Archéologie du handicap

Handicap : quand l'archéologie nous éclaire 

Valérie Delattre

Editeur : Editions le Pommier (26 septembre 2018)

Collection : Le collège de la cité

Langue : Français

Poche: 192 pages

ISBN-13: 978-2746516397

Quel était le quotidien d'un individu handicapé ? Etait-il pris en charge par les siens ? Rejeté ? Soigné ? Accompagné ? Appareillé ? Aujourd'hui, les progrès de l'archéologie permettent une lecture de plus en plus précise de cette prise en charge des infirmes, des" corps différents", des estropiés, des faibles ou des malades. Et une réflexion collective sur l'accueil de la différence dans les sociétés qui nous ont précédés, qui peut nourrir les débats actuels sur la place du handicap dans nos sociétés contemporaines.

Dialogues autour d’une œuvre d'histoire de la médecine

Quelle histoire pour la médecine et la santé ? Dialogues autour d’une œuvre


Séminaire


Qu’ont à dire aux médecins et professionnel·le·s de la santé l’histoire et les sciences sociales de la
médecine et de la santé ? Mais aussi, qu’ont-elles à partager avec les autres sciences historiques et
sociales (ou au contraire comment s’en distinguent-elles) ? Ces questions travaillent aujourd’hui
en profondeur les disciplines qui constituent le socle des activités de l’Institut des humanités en
médecine (CHUV et FBMUNIL) et du Programme histoire de la médecine de l’Institut Ethique Histoire Humanités (FM, UNIGE). Elles en déterminent assurément le futur. Pour y répondre, le Séminaire romand d’histoire et études sociales de la médecine et de la santé invite les historien·ne·s et spécialistes de sciences sociales d’aujourd’hui à dialoguer avec des oeuvres marquantes,
contemporaines ou passées, de nos domaines de recherche.

Lundi 1er octobre 2018, 17h-19h, iEH2, Villa Friedheim, Chemin de la Tour-de-Champel 17, Genève
Joël Chandelier, Université de Paris 8
Les seigneurs de l’histoire médicale médiévale

Lundi 5 novembre 2018, 17h-19h, salle de réunions de l’IHM, Avenue de Provence 82, Lausanne
Dolores Martin Moruno, iEH2, UNIGe
Comprendre l’histoire de la médecine dans l'Espagne de Franco : Pedro Laín Entralgo

Lundi 26 novembre 2018, 17h-19h, salle de réunions de l’IHM, Avenue de Provence 82, Lausanne
Philip Rieder, iEH2, UNIGe
La Wellcome School, le patient et le marché thérapeutique

Les séances ont lieu alternativement à la salle de réunions de l’IHM à Lausanne et à la Bibliothèque de l’iEH2, Villa Friedheim, à Genève (Chemin Tour-De-Champel 17, 1206 Genève)
Elles sont gratuites et ouvertes à toute personne intéressée.
Pour tout renseignement : ihm@chuv.ch

Conception et organisation
V. Barras, A. Fauvel, F. Panese, IHM, CHUV-UNIL, F. Arena, A. Carlino. D. Martin Moruno, iEH2,
UNIGe

Science, médecine et transformation du sexe dans la Chine contemporaine

After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China 

Howard Chiang

Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: Columbia University Press; 1 edition (August 7, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-0231185783

For much of Chinese history, the eunuch stood out as an exceptional figure at the margins of gender categories. Amid the disintegration of the Qing Empire, men and women in China began to understand their differences in the language of modern science. In After Eunuchs, Howard Chiang traces the genealogy of sexual knowledge from the demise of eunuchism to the emergence of transsexuality, showing the centrality of new epistemic structures to the formation of Chinese modernity.

From anticastration discourses in the late Qing era to sex-reassignment surgeries in Taiwan in the 1950s and queer movements in the 1980s and 1990s, After Eunuchs explores the ways the introduction of Western biomedical sciences transformed normative meanings of gender, sexuality, and the body in China. Chiang investigates how competing definitions of sex circulated in science, medicine, vernacular culture, and the periodical press, bringing to light a rich and vibrant discourse of sex change in the first half of the twentieth century. He focuses on the stories of gender and sexual minorities as well as a large supporting cast of doctors, scientists, philosophers, educators, reformers, journalists, and tabloid writers, as they debated the questions of political sovereignty, national belonging, cultural authenticity, scientific modernity, human difference, and the power and authority of truths about sex. Theoretically sophisticated and far-reaching, After Eunuchs is an innovative contribution to the history and philosophy of science and queer and Sinophone studies.

Poste à Duke

Assistant professor, tenure track position in the history of science and/or technology, or a related field

Call for applications 

Position ID: Duke-History-ASSTPROF1 [#11767]

Position Title: History of Science and Technology

Position Type: Tenured/Tenure-track faculty

Position Location: Durham, North Carolina 27701, United States [map]

Subject Area: History / Science and Technology

Appl Deadline: 2018/11/15* (posted 2018/09/04, updated 2018/09/06, listed until 2018/11/15)

Position Description: Apply

History of Science and Technology. The Department of History at Duke University invites applications for an assistant professor, tenure track position in the history of science and/or technology, or a related field. Duke University values faculty who can form interdisciplinary alliances across departments and schools; candidates who can connect to other university entities such as the Pratt School of Engineering, the Nicholas School of the Environment, the Sanford School of Public Policy, or other arts and sciences departments are particularly welcome. Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, a brief writing sample (article or chapter) along with three letters of recommendation to Professor Humphreys, Chair of the Search Committee, via the following website: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/11767.

Applications received by November 15 will be guaranteed consideration. 

Duke University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status. Duke also makes good faith efforts to recruit, hire, and promote qualified women, minorities, individuals with disabilities, and veterans.

Application Materials Required:Submit the following items online at this website to complete your application:

• Cover Letter 
• Curriculum Vitae 
• Writing Sample 
• Three Reference Letters (to be submitted by the reference writers at this site )And anything else requested in the position description.

Further Info:www.history.duke.edu919-684-2343 216 Carr Building (East Campus)

Box 90719 

Durham, NC 27708-0719

Regard(s) sur les collections anatomiques et médicales

Regard(s) sur les collections anatomiques et médicales

Colloque


Ce colloque international "Regard(s) sur les collections anatomiques et médicales" aura lieu les 7 et 8 novembre 2018 à Paris.

Sous la responsabilité scientifique de : Alice Aigrain (université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Maxime Georges Métraux (Sorbonne université) et Michel Poivert (université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne). 

Comité organisateur
Alice Aigrain (université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Maxime Georges Métraux (Sorbonne université)

Mercredi 7 novembre 2018

INHA, salle Vasari (1er étage)
9h00 – 9h30 : Accueil des participants.
9h30 – 9h40 : Introduction de Dominique Poulot (université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne).

9h30 – 12h30 : Session 1.

9h30 – 9h45 : Alice Aigrain (université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Etudier l’histoire de la médecine à travers les fonds photographiques des collections muséales.

10h15 – 10h45 : Alain Froment (musée de l’Homme)
Heurs et malheurs de la phrénologie dans les collections anatomiques.

10h45 – 11h15 : Séance de questions/réponses et pause.

11h15 – 11h45 : Mechthild Fend (University College of London)µ
The Visual Culture of Dermatology and the Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris.

11h45 – 12h15 : Maxime Georges Métraux (Sorbonne université)
Réflexions sur l’appréhension et la perception du musée Dupuytren dans les écrits du XIXe et XXe siècles.

12h15 – 12h30 : Séance de questions/réponses.

14h30 – 18h00 : Session 2.

14h30 – 15h00 : Elizabeth Hallam (University of Oxford/University of Aberdeen)
Anatomy Museum on the Move.

15h00 - 15h30 : Hélène Servant (chef du département des patrimoines culturels de l’AP-HP) et Camille Perez (département des patrimoines culturels de l’AP-HP, directrice du musée de l’AP-HP)
Le patrimoine de l'AP-HP entre archives et musée : une convergence des approches en matière de collecte.

15h30 – 16h00 : Séance de questions/réponses et pause.

16h00 – 16h30 : William Schupbach (Wellcome Library)
The "French collections" in the Wellcome Collection.

16h30 – 17h00 : Jérôme van Wijland (Académie nationale de médecine)
Objets et instruments médicaux en bibliothèque patrimoniale : l'exemple de l'Académie nationale de médecine.

17h00 – 17h15 : Séance de questions/réponses.

17h15 – 18h00 : Pot de clôture de la journée.

Jeudi 8 novembre 2018

Sorbonne université, campus Pierre et Marie Curie, amphithéâtre Charpak
9h00 – 9h30 : Accueil des participants.

9h30 – 12h30 : Session 3.

9h30 – 11h30 : Visite des collections médicales d’anatomies-pathologiques Dupuytren avec Eloïse Quétel (Sorbonne université - collection Dupuytren) (réservé aux intervenants).

11h30 – 12h30 : Table ronde avec Danielle Seilhean (Sorbonne université), Jean-François Vincent (BIU Santé) et Eloïse Quétel (Sorbonne université - collection Dupuytren)
Préservation et valorisation des collections médicales et anatomiques : quelle place pour le patrimoine médical dans la France de demain ?

Poste en humanités médicales à Rice University

Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor, Medical Humanities at Rice University

Call for applications

The School of Humanities at Rice University in Houston, Texas seeks applicants for an open-rank, tenured or tenure-track position as Assistant, Associate or Full Professor in Medical Humanities, focusing on U.S. History of Medicine, Global Health Histories, or Ethical Issues in Health, including research emphasizing race, gender, and sexuality. Appointment of the candidate will be in the relevant Humanities department. PhD in related field required at time of appointment.

Applicants should be prepared to teach regularly-offered undergraduate and graduate courses in Medical Humanities, along with courses in their own field of expertise. The normal course load in the Humanities is 2:2.
The application process is entirely web-based.
Upload a letter of application, CV, a writing sample of ca. 25 pages, evidence of teaching excellence, and arrange to have three letters of recommendation sent (for tenured candidates: names of three referees) by November 1, 2018, to the attention of Prof. Kirsten Ostherr, Search Committee Chair, Office of the Dean of Humanities. The RICEWorks link for applications is: http://jobs.rice.edu/postings/16254

The Medical Humanities program was launched at Rice University in the fall of 2016 in response to student demand, faculty interest, and nationwide recognition that well-rounded students with humanities training bring valuable skills to health care and clinical research. The program takes a multidisciplinary approach to teaching and research on human experiences of health and illness. We aim to increase equity and inclusiveness through learning focused on social and cultural history, diversity, ethics, and health disparities. The School of Humanities has identified Medical Humanities as a strategic priority that advances the university’s Vision for the Second Century (V2C2). Our program has strong collaborations with institutions in the Texas Medical Center, including the University of Texas Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Baylor College of Medicine, and numerous community organizations.

Rice University is a private, comprehensive research university located in the heart of Houston’s dynamic museum district and adjacent to the Texas Medical Center. It offers undergraduate and graduate degrees across eight schools and has a student body of ca. 3900 undergraduates and ca. 2900 graduate students. Rice ranks no. 14 among national universities and third in undergraduate teaching (2018 US News & World Report); its endowment ranks among the top 20 of US universities. Its hallmarks include a high level of faculty research activity; a 6:1 student-faculty ratio; a commitment to fostering diversity; and an intellectual environment that produces the next generation of leaders.

Rice University is an Equal Opportunity Employer with commitment to diversity at all levels, and considers for employment qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status.

Les 100 ans de l'Hôpital Laval

L’Hôpital Laval : 100 ans d’histoire médicale à Québec. 1918-2018

Louis-Philippe Boulet et Jean Bussières

Les Éditions du Septentrion
EN LIBRAIRIE LE 25 SEPTEMBRE 2018

Au début du XXe siècle, le Québec est en pleine effervescence. La population des villes augmente rapidement, les nouveaux moyens de transport permettent aux habitants de se déplacer plus facilement vers les centres urbains. Dans les villes et les grands villages, ce sont les communautés religieuses qui s'occupent des soins de santé et de l'éducation aux nécessiteux.

Avec les nouveaux moyens diagnostiques, la bactériologie et l'asepsie chirurgicale, le réseau hospitalier prend de l'ampleur et ses établissements deviennent le coeur de la prestation des soins. Les soins infirmiers se professionnalisent et les hôpitaux se rapprochent des facultés universitaires de médecine.

L'histoire de l'Hôpital Laval, maintenant devenu l'«Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec - Université Laval», reflète l'évolution du Québec du XXe siècle jusqu'à nos jours, notamment le dévelop­pement de son système de santé et les nombreuses interactions entre politiciens, autorités religieuses et prestataires de soins, dont les médecins, les infirmières et autres intervenants de l'époque.


Louis-Philippe Boulet
Le Dr Louis-Philippe Boulet est pneumologue à l'Institut depuis 1982 et professeur titulaire de médecine au Département de médecine de l'Université…

Jean Bussières
Le Dr Jean Busssières est anesthésiologiste à l'Institut depuis 1984 et professeur titulaire de clinique au Département d'anesthésiologie de l'Université Laval.

La pandémie de 1918

The 1918 influenza pandemic: Historical and biomedical reflections

Call for Papers

Conference 7-8 February 2019 (Ypres, Belgium)

https://vibconferences.be/event/the-1918-influenza-pandemic-historical-and-biomedical-reflections

This is a unique conference on the 1918 influenza pandemic. Importantly, both historical and biomedical aspects of the disease will be presented and discussed:

• Where did this virus come from?
• To which degree and in which ways were its genesis and its rapid transcontinental spread caused and/or facilitated by the war circumstances?
• Which genetic features of the virus explain its unusually high pathogenicity?
• How did medical and political authorities react?
• Why were some age groups spared from this dreadful virus?
• Is it possible to fathom the impact of the pandemic both on the everyday life of citizens and on general developments in science, culture and politics?
• To which degree can a historical approach contribute to the understanding of current-day pandemics, and vice versa?

This 2 day conference in the historical town of Ieper (Ypres) in Belgium will bring together historians, virologists and epidemiologists.

We invite abstract submission that highlight historical, biomedical or both aspects of the 1918 influenza pandemic:

https://vibconferences.be/event/the-1918-influenza-pandemic-historical-and-biomedical-reflections

The organizers:

Marnix Beyen (co-chair), University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium Xavier Saelens (co-chair), Ghent University and VIB, Ghent, Belgium Peter Palese, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA Anne Rasmussen, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France Kaat Wils, KULeuven, Leuven, Belgium Marc Van Ranst, KULeuven, Leuven, Belgium Dominiek Dendooven, In Flanders Fields Museum (Ieper) and University of Antwerp (Antwerp), Belgium

Regénérer le Japon

Regenerating Japan: Organicism, Modernism and National Destiny in Oka Asajir’s Evolution and Human Life 

Gregory Sullivan

Series: CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine
Hardcover: 426 pages
Publisher: Central European University Press (September 1, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-9633862100 

As the first step toward a comprehensive reinterpretation of the role of evolutionary science and biomedicine in pre-1945 Japan, this book addresses the early writings of that era s most influential exponent of shinkaron (evolutionism), the German-educated research zoologist and popularizer of biomedicine, Oka Asajir (1868 to 944). Concentrating on essays that Oka published in the years during and after the Russo-Japanese War (1904 to 1905), the author describes the process by which Oka came to articulate a programmatic modernist vision of national regeneration that would prove integral to the ideological climate in Japan during the first half of the twentieth century. In contrast to other scholars who insist that Oka was merely a rationalist enlightener bent on undermining state Shinto orthodoxy, Gregory Sullivan maintains that Oka used notions from evolutionary biology of organic individuality, especially that of the nation as a super-organism, to underwrite the social and geopolitical aims of the Meiji state.

The author suggests that this generative scientism gained wide currency among early twentieth-century political and intellectual elites, including Emperor Hirohito himself, who had personal connections to Oka. The wartime ideology may represent an unfinished attempt to synthesize Shinto fundamentalism and the eugenically-oriented modernism that Oka was among the first to articulate.

Humanités médicales

IV International Conference on Medical Humanities

Call for Papers

March 16, 2019

Birkbeck, University of London

The conference will explore the social, historical and cultural dimensions of medicine. It will promote an interdisciplinary perspective on health, illness, health care and the body. The conference will also focus on the issues relevant to medical knowledge, public health policy, the experience of being ill and of caring for those who are ill.

Papers are invited on topics related, but not limited, to:

• history of medicine
• medical anthropology
• bioethics
• sociology of medicine
• medicine in literature and cultural studies
• medicine and art
• medicine and philosophy
• health geography
• medical education

We also welcome poster proposals that address one of the conference themes.

The conference is addressed to academics, researchers and professionals with a particular interest related to the conference topic. Proposals up to 250 words and a brief biographical note should be sent by 25 November, 2018 to:medhumconf@lcir.co.uk. Download Paper proposal form.

Selected papers will be published in the post-conference volume. Those who are interested in contributing will be required to submit full papers by 20 December 2018.

Registration fee – 100 GBP

Provisional venue: Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HX

Contact Email: 

medhumconf@lcir.co.uk

URL: 

http://medhumconf.lcir.co.uk/

Une histoire des sexualités

Une histoire des sexualités

Sylvie Steinberg

Presses universitaires de France

Collection: Hors collection

Date de parution: 29/08/2018

Accessible et riche, inventive sur le plan de la recherche documentaire comme dans la réflexion, cette histoire des sexualités propose de retracer les grandes étapes et les évolutions des normes et des mentalités. « Fait social total », la sexualité est à l'intersection de plusieurs types d'approches historiques : sociales, anthropologiques, culturelles, linguistiques. Sous les projecteurs croisés de la démographie historique, de l'anthropologie culturelle et de l'histoire sociale, son histoire pose l'hypothèse que les comportements humains qui lui sont liés – fantasmes et représentations, pratiques érotiques et procréatives – sont eux aussi des objets qu'il s'agit d'étudier sans les détacher des autres pans de l'histoire humaine. Mais on ne saurait aujourd'hui s'intéresser à la sexualité sans y faire également entrer des outils forgés dans le champ de l'histoire du genre. Plus que jamais, la sexualité est devenue un domaine incontournable de l'histoire.

4ème Forum de la recherche de l'Institut des humanités en médecine

4ème Forum de la recherche de l'Institut des humanités en médecine

 Appel à communications

Jeudi 13 décembre 2018
IHM, Lausanne

L’Institut des humanités en médecine (IHM) met sur pied la quatrième édition du Forum de la recherche en histoire et études sociales de la médecine et des sciences du vivant, ainsi que plus généralement du domaine des humanités en médecine, réunissant la communauté romande et alentour des chercheuses et chercheurs de nos disciplines.
Les collaborateurs·trices, chercheur·e·s associé·e·s de l'IHM et des institutions apparentées résentent leurs recherches sous les formes suivantes:

• Poster, avec présentation brève et discussion libre lors d’une séance ad hoc ;
• Communication brève (7 diapositives maximum, 7 minutes maximum), suivie d’une discussion de 7 minutes.

9h-12h30 Communications

12h15 Repas

14h-17h30 Communications

17h30 Séance de Posters

18h Apéritif

En privilégiant ces formes brèves de présentation, nous souhaitons montrer la richesse et la diversité des recherches menées au sein de l’IHM, ainsi que d’autres instituts et laboratoires associés (STSLab/Université de Lausanne, iEH2/Université de Genève, …), et stimuler les interactions entre les différent·e·s chercheur·euse·s.

Délai d'envoi des propositions: 1 novembre 2018.

Le programme définitif sera publié sur le site
www.chuv.ch/ihm : agenda / journée d'étude
Organisation : Vincent Barras, Aude Fauvel, Francesco Panese, IHM, CHUV-UNIL

Les réalités pathologiques

Pathological Realities. Essays on Disease, experiments, and History

Mirko Grmek

Edited, translated and with an introduction by Pierre-Olivier Méthot

Foreword by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger

Fordham University Press

Published: 2018-09-18

ISBN-13 9780823280353

Mirko D. Grmek (1924-2000) is one of the most significant figures in the history of medicine, and has long been considered a pioneer of the field. The singular trajectory that took Grmek from Yugoslavia to the academic culture of post-war France placed him at the crossroads of different intellectual trends and made him an influential figure during the second half of the twentieth century. Yet, scholars have rarely attempted to articulate his distinctive vision of the history of science and medicine with all its tensions, contradictions, and ambiguities. This volume brings together and publishes for the first time in English a range of Grmek’s writings, providing a portrait of his entire career as a historian of science and an engaged intellectual figure. Pathological Realities pieces together Grmek’s scholarship that reveals the interconnections of diseases, societies, and medical theories.

Straddling the sciences and the humanities, Grmek crafted significant new concepts and methods to engage with contemporary social problems such as wars, genocides and pandemics. Uniting some major strands of his published work that are still dispersed or simply unknown, this volume covers the deep epistemological changes in historical conceptions of disease as well as major advances within the life sciences and their historiography. Opening with a classic essay – “Preliminaries for a Historical Study of Diseases,” this volume introduces Grmek’s notions of “pathocenosis” and “emerging infections,” illustrating them with historical and contemporary cases. Pathological Realities also showcases Grmek’s pioneering approach to the history of science and medicine using laboratory notebooks as well as his original work on biological thought and the role of ideologies and myths in the history of science. The essays assembled here reveal Grmek’s significant influence and continued relevance for current research in the history of medicine and biology, medical humanities, science studies, and the philosophy of science.

Aides à la recherche du Comité pour l'histoire de l'Inserm

Aides à la recherche du Comité pour l'histoire de l'Inserm

Appel à candidatures

Année universitaire 2018 - 2019


Le Comité pour l'histoire de l'Inserm a été créé en janvier 2017 pour contribuer à une meilleure connaissance de l'institution, de ses travaux et plus largement de la santé et de la recherche médicale.

Pour la rentrée 2018, il propose un soutien financier aux étudiants de master qui s'engageront dans un mémoire de recherche concernant l'histoire de l'institution ou plus largement l'histoire de la recherche biomédicale et des questions de santé. Les candidats, historiens ou étudiants relevant d'une autre discipline mais intégrant dans leur mémoire une approche historienne significative, peuvent élaborer avec l'aide d'un directeur de recherche leur propre sujet. Des thématiques sont également proposées par le Comité.

Sur cette base, les candidats peuvent postuler selon les modalités suivantes :

· Les candidatures seront examinées par le Comité. Elles seront impérativement accompagnées de la recommandation du directeur ou de la directrice du mémoire de recherche.

· Le montant du soutien financier pourra atteindre un montant maximum de 3 000 euros en fonction des spécificités de chaque projet.

· Les modalités de versement de l'aide financière seront précisées aux candidats une fois leur dossier retenu.


Retrouvez plus d'informations sur le site :
http://histoire.Inserm.fr/


La date limite de réception des dossiers de candidature est fixée au 19 octobre 2018


Comité pour l'histoire de l'Inserm
http://histoire.inserm.fr/
101, rue de Tolbiac, 75654 Paris Cedex 13
Contact : pascal.griset@ext.inserm.fr

L'héritage traumatique de la guerre civile espagnole

Medicine and Conflict: The Spanish Civil War and its Traumatic Legacy 

Sebastian Browne


Series: Routledge/Canada Blanch Studies on Contemporary Spain
Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (August 14, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-0815394235

This book focuses on an important but neglected aspect of the Spanish Civil War, the evolution of medical and surgical care of the wounded during the conflict. Importantly, the focus is from a mainly Spanish perspective – as the Spanish are given a voice in their own story, which has not always been the case. Central to the book is General Franco’s treatment of Muslim combatants, the anarchist contribution to health, and the medicalisation of propaganda – themes that come together in a medico-cultural study of the Spanish Civil War. Suffusing the narrative and the analysis is the traumatic legacy of conflict, an untreated wound that a new generation of Spaniards are struggling to heal.

Les technologies du corps genré

Handling the Body, Taking Control: Technologies of the Gendered Body

Call for Proposals

10th European Spring School on History of Science and Popularization

Institut Menorquí d’Estudis, Maó (Balearic Islands, Spain) 23-25 May 2019

Organized by the Catalan Society for the History of Science

Coordinated by Montserrat Cabré and Teresa Ortiz-Gómez

The aim of the 10th European Spring School [ESS] “Handling the body, taking control: Technologies of the gendered body” is to encompass a diversity of themes around the axis of the historical construction of the gendered body as a locus of both empowerment and disempowerment and the place of the natural philosophical and biomedical disciplines in shaping the political and subjective dimensions of human experience.

The School is particularly concerned with exploring how diverse intellectual and social movements have struggled to gain authority and cultural hegemony over women´s bodies by way of defining sexual difference and the gendered body.

As in previous sessions, this ESS is structured in four key-note lectures and a research workshop. The keynote lectures will be delivered by four outstanding scholars covering areas such as sexual practices, the language of physiology, visual representations and feminist definitions of health expertise.

The ESS is envisaged as a space for junior scholars to discuss their current work-in-progress with colleagues in a creative and supportive environment. The workshop will be organized in three thematic paper sessions and one poster session. All contributions –in both paper and poster format- will be commented by participants, lecturers and organizers of the School. Sessions and discussions will be conducted in English.

The ESS “Handling the body, taking control: Technologies of the gendered body” is open to graduate students, early career scholars, professionals, and activists concerned about past and present approaches to the gendered body and the analysis of the epistemological frameworks that feminism has developped to analyse them.

Participants would be expected to address such issues as:

· Abortion and contraceptive cultures

· Expert knowledge and experiences of pregnancy and birth

· Feminist activism and body technologies

· Feminist epistemologies of the body

· Gendered biopolitics

· Illness, sickness, disease

· Medical constructions of sexual difference

· Patologization and depatologization of the female body

· Sexual education and women’s health knowledge

· Sexual violence, perceptions of harrassment and rape

· Sexualities, female sexuality and asexuality

· Visual and textual discourses of the gendered body

· Women’s sexual desire and medical knowledge on female sexuality

· Women’s versus medical representations of the female body

Please send proposals to discuss your research (around 300 words) before October 30 to Montserrat Cabré and Teresa Ortiz-Gómez at: 10thEES@gmail.com

A limited number of grants will be available for graduate students and early career researchers.

Comment la grippe espagnole a changé le monde

La Grande Tueuse : Comment la grippe espagnole a changé le monde 

Laura Spinney

Patrizia Sirignano (Traduction) 

Broché: 432 pages
Editeur : Albin Michel (29 août 2018)
Collection : A.M. HORS COLL
Langue : Français
ISBN-13: 978-2226397218

Comment un virus H1N1, dont la source et le nom demeurent troubles, a-t-il pu faire plus de ravages encore que la Peste noire du XIVe siècle ?
À l'heure du 100e anniversaire de la pandémie de grippe espagnole, et alors que nous sommes à nouveau confrontés à de violentes épidémies - Ebola, SIDA, ZIKA -, Laura Spinney ravive la mémoire collective de cet événement inouï et adopte une approche narrative pour le restituer dans toute sa complexité.
Elle revient aux origines de la maladie, étudie sa composition et ses particularités génétiques, reconstitue étape par étape le déroulement de la catastrophe au fil de tragédies individuelles poignantes, révèle la surprenante virulence, l'extrême étendue et la foudroyante rapidité de l'infection, et considère son impact non seulement sur les sociétés de l'époque, mais aussi sur la naissance des futures politiques de santé. Cette enquête entraîne le lecteur bien au-delà de l'Europe déchirée par la Première Guerre mondiale, des États-Unis à l'Iran, de l'Inde à l'Alaska, de la Russie à la Chine, en passant par le Brésil et l'Afrique du Sud, à mesure que sont tirés de l'oubli les témoignages de personnages, célèbres comme anonymes, confrontés à la maladie.
À l'échelle du globe, avec ses 50 à 100 millions de morts, la grippe espagnole fit plus de victimes que les deux guerres mondiales réunies, et fut sans doute la plus grande pandémie que l'humanité ait jamais connue.

Teodorico Borgognoni

Teoria e pratica medica nel basso Medioevo: Teodorico Borgognoni vescovo, chirurgo e ippiatra

Convegno internazionale

19-20 ottobre 2018 | Bologna
Università di Bologna | Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà
Aula Prodi, piazza San Giovanni in Monte 2


19 ottobre
9.30-10.30
Saluti istituzionali

Bologna alla fine del Duecento: istituzioni politiche, religiose, culturali
Presiede: Anna Laura Trombetti (Università di Bologna)

10.30-10.50
Francesca Roversi Monaco (Università di Bologna),
Bologna alla fine del Duecento

10.50-11.10
Riccardo Parmeggiani (Università di Bologna),
Episcopato, società e ordini mendicanti in area emilianoromagnola

Coffee break

11.45-12.05
Tommaso Duranti (Università di Bologna),
Medicina, insegnamento e Studium a Bologna nel XIII secolo

Discussione

13.00-14.30
Pranzo

Teodorico chirurgo e ippiatra
Presiede: Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli (Università di Bologna)

14.30-14.50
Lettura del paper di Michael McVaugh (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill),
Teodorico Borgognoni: from Surgeon’s Son to Surgical Author

14.50-15.10
Iolanda Ventura (Università di Bologna),
L’occhio e la vista tra anatomia, farmacopea e chirurgia nel Medioevo

15.10-15.30
Chiara Crisciani (Università di Pavia),
Ingenium: alchimia e chirurgia

Break

16.30-16.50
Martina Schwarzenberger (Ludwig-Maximilians, Universität München),
The Mulomedicina of Teodorico dei Borgognoni: a unique bridge from the late antique hippiatry to
the Middle Age and far beyond

16.50-17.10
Lisa Sannicandro, (Ludwig-Maximilians, Universität München),
Sulle fonti della Mulomedicina di Teodorico: i Digesta artis mulomedicinalis di Vegezio

Discussione

20 ottobre
Il testamento di Teodorico, la sepoltura e il processo
Presiede: Maddalena Modesti (Università di Bologna)

10.00-10.20
Agostino Paravicini Bagliani (SISMEL Firenze),
Il testamento di Teodorico Borgognoni e i testamenti curiali del Duecento

10.20-10.50
Lorenza Iannacci, Annafelicia Zuffrano (Archivio di Stato di Modena e Università di Bologna),
Il vescovo Teodorico Borgognoni: nuovi apporti documentari dall’Archivio di Stato di Bologna

Coffee break

11.15-11.35
Paolo Cova (Università di Bologna),
Ipotesi sulla tomba di Teodorico Borgognoni e alcune riflessioni sulle sepolture vescovili a Bologna fra Due e Trecento

Discussione

12.00-12.30
Conclusioni: Danielle Jacquart (École Pratique des Hautes Études)

Une histoire sociale des poisons

Contribution à une histoire sociale des poisons. Le Ginger Jake

Franck Canorel

L'Harmattan

Acteurs de la Science
Broché - format : 13,5 x 21,5 cm
27 juillet 2018 • 96 pages
ISBN : 978-2-343-14671-3




S'il existe déjà une abondante littérature sur la Prohibition aux États-Unis, une de ses conséquences les plus funestes, à savoir l'intoxication de dizaines de milliers d'Américains par un élixir frelaté, le Ginger Jake, n'a pas retenu l'attention des historiens. Or, la survenue de cet épisode sur fond de ségrégation raciale fut à l'origine de théories complotistes et de discours très virulents à l'encontre des « ruraux alcooliques et oisifs » de l'Amérique profonde. Si, de prime abord, on peut supputer que le nombre des victimes suffirait aujourd'hui à qualifier cet épisode de crise sanitaire, une analyse de la gestion politique et scientifique de cet évènement dans l'Amérique des années 30 tend à mettre en évidence la part prépondérante du politique dans les décisions ayant trait à la santé publique.


Diplômé de l'École de santé publique de la faculté de médecine de Nancy, Franck Canorel a complété sa formation par des diplômes en entomologie médicale à l'Université d'Aix-Marseille, en géographie sociale à l'Université du Mans, en santé/environnement à l'Université de Versailles/Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines ainsi qu'en toxicologie industrielle au Conservatoire national des arts et métiers. Issu par son père d'une famille originaire du Dahomey (ses ancêtres, d'ascendance servile, ont été affranchis le 19 septembre 1848 en Martinique), il mène des recherches sur l'usage des poisons comme stratégie de libération chez les peuples opprimés, notamment en Afrique subsharienne et au Viêt Nam.

Les trois âmes

The Three Souls in the History of Medecine and Natural Philosophy

Workshop

5-6 October 2018

Reid Hall, Grande Salle
4 rue de Chevreuse 75006


The concept of soul seems to have outlived its use long ago. Yet, our increasing capacity to transform our bodies, and interfere in the very processes of birth and death, is accompanied by urgent questions about the nature of identity, the individual, consciousness, and the living organism. Debates in bioethics address these issues, but their public understanding is confused. Meanwhile, confusions abound regarding what the boundaries might be between the animate and the inanimate, the animal and the human, the organic and the mechanical.

We believe that a historical perspective will help understand where medicine, the sciences of mind and the life sciences stand at present with regard to these notions. It is high time to reassess the various uses of the historical idea of soul, ever since its conception by Plato as a unique spiritual substance and its division by Aristotle into three hierarchical parts. This tripartite soul survived in some form or other for over two thousand years, as an explanatory structure for everything from animal generation to higher consciousness. In the light of today’s debates regarding the relation between mind and brain and concomitant bioethical dilemmas, this persistent model requires in-depth examination.

Our conference will offer an opportunity for a dialogue between scientists, clinicians, and philosophers on the one hand, and historians of science and ideas on the other. The programme will create an unusual combination of a diachronic, historical approach with a synchronic, philosophical one.



Friday 5 October

1:30-1:45 Arrival, coffee

1:45-2:00 Welcome and presentation by Noga Arikha and Justin E. H. Smith


Introduction

2:00-2:30 Laura Bossi: A Brief History of a Pervasive Idea

2:30-2:45 Discussion


Session 1

2:45-3:15 Sophia Connell: The Three Souls in Aristotle’s Biology

3:15-3:45 Karl-Léo Schwering: Animism and the Work of Identification in Medicine: The Case of Organ Transplantation

3:45-4:00 Discussion

4:00-4:15 Coffee break


Session 2

4:15-4:45 Guido Giglioni: Galen on Selfhood in the Renaissance

4:45-5:15 Philippe Huneman: The Three Souls, the Two Lives, and the Functions: Some Remarks on Natural History, Experimental Physiology, and Kantianism

5:15-5:30 Discussion

5:30-6:00 General discussion

6:00-7:30 Cocktails



Saturday 6 October

8:45-9:00 Coffee


Session 3

9:00-9:30 Justin E.H. Smith: The Fourth Soul: Aristotle on Air as Ambient psukhē

9:30-10:00 George Makari: Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind

10:00-10:15 Discussion


Session 4

10:15-10:45 Laurent Cohen: The Fragmented Soul

10:45-11:15 Noga Arikha: Psyche, Soma, and the Self

11:15-11:30 Discussion


11:30-11:45 Coffee break

11:45-12:15 General discussion


Session 5

2:00-2:30 Kathryn Tabb: Madness in the Sensitive Soul

2:30-3:00 Didier Sicard: The Body’s Soul

3:00-3:15 Discussion

Session 6

3:15-3:45 Charles T. Wolfe: Trajectories in the Naturalisation of the Soul: Mind and Life

3:45-4:15 Marta Spranzi: Disorders of Consciousness, Neuroimaging and the Illusion of Objective Ethical Standards

4:15-4:30 Discussion

4:30-4:45 Coffee break

4:45-5:15 Manos Tsakiris: Heartfelt Self: Going Beyond Cardiocentrism and Encephalocentrism

5:15-5:45 General discussion

Break

Keynote

6:00-6:45 Siri Hustvedt: Never Mind, or: Plato, Placebo, Placenta

6:45-7:00 Discussion

7:00 Cocktails


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Le dernier numéro de Medical History

Medical History

Volume 62 - Numéro 4 - Octobre 2018

Articles 

Visualising Primary Health Care: World Health Organization Representations of Community Health Workers, 1970–89

Alexander Medcalf, João Nunes

Health Planning in 1960s Africa: International Health Organisations and the Post-Colonial State

John Manton, Martin Gorsky

The Place of Post-Traumatic Amnesia in the Assessment of Blunt Head Trauma: The Epistemic, Professional and Material Factors Shaping British Neurology, circa 1920–40

Ryan Ross

‘Tolerable Intolerance’: Protestantism, Sectarianism and Voluntary Hospitals in Late-nineteenth-century London

Carmen M. Mangion

Public Health, Social Medicine and Disease Control: Medical Services, Maternal Care and Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Former Portuguese West Africa (1920–63)

Philip J. Havik

Book Review

C. Pierce Salgeuro ed., Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Premodern Sources (New York: Columbia University Press, 2017), pp. 689, £116.00, hardback, ISBN: 9780231179942.

Vivienne Lo

Eduardo J. Gómez, Geopolitics in Health: Confronting Obesity, Aids, And Tuberculosis in the Emerging BRICS Economies (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018), pp. xiii + 304, $54.75, paperback, ISBN: 9781421423616.

Paul H. Mason

Cathy Gere, Pain, Pleasure and the Greater Good: From the Panopticon to the Skinner Box and Beyond (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2017), pp. 304, $30, hardback, ISBN: 9780226501857.

David Peace

Barbara S. Bowers and Linda Migl Keyser (eds), The Sacred and the Secular in Medieval Healing: Sites, Objects and Texts (London and New York: Routledge, 2016), pp. xv + 313, £110, hardback, ISBN: 9781472449627.

Patricia Skinner

Naomi Pfeffer, Insider Trading: How Mortuaries, Medicine and Money Have Built a Global Market in Human Cadaver Parts (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2017), pp. 372, $30, hardback, ISBN: 9780300118551.

Ciara Kierans

Rana A. Hogarth, Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780–1840 (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2017), pp. xvii + 268, $27.95, paperback, ISBN: 9781469632872.

Debbie McCollin

Carolyn A. Day, Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), pp. xii + 192, $31.95, paperback, ISBN: 9781350009370.

Jessica P. Clark

Edward C. Atwater, Women Medical Doctors in the United States before the Civil War: A Biographical Dictionary (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2016), pp. xii + 401, $39.95, hardback, ISBN: 9781580465717.

Dale C. Smith

Domenico Bertoloni Meli, Visualizing Disease: The Art and History of Pathological Illustrations (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2018), pp. 288, $55.00/£41.50, hardback, ISBN: 9780226110295.

Darren N. Wagner

Faith C. S. Ho, Western Medicine for Chinese: How the Hong Kong College of Medicine Achieved a Breakthrough (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2017), pp. xiii + 230, $50, hardback, ISBN: 9789888390946.

Jack Greatrex

Ilana Löwy, Imperfect Pregnancies: A History of Birth Defects and Prenatal Diagnosis (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017), pp. xv + 277, $44.95, hardback, ISBN: 9781421423630.

Tanfer Emin Tunc

Media Review

Select Medicamenta: A Virtual Exhibition with Stories of Diseases and Remedies in Antique Books at the University of Padua (Italy)

Cecilia Furlani, Eugenio Ragazzi