religion and science that offered a well-founded alternative to the rising mechanistic explanation of nature at the time.

Carefully researched and compellingly told, Medicine, Religion, and Magic in Early Stuart England is an insightful exploration of one of the most fascinating figures at the intersection of medicine, magic, and theology in early modern England and of the healing methods employed by physicians of the era.

Les peaux médiévales

Skins

Call for Papers

Mid-America Medieval Association 42nd Annual Conference
University of Kansas, Lawrence
September 22, 2018

We construe the notion of skin, or skins, as having multiple meanings, contexts, and sites of enquiry; it could pertain to humans or animals; as a covering or a disguise, revealing or concealing identity, a marker of difference and similarity, race, class, and gender; the mutilated witness to heroic and saintly deeds, or the epitome of idealized beauty; it can be sacred or profane; it may also evoke science, medicine, and the body; skin as writing surface and manuscript; as palimpsest, the scraping away of layers of meaning; it may allude to blank spaces and lacunae; skin as the polychrome surface of a statue, or a fresco; architectural skins and façades; it could relate to surfaces, spaces, and landscapes; to the veneers of civilization and society. We invite papers thatengage these topics, or any related to the fieldof medieval studies.

Plenary address by Dr. Andrew Beresford,
University of Durham: "Dermal
Identities in the Legend of St Bartholomew"

Professor Beresford is the Associate Director of the Centre for Visual Arts and Culture, and a founding member of the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Durham. His internationally recognized work focuses on intersections in early Spanish literature, art, and culture, with a focus on hagiography, gender, and literary theory. His many publications include The Severed Breast: The Legends of Saints Agatha and Lucy in Medieval Castilian Literature (2010), The Legend of Saint Agnes in Medieval Castilian Literature (2007), and The Legends of the Holy Harlots: Thaïs and Pelagia in Medieval Spanish Literature (2007).

Please send proposals of 250 words by June 1st to Caroline Jewers at cjewers@ku.edu.

Sponsored by The University of Kansas College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Hall Center for the Humanities, KU School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, The Franklin D. Murphy Lecture Fund, The Kress Foundation Department of Art History, KU Libraries, KU School of Music, and the KU Departments of: French, Francophone & Italian Studies, English, Germanic Languages & Literatures, History, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Slavic Languages & Literatures, Spanish and
Portuguese. Our special thanks to the journal La Corónica.

Organized by:
University of Kansas MEMS (Medieval and Early Modern Studies)

samedi 21 avril 2018

Histoires transculturelles des psychothérapies

Towards Transcultural Histories of Psychotherapies

European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, 20 (1), 2018


Guest Editor: Sonu Shamdasani



Introduction
Introduction to special issue ‘Towards transcultural histories of psychotherapies’
Del Loewenthal Editor-in-Chief

Editorial
Towards transcultural histories of psychotherapies
Sonu Shamdasani

Articles
Suggestion, persuasion and work: Psychotherapies in communist Europe
Sarah Marks

Manualizing psychotherapy: Aaron T. Beck and the origins of Cognitive Therapy of Depression
Rachael I. Rosner

Modernist Pills against Brazilian Alienism (1920–1945)
Cristiana Facchinetti

Buddhism, Christianity, and psychotherapy: A three-way conversation in the mid-twentieth century
Christopher Harding

Inferiority and bereavement: Implicit psychological commitments in the cultural history of Scottish psychotherapy
Gavin Miller

Towards trans-cultural histories of psychotherapies
Hans Pols

Transcultural histories of psychotherapy
Keir Martin

Book Reviews  

Slavoj Žižek and radical politics
Nebojša Blanuša

Diagnostic cultures: A cultural approach to the pathologisation of modern life
Anne Cooke

Immigrants and refugees. Trauma, perennial mourning, prejudice and border psychology
Diana Brotherton

50e congrès Cheiron

Cheiron 50th Anniversary Conference 

The Cummings Center for the History of Psychology is pleased to host the 50th anniversary of Cheiron: The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences. This special celebratory year promises to be filled with great presentations, stimulating conversation, and special surprises!

When: June 21-24, 2018

Where: The University of Akron campus What: The annual meeting of Cheiron, formed in 1968 to promote international cooperation and multidisciplinary studies in the history of the behavioral and social sciences.

Program : https://www.uakron.edu/cheiron/annual-meeting/Program2018.pdf

vendredi 20 avril 2018

L'histoire de la psychiatrie en dix traitements

The Drugs That Changed Our Minds: The history of psychiatry in ten treatments 

Lauren Slater

Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd (March 22, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-1471136887


As our approach to mental illness has oscillated from biological to psychoanalytical and back again, so have our treatments. With the rise of psychopharmacology, an ever-increasing number of people throughout the globe are taking a psychotropic drug, yet nearly seventy years after doctors first began prescribing them, we still don't really know exactly how or why they work - or don't work - on what ails our brains. In The Drugs that Changed Our Minds, Lauren Slater offers an explosive account not just of the science but of the people - inventors, detractors and consumers - behind our narcotics, from the earliest, Thorazine and Lithium, up through Prozac, Ecstasy, 'magic mushrooms', the most cutting-edge memory drugs and neural implants. In so doing, she narrates the history of psychiatry itself and illuminates the signature its colorful little capsules have left on millions of brains worldwide, and how these wonder drugs may heal us or hurt us.

Postdoctorat sur les pathologies de la solitude

3 year Postdoc to work on ‘Pathologies of Solitude, 18th – 21st century’

Call for applications 


The School of History at Queen Mary University of London wishes to recruit a three-year Postdoctoral Research Assistant to work on a Wellcome Trust funded research project, ‘Pathologies of Solitude, 18th – 21st century’, led by Professor Barbara Taylor (PI).

This project, which begins in September 2018, is a four-year investigation into changing perceptions of solitude in Britain from the 18th century to the present, with particular emphasis on the perceived health risks of solitude and loneliness. The project is collaborative, involving a research network and visiting scholars who will explore solitude from multiple disciplinary perspectives. The project will also engage with campaigns devoted to alleviating loneliness, while an ambitious outreach programme will take its findings to the general public.

Two further Postdoctoral Research Assistant posts will be advertised in the course of the project (for posts beginning in January 2019 and September 2019).Full details of the project can be requested from Professor Taylor: b.g.taylor@qmul.ac.uk.

The successful candidate will hold a PhD in a relevant area which will have been awarded before the start of the role. Relevant subject areas include but are not limited to: history of the emotions; medical humanities; English literature; history of religion; cultural history; philosophy; intellectual history; gender studies; scientific studies of the emotions; psychology; psychiatry; psychoanalysis; social anthropology; sociology; urban studies; gerontology; comparative literature.

Applications close 24 April 2018. More details are available here.

jeudi 19 avril 2018

Médecine et magie dans la Norvège moderne

Medicine, Magic and Art in Early Modern Norway: Conceptualizing Knowledge


Ane Ohrvik




Series: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
Hardcover: 302 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2018 edition (April 2, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-1137467416

This book addresses magical ideas and practices in early modern Norway. It examines a large corpus of Norwegian manuscripts from 1650-1850 commonly called Black Books which contained a mixture of recipes on medicine, magic, and art.

Ane Ohrvik assesses the Black Books from the vantage point of those who wrote the manuscripts and thus offers an original study of how early modern magical practitioners presented their ideas and saw their practices. The book show how the writers viewed magic and medicine both as practical and sacred art and as knowledge worth protecting through encoding the text. The study of the Black Books illuminates how ordinary people in Norway conceptualized magic as valuable and useful knowledge worth of collecting and saving despite the ongoing witchcraft prosecutions targeting the very same ideas and practices as the books promoted. 

Medicine, Magic and Art in Early Modern Norway is essential for those looking to advance their studies in magical beliefs and practices in early modern Europe as well as those interested in witchcraft studies, book history, and the history of knowledge.

Les handicapés de la Première Guerre mondiale

War-disabled people: the continuing 1914-1918 war


Call for papers


The Journal ALTER European Journal of Disability Research welcomes all propositions of articles to the issue of war-disabled people during the post WW1 period (1918-1939).It seems necessay to foster the production of new research focused on war-wounded people during the inter-war period at local, national and international levels. A number of issues deserve attention : - Daily life of war wounded people returning to civilian life- Feelings and emotions (resentment, pride, etc.)- The impact of high social visibility of war-wounded people on the social representation of disability- Work, economic and family situation- Gender and physical, psychological and sexual violence- Transnational dimension of organizations mobilization and the making of rehabilitation policies for war wounded.

Presentation
World War I led to six to seven million maimed men at international level. In Europe, governments afterwards had to face an issue which varied in magnitude in different countries. In each of the following five countries, Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Russia, more than 800 000 war disabled men had to be provided for, whereas other countries (Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, the Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian Kingdom, United States) had to deal with 100 000 to 350 000 men disabled by the conflict. In all these countries, war-disabled men formed organizations whose political positioning was often adversarial (apolitical, communist, social catholic, etc.). Because they had so many members, and because they spoke for war victims, they became influential partners of public authorities. Generally, these associations did not challenge existing social attitudes but prided themselves in promoting the sacrifice of soldiers and their wounded members[1].

Almost all war disabled were men, a majority of them being between 20 to 40 years old, however, there were a few war disabled female nurses too. Many encountered difficulties in returning to their agricultural, artisanal, or industrial jobs. Although they had been in working life for only 10 or 20 years, a number of them were forced to consider another career to provide for their families. To solve the problem of their continuing employment, in many European countries (Austria, Germany, Great Britain, France, Italy) associations demanded that all employers whether public or private were forced to hire a certain proportion of disabled men. Therefore several European countries (Austria, Germany, France, Italy, Poland) adopted legal measures between 1916 and 1924 imposing an obligation on private and public companies to employ war-wounded workers.

The first studies on war wounded people focused on public policies, legislation and mobilization of organizations. More recent studies focus on life experience, on the representation of war disabled in media[2] and on other aspects such as the pain associated with lost limbs[3]. Many of these studies are centered on the local or national level (France[4], Great Britain, Italy[5], Belgium[6], Germany[7], Austria, Poland[8], etc.).Very few collective or individual books[9] plus the recent special issue of the First World War Studies journal[10] allow crossing view points on several national cases. Historians have started adopting transnational perspectives on the matter[11]. This interest is likely to develop considering the increasing exchange of experience and data between associations and medical doctors from different countries.

However, a vast majority of these studies focus on the war and post-war period itself, overlooking mid- and long-term consequences of the war on the life of individuals. It seems therefore necessary to foster the production of new research focused on war-wounded people during the inter-war period at local, national and international levels. A number of issues deserve attention:
  • Daily life of war wounded people returning to civilian life
  • Feelings and emotions (resentment, pride, etc.)
  • The impact of high social visibility of war-wounded people on the social representation of disability
  • Work, economic and family situation
  • Gender and physical, psychological and sexual violence
  • Transnational dimension of organizations mobilization and the making of rehabilitation policies for war wounded.

Submission Guidelines 
The journal welcomes all responses to the issue of war-disabled people during the post WW1 period (1918-1939). Articles should be submitted to the Journal ALTER European Journal of Disability Research on the website http://ees.elsevier.com/alter/ before October 31th 2018.

Articles selected after blind peer reviewing will be published in a special issue of ALTER-European Journal of Disability Research in commemoration of WW1, end of 1919.



[1] Gerber David (ed.), Disabled Veterans in History, University of Michigan Press, Enlarged and revised edition, 2012, p. xiii.

[2] Alexandre Sumpf, "War disabled on screen : remembering and forgeting the Great War in the Russian and Soviet cinema, 1914-1940", First World War Studies, 2015, pp. 57-79.

[3] Delaporte Sophie, « Le corps et la parole des mutilés de la Grande Guerre », Guerres mondiales et conflits contemporains, n° 205, 2002/1, p. 5-14.

[4] Jean-François Montès, 1915-1939, (re)travailler ou le retour du mutilé : une histoire de l’entre-deux-guerres, Rapport de recherche effectué pour l’Office national des anciens combattants et victimes de guerre, 1991 ; Romien (Pierre), « A l’origine de la réinsertion professionnnelle des personnes handicapées : la prise en charge des invalides de guerre », Revue Française des Affaires Sociales, n°2, 2005, pp. 229-247 ; Rebecca Scales, "Radio Broadcasting, Disabled Veterans, and the Politics of National Recovery in Interwar France", French Historical Studies, vol. 31, n°4, 2008, pp. 643-678.

[5] Ugo Pavan Dalla Torre, "Entre public et privé : l’assistance aux invalides de guerre et les origines d’un nouveau système de welfare en Italie (1915-1923)", Revue d'histoire de la protection sociale, 2015, p. 46-64.

[6] Pieter Verstraete, Christine Van Everbroeck, Le silence mutilé. Les soldats invalides belges de la grande guerre, Presses Universitaires de Namur, 2014.

[7] Heather R. Perry, Recycling the disabled : Army, medicine, and modernity in WWI Germany, Manchester University Press, 2014.

[8] Magowska, Anita, "The Unwanted Heroes : War invalids in Poland after World War I", Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, vol. 69 (2), 2014, pp. 185-220.

[9] Deborah Cohen, The War Come Home. Disabled Veterans in Britain and Germany, 1914-1939, University of California Press, 2001.

[10] Pieter Verstraete, Martina Salvante and Julie Anderson, "Commemorating the disabled soldier : 1914-1940", First World War Studies, 2015, p. 1-7

[11] Gildas Brégain, « Un problème national, interallié ou international ? La difficile gestion transnationale du problème des mutilés de guerre (1917-1923) », Revue d'Histoire de la protection sociale, n°9, 2016, pp. 110-132.


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mercredi 18 avril 2018

130 ans de médecine à Hong Kong

130 Years of Medicine in Hong Kong: From the College of Medicine for Chinese to the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine

Frank Ching


Hardcover: 509 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1st ed. 2018 edition (March 15, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-9811063152 

This book reviews the medical history of Hong Kong, beginning with its birth as a British colony. It introduces the origins of Hong Kong’s medical education, which began in 1887 when the London Missionary Society set up the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese. When the University of Hong Kong was established in 1911, the College became its medical faculty. The faculty has gained distinction over the years for innovative surgical techniques, for discovering the SARS virus and for its contribution to advances in medical and health sciences. This book is meant for general readers as well as medical practitioners. It is a work for anyone interested in Hong Kong or in medical education.

La réanimation contemporaine

Resuscitation, Reanimation, and the Modern World

Call for Papers

5-6 October 2018

Maison Française d’Oxford



Drag the pale victim from the whelming wave,
And snatch the body from the floating grave;
Breathe in the lips re-animating fire,
Till, warm’d to second life, the drown’d respire.

The emergence of societies ‘for the recovery of persons apparently drowned’ within Europe —Amsterdam 1767, Paris 1772, London 1774 — institutionalized a shift in the 18th century, whereby different groups in society became involved with a common concern. The act of resuscitation took on social as well as medical significance: medals were awarded to bystanders who leapt into rivers to save hapless swimmers; attendants were stationed at the edge of hazardous boating lakes; and a variety of life-saving tools were touted to a burgeoning consumer society. These endeavours drew upon broader understandings of breath, air, and the functions of bodies, and also held the potential for spiritual transformation by making bodily ‘resurrection’ a real possibility.

Coinciding with the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818), this workshop seeks to explore the social, cultural, political, and medical aspects of reanimation and resuscitation from the early modern period to the present. We will consider how these phenomena have been understood – as miraculous moments, displays of medical prowess, and manifestations of civic responsibility. We will ask if they represent a profound shift regarding ideas about the origin of life as well as its value, connected to the development of a society of risk management. We will also explore how these practices have developed through time in literary, popular, and medical narratives, as new technologies both ‘medicalised’ resuscitation and extended its practice beyond the medical arena. In this way, we hope to gain insight not only into the development and dissemination of medical knowledge but also into broader cultural issues – citizenship, duty, and changing perceptions of what it means to be human.

We ask participants to submit proposals for papers of 20 minutes in length, covering any aspect of reanimation or resuscitation from the early modern period onwards. Possible themes or topics might include:
  • How these practices affected contemporary attitudes towards life and death
  • Resuscitation/reanimation and the uncanny body
  • Resuscitation/reanimation as a spiritual experience
  • Literary depictions of resuscitation/reanimation
  • Resuscitation technologies, from bellows to electrical stimulation of the heart
  • The use of humans and animals in the development of resuscitation techniques
  • The role of the bystander and notions of civic responsibility
  • First Aid training and the spread of medical knowledge and practices
  • Risky locations – from lakes and rivers to the emergency room

Please submit a title, abstract of up to 250 words, and brief biography, to marie-aline.thebaud-sorger@history.ox.ac.uk by Sunday 1 July 2018.


Resuscitation, Reanimation, and the Modern World is organised by Dr Marie Thébaud-Sorger (CNRS/Maison Française d’Oxford) and Dr Jennifer Wallis (QMUL). The workshop is free. We are currently seeking funding that we hope will contribute towards travel and accommodation costs for a number of early career researchers and unfunded scholars.

mardi 17 avril 2018

Histoire de la neurochirurgie

Neurosurgery, Psychiatry, and Function: The History of Altering Behavior, Thought, and Function Through Neurosurgery

Neurosurgical Focus, September 2017, Volume 43, Issue 3


Introduction. Neurosurgery, psychiatry, and function: the history of altering behavior, thought, and function through neurosurgery
by Mark C. Preul, MD, T. Forcht Dagi, MD, Charles J. Prestigiacomo, MD, and Chris A. Sloffer, MD, MBA

Sanger Brown and Edward Schäfer before Heinrich Klüver and Paul Bucy: their observations on bilateral temporal lobe ablations
by Prasad S. S. V. Vannemreddy, MD, and James L. Stone, MD

Editorial. The Klüver-Bucy syndrome and the golden age of localization
by Chris A. Sloffer, MD, MBA

The early argument for prefrontal leucotomy: the collision of frontal lobe theory and psychosurgery at the 1935 International Neurological Congress in London
by Lillian B. Boettcher, BA, and Sarah T. Menacho, MD

Editorial. London 1935: the frontal lobe, insanity, and a brain surgery
by Mark C. Preul, MD, and T. Forcht Dagi, MD, DMedSc, DHC

Psychosurgery, ethics, and media: a history of Walter Freeman and the lobotomy
by James P. Caruso, BS, and Jason P. Sheehan, MD, PhD

Topectomy versus leukotomy: J. Lawrence Pool’s contribution to psychosurgery
by Ryan Holland, MD, David Kopel, MD, Peter W. Carmel, MD, MedSci, and Charles J. Prestigiacomo, MD

The origins and persistence of psychosurgery in the state of Iowa
by Francis J. Jareczek, BS, BA, Marshall T. Holland, MD, Matthew A. Howard III, MD, Timothy Walch, PhD, and Taylor J. Abel, MD

History of psychosurgery at Sainte-Anne Hospital, Paris, France, through translational interactions between psychiatrists and neurosurgeons
by Marc Zanello, MD, MSc, Johan Pallud, MD, PhD, Nicolas Baup, MD, PhD, Sophie Peeters, MSc, Baris Turak, MD, Marie Odile Krebs, MD, PhD, Catherine Oppenheim, MD, PhD, Raphael Gaillard, MD, PhD, and Bertrand Devaux, MD

Pneumoencephalography in the workup of neuropsychiatric illnesses: a historical perspective
by Mariam Ishaque, PhD, David J. Wallace, MD, and Ramesh Grandhi, MD

Neuroplasticity and the brain connectome: what can Jean Talairach’s reflections bring to modern psychosurgery?
by Pierre Bourdillon, MD, Caroline Apra, MSc, MD, Marc Lévêque, MD, and Fabien Vinckier, MD, PhD

Dr. Robert G. Heath: a controversial figure in the history of deep brain stimulation
by Christen M. O’Neal, BS, Cordell M. Baker, BS, Chad A. Glenn, MD, Andrew K. Conner, MD, and Michael E. Sughrue, MD

A brief note on the history of psychosurgery in Japan
by Jiro Nudeshima, PhD, and Takaomi Taira, MD, PhD

Exploring the brain through posterior hypothalamus surgery for aggressive behavior
by Michele Rizzi, MD, Andrea Trezza, MD, Giuseppe Messina, MD, Alessandro De Benedictis, MD, PhD, Angelo Franzini, MD, and Carlo Efisio Marras, MD

The hypothalamus at the crossroads of psychopathology and neurosurgery
Daniel A. N. Barbosa, Ricardo de Oliveira-Souza, MD, PhD, Felipe Monte Santo, MD, Ana Carolina de Oliveira Faria, MSc, PhD, Alessandra A. Gorgulho, MD, MSc, and Antonio A. F. De Salles, MD, PhD

Abstracts and Full Texts can be found here: http://thejns.org/toc/foc/43/3