samedi 30 novembre 2019

La réparation des artères en temps de guerre

Of Life and Limb: Surgical Repair of the Arteries in War and Peace, 1880-1960 

Justin Barr


Publisher: University of Rochester Press (November 1, 2019)
Series: 1526-2715 (Book 47)
Hardcover: 304 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1580469661

In 1880, patients suffering from vascular disease faced amputation -- or death. By 1960, a suite of revolutionary techniques and technologies empowered surgeons to remedy aneurysms, mend damaged vessels, and treat arteries clogged with cholesterol, saving the lives and limbs of patients around the world. Tracking this remarkable transformation, Of Life and Limb: Surgical Repair of the Arteries in War and Peace, 1880-1960 reveals how social, technological, institutional, and military dynamics interplay to catalyze modern surgical innovation. Author Justin Barr examines each of these phenomena through the complementary perspectives of academic historian and clinical surgeon, marshaling extensive research and incisive analysis into a broadly applicable model that helps frame, illuminate, and forecast change in surgery.

La cécité sous différents angles

Seeing Blindness through Different Lenses: Insights from Myth, Media, Music, Medicine & More

Call for Chapters



Vision loss and blindness have been in the "line of sight" of artists and academicians from many fields. Both patients and health professionals concern themselves with blindness, present or impending. This edited collection includes innovative ideas about vision loss, ranging from science fiction stories about restoring lost vision to religious or mythological tales about the causes of or cures for blindness to articles about contemporary artists or Old Masters who depict sightless subjects or who create unique art because of their own vision changes to sculptors who "see" with their tactile senses to chronicles of musicians who create--or appreciate--via their acoustic abilities. We seek to include metaphorical as well as literal approaches to this topic. (For instance, essays about blind characters in film as metaphors for color-blindness during the Civil Rights era or essays about language that includes--or excludes--allusions ot vision are welcome.) Although this collection was inspired by clinical experiences of the psychiatrist-editor, and began as a series of case presentations for psychiatry-specific conferences, the editor seeks to compile new, non-medical perspectives about blindness, color-blindness, and vision challenges. Chapters are 3,000-4,000 words each and first drafts are due June 1, 2020. The book is under contract with a recognized academic publisher. The editor has written or edited about 10 books, (and many chapters), Most of her books appear on Choice's highly recommended or essential list.

Pl send a 1-2 sentence query about your topic(s) of interest before forwarding a precis so that we can ensure that your chosen topic is still available. We are happy to collaborate with interested contributors. Pl include a short bio and forward to drpacker@hotmail.com

Contact Info:

Sharon Packer, M.D.

drpacker@hotmail.com

vendredi 29 novembre 2019

La famine à l’hôpital psychiatrique de La Roche-sur-Yon

La famine à l’hôpital psychiatrique de La Roche-sur-Yon durant l’Occupation

Journée d’étude de la Société d’émulation de la Vendée à La Roche-sur-Yon

Samedi 7 décembre 2019, début des communications à 14h30
Amphithéâtre de l’Hôpital Mazurelle, rond-point du Dr Larrey (rue d’Aubigny), La Roche-sur-Yon

- Ouverture par M. Forcioli, directeur du Centre hospitalier Georges Mazurelle.

- La Famine dans les hôpitaux psychiatriques français sous l'Occupation, par le Dr Michel Caire, psychiatre des hôpitaux honoraire, docteur en histoire à l'École pratique des Hautes Études.

- La Grimaudière pendant la 2nde Guerre mondiale, par le Dr Jean Artarit, psychiatre des hôpitaux honoraire.

- L'Histoire de Marie décédée à La Grimaudière sous l'Occupation, par Odile Berthomeau, auteur d’une biographie de malade.

- « Admettre qu'on tue un fou c'est admettre qu'on tue un homme (François Tosquelles) », par le Dr Jacques Tosquellas, psychiatre.

- Extrait du film de Franck Seuret, "La Faim des fous".

Doctorat en histoire de la psychologie

Assistant·e diplômé·e en histoire de la psychologie à 80% (15100)

Appel à candidatures

Université de Lausanne

Introduction

Institution d’enseignement et de recherche de premier plan au niveau international, l’UNIL compte près de 5’000 collaboratrices et collaborateurs et 15’500 étudiant·e·s, réparti·e·s entre le campus de Dorigny, et les sites du CHUV et d’Epalinges. En tant qu’employeur, elle encourage l’excellence, la reconnaissance des personnes et la responsabilité.
Présentation


Afin de compléter son équipe, l'Institut de psychologie de la Faculté des sciences sociales et politiques est à la recherche d’une assistante diplômée ou d'un assistant diplômé en histoire de la psychologie .

Informations liées au poste

Entrée en fonction : 1er février 2020 ou à convenir

Durée du contrat : 1 an, renouvelable 2 x 2 ans, maximum 5 ans

Taux d'activité : 80%

Lieu de travail : Lausanne-Dorigny, Quartier Mouline, Bâtiment Géopolis

Vos activités

Dans vos fonctions, vous serez notamment amené·e à :

- 50% du temps de travail est réservée à la réalisation d'une thèse de doctorat sous la responsabilité du Prof. Amouroux
- 50% du temps de travail est consacré au soutien des tâches d'enseignement du Prof. Amouroux, participation aux activités du laboratoire, de l’équipe d’histoire de la psychologie et présentation de travaux dans des colloques en vue de publications scientifiques. La participation à un programme doctoral pertinent peut être exigée.

La·le candidat·e sélectionné·e devra développer une activité de recherche en histoire et épistémologie de la psychologie. Idéalement, la·le candidat·e proposera une histoire culturelle des psychothérapies dans l’espace francophone (1960-2000) en s’appuyant sur une analyse de la presse écrite et des médias. Cette thèse portera sur une thématique permettant de développer des synergies avec un projet FNS sur la réception intellectuelle et culturelle des thérapies comportementales dans l’espace francophone (https://wp.unil.ch/esspace/2018/12/mind-control-in-french-speaking-europe-mice-the-scientific-and-cultural-reception-of-behaviour-therapy-in-france-switzerland-and-belgium-1960-1990/).

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Votre profil
Nous souhaitons engager, afin de compléter notre équipe, une personne avec le profil suivant :

-Master en histoire, en psychologie, en sciences sociales, en études des médias, ou titre jugé équivalent ;
-Excellentes connaissances du français, très bonnes connaissances de l’anglais (oral et écrit) ;
-Intérêt pour l’histoire et l’épistémologie de la psychologie ;
-Fort intérêt pour la recherche et capacités rédactionnelles avérées ;
-Bonnes capacités d’organisation. Aptitude au travail en équipe.


Vos avantages

Un cadre de travail agréable dans un environnement académique multiculturel et diversifié.
Des possibilités de formation continue, une multitude d'activités et d'autres avantages à découvrir.

Pour tout renseignement complémentaire

Monsieur le professeur Amouroux
E-mail : remy.amouroux@unil.ch

tél : 0041 21 692 32 70

Votre dossier de candidature

Délai de postulation : 13.12.2019

Les entretiens auront lieu en décembre et pourront être réalisés par vidéo-conférence si nécessaire.

Le dossier de candidature est numérique et doit contenir les éléments suivants: 1) lettre de motivation; 2) CV détaillé ; 3) relevé de notes officiel et copie des diplômes universitaires; 4) exemplaire d'un travail de recherche (mémoire de master de préférence, travail de bachelor ou de séminaire, etc). 5) bref projet de thèse d’une page.

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Il ne sera pris en compte que les candidatures adressées par le biais de ce site.
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Remarques
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jeudi 28 novembre 2019

Corps difformes et corps grotesques dans la bande dessinée

Les êtres contrefaits. Corps difformes et corps grotesques dans la bande dessinée


Frédéric Chauvaud et Denis Mellier (dir.) 



Presses universitaires de Rennes
Collection : Hors collection (art) 
Format : 14 x 20,5 cm
Nombre de pages : 368 p.
Illustrations : N & B
ISBN : 978-2-7535-7396-3


La bande dessinée offre un vaste spectre de corps dangereux et de corps ridicules, les premiers incarnant un risque majeur, les seconds exprimant le rire ambigu, car ces corps difformes abritent l’émotion ambivalente du grotesque. Le récit graphique explore les potentialités plastiques du corps, il interroge ses valeurs imaginaires, il invente des contrefaçons qui modifient le regard que nous portons sur les formes corporelles, leurs limites et leurs significations.

Avec une postface de Jean-Philippe Martin.

Avec le soutien de l’université de Poitiers et de l’Union européenne.

La grossesse dans le long dix-huitième siècle

Quickening: Mothers, Matrons, and Midwives; or, Pregnancy in the Long Eighteenth Century


Call for Papers


February 7, 2020 to February 8, 2020
Florida, United States


CFP: Annual conference of the South Central Society of Eighteenth Century Studies. St. Augustine, Florida. 7-8 February 2020.

Proposals are invited for presentations on any aspect of pregnancy or childbirth, or the interactions among mothers, matrons, or midwives during or after pregnancy in the long eighteenth century. Topics may include detection of pregnancy, the "policing" of pregnancy by the community, pregnancy loss or termination, the postpartum period, the use of traditional or folk remedies, the medicalization of pregnancy, the representation of pregnancy in written or visual media, the rhetoric of pregnancy, or other pertinent topics. Diverse geographic areas are welcome. 200-word proposals should be sent to broomej1@wpunj.edu by December 10, 2019.

Contact Info:
Judith Broome, Department of English, William Paterson University

Contact Email:
broomej1@wpunj.edu

URL:
http://scsecs.net/scsecs/2020/cfp_2020.html

mercredi 27 novembre 2019

Parler de l'histoire de la folie

Why Talk About Madness? Bringing History into the Conversation

Catharine Coleborne 


Palgrave MacMillan
2019
ISBN 978-3-030-21095-3


This short book argues for the relevance of historical perspectives on mental health, exploring how these histories can and should inform debates about mental healthcare today. Why is it important to study the history of madness? What does it mean to voice these histories? What can these tell us about the challenges and legacies of mental health care across the world today? Offering an intervention into new ways of thinking – and talking – about ‘mad’ history, Catharine Coleborne explores the social and cultural impact of the history of the mad movement, self-help and mental health consumer advocacy from the 1960s inside a longer tradition of ‘writing madness’. Starting with a brief history of the relevance of first-person accounts, then looking at the significance of other ways of representing the psychiatric ‘patient’, ‘survivor’ or ‘consumer’ over time, this book aims to escape from dominant modes of writing about the asylum.

25e réunion annuelle de l'ISHN

25th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the History of the Neurosciences (ISHN) 

Call for Abstracts and Symposia


Rennes, France 

Tuesday, 7 July - Saturday, 11 July 2020 

DEADLINE: All submissions must be received before Monday, 20 January 2020 



L’International Society for the History of the Neurosciences (ISHN) a été fondée à Montréal le 14 mai 1995. Cette société regroupant cliniciens (neurologues, neurochirurgiens, neuropsychologues, psychiatres ou pharmaciens) et historiens vise à promouvoir la recherche en histoire des neurosciences et à favoriser la communication et la collaboration entre chercheurs, au travers de son congrès annuel et de sa revue, le Journal of the History of the Neurosciences – Basic and Clinical Perspectives (Taylor & Francis, 2017 Impact factor 0.2288). 
Le congrès de l’ISHN rassemble annuellement les acteurs internationaux du domaine, autour de communications libres (orales et affichées) et de symposiums. 
Le 25ème congrès de l’ISHN aura lieu en France, à Rennes, du 7 au 11 juillet 2020, une formidable opportunité pour les chercheurs français et francophones de présenter leurs travaux (en anglais) et de rencontrer les collègues internationaux évoluant dans ce domaine, que ce soit du point de vue clinique, fondamental, instrumental, historique ou épistémologique.

 Submit by email to ishnrennes2020@gmail.com, with the word ABSTRACT or SYMPOSIUM in the subject line (an email confirmation will be sent afterwards) 

 With the abstract(s) sent as an attached Word file 


Please include all the following identifying information for all proposed papers: 

 Title of paper 

 Author(s)’ full name, 

 Affiliation(s), 

 Email address(es), 

 Full street address(es) 


Membership requirements: all papers must have at least one author who is a current member of the ISHN (please mention author(s)’ membership) 

SYMPOSIUM requirements: 

 Proposals for symposia must include 3 to 5 presentations 

 Abstracts for the presentations must meet the “Abstract requirements”. 


ABSTRACT requirements: 

 Maximum of 250 words, Microsoft Word 10 compatible (language: English) 

 Indicate preference for Poster or Platform (platform papers are about 15-20 minutes in duration, followed by 10-15 minutes for discussion) 

 Indicate audiovisual requirements (and/or other) if needed 


See the ISHN homepage for membership and conference details: http://www.ishn.org

mardi 26 novembre 2019

Le sommeil dans le monde d'après-guerre

Fighting Sleep: The War for the Mind and the US Military 

Franny Nudelman


Publisher: Verso (October 8, 2019)
Hardcover: 160 pages
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-1786637819


On April 21, 1971, hundreds of Vietnam veterans fell asleep on the National Mall, wondering whether they would be arrested by daybreak. Veterans had fought the courts for the right to sleep in public while demonstrating against the war. When the Supreme Court denied their petition, they decided to break the law and turned sleep into a form of direct action.

During and after the Second World War, military psychiatrists used sleep therapies to treat an epidemic of “combat fatigue.” Inducing deep and twilight sleep in clinical settings, they studied the effects of war violence on the mind and developed the techniques of brainwashing that would weaponize both memory and sleep. In the Vietnam era, radical veterans reclaimed the authority to interpret their own traumatic symptoms—nightmares, flashbacks, insomnia —and pioneered new methods of protest.

In Fighting Sleep, Franny Nudelman recounts the struggle over sleep in the postwar world, revealing that the subject was instrumental to the development of military science, professional psychiatry, and antiwar activism.

Produire la santé et la maladie à l'étable

Produire la santé et la maladie à l'étable, 1930-1980

Appel à communications


Workshop
(Zürich, avril 2020)

Organisateurs : Beat Bächi (Institut für biomedizinische Ethik und Medizingeschichte, Universität Zürich), Maria Böhmer (Institut für biomedizinische Ethik und Medizingeschichte, Universität Zürich), Frédéric Vagneron (Centre Alexandre-Koyré, EHESS, Paris)

Entre les années 1930 et les années 1980, un changement significatif s’est opéré dans les méthodes de production agricole. L' « industrialisation des organismes » a changé la façon dont les gens travaillent et traitent le bétail (Schrepfer et Cranton 2003). Au moins en Europe, l'objectif de politiques économiques visant à accroître les performances et la production s'est accompagné d'une spécialisation croissante en élevage et d'une professionnalisation accélérée des acteurs concernés. Un domaine important dans lequel cette spécialisation s'est reflétée est l'incidence des maladies dans l'étable.

Alors que des travaux de recherche les plus récents ont porté sur les conséquences de l'intensification de l'agriculture et de l'élevage sur la sécurité alimentaire, sur les comportements de consommation et l’appréciation des risques pour les sociétés, nous voulons attirer l'attention sur les pratiques concrètes et les matérialités qui ont émergé autour de la « santé animale ». Ce workshop vise donc à interroger comment la santé et la maladie ont été « produites » dans l'étable entre des années 1930 et les années 1980.

Nous postulons que non seulement les vétérinaires, les éleveurs et les animaux eux-mêmes ont été impliqués, mais aussi une multitude d'autres acteurs, tels que : les producteurs d'aliments pour animaux et les conseillers agricoles, les agronomes et zootechniciens, les instituts de recherche privés, les organisations coopératives, les instituts et laboratoires de recherche gouvernementaux, l’industrie pharmaceutique, et des acteurs supranationaux. Tous sont, à divers titres, engagés dans la « co-production » de la santé animale à l'étable (Woods 2019). Plus que les maladies animales épizootiques historiques « classiques », les nouvelles maladies dites « de production » (Payne 1971) ont nécessité une collaboration étroite de nombreux groupes d'experts. Quels intérêts ont poursuivis ces différents acteurs ? Qui sont les acteurs de la prescription de nouvelles substances et de « solutions » adaptées à l’objectif d’accroitre les rendements ? Comment ces différents acteurs ont-ils essayé de prévenir ou de guérir ces maladies aux manifestations dissemblables dans les populations animales ? Où se trouvaient les collaborations et les conflits entre divers intérêts professionnels, économiques, sanitaires ou politiques ? Comment les catégories d’animaux « naturels » et « sains » ont émergé et guidé l’action ?

Nous voudrions attirer particulièrement l'attention sur l'importance du recours aux substances médicales à l'étable. On peut supposer que l'augmentation rapide de l'utilisation des médicaments après 1950 n'a pas seulement servi à des fins thérapeutiques, mais qu'elle a également apporté une réponse à divers problèmes de l'élevage (à commencer par la concentration des populations dans des environnements artificiels) consécutifs à l'intensification et la spécialisation de l'agriculture. Cependant, nous nous intéressons également aux pratiques et aux stratégies de gestion des animaux sains et malades qui ne relèvent pas de cette influence croissante des substances pharmaceutiques, mais qui ont néanmoins été transformées pour s’adapter aux changements structurels de l'élevage. Enfin et surtout, nous nous demandons comment, et dans quels contextes, la résistance à l'objectif global d'amélioration de la performance s’est manifestée - et le rôle joué par les substances médicales dans ce but – et dans quels milieux des concepts et des pratiques alternatifs ont émergé.

Nous invitons les chercheurs intéressés à proposer, grâce à des études de cas originales et documentées, des communications concernant, entre autres, les aspects suivants :
- L'utilisation des médicaments dans l'étable et le rôle de l'industrie pharmaceutique
- Les animaux d'élevage comme que fournisseurs de substances pour la production pharmaceutique
- Les relations, conflictuelles ou non, entre vétérinaires, agronomes et zootechniciens dans le domaine de la santé animale.
- Le point de vue et les pratiques des agriculteurs et leurs intérêts pour l'utilisation des produits pharmaceutiques
- Le travail des instituts de recherche vétérinaire et agricole (privés/publics) en santé animale
- La définition des maladies de production et de la « santé animale » comme nouveaux enjeux cruciaux
- L'industrie de l'alimentation animale et l'alimentation animale comme acteur et véhicule de l’introduction du médicament dans l’étable
- Les interactions entre la médecine vétérinaire et la médecine humaine, et entre le marché des substances pharmaceutiques (préventives ou thérapeutiques) en santé animale et humaine
- Les conséquences sanitaires de l’intensification agricoles pour les travailleurs agricoles
Sur toutes ces thématiques, les présentations offrant des réflexions critiques sur les fonds d'archives, les sources et les différentes approches méthodologiques pour traiter de ces questions sont les bienvenues.

Ce Workshop aura lieu à Zurich la dernière semaine d'avril 2020.

Un bref résumé de 400 mots (en allemand, français ou anglais) présentant la question de recherche, l'approche et les sources mobilisées est attendu pour fin décembre 2019.

Contact pour l’envoi des résumés : : beat.bächi@uzh.ch

lundi 25 novembre 2019

La maladie dans les workhouses

Sickness in the Workhouse 

Alistair Ritch 


Publisher: University of Rochester Press (November 1, 2019)
Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History (Book 48)
Hardcover: 312 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1580469753


England's New Poor Law (1834) transformed medical care in ways that have long been overlooked, or denigrated, by historians. Sickness in the Workhouse challenges these assumptions through a close examination of two urban workhouses in the west midlands from the passage of the New Poor Law until the outbreak of World War I. By closely analyzing the day-to-day practice of workhouse doctors and nurses, author Alistair Ritch questions the idea that medical care was invariably of poor quality and brought little benefit to patients. Medical staff in the workhouses labored under severe restraints and grappled with the immense health issues facing their patients. Sickness in the Workhouse brings to life this hidden group of workhouse staff and highlights their significance within the local health economy. Among other things, as the author notes, workhouses needed to provide medical care for nonpaupers, such as institutional isolation facilities for those with infectious diseases. This groundbreaking books highlights these doctors and nurses in order to illuminate our understanding of this significant yet little understood area of poor law history. ALISTAIR RITCH was consultant physician in geriatric medicine, City Hospital, Birmingham, and senior clinical lecturer, University of Birmingham, UK, and is currently honorary research fellow, History of Medicine Unit, University of Birmingham, UK.

Le corps socialiste à la télévision

Televising the Socialist Body. Projections of Health and Welfare on the Socialist and Post-Socialist Screen

Call for Papers 

18-20 June 2020, Paris, France

ERC The Healthy Self as Body Capital & Centre d'Etudes des mondes Russe et d'Europe centrale (EHESS) International Conference

Television prospered upon a tension between education and leisure, which was especially acute in a socialist context. Televisions began to appear in homes in Eastern Europe after its stabilization as a socialist “block” dominated by the USSR. However diverse by nature and history, all the socialist regimes shared common strategies of mass propaganda, i.e. the intensive use of media to convert people and transform collective/individual behaviours. Television was supposed to be a new tool allowing direct normative shaping of every citizen, but also blamed in some circles for stimulating the disarticulation of the class/work/political collective. Moreover, this tool was uneasy to master: the professionals trained to produce an efficient TV discourse mainly focused on socialist progress (i.e. omitting shortcomings and problems from the picture), and the spectators learned to read it (i.e. to select the information) at the very same time. Finally, crossed communication around programs helped the citizens to identify themselves with a Soviet way-of-life more “normal” than in the past 40 years. 

The specificity of the Eastern case in the broader history of European television and the stakes of “socialist” body values merit both a nuanced assessment. The development of television coincided with a period in which ideas about the public’s health, the problems public health faced and the solutions that could be offered, were changing. The threat posed by infectious diseases and famines was receding, to be replaced by chronic diseases, which were linked to lifestyle and individual behaviour. Early in the 1920s’ Soviet Russia, and then on a large scale after World War II, the state turned into a welfare state. Lifelong medical care and social security were granted. In exchange citizens had to adopt new hygienic habits and healthy conduct: every citizen now had the right, and the duty, to be “healthful.” The state commissioned the educational institutions and the mass media to purge popular unscientific perceptions of medicine and impose an expert conception of the body. In Eastern Europe, the political power emphasized the necessity of a collective reshaping of the body, defining a “socialist” body (still to outline in general and in its national variations) that contrasted with its “corrupt” Western counterpart. 

Watching TV in the 1950s-1990s 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. In the Eastern part of Europe, where food was less scarce, alcohol and cigarettes affordable, the states endeavoured simultaneously to promote an ambiguous “socialist” well being and fight the usual “social diseases”, encouraged consumption while condemning consumerism. Throughout the age of television, health and body-related subjects have been presented and diffused into the public sphere via a multitude of forms, ranging from short films in health education programmes to school television; from professional training videos to TV ads; from documentary and reality TV shows to TV news; but also as complementary VHS and similar video formats. Spectators were invited not only to be TV consuming audiences, but also how shows and TV set-ups integrated and sometimes pretended to transform the viewer into a participant of the show. TV programmes spread the conviction that subjects had the ability to shape their own body.

Bodies and health on television have not been extensively researched, in particular in the socialist and transition to market-economy contexts.The conference seeks to analyse how television and its evolving formats—contemporary, similar and yet differing in national broadcast contexts—expressed and staged bodies and health from local, regional, national and international perspectives. The conference seeks to better understand the role that TV, as a modern visual mass media, has played in what may be cast as the transition from a national bio-political public health paradigm at the beginning of the twentieth century, to alternative societal forms of the late twentieth century when (supposedly) “better” and “healthier” lives were increasingly shaped by market forces. 

We are looking for proposals that will answer such questions as (but not limited to):

How should we understand the relationship between TV and public health in a socialist and post-socialist context? Could we identify a common trend and transfers between televisions’ treatment of health in different socialist countries and contexts? 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? How were shifts in public health, problems, policies and practices represented on TV? How were institutions concerned with the public’s health presented – and staged – on TV broadcasts? How was TV used to improve or hinder public health? What aspects of public health were represented on TV, and what were not? In what way was TV different from other forms of mass media in relation to public health? How did the public respond to health messages on TV? To what extent can the notion of “market” be used in the socialist context to define the relationship between spectators/patients and television/doctors?

The conference aims to bring together scholars from different fields (such as, but not limited to, history, history of science, history of medicine, anthropology, sociology, communication, media and film studies, television studies) working on the history of television in East European countries and USSR/Russia in the post-Stalinist era and the years following the collapse of the Socialist Bloc. Papers might focus on one national, regional or even local framework, or may be comparative in approach. Indeed, considerations of the history of health-related (audio-) visuals as a history of transfer, as entangled history or with a comparative perspective inside the Socialist Bloc and/or with Western counterparts, are welcome. The organizers welcome contributions with a strong historical impetus from all social and cultural sciences.

The conference will take place in Paris, 18-20 June 2020. 

The conference organizers are able to provide accommodation in Paris during the conference, as well as limited travel funding, upon application and in accordance to need.

Applications for presentation of approx. 3000 characters as well as a short resume are requested by 20 December 2019 by e-mail to: asumpf@unistra.fr

The applicants will receive an answer by 31 January 2020.


The scientific committee includes

Frances Bernstein (Drew University)

Alain Blum (CERCEC/EHESS, co-organizer in Paris)

Christian Bonah (Université de Strasbourg, BodyCapital)

Kirsten Bönker (Universität Bielefeld)

Heather Gumbert (Virginia Tech)

Aniko Imre (University of Southern California)

Heike Karge (Universität Regensburg)

Anja Laukotter (Max Planck Institute, BodyCapital)

Sarah Phillips (Indiana University)

Katrin Steffen (Universität Hamburg)

Alexandre Sumpf (Université de Strasbourg, BodyCapital)



The organisational committee includes

Alain Blum (CERCEC/EHESS, co-organizer in Paris)

Christian Bonah (Université de Strasbourg, BodyCapital)

Tricia Close-Koenig (Université de Strasbourg, BodyCapital)

Anja Laukotter (Max Planck Institute, BodyCapital)

Alexandre Sumpf (Université de Strasbourg, BodyCapital)

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 at the Université de Strasbourg and Anja Laukötter at the 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).

Project website: https://bodycapital.unistra.fr

dimanche 24 novembre 2019

Un médecin de campagne dans la Révolution française

A Country Doctor in the French Revolution. Marie-François-Bernadin Ramel


Robert Weston


Routledge
104 pages | 7 B/W Illus.


This book will be of interest to those studying French medical and Revolutionary history. It traces the life of an early-modern rural French physician from childhood to death — how he worked as a physician for six years in North Africa (taking a particular interest in medical meteorology); sought to establish himself as a savant in the Republic of Letters by publishing texts and prize-winning essays; and, despite his bourgeois roots, took part in the siege of Toulon, became committed to the ideals of the French Revolution, and volunteered for the Revolutionary armée d’Italie, mainly working in military hospitals. It concludes with an account of his time practicing medicine in southwest France, where he also engaged in local politics, eventually being appointed to a mayoral position by Bonaparte.

Études psychédéliques

Études psychédéliques

Séminaire 
organisé par Vincent Verroust, doctorant au Centre Alexandre-Koyré
chercheur associé à l'Institut des humanités en médecine
vincent.verroust@ehess.fr


Les séances ont lieu au Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle,
en amphithéâtre Rouelle, de 18h à 19h30
57 rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris,


Le terme psychedelic a été forgé en 1956 par le psychiatre britannique Humphry Osmond (1917 - 2004) pour qualifier les effets psychiques de la mescaline et du LSD, deux substances psychotropes sur lesquelles il effectuait des recherches thérapeutiques à l'hôpital psychiatrique de Weyburn, au Canada, dans les années 1950 et 60. Nous appellerons « études psychédéliques » le domaine d'investigation interdisciplinaire en rapport avec les effets psychiques des substances psychotropes dont les effets sont majoritairement activés par les récepteurs 5-HT2A de la sérotonine dans l'encéphale (DMT, LSD, mescaline, psilocybine...). Après avoir proposé au cours de l'année universitaire 2018- 2019 une approche strictement historique de ces études psychédéliques, nous opterons pour une approche intégrant également l'apport de l'anthropologie, de la psychiatrie et de la philosophie.


L’atelier d’études psychédéliques est soutenu financièrement par la Société des amis du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle.


mardi 26 novembre 2019 : Vincent Verroust (doctorant en histoire des sciences au Centre Alexandre-Koyré, EHESS, chercheur associé à l’Institut des humanités en médecine, CHUV Lausanne), « Introduction à l’atelier d’études psychédéliques »
mardi 17 décembre 2019 : Yves Edel (psychiatre, responsable de l'unité d’addictologie de liaison et de soins à l'hôpital universitaire Pitié́-Salpêtrière), « Expérimentations des psychodysleptiques à l'hôpital Sainte-Anne dans les années 1960 »
mardi 28 janvier 2020 : David Dupuis (chercheur post-doctoral en anthropologie, Université de Durham), « L'appropriation de l'ayahuasca par l'Occident et ses défis : enjeux culturels et éthiques »
mardi 25 février 2020 : Zoë Dubus (doctorante en histoire de la médecine, UMR TELEMMe, Aix-Marseille université, chercheure associée à l’Institut des humanités en médecine, CHUV Lausanne), « Utiliser les psychédéliques pour "guérir" des adolescents homosexuels ? Essai de thérapie de conversion, France, 1960 »
mardi 31 mars 2020 : Bertrand Lebeau (médecin addictologue, Unité Psychiatrie, comorbidités, addictions, hôpital Paul-Brousse), « Les psychédéliques en addictologie »
mardi 28 avril 2020 : Chris Elcock (chercheur post-doctoral en histoire et science studies, CERMES3, CNRS), « Le LSD et l’histoire du New-York psychédélique »
mardi 26 mai 2020 : Raphaël Millière (doctorant en philosophie, faculté de philosophie de l’université d’Oxford), « Les trip reports d’Erowid, le machine learning et les effets des psychédéliques sur la conscience de soi »
mardi 30 juin 2020 : Valérie Bonnelle (assistante scientifique à la Beckley Foundation), « Amanda Feilding, la Beckley Foundation et les recherches en neurosciences sur les psychédéliques »

samedi 23 novembre 2019

Les vecteurs non-humains des maladies

Framing Animals as Epidemic Villains: Histories of Non-Human Disease Vectors 

Christos Lynteris (Editor)

Hardcover: 247 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2019 edition (October 11, 2019)
Series: Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-3030267940



This book takes a historical and anthropological approach to understanding how non-human hosts and vectors of diseases are understood, at a time when emerging infectious diseases are one of the central concerns of global health. The volume critically examines the ways in which animals have come to be framed as ‘epidemic villains’ since the turn of the nineteenth century. Providing epistemological and social histories of non-human epidemic blame, as well as ethnographic perspectives on its recent manifestations, the essays explore this cornerstone of modern epidemiology and public health alongside its continuing importance in today’s world. Covering diverse regions, the book argues that framing animals as spreaders and reservoirs of infectious diseases – from plague to rabies to Ebola – is an integral aspect not only to scientific breakthroughs but also to the ideological and biopolitical apparatus of modern medicine. As the first book to consider the impact of the image of non-human disease hosts and vectors on medicine and public health, it offers a major contribution to our understanding of human-animal interaction under the shadow of global epidemic threat.

Histoire des sciences, technologies et de la médecine

Fourth National Undergraduate Research Conference on Science, Technology, Medicine and Society

Call for Papers

Funding provided by: John William Asher & Anne Harris Fund in the Humanities; and Academic Affairs, DePauw University.


To be held at DePauw University, Greencastle, IN

March 12–15, 2020

In honor of the 100th anniversary of the graduation of Percy Lavon Julian from DePauw Themed Keynote: “Violence and Resilience: The African Diaspora and the History of Medicine and Science in the Early Modern Atlantic”
Speaker: Pablo F. Gómez, Associate Professor, Department of Medical History and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Author of, The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic.

Handheld devices that are more powerful than home computers. Driver-less cars. Gene Therapy for treating cancer—These are just some of the fast-paced changes in science, technology and medicine (STM) from the last decade. How should society respond to these and other changes in STM from the recent, and not-so-recent past? The Fourth Annual Undergraduate Research Conference on Science, Technology, Medicine and Society at DePauw University (March 12–15, 2020) welcomes student papers that address these and other issues related to STM in historical and present societies throughout the world. As an interdisciplinary gathering, we encourage students to submit papers from across the arts, humanities, social sciences and natural sciences (check out our Facebook page for past presentations: https://www.facebook.com/STMSconference/). Papers may choose to address:

1) how science, technology and medicine (STM) affect societies (past or present);

2) how societal values and concerns (past or present) inform and constitute STM;

3) the conceptual foundations and/or ethical implications of STM; or

4) how STM enable systems of exclusion based on gender, race, sexuality, etc., or help people overcome such exclusionary systems (Special Percy Julian anniversary theme)

Registration, lodging, and meals will be provided for all student presenters. Student presenters may also apply for a travel subsidy (up to $250). Interested students should submit an overview of their paper (250 words) and a brief bio (50 words) by January 10, 2020 using the following Google form: https://forms.gle/sC95wsfCJ9cA9dRx5. If you have any questions, please contact Nahyan Fancy, Professor of History, DePauw University (nahyanfancy@depauw.edu). All applicants will be notified by January 30, 2019.

vendredi 22 novembre 2019

Idiotie et imbécilité dans la société victorienne

Idiocy, Imbecility and Insanity in Victorian Society. Caterham Asylum, 1867–1911

Stef Eastoe


Palgrave Macmillan
2019
ISBN 978-3-030-27334-7





This book explores the understudied history of the so-called ‘incurables’ in the Victorian period, the people identified as idiots, imbeciles and the weak-minded, as opposed to those thought to have curable conditions. It focuses on Caterham, England’s first state imbecile asylum, and analyses its founding, purpose, character, and most importantly, its residents, innovatively recreating the biographies of these people. Created to relieve pressure on London’s overcrowded workhouses, Caterham opened in September 1870. It was originally intended as a long-stay institution for the chronic and incurable insane paupers of the metropolis, more commonly referred to as idiots and imbeciles. This purpose instantly differentiates Caterham from the more familiar, and more researched, lunatic asylums, which were predicated on the notion of cure and restoration of the senses. Indeed Caterham, built following the welfare and sanitary reforms of the late 1860s, was an important feature of the Victorian institutional landscape, and it represented a shift in social, medical and political responsibility towards the care and management of idiot and imbecile paupers.

Histoire des médicaments illégaux

Risk / Benefit – Histories of the Illegal Drug/Medicine Boundary
Call for Papers

Nils Kessel, University of Strasbourg
David Herzberg, University at Albany
Joseph Gabriel, Florida State University

Building on the success of the recent symposium at the University of Strasbourg “Governing Uncertainty in Drugs and Medicines: Narratives of Risk, Progress, and Decline,” we are currently seeking papers from historians and other scholars who share an interest in the histories of pharmaceuticals and illicit drugs in the long twentieth-century. Given current events that have drawn attention to the role of medicines as drugs (such as the U.S. opioid crisis) and the role of drugs as medicines (such as debates about safe injection sites and medical marijuana), we believe that this is an opportune time to examine the ever-changing boundary between “illegal drugs” and “medicines” and to interrogate the stories that we tell about how this boundary has been created, maintained, and challenged.
We are particularly interested in the multifaceted role that ideas about risk and benefit have played in this process. We thus seek papers that examine how risk and/or benefit have been historically conceptualized, narrated, and mobilized to create, reinforce, challenge, and perhaps transcend the boundary between “medicines” and “drugs” in the United States, Europe, and other parts of the world. We approach the topic of both “risk” and “benefit” not as naturally existing, timeless entities with inherent meanings, but instead as concepts embedded in narrative processes that change over time and shape how we think about these powerful objects. Of course, shoring up the medicine/drug divide has long been one of the central purposes to which notions of both risk and benefit have been put, yet these categories have also been developed and
deployed in dramatically different ways by a diverse range of people to serve many different goals. Indeed, contradictory stories about risk and benefit lay at the heart of disputes about the meaning of pharmaceuticals, and thus at the heart of how the drug/medicine binary has been constructed over time.
We are currently seeking additional papers that explore these and related themes toward the goal of producing an edited volume on the topic. The expected deadline to receive chapter drafts is September 1, 2020. Expected word length is 8,000-12,000 words, including notes. Please send inquiries and short proposals Nils Kessel (nkessel@unistra.fr), David Herzberg (herzberg@buffalo.edu), and Joseph Gabriel (joseph.gabriel@med.fsu.edu) by December 1.

jeudi 21 novembre 2019

Les psycho-politiques dans l'entre-deux-guerres

Psycho-Politics between the World Wars. Psychiatry and Society in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland

David Freis

Palgrave Macmillan
2019
ISBN 978-3-030-32701-9


This book is about the psycho-political visions and programmes in early-twentieth century Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Amidst the political and social unrest that followed the First World War, psychiatrists attempted to use their clinical insights to understand, diagnose, and treat society at large. The book uses a variety of published and unpublished sources to retrace major debates, protagonists, and networks involved in the redrawing of the boundaries of psychiatry’s sphere of authority. The book is based on three interconnected case studies: the overt pathologisation of the 1918/19 revolution led by right-wing German psychiatrists; the project of medical expansionism under the label of ‘applied psychiatry’ in inter-war Vienna; and the attempt to unite and implement different approaches to psychiatric prophylaxis in the movement for mental hygiene. By exploring these histories, the book also sheds light on the emergence of ideas that still shape the field to the present day and shows the close connection between utopian promises and the worst abuses of psychiatry.  

Réunion CHEIRON-ESHHS

CHEIRON - ESHHS Joint Meeting


Call for abstracts



Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York

July 9-12, 2020



CHEIRON (International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences) and ESHHS (European Society for the History of the Human Sciences) invite submissions to their joint conference to be held from July 9 to 12 at Sarah Lawrence College.


Sessions, papers, round-tables and posters may deal with any aspect of the history of the human, behavioral or social sciences. In addition, this year’s conference particularly invites submissions exploring these topics:

Cross-disciplinary intersections across human, behavioral and/or social sciences
The role of the historian in promoting civic dialogue
Interactions between literary sources or narrative forms and human, behavioral and social sciences


Submissions must be received by January 15, 2020, 5 pm CT


Please send your proposal electronically as an attachment in MSWord (.doc or .docx) to Program Co-chairs Kim Hajek and Ann Johnson at the following email address:
Cheiron.eshhs.2020@gmail.com



Submission guidelines:

All submissions should focus on original work and should be written in English. Please indicate the submission type (session, paper, poster, or round-table). Paper presentations should aim to be approximately 20 minutes in length.

To facilitate the peer review and planning process, please provide a separate page that includes: a) title; b) author’s name and affiliation; c) author’s email address; d) audio/visual needs. In all types of proposals below, names of authors/presenters should not be indicated anywhere but on the separate cover page for the submission.

Papers: send a 500-600 word abstract plus short bibliography.

Session or round-table: send a 500-600 word rationale of the event (plus short bibliography) as well as a short abstract for each presentation.

Posters: send a 300 word abstract.

Note on Language: We welcome papers presented in French or German; please indicate with your (English) abstract whether you would like to take this option, and the organizers will be in contact with you regarding linguistic support.

Notification of acceptance: will be sent by early March 2020.

If you are travelling intercontinentally and require earlier acceptance to arrange travel/leave from teaching, please indicate this with your submission.


Host Institution:

Sarah Lawrence College is a small liberal arts institution approximately half an hour outside of New York City. Founded as a women’s college in 1926, with a unique pedagogy inspired by John Dewey’s progressive educational philosophy, Sarah Lawrence is known today for its individualized approach to education, close student-faculty interaction, and interdisciplinary open curriculum. The wooded campus will provide a congenial setting for the joint Cheiron-ESHHS meeting, enhanced by the newly opened campus center with high quality presentation rooms adjacent to dining facilities and plentiful seating for informal gatherings outside the meeting rooms. Check out the Barbara Walters’ Campus Center here: https://www.instagram.com/p/B4VjFGilphB/.


For questions about local arrangements, contact Sarah Lawrence College local host: Elizabeth Johnston ebj@sarahlawrence.edu.


Travel Stipends:

A limited number of travel stipends will be available to students or scholars who present a paper of a poster and need economic support. We encourage everyone to apply for support from their home institutions.

If you wish to be considered for a travel stipend, please apply by sending a separate email, along with your submission, to the Program Co-chairs with the application form from the conference website: http://www.bcp.psych.ualberta.ca/~mike/Cheiron/Conference20/Documents/20TravelStipend.docx



Young Scholar Award & Early Career Award:

Young Scholar Award (Cheiron): Since 2008, Cheiron has awarded a prize for the best paper or symposium presentation by a young scholar. To be eligible for consideration, the young scholar must be the sole or first author on the paper and must be responsible for the bulk of the work of the paper. The young scholar must be a student currently or must have completed doctoral work not more than 5 years prior to the meeting.

About three weeks after the meeting, applicants for this award will submit a copy of the presented paper (rather than the abstract); it may include further, minor changes. Submissions go to the Cheiron Executive Officer, who sets the exact deadline, and the entries will be judged by members of the Program Committee and the Review Committee. The winner will receive a certificate from Cheiron and will be asked to submit the paper to the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences within a reasonable period of time. The Award winner may ask Cheiron for assistance in preparing the paper for submission to JHBS. If the paper is accepted by JHBS for publication, the winner will receive a $500 honorarium from the publisher, Wiley-Blackwell, in recognition of the Cheiron Young Scholar Award. Please note that the award committee may choose not to grant an award in any given year and that the honorarium depends on publication in JHBS, in addition to winning the Award.


Early Career Award (ESHHS): ESHHS invites early career researchers presenting at the 2020 joint meeting or having presented at the 2019 ESHHS conference to submit the full (i.e. ‘written-up’) version of their conference paper for consideration for the ESHHS Early Career Award. To be eligible, the scholar must not hold a tenured university position (or equivalent) and must be a member of ESHHS at the time of submission.

Submissions are due by 31 December and should be in the form of an article as would be submitted to the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. The ESHHS board will invite external reviewers to review each paper, and base its final verdict on those external reviews. If, after normal peer-review processes, the winning paper is accepted for publication in JHBS, the Publisher will provide an honorarium of US $500 to the award recipient. In any given year, in the absence of high quality submissions no award will be made.


For updates on the conference, check any of the following websites: www.eshhs.eu, www.bcp.psych.ualberta.ca/~mike/Cheiron.


For questions about the Young Scholar Award or general organizational issues, contact David K. Robinson, Cheiron Executive Officer: drobinso@truman.edu.


For questions about the ESHHS Early Career Award, contact Jannes Eshuis, ESHHS President: jannes.eshuis[at]ou.nl.

mercredi 20 novembre 2019

Le corps propre

The Clean Body: A Modern History

Peter Ward


Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press (November 1, 2019)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-0773559387


How often did our ancestors bathe? How often did they wash their clothes and change them? What did they understand cleanliness to be? Why have our hygienic habits changed so dramatically over time? In short, how have we come to be so clean? The Clean Body explores one of the most fundamental and pervasive cultural changes in Western history since the seventeenth century: the personal hygiene revolution. In the age of Louis XIV bathing was rare and hygiene was mainly a matter of wearing clean underclothes. By the late twentieth century frequent - often daily - bathing had become the norm and wearing freshly laundered clothing the general practice. Cleanliness, once simply a requirement for good health, became an essential element of beauty. Beneath this transformation lay a sea change in understandings, motives, ideologies, technologies, and practices, all of which shaped popular habits over time. Peter Ward explains that what began as an urban bourgeois phenomenon in the later eighteenth century became a universal condition by the end of the twentieth, touching young and old, rich and poor, city dwellers and country residents alike. Based on a wealth of sources in English, French, German, and Italian, The Clean Body surveys the great hygienic transformation that took place across Europe and North America over the course of four centuries.

Santé, frontières et territoires

Santé, frontières et territoires : histoire des savoirs, XIXe-XXe siècles

Séminaire d'Anne Rasmussen, directrice d'études, EHESS-Centre Alexandre Koyré (UMR 8560)


Le jeudi, 11-13 h à l'EHESS, 105 bd Raspail, Paris 6e, salle 1.


Au XIXe siècle, des sciences et des techniques ont été mobilisées comme outils de gouvernement et de contrôle des flux de population confrontés à la circulation épidémique.Au XXIe siècle, la frontière sanitaire demeure un pilier du gouvernement global des migrations. Cette apparente continuité des enjeux – la protection sanitaire des territoires et des populations – et des pratiques, de la visite médicale des immigrants à Ellis Island à la collecte moderne des données biométriques, peut faire illusion. Au cours du XXe siècle, en temps de paix comme en temps de conflit, la relation entre frontière, pathologies et santé a connu de profondes mutations. Le séminaire étudie les enjeux cognitifs et scientifiques, mais aussi sociaux et politiques, propres à la connaissance de la circulation des hommes, des germes et des maladies.

Cette année, un premier ensemble de séances sera consacré à la transformation des dispositifs de la frontière sanitaire, fruit des tensions entre lointain et prochain, porteur de germes et environnement, à partir du cas de la fièvre typhoïde aux XIXe et XXe siècles. La suite du séminaire s’attachera à la construction de la frontière sanitaire par la nébuleuse hygiéniste, à l’épreuve des nouvelles formes de mobilités de populations de l’entre-deux-guerres, dans différents contextes nationaux européens.


7 novembre 2019
Introduction. Les savoirs de la frontière sanitaire et leurs enjeux, XIXe-XXe siècles

Les nouvelles frontières de l’épidémie : le cas d’école de la fièvre typhoïde, du XIXe au XXe siècle


21 novembre 2019
Villes ou campagnes épidémiques : comment défendre le territoire ?


5 décembre 2019
Un nouveau paradigme épidémiologique : les porteurs de germes, de part et d’autre du Rhin


19 décembre 2019 
Frontières de la vaccination et conflits prophylactiques : qui inoculer ?

Laboratoires hygiénistes de la frontière sanitaire en Europe, 1900-1940


16 janvier 2020
Captifs et réfugiés : les périls sanitaires du retour de guerre


6 février 2020
Savoirs et représentations géographiques de la mobilité des hommes et des germes (1900-1940)


20 février 2020
Avec la participation de Celia Miralles Buil, Université de Lisbonne
Métamorphoses de la frontière sanitaire à Lisbonne (1901-1945)


19 mars 2020
Avec la participation de Maddalena Carli, Université de Teramo
A la recherche de l’atavisme. Restes humains, photographies et objets des brigands italiens au Musée d’anthropologie criminelle Cesare Lombroso de l’Université de Turin


2 avril 2020
Le typhus comme « problème mondial » : repenser le cordon sanitaire (années 1920)


23 avril 2020 (exceptionnellement, salle 7, 105 bd Raspail)
Charles Nicolle et Hans Zinsser : une biographie du typhus est-elle possible ?


7 mai 2020
Les hygiénistes français et la frontière sanitaire dans l’entre-deux-guerres (1)


4 juin 2020
Les hygiénistes français et la frontière sanitaire dans l’entre-deux-guerres (2)



Renseignements et inscription

Ce séminaire de recherche s'adresse aux étudiants et étudiantes en master (M1-M2), aux doctorants et aux collègues intéressés. Il est également ouvert aux auditeurs et auditrices libres. 

Suivi et validation pour le master : bimensuel annuel (24 h = 6 ECTS)

Pour toute information : anne.rasmussen@ehess.fr.

mardi 19 novembre 2019

Les esprits sains au XXe siècle

Healthy Minds in the Twentieth Century. In and Beyond the Asylum

Taylor, Steven J., Brumby, Alice (Eds.)



Palgrave Macmillan
2020
ISBN 978-3-030-27274-6

This open access edited collection contributes a new dimension to the study of mental health and psychiatry in the twentieth century. It takes the present literature beyond the ‘asylum and after’ paradigm to explore the multitude of spaces that have been permeated by concerns about mental well-being and illness. The chapters in this volume consciously attempt to break down institutional walls and consider mental health through the lenses of institutions, policy, nomenclature, art, lived experience, and popular culture. The book adopts an international scope covering the historical experiences of Britain, Ireland, and North America. In accordance with this broad approach, contributions to the volume span academic fields such as history, arts, literary studies, sociology, and psychology, mirroring the diversity of the subject matter.

Les idiots de naissance dans le monde antique

‘Natural Born Fools‘ in the Ancient World

Seminar 
 Department of Classics, Ancient History, Archaeology and Egyptology, University of Manchester

Organisers: Christian Laes, Peter Pormann
Friday the 31st of January 2020

In the history of disabilities of the ancient world, intellectual disorder seems to have been left out as a ‘tricky subject’ for a very long time. It was Edgar Kellenberger who opened and broadened the discussion with publications on ‘Geistliche Behinderung’ from the Sumerian period over the Old and the New Testament up to early Christian times (in particular Saint Augustine). Irina Metzler’s seminal book Fools and Idiots? finally took up the challenge of dealing with cognitive disability in the Middle Ages. In a recent review (BMCR), Candida Moss praised the attempts in Christian Laes’ Disabilities and the Disabled in the Roman World to also deal with the thorny subject of intellectual disability.

It seems time for a one day focused seminar on the topic, bringing together the very few specialists all over the world who have dealt with the subject. Incurability will be a red thread throughout the papers. Did people in the ancient world acknowledge that some mental/intellectual conditions were not treatable, as they were innate and not subject to any change? Did such recognition lead to a categorisation that comes somehow close to a concept of permanent disability? Or were distinctions and borders vague, thereby making cognitive disability an almost intangible subject to deal with?

The participants will gather with ready papers, and the seminar will be organised for presenting and discussing these chapters, which will be published in a book volume – the first to systematically deal with the topic in the ancient world.


Provisional program:

Christian Laes: Hidden in Plain Sight? The challenge of studying intellectual disability in the ancient world.


1. The economy of intellectual disability

Peter Pormann (University of Manchester)
Fools in Arabic medicine and hospitals: medical, social and economic studies

Chryssa Bourbou (Fribourg) “Mad bones”: Tracing mental disability in the bioarchaeological record and its possible socio-economic implications in past societies

Irina Metzler (Swansea University)
Incapacitas mentis: Canon Law and Roman Legislation on congenital fools.



2. Medical explorations

Chiara Thumiger (University of Warwick)
Natural Born Fools in the Corpus Hippocraticum and Galen.

Edgar Kellenberger (Basel) 
The quest for Down Syndrome (and other symptoms) in Antiquity.



3. ‘Later’ explorations

Julia Wattz Belzer (Georgetown University)
The shoteh in rabbinic sources. Cases of intellectual disability?

Stephanos Efthymiadis (Cyprus Open University)
Searching for cognitive disability in Byzantine literature.

Fotis Vasileiou (University of Corfou)
Treating cognitive disability: the remarkable case of Kephallonia.

lundi 18 novembre 2019

Genre et handicap dans la fiction contemporaine

Disability, Literature, Genre. Representation and Affect in Contemporary Fiction


Cheyne, Ria


Liverpool University Press
Representations: Health, Disability, Culture and Society, 9
November 30th, 2019
ISBN 978-1-789-62077-1 


Examining the intersection of disability and genre in popular works of horror, crime, science fiction, fantasy, and romance published since the late 1960s, Disability, Literature, Genre is a major contribution to both cultural disability studies and genre fiction studies. Drawing on recent work on affect and emotion, the book explores how disability makes us feel, and how those feelings shape interpersonal and fictional encounters. Written in a clear and accessible style, Disability, Literature, Genre offers a timely reflection on the rapidly growing body of scholarship on disability representation, as well as an innovative new theorisation of genre. By reconceptualising genre reading as an affective process, Ria Cheyne establishes genre fiction as a key site of investigation for disability studies. She argues that genre fiction’s unique combination of affectivity and reflexivity makes it ideally suited to the production of reflexive representations of disability: representations which encourage the reader to reflect upon what they understand about disability, and potentially to rethink it. Examining the affective—and effective—power of disability representations in a wide range of popular genre fiction, this book will be essential reading for academics in disability studies, literary studies, popular culture studies, and the medical humanities.
Author Information
Ria Cheyne is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Disability and Education at Liverpool Hope University.

Colloque de la SFHSH

Colloque de la SFHSH - Histoire des sciences humaines et sociales

Appel à communications


Paris, 16-17-18 septembre 2020


La Société Française pour l’Histoire des Sciences de l’Homme organise une nouvelle édition du colloque SFHSH en collaboration avec la Revue d’Histoire des Sciences Humaines. 

De nombreux travaux de recherches, souvent isolés, ont porté et portent sur l’histoire des sciences humaines et sociales. En France, une société (la Société Française pour l’Histoire des Sciences de l’Homme, SFHSH) et une revue (La Revue d’histoire des sciences humaines) ont entrepris depuis plusieurs décennies de donner à ce domaine de recherche une consistance intellectuelle qui fasse apparaître des thématiques émergentes, souvent transversales aux disciplines des sciences sociales contemporaines. Émanant de la SFHSH, cet appel à communication vise à renforcer la visibilité des recherches en histoire des sciences humaines et sociales et à susciter échanges et dialogues entre jeunes chercheurs et chercheuses, et chercheurs et chercheuses confirmé.es qui travaillent souvent dans des institutions ou des disciplines distinctes. Au cours de ces échanges, des problématiques et des objets nouveaux pourront émerger, tandis que des objets déjà étudiés pourront être revisités. 

Les propositions de symposiums (4 communications maximum) et de communications individuelles pourront porter sur les pistes de recherche et de problématisation suivantes (liste non limitative) :

-Enquêtes et terrains.

-Usages et applications. Des sciences pour l’action. 

-Acteurs et actrices.

-Frontières. Arts, littérature, sciences de la nature, etc.

-Pratiques, méthodes, cultures matérielles.

-Historicité, sources, historiographies.

-Institutions.

-Circulations, réceptions, appropriations.

Les propositions de symposiums (4 communications maximum) devront comporter une présentation générale de la thématique (une page environ accompagnée d’une courte bibliographie, quelques lignes de présentation de l’auteur) et les résumés de chaque communication (une page environ accompagnée d’une courte bibliographie, quelques lignes de présentation de l’auteur). 

Les propositions de communication hors symposium comporteront une page environ, accompagnées d'une courte bibliographie et quelques lignes de biographie de l’auteur.

Les propositions rédigées en français ou anglais seront à envoyer en format .doc ou .docx dans un message intitulé « Colloque SFHSH 2020 » et devront être adressées à la fois à Jacqueline Carroy et Laurent Clauzade pour le 29 février 2020. 

jacqueline.carroy@wanadoo.fr

noille-clauzade@wanadoo.fr


Le conseil d’administration de la SFHSH est le comité scientifique du colloque. Celui-ci examinera les propositions en mars 2020 et fera connaître ses réponses aux participants en avril 2020.

Prix de la Revue d’Histoire des Sciences Humaines.

Ce colloque est organisé en collaboration avec la RHSH. À l’issue du colloque, le comité scientifique se réunira et attribuera un prix de la meilleure communication d’un.e doctorant.e ou post-doctorant.e, auquel il sera proposé une publication dans la revue. 


Adhésion à la SFHSH

- 30 € (membre ordinaire) 

- 15 € (étudiant, chômeur)

- 45 € (institution) 



· En envoyant un chèque à la trésorière Stéphanie Dupouy
(27, rue de Rathsamhausen, 67100 Strasbourg)

· Par virement bancaire à la SFHSH : 
Société générale, Agence Paris-Sorbonne, 27 boulevard Saint-Michel, 75005 Paris
Compte n° 000037262744 18. (Code Banque : 30003; Agence : 03080; N° du compte : 00037262744; Clé : 18; 
IBAN : FR7630003030800003726274418). 

Pour suivre les activités de la SFHSH : https://sfhsh.hypotheses.org/