Une histoire de la santé

Health. A History

Edited by Peter Adamson

Oxford University Press

Published: 28 February 2019 (Estimated)

392 Pages 

210x140mm 

ISBN: 9780199916443

From antiquity to the early modern period, many philosophers also studied anatomy and medicine, or were medical doctors themselves — yet the history of philosophy and of medicine are pursued as separate disciplines. This book departs from that practice, gathering contributions by both historians of philosophy and of medicine to trace the concept of health from ancient Greece and China, through the Islamic world and to modern thinkers such as Descartes and Freud. Through this interdisciplinary approach, Health demonstrates the synchronicity and overlapping histories of these two disciplines. 

From antiquity to the Renaissance, contributors explore the Chinese idea of qi or circulating "vital breath," ideas about medical methodology in antiquity and the middle ages, and the rise and long-lasting influence of Galenic medicine, with its insistence that health consists in a balance of four humors and the proper use of six "non-naturals" including diet, exercise, and sex. In the early modern period, mechanistic theories of the body made it more difficult to explain what health is and why it is more valuable than other physical states. However, philosophers and doctors maintained an interest in the interaction between the good condition of the mind and that of the body, with Descartes and his followers exploring in depth the idea of "medicine for the mind" despite their notorious mind-body dualism. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, scientific improvements in public health emerged along with new ideas about the psychology of health, notably with the concept of "sensibility" and Freud's psychoanalytic theory. The volume concludes with a critical survey of recent philosophical attempts to define health, showing that both "descriptive," or naturalistic, and "normativist" approaches have fallen prey to objections and counterexamples. As a whole, Health: A History shows that notions of both physical and mental health have long been integral to philosophy and a powerful link between philosophy and the sciences.

Médecines en situation coloniale et post-coloniale

Histoire de la médicalisation européenne : médecines en situation coloniale et post-coloniale

Séminaire

Dates: 24 au 29 mars 2019

Lieu: EHESS Marseille Vieille Charité, 2 rue de la Charité, 13002 – 2e étage, salle 205 (sauf le 28/3 : ANOM, Aix-en-Provence)

Détails et inscription (obligatoire) : https://enseignements-2018.ehess.fr/2018/ue/1174/

Programme:


Lundi 25 mars 2019 (14h-17h30)

14h : accueil des participants – présentation individuelle

14h30 : introduction. Histoire de la médicalisation et études coloniales: quelles intersections ? (Christelle Rabier)

16h : PAUSE

16h15 : Conférence: Silvia Faconieri (IMAF) « La construction juridico-administrative de la folie en Afrique française »

 
Mardi 26 mars (9h30-17h)

9h30-11h : présentation de travaux d’étudiants

11h15-12h45 : conférence Samir Boumediene (IHRIM, CNRS) « En soin et médecine : le geste thérapeutique comme indicateur de la colonisation. Réflexions à partir du cas de l’Amérique espagnole, 15e-18e siècle »

14h-15h45 : conférence Laurence Monnais (Université de Montréal) « Un parcours de recherche sur la médecine en Indochine »

16h : analyse d’un dossier de sources


Mercredi 27 mars (9h30-12h30)

9h30-10h45 : présentation de travaux d’étudiants et d’étudiantes

11h : conférence – Claire Fredj (Université de Nanterre) – « Inventer un nouveau terrain au prisme du genre, de la sociologie des professions et du comparatisme: des médecins militaires aux religieuses, entre Mexique et Algérie »

12h30 : QUARTIER LIBRE


Jeudi 28 mars (9h30-17h) – Archives nationales d’outre-mer (Attention: séance à Aix-en-Provence)

10h-12h30 : présentation générale des fonds: histoire, structure générale – comment saisir l’activité médicale dans les archives coloniales

14h-17h : travail sur archives (présélection de dossiers à travailler par les étudiants et étudiantes / recherche individuelle pour ceux et celles déjà engagé.e.s sur ces sujets


Vendredi 29 mars (9h30-16h)

9h30-12h : mise en commun des recherches ANOM ; lectures/ présentations de travaux d’étudiantes et d’étudiants

14h : bilan par les étudiants et les étudiantes sur l’apprentissage de la semaine

15h15 : Conclusion, table-ronde « Quelles perspectives les études coloniales en histoire de la médecine? » avec Sandrine Musso (AMU, sous réserve), Maurice Cassier (CNRS, Cermes3) (productions locales de vaccins et de médicaments), Carine Baxerres (IRD) (marché du médicament en Afrique de l’Ouest)

Histoires de la naissance

ACCOUCHE ! Histoires de la naissance

Exposition

Salle Allende – Campus du Solbosch (22 Avenue Paul Héger, 1050 Ixelles) 

Horaires : Lu-Ma 12h-14h / Me-Je-Ve 12h-18h / Sa 14h-18h 

Entrée libre 

Infos pratiques : 02/650 37 65

Une exposition sur la fécondité, la natalité, l’accouchement… des mythes antiques aux questions d’aujourd’hui. 

ULB Culture présente, en partenariat avec le Musée de la Médecine, Accouche ! Histoires de la naissance, une exploration scientifique et historique de la conception, de la grossesse, de l’accouchement et de leurs répercutions sociétales. 

Des mythes et pratiques antiques jusqu’aux derniers développements médicaux et aux débats actuels autour de l’obstétrique, l’exposition évoque les progrès et les questions qui se sont posées à chaque étape de l’histoire, aux femmes, à la médecine, à la société. 

La visite est conçue en trois parties : la fécondité et la conception, l’évolution des savoirs autour de l’accouchement, et enfin les politiques publiques et les mouvements féministes autour de la naissance. Elle est abondamment illustrée par des documents, des objets médicaux, des œuvres contemporaines, des films et interviews. L’exposition permet ainsi de croiser les regards de la science avec les questionnements sociaux d’hier et d’aujourd’hui. 

Une exposition organisée par ULB Culture en partenariat avec le Musée de la Médecine - Une programmation de ULB Culture - Département des Services à la Communauté 

Commissaires de l’exposition : Anne Delbaere, Professeure ULB et Chef de Clinique de la Fertilité – Hôpital Erasme, Valérie Piette, Professeure ULB, Vice-Doyenne de la Faculté de Philosophie et Sciences sociales, Nathalie Levy, Chargée des expositions ULB Culture, Conceptrice de l’exposition 

Le recrutement des infirmières surintendantes britanniques

“Wanted: Educated Women of Culture”. The Recruitment of British Nurse Superintendents to Philadelphia, 1870 – 1920

RCN History of Nursing Society Lecture

Thursday 14 March 2019, 6 – 8pm

Royal College of Nursing, 20 Cavendish Square London W1G 0RN


During the late nineteenth century, hospital trustees in Philadelphia actively recruited British nurse superintendents to administer their newly established hospitals and nurse training schools, in an attempt to raise the status of their institutions. The British nurses who responded varied in both the experiences they encountered and the degree to which they achieved success. Through the presentation of biographies of some of the British nurses recruited to Philadelphia, Karen Egenes describes the nurses' motivations, challenges faced, tactics employed, and legacy.


Doors open at 6pm and the talk starts at 6.30. The talk will be followed by a drinks reception from 8-9pm.


Free, book online at: https://www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-events/events/wanted-women-of-culture

Écrire l'histoire des sexualités

Écrire l'histoire des sexualités

Jeffrey Weeks

trad. Françoise Orazi, Samuel Baudry, Baudouin Millet, Jean-Charles Perquin

Lyon, PUL, coll. « SXS Sexualités », 2019, 231 p., 

ISBN : 978-2-7297-0943-3.

Si l'histoire de la sexualité est apparue avec celle des mentalités dans les années 1960, l'histoire des sexualités minoritaires a pris son envol dans les années 1970. Féminisme et militantisme LGBT, combats politiques et débats scientifiques ont profondément transformé la société et avec elle le regard porté sur le passé, le présent et l'avenir des rapports de sexe et de genre. Dans ce livre, Jeffrey Weeks, auteur majeur du champ, décrit de façon claire et systématique les évolutions récentes de l'histoire des sexualités et en expose les enjeux actuels.
Opposé à tout déterminisme biologique, il passe en revue les principales approches de l'historiographie anglo-saxonne et internationale, tant mainstream que queer, LGBT, féministe ou postcoloniale. La traduction française de ce livre est un guide indispensable dans les méandres des débats contemporains.

La sexualité médiévale

Medieval Sexuality: A Research Guide

Joyce E. Salisbury (Editor)

Series: Routledge Library Editions: History of Sexuality (Book 6)

Hardcover: 232 pages

Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (February 7, 2019)

Language: English

ISBN-13: 978-0367174460

Originally published in 1990. Well-annotated bibliographical entries cover works on history, religion, medicine, philosophy, law and literature in western Europe from about the third century A.D. through the end of the medieval period. The primary sources are organised thematically, and separately from secondary sources. Languages covered include English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, and Latin. The focus is on sexuality and sexual attitudes, not on the related topics of marriage and family. Detailed indexes are also included.

L'Iran à l'âge du choléra

A Modern Contagion: Imperialism and Public Health in Iran's Age of Cholera

Amir A. Afkhami

Hardcover: 296 pages

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press; 1 edition (February 5, 2019)

Language: English

ISBN-13: 978-1421427218

Pandemic cholera reached Iran for the first of many times in 1821, assisted by Britain's territorial expansion and growing commercial pursuits. The revival of Iran's trade arteries after six decades of intermittent civil war, fractured rule, and isolation allowed the epidemic to spread inland and assume national proportions. In A Modern Contagion, Amir A. Afkhami argues that the disease had a profound influence on the development of modern Iran, steering the country's social, economic, and political currents.

Drawing on archival documents from Iranian, European, and American sources, Afkhami provides a comprehensive overview of pandemic cholera in Iran from the early nineteenth century to the First World War. Linking the intensity of Iran's cholera outbreaks to the country's particular sociobiological vulnerabilities, he demonstrates that local, national, and international forces in Iran helped structure the region's susceptibility to the epidemics. He also explains how Iran's cholera outbreaks drove the adoption of new paradigms in medicine, helped transform Iranian views of government, and caused enduring institutional changes during a critical period in the country's modern development.

Cholera played an important role in Iran's globalization and diplomacy, influencing everything from military engagements and boundary negotiations to Russia and Britain's imperial rivalry in the Middle East. Remedying an important deficit in the historiography of medicine, public health, and the Middle East, A Modern Contagion increases our understanding of ongoing sociopolitical challenges in Iran and the rest of the Islamic world.

Anthropogenèses

Anthropogenèses

Journées de la Shesvie 2019


Jeudi 14 mars 2019 et Vendredi 15 mars 2019

Maison des sciences de l’homme d’Aquitaine Bâtiment B2, 2e étage
10 esplanade des Antilles Allée Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
33607 Pessac 33615 Pessac cedex

salle Jean Borde : Anthropogenèses salle RDC : Questions d’anthropogenèses

salle 2e étage : Congrès de la Shesvie

shesvie2019.sciencesconf.org


Colloque thématique : Anthropogenèses 

D’Adam à Homo sapiens sapiens

Pascal Duris

La question de l’art et l’anthropogenèse

Maddalena Cataldi

Débats sur l’anthropogenèse en France dans la seconde moitié du xixe siècle

Olivier Dutour

Histoire des connaissances en évolution humaine : place et limites de la génétique

Fréderic Bauduer

Qui est Homo sapiens ou Homo sapiens sapiens ?

Bruno Maureille

Diversité des homininés et anthropogenèse dans la paléoanthropologie

Mathilde Lequin

La figure de l’enfant sauvage : genèse et avatar de l’homme civilisé

Yann Craus


Colloque thématique : Questions d’anthropogenèses 

Une humanité aussi bonne que possible

Sylvie Hello

Un « cerveau dangereux » ? Analyse du pouvoir explicatif de la neurocriminologie

Marie Penavayre

Le mythe de l’homme antédiluvien au xixe siècle. L’abbé Jean-Benoît Cochet (1812-1875) et Jacques Boucher de Perthes (1788-1868)

Olivier Perru

Les scores polygéniques pangénomiques comme nouvelle forme de mesure de l’humain

Sven Saupe [et al.]

Neuroscience et apprentissage du langage. Réflexions sur la différence humain/animal

Bernard Feltz

De l’évolution à l’histoire : l’interpénétration langage/technique et ses implications philosophiques,
Jean-Hugues Barthélémy

De l’anthropogenèse à l’anthropogénétique, l’oeuvre de Charles Binet-Sanglé (1868-1941)

Éric Hello

La « forme humaine » et les droits de l’homme : quels droits pour le trans/posthumain ?

Serge Boarini

Congrès de la Shesvie : communications libres

Ernst Haeckel « La division du travail dans la nature et dans la vie humaine » (1868). Présentation et commentaire du texte

Emmanuel d’Hombres [et al.]

La prise en compte des « conditions extérieures » dans la conception de l’hérédité par Wilhelm Johannsen

Antonine Nicoglou

ADN, métabolisme et individualité dans la biologie philosophique de Hans Jonas

Sven Saupe [et al.]

Sur l’usage de raisonnements évolutionnistes au sein des controverses sociotechniques relatives aux OGM agricoles

Gaëlle Le Dref

Histoire du développement vaccinal : enjeux de compréhension pour le xxie siècle

Baptiste Baylac-Paouly

La recherche biomédicale contemporaine : entre principes bioéthiques et « biobusiness » ?

Yacouba Koné

Pourfour du Petit (1664-1741), un des fondateurs de l’ophtalmologie moderne ?

Jean François Thurloy

Représentations et applications médicales de l’électricité dans le champ médical au xixe siècle

Céline Cherici

La réduction de la production scientifique soviétique en sciences de la vie à la chute de l’URSS, Jérôme Pierrel

Types de théories en sciences historiques : le cas de l’origine des eucaryotes

Thomas Bonnin 

Photographie et sciences de l'esprit

Fotografia e Scienze della Mente tra Storia, Rappresentazione e Terapia



A cura di Daniela Scala

editore: Aracne

pagine: 312
pagine: 17 x 24
data pubblicazione: Ottobre 2018 

ISBN: 978-88-255-1838-2

 

SINTESI Il primo volume della collana «Mente e storia», promossa dal Centro ASPI — Archivio storico della psicologia italiana dell’Università degli Studi di Milano–Bicocca, è dedicato ai rapporti tra scienze della mente e fotografia, due ambiti apparentemente distanti ma in realtà molto più prossimi di quanto si possa immaginare. Tra Otto e Novecento neurologi, psichiatri e psicologi introducono la nuova tecnica di registrazione delle immagini nei manicomi, nelle cliniche e nei laboratori. Da Charcot a Lombroso, dalla contestazione al neuroimaging, la fotografia diviene uno strumento fondamentale per la ricerca, la sperimentazione e la cura, ma anche per la documentazione scientifica e la denuncia sociale.

Les peaux dans l'Europe moderne

Global Skins in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1700

Call for papers

19-20 September 2019, King’s College London

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
HERMAN BENNETT Ÿ CHLOE IRETON Ÿ TATIANA SEIJAS Ÿ ANJANA SINGH

The Renaissance in Europe saw a reinvigorated focus on natural surfaces as a key to creating order. Medical and natural philosophical frameworks emphasized the continuity of surface between the human and non-human: skins covered the humoral bodies of humans, animals, vegetables, and even minerals. At the same time, as global encounters became more frequent and more densely interwoven in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, skin increasingly acted as a marker of social identity, hierarchy and difference. How and why did this change in emphasis on skin emerge? And did Renaissance theories of surface contribute to this process?

Much of the recent historiographical debate on the classification of humans has focused on the interactions between colour, and ‘race’ as a bio-political device to inscribe fixed characteristics onto the bodies of men and women. This conference adds to and builds on this approach by exploring skin in all its early modern manifestations. Ranging from rhinoceros hides, citrus peel, bark, and leather to the highly contentious notions of human skin colouring and skin marking, it looks for continuities and discontinuities in the early modern era. This can be between humans, between animals and humans, and between the vegetal, animal, human, and mineral. In doing so, this conference aims to explore how the social, political, scientific, and aesthetic perceptions of skin interacted in complex ways to construct hierarchies and categories of inclusion and exclusion.

Global Skins aims to create a workshop environment for critical and collaborative discussion of new ideas, approaches and research projects. Papers will be pre-circulated and may take a variety of formats, from presentation of working sources to discussion of methodologies. The intention is not to disseminate completed papers, but to discuss emerging approaches and questions in this field. Four keynote lectures will be delivered by Herman Bennett (CUNY), Chloe Ireton (UCL), Tatiana Seijas (Rutgers) and Anjana Singh (Groeningen).

We invite proposals for work in progress from scholars researching any aspect of skin or surface in the early modern world. Proposals should include a title, a 200-word abstract, a short bio or CV, and either some work in progress or finished work that speaks to the interests at the heart of Global Skins. We have limited funds available for help with expenses. Please indicate when you apply if you will require financial assistance to attend. The deadline for proposals is 30th March, 2019. All proposals and enquiries should be sent to renaissanceskin@kcl.ac.uk

Global Skins is a Renaissance Skin conference, organised by Evelyn Welch (PI), Hannah Murphy, Paolo Savoia, Kathleen Walker-Meikle, Juliet Claxton. More information on Renaissance Skin can be found at our website www.renaissanceskin.ac.uk

La folie à Paris

La folie à Paris (1890)

Paul GARNIER

Texte présenté par Jean-Jacques Courtine

Jérôme Million

Année : 2018 - 296 Pages - 25 €

2-84137-332-1 - 

Paris, dernier quart du XIXe siècle… Des anxiétés s’aggravent. L’alcoolisme fait rage, les dégénérescences guettent. « N’y a-t-il pas plus de fous aujourd’hui qu’autrefois ? », s’inquiète ainsi le Dr Paul Garnier dans sa Folie à Paris (1890). Il occupe une position stratégique pour répondre à la question : Garnier est le médecin-chef de l’Infirmerie Spéciale du dépôt de la Préfecture de Police, où sont transportés tous ceux qu’on embarque sur les pavés de la capitale. Et la réponse est affirmative : l’urbanisation accélérée, l’entassement dans la cité de masses compactes et flottantes d’individus anonymes font éclore de nouvelles folies urbaines, jusqu’alors inconnues. La ville produit donc de la folie, que la psychiatrie observe, transcrit, identifie, et classe.

L’ouvrage de Garnier offre à cet égard un panorama sans égal de la folie à Paris à la fin du siècle, et du sort qui lui était réservé par les rouages de la gouvernementalité bureaucratique quand émergent les sociétés de masse.

On pourrait en rester là, et n’y voir rien d’autre qu’un épisode classique de la longue histoire du contrôle des insensés. Mais il y a une autre manière de lire ce tableau des misères urbaines et d’y entendre les voix de ces égarés. Car si la ville engendre de la folie, la folie produit de la ville. Une autre ville se dévoile alors : elle possède sa géographie, sa monumentalité, ses hauts lieux de la folie ; mais aussi ses parcours, ses lignes de fuite, ses divagations… Un Paris pyramidal, tentaculaire, peuplé de terreurs nocturnes surgit des délires. Mais ce Paris déliré est-il au fond si étranger que cela au Paris délirant qu’invente alors la société urbaine de masse ?

Bourse de recherche Vera Roberts

CAHN-ACHN - Vera Roberts’ Research Award/Bourse de recherche Vera Roberts

Call for Applications/ Appel à Candidatures

The Canadian Association for the History of Nursing (CAHN-ACHN) invites applications for the Vera Roberts’ Endowment (VRE). The VRE provides funding to qualified investigators for historical research and publication of topics related to outpost nursing with priority given to circumpolar regions (defined as “North of 60 degrees parallel” for Canada). Eligible applicants include: graduate and post-doctoral students, established researchers in nursing history, and persons with informal experience in historical research.

Application forms are available at http://cahn-achn.ca/awards/ and must be accompanied by a 7-10 page proposal, curriculum vitae, and all other necessary documents. Please refer to the Guidelines for Nursing History Proposals.

Applications must be submitted electronically by March 15, 2019. Questions and completed applications can be sent to Dr. Geertje Boschma, University of British Columbia at geertje.boschma@ubc.ca



Le Fonds Vera Roberts (FVR)

L’Association canadienne pour l’histoire du nursing (CAHN-ACHN) sollicite des candidatures pour Le Fonds Vera Roberts (FVR). Le FVR fournit des subventions à des enquêteurs qualifiées* pour leurs recherches et publications en histoire du nursing en régions éloignées au Canada. Une priorité est accordée aux régions circumpolaires canadiennes (c’est à dire celle au nord du 60ième parallèle). Les enquêteurs admissibles comprennent: les graduées et celles qui font des études postdoctorales, les chercheures reconnues en histoire du nursing, ainsi que les personnes possédant de l’expérience non-professionnelle en recherche de type historique.

Les formulaires de demande sont disponibles à http://cahn-achn.ca/awards et doive être accompagnés d’une proposition de 7 à 10 pages, un curriculum vitae, et tous les autres documents nécessaires. Pour plus d’informations, référez-vous aux “directives de soumissions de projets de recherche en histoire du nursing” inclus dans le formulaire de demande au lien électronique ci-dessus. Les applications doivent être soumises par voie électronique d’ici le 15 Mars 2019. Adressez vos questions et demandes dûment remplies à Dr. Geertje Boschma, University of British Columbia par courriel à geertje.boschma@ubc.ca

Maladie, handicap et médecine dans l'Europe médiévale

New Approaches to Disease, Disability and Medicine in Medieval Europe

Erin Connelly, Stefanie Künzel (Edt.)

Archaeopress Publishing

 ISBN 9781784918835

The majority of papers in this volume were originally presented at the eighth annual ‘Disease, Disability, and Medicine in Medieval Europe’ conference. The conference focused on infections, chronic illness, and the impact of infectious diseases on medieval society, including infection as a disability in the case of visible conditions, such as infected wounds, leprosy, syphilis, and tuberculosis. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this conference emphasised the importance of collaborative projects, novel avenues of research for treating infectious disease, and the value of considering medieval questions from the perspective of multiple disciplines. This volume aims to carry forward this interdisciplinary synergy by bringing together contributors from a variety of disciplines and from a diverse range of international institutions. Of note is the academic stage of the contributors in this volume. All the contributors were PhD candidates at the time of the conference, and the majority have completed or are in the final stages of completing their programmes at the time of this publication. The originality and calibre of research presented by these early career researchers demonstrates the promising future of the field, as well as the continued relevance of medieval studies for a wide range of disciplines and topics. 

Contributions by Stefanie Künzel, Marit Ronen, Cathrin Hähn, Rachel Welsh, Ninon Dubourg, Clara Jáuregui, Lucy Barnhouse, Cecilia Collins, Erin Connelly, and Christoph Wieselhuber.

Bourse Margaret M. Allemang

CAHN Margaret M. Allemang Scholarship/ ACHN bourse Margaret M. Allemang 

Call for applications/ Appel à candidatures

The Canadian Association for the History of Nursing (CAHN-ACHN) invites applications for the Margaret M. Allemang Scholarship for graduate students (Masters or PhD level) studying in the field of nursing history. Preference will be given to candidates studying Canadian nursing history. Students must be enrolled at a recognized centre for the study of the history of nursing in Canada or the United States, or in a university department of history or women's studies, or study with a recognized Canadian nurse historian. Application forms and instructions are available online at http://cahn-achn.ca/awards/, and must be accompanied by proof of current enrollment and a 5-7 page proposal outlining the study to be completed.

Applications must be submitted electronically by March 15, 2019. Questions and completed applications can be sent to Dr. Geertje Boschma, University of British Columbia at geertje.boschma@ubc.ca



L’Association canadienne de l’histoire du nursing (CAHN/ ACHN) invite les étudiants gradués à soumettre leur dossier pour la bourse Margaret M. Allemang (niveau maîtrise ou doctorat). Les candidat(e)s doivent travailler dans le domaine de l’histoire du nursing; la priorité sera donnée à ceux et celles qui étudient l’histoire du nursing canadien. Les candidat(e)s doivent être inscrits à un programme qui étudie l’histoire du nursing au Canada ou aux Etats-Unis ou dans un département d’histoire, d’études féminines ou encore dirigés par un(e) spécialiste canadien reconnu dans le domaine. Les formulaires et les instructions sont disponibles en ligne à l’adresse suivante : http://cahn-achn.ca/awards/. Le dossier de candidature doit être accompagné d’une preuve d’inscription et d’un projet de 5 à 7 pages évoquant précisément la nature de l’étude proposée.

Les dossiers de demande doivent parvenir, par voie électronique, avant le 15 Mars 2019, au Dr. Geertje Boschma, University of British Columbia par courriel à geertje.boschma@ubc.ca Pour toute question ou demande d’information supplémentaire veuillez également contacter le Dr. Boschma.



See also information about Vera Roberts Research Awards/Voir aussi information sur la Prix de Recherche Vera Roberts: http://cahn-achn.ca/

Guerre et Santé

Guerre et Santé

Sous la direction de Jean Baechler et Michèle Battesti

Broché: 280 pages
Editeur : Hermann (27 août 2018)
Collection : HR.HORS COLLEC.
Langue : Français
ISBN-13: 978-2705697488

La guerre et la santé entretiennent des relations ambiguës. Les Etats belligérants exaltent généralement la maternité, encouragent la croissance démographique et exigent des soldats en bonne santé. Or la guerre tue et mutile aussi bien les combattants que les civils. Elle est responsable de catastrophes épidémiques, sur le front comme à l'arrière, parce que les troupes en mouvement apportent avec elles de nouveaux germes et que les organismes sont affaiblis du fait des privations. Mais la guerre a paradoxalement aussi donné lieu à des progrès médicaux, ceci dès l'Antiquité grecque. Ainsi, la radiologie et la chirurgie réparatrice du visage ont été développées pendant la Grande Guerre. De même, la recherche militaire a permis de grandes découvertes dans le domaine de la médecine tropicale. La guerre, si elle inflige des blessures, des infirmités, des traumatismes psychiques, est donc aussi à l'origine de progrès incontestables, qu'il s'agisse de la prise en charge des blessés ou des traitements. L'humanité se porterait mieux sans la guerre, mais le bilan général est moins déséquilibré qu'il n'y paraît.

La médecine mécanique

Mechanical medicine. Exploring the History of Healing by Exercise, Manipulation and Massage.

Call for papers 

23 May 2019, Science Museum, London.

A symposium at the Science Museum, London, organised by Dr Kay Nias (Medicine Galleries Research Fellow).

‘Physical medicine’ or ‘physical therapy’ has ancient origins. For thousands of years, people with illnesses and disabilities have been treated with physio-therapeutic techniques including exercise, manipulation and massage, as well as air, water, heat and cold, electricity and light. These various healing methods have rich and diverse histories that span time, cultures and medical traditions.

While documentary evidence representing the multi-faceted worlds of these healing practices can often be difficult to find, museum medical collections contain a wealth of material culture that offers unique insight into these underrepresented histories. This interdisciplinary symposium aims to illuminate the history of therapeutic exercise, manipulation and massage – with or without apparatus – also collectively known as mechanotherapy. Used within a variety of therapeutic practices such as bone-setting and orthopaedics, chiropractic and osteopathy, obstetrics and gynaecology, holism and spiritual healing, manual techniques have traversed conventional boundaries of orthodox and alternative medicine, as well as hospital, private and domestic settings.

Academic papers are invited from a range of disciplines, including medical history, anthropology, museum studies and design history amongst others, to discuss cross-cultural perspectives on mechanotherapy and manual healing.

Proposals for 20-minute papers are invited on topics which may include:

Any aspect of mechanotherapy: exercise, manipulation, mobilisation and massage.

Manual healing techniques, and the use of technologies and apparatus.

Cross-cultural healing traditions, including Asian medicine.

Sensory and physical experiences.

Alternative or fringe medical practices.

Please send abstracts of 250 words and a biography of 100 words to Kay Nias, kay.nias@sciencemuseum.ac.uk by 5pm on 4th March, 2019.

Ferdinand Peeters

Doctor Ferdinand Peeters. The Real Father of the Pill

Karl van den Broeck

Gompel & Svacina
2019

ISBN 978 94 6371 054 1

The story of doctor Ferdinand Peeters (1918-1998) and his role in the development of the pill has held Belgium in thrall for almost a decade. It is time to introduce the real father of the contraceptive pill to the rest of the world.

After years of research, Belgian journalist Karl van den Broeck concluded that not the American Gregory Pincus was the inventor of the pill. His prototype had so many adverse effects that it wasn’t a viable option in the long term. It was the Belgian doctor Ferdinand Peeters who, in 1959-1960, created the first clinically applicable contraceptive pill: Anovlar. It was this pill that set the standard for all future pills to follow.

Ferdinand – Nand – Peeters was a devout Catholic and during an audience with pope John XXIII, he urged that the church should sanction the use of the Pill. But when Paul VI decided in 1968 that birth control other than the practice of periodic abstinence would remain forbidden, doctor Peeters didn’t breathe a word about his role in the development of the pill. Even his family was barely aware of it.

In The Real Father of the Pill, Karl van den Broeck tells the long hidden story behind this invention, a story of innovation and threats, of grateful women and papal ambivalence. With this book doctor Peeters is finally given the recognition he deserves.

This book includes the documentary The Real Father of the Pill. More information can be found in the book.

Bourses de la Edward Worth Library

Fellowships at the Edward Worth Library, Dublin

Call for papers


The Edward Worth Library, Dublin, is offering two research fellowships (duration one month), to be held in 2018, to encourage research relevant to its collections. The Worth Library is a collection of 4,300 books, left to Dr Steevens’ Hospital by Edward Worth (1676-1733), an early eighteenth-century Dublin physician. The collection is particularly strong in three areas: early modern medicine, early modern history of science and, given that Worth was a connoisseur book collector interested in fine bindings and rare printing, the History of the Book. Research does not, however, have to be restricted to these three key areas. Further information about the collection and our catalogues may be found on our website:

http://www.edwardworthlibrary.ie/Home-Page


The closing date is Tuesday 2 April 2019.


For further details and application procedures please contact:
Dr Elizabethanne Boran,
Librarian,
The Edward Worth Library,
Dr Steevens’ Hospital,
Dublin 8,
Ireland
E-mail: elizabethanne.boran@hse.ie

Régime et nutrition dans le monde romain

The Routledge Handbook of Diet and Nutrition in the Roman World

Paul Erdkamp & Claire Holleran (Editors)

Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition ( 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-1472446565

Food culture in the classical world has received much attention but while this volume considers the political and social aspects of food where they are directly related to nutrition and diet, its primary focus is on the nature and quality of food consumed in the Roman world. The volume looks at the variety of sources available for historians and archaeologists covering textual and visual sources, as well as archaeobotanical, zooarchaeological and bone evidence. The following section gives an overview of food stuffs, from bread and wine to seafood and meat, paying special attention to those aspects of production, preservation and distribution that determine the diversity within each category, and considers the access of the various segments within Roman society to the range of foods available. The main emphasis is on the Roman world but to highlight the diversity of the Roman Mediterranean groups that could be regarded as ’outsiders’ are also considered. The next section of the book presents a colloquium on diet, malnutrition and physical development and stature. The final sections discuss food and nutrition in the social and political environment, the first focusing on the family and community, and the second considering the role of the market and politics, as well as the consequences of system failure such as starvation.

Construire une histoire de la santé publique

Construire une histoire de la santé publique

Séminaire 


Le vendredi, du 15 février au 24 mai, de 15 à 17 h
EHESS, 105 bd Raspail, Paris 6e, salle 1

Patrice Bourdelais, directeur d’études à l’EHESS
Anne Rasmussen, directrice d’études à l’EHESS

Le séminaire se consacre à la construction de la santé publique du XIXe au XXIe siècle dans une perspective historienne. Il prend pour objet les processus politiques – de la police médicale à l’hygiène publique et à la gouvernance sanitaire contemporaine – et les dynamiques sociales à l’oeuvre dans l’élaboration d’un ensemble de savoirs, de pratiques, d’institutions et de dispositifs de santé publique, dont les mutations sont étudiées à différentes échelles temporelles durant deux siècles. Il s’intéresse à l’élaboration des catégories d’analyse qui les rendent intelligibles et aux débats qui les traversent, et assure une veille historiographique sur les grands enjeux du domaine. Cette année, le séminaire s’organise selon trois séquences thématiques où seront présentées et discutées des recherches en cours :

- La santé publique au prisme des institutions : dispositifs sanitaires et biopolitiques, XIXe-XXe siècles

- Germes, hôtes et vecteurs : épidémies et maladies émergentes

- Santé et environnement(s), entre science, politique et société

La santé publique au prisme des institutions : dispositifs sanitaires et biopolitiques, XIXe-XXe siècles

15 février 2019
Patrice Bourdelais et Anne Rasmussen, EHESS
Introduction au séminaire
Le dispensaire, forme historique d’intervention (1)

22 février 2019
Patrice Bourdelais, EHESS
Le dispensaire, forme historique d’intervention (2)

1er mars 2019
Anatole Le Bras, Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po
L’expérience de l'internement asilaire vue à travers les mémoires de Paul Taesch (fin XIXe
siècle)

8 mars 2019
Charles-Antoine Wanecq, Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po
Traiter les urgences : la construction d'un problème de santé publique (années 1920-1980)

15 mars 2019
Clément Collard, Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po
De l’assistance aux « inutiles au monde » à la rééducation professionnelle : les invalides au
travail pendant la Première Guerre mondiale

22 mars 2019
Emmanuel Betta, Université La Sapienza, Rome
La formation de la biopolitique catholique, XIXe-XXe siècles


Germes, hôtes et vecteurs : épidémies et maladies émergentes

29 mars 2019
Richard Keller, Department of Medical History and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin-
Madison
Viral Markets: Economics, the Environment, and Emerging Disease in the Twentieth Century

12 avril 2019
Gabriel Gachelin, Laboratoire Sphere, Université Paris 7
Le goitreux et la punaise : maladie de Chagas et prise en charge du goitre endémique au
Brésil au XXe siècle

19 avril 2019
Paul-Arthur Tortosa, Institut universitaire européen, Florence
De la controverse scientifique à la guerre commerciale : l’épidémie de fièvre jaune de
Livourne (1804-1805)


Santé et environnement(s), entre science, politique et société

10 mai 2019
Anne Carol, Laboratoire Telemme, Aix Marseille Université
Les inhumations prématurées, un danger pour la santé publique ? (France, XIXe siècle)

17 mai 2019
Frédéric Vagneron, Institut für Biomedizinische Ethik und Medizingeschichte, Université de
Zürich
A Boon or a Curse ? L'épizootie de myxomatose en Europe, cas d’espèce des controverses
entre science et société (années 1940-1950)

24 mai 2019
Aurélien Féron, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Sciences Innovations Sociétés (LISIS)
Ignorance et impuissance en santé environnementale : la trajectoire du problème PCB depuis
1966

Plus d'information : https://enseignements-2018.ehess.fr/2018/ue/696//

Une secte janséniste convulsionnaire sous la Révolution française

Une secte janséniste convulsionnaire sous la Révolution française : Les Fareinistes (1783-1805)

Serge Maury

L'Harmattan

Chemins de la Mémoire
Broché - format : 15,5 x 24 cm

5 février 2019 • 474 pages
ISBN : 978-2-343-14324-8


Cet ouvrage propose une approche du phénomène convulsionnaire janséniste en suivant l'histoire d'une secte particulière, celle des "Fareinistes", depuis ses débuts dans l'Ain autour des années 1780, jusqu'à son enracinement à Paris autour d'une prophétesse convulsionnaire, la "soeur Elisée". Les faits et leur contexte historique (entre jansénisme rural et urbain, Révolution française, millénarisme et prophétisme) sont précisément décrits. Un questionnement parcourt l'ouvrage : comment expliquer ces « délires » religieux ? L'approche anthropologique et sociologique, privilégiant les faits de culture et d'histoire, est confrontée avec les théories psychiatriques.


Serge Maury, né en 1969, a fait des études de sociologie et d'histoire à l'ENS de Cachan. Le présent ouvrage est issu d'une thèse d'histoire soutenue en 2014 (Université Lyon-3, LAHRHA).

Psychothérapies antiques

Psychothérapies antiques

Séminaire 



Université Bordeaux-Montaigne
EA 4574 Sciences, Philosophie, Humanités (SPH)



23 février 10h, Locaux de SPH, Bat. B2, 2è étage dr. (tram B « Doyen Brus)
Kurt Lampe (University of Bristol) : « Thérapie cognitive dans un monde spirituel: la cas de la divination stoïcienne »

6 mars, 14h, Maison de la recherche (Salle 33) Campus de l’Université Bordeaux-Montaigne
Margaret Graver (Dartmouth College, Prof. Invitée Université Bordeaux-Montaigne) : « Thérapie par la lettre : le soulagement de la douleur mentale chez trois auteurs anciens »

12 mars, 16h, Locaux de SPH, Bat. B2, 2è étage dr. (tram B « Doyen Brus)
Céline Durand (Université Paris 4 / « Rome et ses renaissance » / SPH) : « Rire pour guérir? Quelques éléments sur la dérision thérapeutique chez Sénèque »

Jullien Decker (Université Bordeaux-Montaigne / SPH) : « Honte, normes et thérapie du paraître chez les Cyniques »

19 mars, 16h, Locaux de SPH, Bat. B2, 2è étage dr. (tram B « Doyen Brus)
Marion Bourbon (Université de Rouen / ERIAC) : « Jusqu’à quel point peut-on rapprocher les psychothérapies contemporaines des psychothérapies antiques ? »

Alain Gigandet (Université Paris Est-Créteil) : « Thérapies épicuriennes »

Une infirmière allemande au Cameroun

Une infirmière allemande au Cameroun 1913-1916

Soeur Grete Kühnhold

Traduit de l'allemand et préfacé par Gilles René Vannier

L'Harmattan
26 décembre 2018 • 100 pages 

ISBN : 978-2-343-15393-3 •





1913 : La colonie allemande du Cameroun, créée en 1884, est à son apogée. Les Allemands commencent la mise en valeur des territoires cédés par la France en 1911. 1916 : Les derniers Allemands quittent le Cameroun, chassés par les Anglais et les Français. C'est la fin de la colonisation allemande. Entre ces deux dates, une infirmière allemande de la Croix-Rouge pour les colonies, Grete Kühnhold, traverse le Cameroun pour aller lutter contre la maladie du sommeil, soigne les blessés de guerre, accompagne la retraite de femmes malades ou enceintes, avant de rentrer elle-même en Allemagne. Son témoignage nous remémore une époque décisive dans la genèse du Cameroun.



Soeur Grete Kühnhold, née en 1872, faisait partie de l'Association allemande des femmes de la Croix-Rouge pour les colonies, fondée en 1888, qui prodiguait des soins infirmiers dans les colonies. En 1910, elle fut employée dans la lutte contre la malaria en Frise orientale.

Histoire critique du vieillissement

Critical Histories of Aging and Later Life

Call for papers

Issue number 139

Abstract Deadline: June 1, 2019

Issue editors: Amanda Ciafone, Devin McGeehan Muchmore, and David Serlin

In 2017, the United Nations estimated that the share of the world's population over the age of sixty will have doubled between 2000 and 2050. Politicians, corporate executives, and popular commentators warn of a “crisis” produced by population aging, variously invoking concerns about slowed economic development in the global south, strained pensions and welfare systems, a shrinking labor force, and a care deficit. Concomitantly, academic gerontologists have produced a paradigm of “active” and “successful” aging, conceiving of a physically “healthy,” socially enriched, and economically productive old age that is both a product of, and a solution to, human longevity. These narratives of a “New Old Age” rely upon an overly tidy and teleological account of aging’s history, decrying a simple vision of the bad old days of prejudice and dependency.

The Radical History Review seeks to foster critical perspectives on the histories and politics related to these contemporary understandings of aging and what has been called “later life.” We need radical histories that bring age and aging to the center of analysis and probe the deep past to elucidate antecedents, critiques, and alternative frameworks for making sense of both the “aging crisis” and possibility for thinking about aging and longevity in broader historical perspective. Old age has long bubbled beneath the surface in radical history scholarship: in articulations of kinship and political authority; within transformations of intergenerational relationships wrought by colonialism, industrialization and long histories of migration and settlement; within social welfare and capitalist, socialist, and post/colonial state building; within the ongoing struggles of caring labor and the biopolitical management of life itself; and within the brutal exclusions from old age and infirmity through global systems of inequality and deprivation.

We invite contributions from all time periods and geographies that investigate aging and later life and put them in historical context: as axes for multiscalar and intersectional identities or inequalities, as contested objects of knowledge and governance, as community formations, and sites of cultural and political struggle. We are especially interested in submissions that continue to push the boundaries of aging scholarship beyond Europe, East Asia, and North America, and/or explore histories before the nineteenth century. Such critical approaches would help challenge the narrowly-defined perspectives of the “longevity revolution” among contemporary policy makers and biomedical scientists.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to) histories of:

• Pre-modern and pre-industrial notions of aging, productivity, community, and selfhood
• Labor, consumption, and the lifecycle, wealth and poverty, and political economies of aging
• Aging through the lens of disability history and critical disability studies
• Biopolitics of populations, state formation, and welfare
• Ageism as a racial and colonial project, slow death, and necropolitics
• Death and dying, mourning, and widowhood
• Aging and heteronormativity, gender hierarchy, and eroticism in later life
• Elder activism and historical agency
• Decolonizing aging studies
• Care, kinship, and intergenerational relations
• Aging in relation to globalization and migration
• Archives, oral history, knowledge production, and the age politics of the university

The RHR publishes material in a variety of forms. Potential contributors are encouraged to look at recent issues for examples of both conventional and non-conventional forms of scholarship. We are especially interested in submissions that use images as well as texts and encourage materials with strong visual content. In addition to monographic articles based on archival research, we encourage submissions to our various departments, including:

• Historians at Work (reflective essays by practitioners in academic and non-academic settings that engage with questions of professional practice)
• Teaching Radical History (syllabi and commentary on teaching)
• Public History (essays on historical commemoration and the politics of the past)
• Interviews (proposals for interviews with scholars, activists, and others)
• (Re)Views (review essays on history in all media–print, film, and digital)
• Reflections (Short critical commentaries)
• Forums (debates)

Procedures for submission of articles:

By June 1, 2019, please submit a 1-2 page abstract summarizing the article you wish as an attachment to contactrhr@gmail.com with “Issue 139 Abstract Submission” in the subject line. Please send any images as low-resolution digital files embedded in a Word document along with the text. If chosen for publication, you will need to send high-resolution image files (jpg or TIFF files at a minimum of 300 dpi) and secure permission to reprint all images.

By July 15, authors will be notified whether they should submit a full version of their article for peer review. The due date for completed articles will be November 1, 2019. Those articles selected for publication after the peer review process will be included in issue 139 of the Radical History Review, scheduled to appear in January 2021.

Contact Info: contactrhr@gmail.com

URL: http://www.radicalhistoryreview.org/call-for-papers/critical-histories-of-aging-and-later-life/

La médecine gréco romaine en images

La médecine gréco romaine en images, des clichés contre vos clichés

Exposition

Du 28 janvier au 1er mars 2019, hall du 105 bd de l'hôpital, 75013 Paris

L'exposition présente une sélection de photographies préparée par l'enseignante Muriel Labonnelie (enseignant-chercheur à l’Université de Bourgogne et maître de conférences en langue et littérature latines, maître de conférences en langue et littérature latines à l'Université de Bourgogne et chercheur en histoire de la médecine gréco-romaine au LAMS).

L'exposition propose un parcours présentant des photographies d'instruments et de pratique de médecine antique, à travers des objets issus du British Museum et d'objets issus des musées français.

La vie et la mort

Life and Death. Sixteenth Ischia Summer School on the History of the Life Sciences

Call for applications

Ischia, Italy, 23 – 30 June 2019

Applications are invited for this week-long summer school, which provides advanced training in history of the life sciences through lectures, seminars and discussions in a historically rich and naturally beautiful setting. The theme for 2019 is ‘Life and Death’. 

Organizers: Janet Browne (Harvard), Christiane Groeben (Naples), Nick Hopwood (Cambridge), Staffan Müller-Wille (Exeter) and Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn (Naples)

Confirmed faculty: Maria Conforti (Rome), Guido Giglioni (Macerata), Pierre-Olivier Méthot (Laval University), Joanna Radin (Yale), Dana Simmons (UC Riverside), Florence Vienne (Braunschweig), Keith Wailoo (Princeton) and Charles Wolfe (Ghent).

Funding: Fritz Thyssen Foundation, George Loudon, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences

Deadline for applications: 28 February 2019

More information: <http://ischiasummerschool.org/>

The theme

‘To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death.’ Thus Viktor Frankenstein became ‘capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter’. Mary Shelley wrote at a time of great conceptual and practical transformation in the relations of life and death. The issues she raised still resonate in biology and medicine today, and our age of ‘brain death’ and ‘programmed cell death’ has tabled its own urgent questions. For if life and death have been opposites, and even this may be questioned, they have been opposed in very various ways. This summer school will explore that variety, seeking patterns across time and cultures, fields of study and levels of analysis. It aims to reassess received views of continuity and discontinuity in the entanglements of life and death between the middle ages and the present day.

The medieval synthesis of Aristotelian philosophy and Christian theology posed anew the problem of life and death, reviving debate over bodily mortality, the immortality of the soul and the practicalities of resurrection. Since classical antiquity, life had consisted in the possession of a plurality of capacities—the Thomist soul was as complex as Aristotle’s—and death in their removal: there were many lives, but one negation, a view compatible with the Christian belief that the immortal soul left the body in an instant. Yet death, with disease, was also a defining characteristic of living beings: only they can fall ill and eventually die. By the Renaissance, modernizing critics of Aristotelian natural philosophy, led by Francis Bacon and René Descartes, sought proof of the superiority of their views in reforms of Galenic medicine that, they promised, would realize the ancient dream of the prolongation of human life. In early modern medicine, death provided physicians with opportunities for numerous autopsies that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries began to raise urgent and difficult questions about the seats and causes of disease. Had departures from the healthy state caused or just accompanied death; did they represent morbid processes or result from mere decay? Could anatomical changes ever reveal anything about the chemical causes of ageing or disease?

Intense engagement with the problem of life and death is often traced to the later eighteenth century. A rising tide of alarm at the prospect of being buried alive spawned scepticism about the standard definitions and signs of death; this led to such institutions as death certificates signed by physicians, dead-houses where cadavers could be stored to find out if they were really ready to rot, and the humane societies that sought to resuscitate those who perhaps only appeared to have died from drowning, asphyxiation or a lightning strike. Meanwhile, experimenting physicians added vital forces to mechanical philosophies as they turned death from the work of an instant into a process, a set of smaller deaths. They fostered the idea that the body dies from the outside in, with the possibility that the seemingly dead could still retain some spark of vitality in the heart, the first organ to pulse with life and the last to die. Vitalism suggested that ‘life’ extended beyond the individual lifespan, that life as such was immortal. Without a general conception of ‘life’, death had been a mere absence; it had no positive content. For the anatomist Xavier Bichat in Paris around 1800, death was still privation: ‘Life’, in his famous formula, ‘is the totality of functions which resist death.’ Yet on the larger scale of populations, George-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Carl Linnaeus had already argued that death kept nature in balance and the total quantity of life the same. Extinction and its role in the earth’s history was much discussed. We shall explore how death acquired its own distinctive features as it gained a place within the very concepts of life.

Life and death thus became correlatives, with pathological anatomy more systematically capitalizing on the light shed by death (the moment of Frankenstein) and comparative anatomy making death central to life. Georges Cuvier’s ‘conditions of existence’ went beyond the environmental culling of existing species to let the environment determine in advance which species could possibly live. In medicine, life no longer simply resisted death from external insults; the milieu produced life, living organisms inevitably produced disease and disease produced death. Death was becoming part and parcel of life. According to the embryologist Karl Ernst von Baer in 1834: ‘Organic bodies … destroy themselves … in the moment of conception their death warrant is signed.’

Later-nineteenth-century physiology radicalized this view. Claude Bernard argued that, ‘when we wish to designate phenomena of life, we refer in reality to phenomena of death’. Life relied on consumption, destruction and disorganization; it was, in the words of chemist Eilhard Mitscherlich, ‘nothing but a putrefaction’. Conversely, the germ theorists had shown that putrefaction itself was no absence of life, but resulted from its proliferation in microscopical forms. Whereas death for Cuvier was an a priori threat, Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection made death the ever-active agent familiar from Thomas Robert Malthus’s principle of population. Actuaries priced life expectancy in insurance schemes, and demographers, now charting birth-rates and death-rates, darkly predicted the deaths of whole peoples. Nightmares of the disharmony of land, food and people were realized in murderous biopolitical experiments. The conceptual internalization of death within life also inspired therapeutic strategies from anaesthesia, which produced states of suspended animation, to antisepsis and chemotherapy, those techniques of selective cellular killing, but left no place for the soul.

Yet twentieth-century medical science lost its tolerance of death as an inevitable hazard of life; death became not a mere privation, but a threat to life, to be fought off just like any disease. The dream of prolonging life increasingly guided clinical practice and public health; science promised to conquer death. Leading life scientists, notably Elie Metchnikoff of the Pasteur Institute, coiner of ‘gerontology’, wondered if there was such a thing as ‘natural death’ or any preordained limit to the human lifespan. The more pessimistic zoologist August Weismann argued that death had evolved in multicellular organisms because once the work of reproduction (including parental care) was done, and the immortality of the germline assured, ‘the unlimited existence of individuals would be a luxury without any corresponding advantage’. Death was an evolutionary adaptation. In an engineering perspective, however, proper maintenance of the body-machine could, in principle, postpone death almost indefinitely, provided the environment was right and genetic deficiencies were corrected. As life relied increasingly on technological support, definitions of death, notably ‘brain death’, introduced with heart transplants in the late 1960s, came to depend on the current state of medical technology. People feared not burial alive but, on the one hand, being kept alive artificially, and on the other, premature organ donation.

Modern biomedicine researched ageing and death at the levels not just of population and individual, but also of cells and molecules. The surgeon Alexis Carrel’s early twentieth-century claims of cellular immortality—for cultures of embryonic chick heart that appeared set to divide for ever—were challenged in the 1950s by the view that normal cells could divide only a certain number of times before coming up against the ‘Hayflick limit’, today interpreted as a consequence of telomere shortening. Cell lines, most famously and notoriously the HeLa cells derived from an African-American cancer patient, owed their immortality to pathological transformation. Refrigeration technologies slowed or even halted life’s processes in sperm and embryos, microbes and seeds, allowing their distribution across space and time. Programmed cell death (apoptosis) has become a major area of investigation, as the process that shapes bodies, for example, by sculpting digits in vertebrate embryos, and is inhibited in diseases, notably cancers in which cells accumulate more through decreased death than increased proliferation. In cellular terms, our bodies are today framed as scenes of carnage—billions of cells die every day—and as teeming with life through hosting trillions of microbes (the ‘microbiome’) that, from the skin to the gut, help keep us alive.

The theme of ‘life and death’ thus lets us range across the biological and biomedical sciences. Certain topics, such as projects of rejuvenation and definitions of death, have acted as magnets for historians and popular writers; we shall stand back and take a broader view of the historical patterns while highlighting a set of analytical questions that are personal and political too. How and to what extent have medicine and biology framed life and death as opposed? What have studies of death really contributed to understandings of life? What defines an individual lifespan, its beginning and end? Does history question the dominant medical approaches, not to mention the transhumanist call for a ‘war on death’? Has death, beyond all its negativity, been productive of life?

Dernier numéro du JHMAS

Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences

Volume 74, Issue 1, January 2019



Introduction
Nancy Tomes; Kathleen W Jones

New Directions in the Historiography of Psychiatry
Deborah Doroshow; Matthew Gambino; Mical Raz

 Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis Meet at a Mental Hospital: An Early Institutional History
Naoko Wake

Pathologizing the Crisis: Psychiatry, Policing, and Racial Liberalism in the Long Community Mental Health Movement
Nic John Ramos

Psychiatric Jim Crow: Desegregation at the Crownsville State Hospital, 1948–1970
Ayah Nuriddin

The Final Years of Central State Hospital
Ellen Dwyer

Culture et pratique des médecines traditionnelle, complémentaire et alternative

Integrative Healthcare Strategies: Exploring Culture and Practice in Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine


Call for Papers


September 21, 2019
Utica College
Utica, NY

Integrative medicine, a holistic approach to healing that incorporates the practice of traditional, complementary and alternative medicine (T/CAM), is increasingly accepted within conventional systems of medical treatment throughout the developed world. In Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East T/CAM is the accepted medical standard used by the vast majority of the population. In the United States, nearly half of adults opt for integrative medical treatments which represents a collaborative opportunity to enhance the strategies that conventional medicine has taken for more than a century.

This conference seeks to create a new discourse on the practice, history, and culture of traditional, complementary and alternative medicine by bringing together Integrative medical specialists and scholars of traditional medical systems such as historians, anthropologists, and sociologists. We invite proposals for individual papers, complete panels, and poster presentations that examine the clinical application and/or history, sociology, anthropology, or culture of T/CAM fields such as (but not limited to) acupuncture, acupressure, Ayurveda, Chinese medicine, herbal medicine, homeopathy, naturopathy, and Tai Chi.

Proposals for session presenters (individual or group) should include: 1) title; 2) abstract of up to 250 words, and; 3) a 150 word bio. Complete panel proposals should include an abstract and bio for each paper, as well as a panel abstract. Poster session proposals should include: 1) title; 2) abstract of up to 250 words; 3) 150 word bio, and; 4) statement of objectives. All proposals from healthcare practitioners must include a statement of objectives. All sessions are 60-minutes in length. Please submit proposals by April 1, 2019.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

• Acupuncture and treating pain
• Anthropology of healing
• Aroma therapy
• Ayurveda: its history and practice
• Better health through Yoga and Ayurveda
• Chinese herbal medicine and sports injuries
• Chinese, Japanese, or Korean medical history
• Contemporary study and practice of traditional medicine
• Energy therapies
• Globalization of Asian medicine
• Herbal medicines and supplements in American society
• Institutionalization of T/CAM in the global society
• Mindful meditation
• New approaches to traditional medicine
• T/CAM and clinical application of traditional medicine for cancer treatment
• Tai Chi and healthy aging
• Traditional medicine and chemotherapy
• Transformation of traditional medicine into a Western medical context
• Treating neurological disorders with T/CAM
• Western academic studies of traditional medical systems

Contact Info:
David Wittner
Department of History
Utica College
1600 Burrstone Rd
Utica, NY 13502

Contact Email:
dwittner@utica.edu

URL:
https://www.utica.edu/ihs/

Les capacités acoustiques

Sonic Skills: Listening for Knowledge in Science, Medicine, and Engineering (1920s–Present)

Karin Bijsterveld

Palgrave Macmillan

Year 2019

Pages 174

Language English

ISBN978-1-137-59831-8 

It is common for us today to associate the practice of science primarily with the act of seeing—with staring at computer screens, analyzing graphs, and presenting images. We may notice that physicians use stethoscopes to listen for disease, that biologists tune into sound recordings to understand birds, or that engineers have created Geiger tellers warning us for radiation through sound. But in the sciences overall, we think, seeing is believing. This open access book explains why, indeed, listening for knowledge plays an ambiguous, if fascinating, role in the sciences. For what purposes have scientists, engineers and physicians listened to the objects of their interest? How did they listen exactly? And why has listening often been contested as a legitimate form of access to scientific knowledge? This concise monograph combines historical and ethnographic evidence about the practices of listening on shop floors, in laboratories, field stations, hospitals, and conference halls, between the 1920s and today. It shows how scientists have used sonic skills—skills required for making, recording, storing, retrieving, and listening to sound—in ensembles: sets of instruments and techniques for particular situations of knowledge making. Yet rather than pleading for the emancipation of hearing at the expense of seeing, this essay investigates when, how, and under which conditions the ear has contributed to science dynamics, either in tandem with or without the eye.

La santé télévisuelle

Tele(visualising) Health: TV, Public Health, its Enthusiasts and its Publics

Conference

27 February – 1 March 2019
Dickens Library,
Mary Ward House
5-7 Tavistock Place, London UK WC1H 9SN

Televisions began to appear in the homes of large numbers of the public in Europe and North America after World War II. This coincided with a period in which ideas about the public’s health, the problems that it faced and the solutions that could be offered, were changing. The threat posed by infectious diseases was receding, to be replaced by chronic conditions linked to lifestyle and individual behaviour.
Public health professionals were enthusiastic about how this new technology and mass advertisin
g could reach out to individuals in the population with the new message about lifestyle and risk. TV offered a way to reach large numbers of people with public health messages; it symbolised the post war optimism about new directions in public health.
But it could also act as a contributory factor to those new public health problems. Watching TV was part of a shift towards more sedentary lifestyles, and also a vehicle through which products that were damaging to health, such as alcohol, cigarettes and unhealthy food, could be advertised to the public. Population health problems could be worsened by TV viewing.
How should we understand the relationship between TV and public health? What are the key changes and continuities over time and place? How does thinking about the relationship between public health and TV change our understanding of both?

In this three-day conference, we seek to explore questions such as:
• How did the enthusiasm develop for TV within public health?
• How were shifts in public health, problems, policies and practices represented on TV?
• How was TV used to improve or hinder public health?
• What aspects of public health were represented on TV, and what were not?
• How did the public respond to health messages on TV?
• What were the perceived limitations of TV as a mass medium for public health?
• In what way was TV different from other forms of mass media in relation to public
health?
•How were institutions concerned with the public’s health present – and staged – on TV broadcasts?
The conference aims to bring together scholars from different fields (such as, but not limited  to, history, history of science, history of medicine, communication, media and film studies,  television studies) working on the history of television in Great Britain, France and Germany  (West and East) (the focus of the ERC BodyCapital project), but also other European  countries, North and South America, Russia, Asia or other countries and areas.

Wednesday, February 27th 2019

10:00-10:30
Arrival and coffee

10:30-11:00
Welcome and Introduction
Virginia Berridge (LSHTM)
Alex Mold (LSHTM)
Christian Bonah (Université deStrasbourg)
Anja Laukötter (MPIHD-Berlin)

11:00-12:00 Keynote lecture
Elizabeth Toon (University of Manchester)
Title TBA

Chair: Tricia Close-Koenig (Université de Strasbourg)

12:00-1:00 LUNCH

Panel 1– TV as a Public Health Tool
Chair: Alex Mold(LSHTM)

1:00-1:45
Alexandre Sumpf (Université de Strasbourg)
‘The socialist body in the family sphere: the broadcast “Health” (1960-1992)’

1:45-2:30
Susanne Vollberg (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)
‘Health education by television in West Germany from the 1970s to the 1990s’

2:30-3:00 COFFEE BREAK

3:00-3:45
Sandra Schnädelbach (MPIHD-Berlin)
‘Bad vibes: Images of communication, emotional balance and health in GDR television’

3:45-4:30
Alex Chandler (University of Glasgow)
‘Be All You Can Be; The Scottish Health Education Group, identity and drugs’

Thursday, February 28th 2019

10:00 - 11:00 Keynotelecture
Jeremy A. Greene (Johns Hopkins University)
‘The television clinic: A history of new media in medical practice’

Chair:Christian Bonah (Université de Strasbourg)

Panel 2 – Sexual Health on TV
Chair : Hannah Elizabeth (LSHTM)

11:00-11:45
Elisabet Björklund (Uppsala University)
‘Medical programs on reproductive health in Swedish television of the late 1960s
and early 1970s’

11:45-12:30
Angela Saward(Wellcome Collection)
‘Let’s talk about VD: Francis ("Frank") St Dominic Rowntree (1928-1996) and his career in health education’

12:30-1:30 LUNCH

1:30-2:15
Pascale Mansier (Dauphine Université, Paris)
‘SidaMag, a French Television Health Magazine: contribution to publicization of AIDS prevention’

Panel 3 – Visions of Health/Healthy Visions
Chair:Virginia Berridge(LSHTM)

2:15-3:00
Christian Bonah & Joël Danet (Université de Strasbourg)
‘Fighting "the uncertainty of tomorrow": Explaining and staging social security on school television’

3:00-3:15COFFEE BREAK

3:15-4:00
Jessica Borge
(Université de Strasbourg)
‘Compassion on the shop floor? Lindsay Anderson, Britannia Hospital and television coverage of 1970s NHS strike action’

4:00-4:45
Anja Laukötter (MPIHD-Berlin)
‘History of television from the perspective of the audience: Techniques of dealing with and practices of watching television in the GDR’

Wellcome Collection

Film screening
6:00-8:00 Television archives and public health

Followed by drinks and discussion

Viewing room (Library entrance, 2nd fl), Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Rd, London
(Places limited please RSVP promptly: tkoenig@unistra.fr)

Friday, March 1st 2019

10:00-11:00
Keynotelecture
Christina von Hodenberg (German Historical Institute London/Queen Mary University of London)
‘Measuring Television's Impact on Audiences: Sitcoms in Britain, USA and West Germany, 1966-1979’

Chair:Anja Laukötter (MPIHD-Berlin)

Panel 4– Risk, Health & TV
Chair:Jessica Borge (Université de Strasbourg)

11:00-11:45
Benjamin Coulomb(Université Grenoble Alpes)
‘When television showed one of the greatest health scandals about cosmetics in France: Morhange, 1972’

11:45-12:30
Peder Clark(LSHTM)
‘“Stop! In the name of love”: Heart disease, family values and the armchair nation in 1980s Britain’

12:30-1:00
 Commentary and Discussion
Virginia Berridge (LSHTM)
The conference is organized by the ERC funded research group BodyCapital (bodycapital.unistra.fr), and hosted by the Centre for History in Public Health London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (history.lshtm.ac.uk).

The healthy self as body capital: individuals, market-based societies and body politics in visual twentieth century Europe (BodyCapital) project is directed by Christian Bonah (Université de Strasbourg) in collaboration with Anja Laukötter (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin). The project is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Advanced Grant agreement No 694817).

Contact: Tricia Close-Koenig
tkoenig@unistra.fr or bodycapital.contact@gmail.com
Attendance is free. Please register online:
https://tinyurl.com/yb2ctqju