Histoire de l'allaitement

Allaiter de l’Antiquité à nos jours: Histoire et pratiques d’une culture en Europe
 

Yasmina Foehr-Janssens, Daniela Solfaroli Camillocci, Francesca Arena, Véronique Dasen, et Irene Maffi (eds)
 

Brepols Publishers, 2023
Pages: 989 p.
pISBN: 978-2-503-59652-5

 

Open access : https://www.brepolsonline.net/action/showBook?doi=10.1484%2FM.GEN-EB.5.125574#/doi/book/10.1484/M.GEN-EB.5.125574

Aujourd’hui, l’allaitement est au centre des préoccupations des organismes internationaux, en ce qui concerne les soins destinés aux nouveau-nés et la santé des femmes. Ces questions occupent une place importante dans les débats autour de la maternité et du travail féminin. Mais les pratiques et les représentations de l’allaitement sont traversées par des tensions politiques, économiques et religieuses. Pouvons-nous éclairer les controverses par une mise en perspective historique large de leurs enjeux socio-culturels ? Faire l’histoire de l’allaitement en Europe est une manière de contribuer à une approche globale de la question de la reproduction. Emboîtant le pas aux recherches récentes sur la maternité, les quatre sections de cet ouvrage proposent les résultats d’une vaste enquête collective pluridisciplinaire et ouvrent des pistes pour une réflexion critique sur les enjeux actuels de la parentalité et de la reproduction. Les chapitres de ce volume associent les investigations historiques, anthropologiques et archéologiques à l’histoire de l’art et aux études littéraires. L’ouvrage présente également une riche documentation visuelle et des focus conçus comme outils pour la recherche, la divulgation scientifique et la didactique.

 

L'architecture hospitalière au Portugal

Hospital Architecture in Portugal at the Dawn of Modernity Solution, Practices, and Models

Talk by Joana Maria Balsa Carvalho De Pinho


5 April 2023 at 5 p.m. (CET).


In order to register, please visit the following page: https://csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/online-lectures/hospital-architecture-in-portugal/


Hospital architecture in Portugal is a subject little studied in both general and art history, especially in relation to the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period.

But to understand hospital architecture in its historical dynamics of permanence and innovation, it is necessary to understand the underlying concept of the hospital and its characteristics as a social institution.

The 15th and 16th centuries are reforming times in the welfare and healthcare context; while Portugal is part of this European process it presents its own peculiarities in this area. In historical terms, this moment is crucial and challenging; the movement initiated by John II (1455-1495) with the reorganization of care institutions, i.e. the unification of small units, their assets and revenues, into larger institutions with greater capacity, need to respond to the challenges of early modernity.

This institutional change will lead to changes in the buildings, that is, the institutional type will define a new architectural typology. They led to the construction of new, larger hospitals, which allowed the renovation of hospital architecture and the application of new architectural models.

In Portugal, however, not all hospitals built or remodelled in this period will equally or totally present such architectural novelties. For instance, the application of an innovative planimetric model implies the generalised existence of a pre-existing architectural culture that makes its assimilation possible. This did not occur in Portugal where only subtle elements would be incorporated.


These and other issues will be discussed as part of my project “Hospitalis”: Hospital Architecture in Portugal at the beginning of modernity, whose research outlines and findings will be showcased in this webinar.

L’incroyable histoire de l’aspirine

L’incroyable histoire de l’aspirine

Exposition  

Faculté de pharmacie de Toulouse

du 17 au 21 avril 2023

Du 17 au 21 avril 2023 découvrez « L’incroyable histoire de l’aspirine », une exposition qui retrace l’épopée de ce célèbre médicament, découvert il y a plus de 120 ans, et toujours
utilisé de nos jours !

Le saule fut utilisé en médecine, dès l’Antiquité. Il faudra attendre le début XIXe siècle pour que des pharmaciens isolent, à partir de cet arbre, une substance encore impure : la  salicyline.
Quelques décennies supplémentaires seront nécessaires pour aboutir à la synthèse de l’acide acétylsalicylique, la future aspirine, avec les travaux du pharmacien strasbourgeois Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, puis ceux du chimiste allemand Felix Hoffmann. C’est en 1899 que les laboratoires Bayer débutent la production industrielle et la commercialisation de cette molécule, sous le nom de marque « Aspirin ».
Au cours du XXe siècle, l’aspirine fut, sans doute, le médicament le plus célèbre de son époque.
Massivement employée pour lutter contre la douleur, la fièvre et les phénomènes inflammatoires, son histoire n’est pas cantonnée aux aspects scientifiques, mais elle est intimement liée au contexte et aux enjeux économiques, industriels et politiques du siècle dernier.
Découvertes plus tardivement, dans les années 1970, les propriétés contre l’agrégation plaquettaire de l’aspirine en font un médicament majeur dans la prévention des accidents cardio-vasculaires. À ce sujet, quelques posters expliquent comment Toulouse fut le creuset de la mise au point des fameux antiagrégants plaquettaires TiclidR et PlavixR. L’aspirine, médicament toujours très utilisé de nos jours, est une molécule incontournable dans notre pharmacopée actuelle.
La Société d’Histoire de la Pharmacie et la Faculté de Pharmacie de Toulouse se sont associées pour présenter au grand public, aux étudiants et aux spécialistes l’exposition « L’incroyable histoire de l’aspirine ». Cette histoire est retracée à travers des affiches explicatives, une vidéo pédagogique et de nombreux objets et documents exposés, certains très rares, issus d’une collection privée, acquise et complétée par la Société d’Histoire de la Pharmacie.

Informations pratiques :
Exposition du 17 au 21 avril 2023, de 10h à 18h.
Entrée libre et gratuite.
Faculté des sciences pharmaceutiques de Toulouse
35 chemin des Maraichers, département de Biochimie, coque C, 2e étage.
Accès en métro : ligne B, station Faculté de pharmacie.

La Société d’Histoire de la Pharmacie est une société savante, fondée en 1913. Elle a pour but l’étude de tout ce qui intéresse le passé des sciences, de l’art et de la profession pharmaceutiques ainsi que la conservation des manuscrits, ouvrages, monuments et objets qui s’y rattachent.
Contact presse : Bastien Delattre, bastien.delattre@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/SHP.HistPharm https://twitter.com/SHP_HistPharm/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/shp-histpharm/

Prix Sigerist

Sigerist Prize for the History of Medicine and Science, 2023


Call for applications 

The Swiss Society for the History of Medicine and Science invites applications for the Henry-E.-Sigerist-Prize for the promotion of young scholars in the history of medicine and science.



Presentation

The prize was founded in 1967 by Mr. and Mrs Guggenheim-Schnurr from Basel in order to award outstanding young scholars in the field of history of medicine and science.

Applicants should submit studies completed within the last two years, i.e. phd and habilitation dissertations
printed books
works of another kind which have been selected by the jury or proposed to it.

The texts must be written either in German, French, Italian or English and related to Switzerland by content, authorship, institution or topic. Work which has previously been awarded a prize is not eligible. Candidates doctors should not have defended their thesis more than 8 years previously. The detailed regulations can be found at www.sggmn.ch/sigerist-preis-e.html.

The prize amounts to CHF 2000.- (approx. EUR 2000) 

Application guidelines

Applications (in electronic form or in two paper copies, including a short CV) and enquiries should be sent to the president of the jury:

Dr Philip Rieder

Institut éthique histoire humanités

Centre Médical Universitaire

Case postale

1211 Genève 4

Tél: 021 379 46 03

Philip.rieder@unige.ch
Before 2023, April 30th 

Jury

The jury includes the president of the jury and members of the Swiss institutes for the history of medicine : Aude Fauvel, Pascal Germann, Martina King and Maria Boehmer.

L’Institut Pasteur sous l’Occupation

La Guerre des bactéries. L’Institut Pasteur sous l’Occupation
 

Nicolas Chevassus-au-Louis


Vendémiaire
2023
ISBN : 978-2-36358-400-7

Dès les premiers temps de l’Occupation, l’Institut Pasteur est identifié par les représentants du Reich comme acteur stratégique du conflit. La centaine de chercheurs qui y travaillent sont les seuls capables de produire les millions de doses de vaccins permettant de protéger les populations contre les épidémies comme celle de la diphtérie. Ils sont également au fait des dernières avancées scientifiques en matière de guerre bactériologique.

Dans ces circonstances exceptionnelles, les savants sont mis face à leurs responsabilités : ralentissement délibéré des livraisons aux troupes allemandes, engagement de 15 % des pasteuriens dans la Résistance, stockage de médicaments destinés aux combattants de l’ombre… mais aussi accueil de médecins SS qui utiliseront leurs recherches sur le vaccin contre le typhus pour les essais pseudo-médicaux menés dans l’enfer de Buchenwald.

Ce livre, le premier consacré à une institution scientifique pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, dissèque avec finesse les dilemmes, les sacrifices et les compromissions des membres du plus célèbre établissement de recherche français.

David Shreeve Doctoral Studentship in the History of Medicine

David Shreeve Doctoral Studentship in the History of Medicine 

 

Call for applications

The University of Manchester’s Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM) and John Rylands Research Institute invite applications to undertake a fully funded 3 year doctoral studentship researching the social and cultural history of neurology, neurosurgery and the brain sciences in Britain across the twentieth century.


This studentship has been made possible by the generous donation of Dr. David Shreeve.


This studentship will develop a comprehensive understanding of the history of neurology in Britain across the twentieth century. Research will examine the work of Sir Geoffrey Jefferson (1886-1961), pioneering neurosurgeon and professor at the university and his collaborators, including Dorothy Davison (1890-1984), an important figure in the art of medical illustration. Jefferson published many important works such as those on fractures of the atlas vertebra (often referred to as Jefferson’s Fracture), and in 1924 he became the first surgeon in Britain to perform a successful embolectomy. He held a number of surgical positions in the Manchester area including at Salford Royal and the MRI, before being offered the first neurosurgical chair in England by The University of Manchester. He became professor of neurological surgery and Director of the Neurological Laboratories in 1945 and was elected to the Royal Society in 1947. Dorothy Davison trained at the Manchester School of Art and entered the field of medical illustration through work done on Egyptology at the Manchester Museum. She was well known for her neurological, orthopaedic and haematological paintings and produced a number for Jefferson whilst working at the MRI and The University of Manchester. She was a pioneer in the field, and in 1939 was appointed Medical Artist by The University of Manchester, training a new generation of medical artists.


This project will explore Jefferson’s work across clinical research, neurosurgery and medicine, as well as his formative role in shaping the British neurology through contributions to the work of the Medical Research Council (principally as the Chairman of its Clinical Research Committee), thereby reconstructing his legacy and continued influence. In 2021, The University of Manchester launched the Geoffrey Jefferson Brain Research Centre (https://www.ncaresearch.org.uk/news/new-brain-research-centre-to-launch/) which conducts ground breaking research to tackle some of medical science’s most devastating conditions. The launch of the centre demonstrates the continued influence of Jefferson’s work and Manchester’s contribution to the advancement of neurological research.

Working with academic colleagues in CHSTM and with the support of curators and specialists at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library, this studentship will seek to answer a number of research questions about the history of neurology through the framework of Jefferson’s career. Relatedly, it may also address his work with Dorothy Davison, and what this can tell us about the relationship between science and art and the increasingly important field of medical humanities. Research may also examine Jefferson’s more philosophical contributions, not least his early speculations on the ‘mind of mechanical man’ and the limits of what we would now call artificial intelligence.



Closing date: 1st June 2023.



For more details on and contacts for inquiries see:

https://blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2022/09/30/david-shreeve-doctoral-studentship/

Supervisors:



Dr Robert G.W. Kirk

Prof Carsten Timmermann

Histoire de la psychiatrie en Luxembourg

Histoire de la psychiatrie en Luxembourg. L’Hospice Central d’Ettelbruck (1854-1904)

Yves De Smet

Éditions Phi
2023

“L’Histoire de la Psychiatrie en Luxembourg – L’Hospice Central d’Ettelbruck est une chronique retraçant la genèse d’un manicome, à savoir la transformation entre 1854 et 1904 à Ettelbruck (Grand-Duché de Luxembourg) d’un Hospice Central pour indigents malades de toute sorte en une Maison de Santé pour seuls aliénés mentaux, la naissance de la psychiatrie luxembourgeoise étant d’abord, comme dans les autres pays européens, une réponse législative et institutionnelle à la vaste question sociale de l’infirmité sous toutes ses formes. Cette chronique est autant un travail de reconstruction de l’architecture des lieux (à la base une ancienne caserne d’artillerie) que de reconstitution temporelle du quotidien, parfois anecdotique, des protagonistes. Écrite de l’intérieur, elle donne la parole, retranscrite au plus près des textes d’archives, à ceux qui, dans le cadre de l’historiographie de la psychiatrie, ne l’ont en général pas : les patients, le personnel et les objets qui ont fait l’établissement”.

Les « gestes barrières » à l’ère industrielle

Les « gestes barrières » à l’ère industrielle (mi-XVIIIe siècle-XXe siècle)


Appel à communications

L’expression « geste barrière » est rentrée dans notre quotidien après la pandémie de covid-19 depuis 2020. Cette journée d’étude organisée par l'IRHiS (Université de Lille) vise à élargir le sens de cette expression, et à réfléchir à l’histoire de ces gestes qui servent à protéger, à faire barrières face aux risques depuis l’ère industrielle. Que sont-ces gestes ? Comment sont-ils perçus ? Quels acteurs et quelles institutions sont en jeu ? Comment ces gestes ont-ils été adoptés ? Sont-ils associés à des objets ou des dispositifs techniques (comme a pu l’être le masque pendant la pandémie de covid-19) ?


Argumentaire

La pandémie de Covid-19 que l’humanité a connue ces deux dernières années a bouleversé de nombreux aspects de notre quotidien. Médecins, journalistes et personnalités ont fait la promotion des fameux « gestes barrières ». Se laver les mains plusieurs fois par jour, veiller à bien tousser dans son coude, éviter les contacts physiques rapprochés, porter le masque, mais au-dessus du nez, voilà autant de gestes permettant de limiter la propagation du virus, et donc à terme, de protéger et de sauver des vies.

Si l’épidémie de Covid-19 les a rendus plus manifestes, les gestes barrières n’ont pas été inventés récemment. En réalité, nous en effectuons au quotidien, consciemment ou non, y compris en dehors des contextes de pandémie. C’est pourquoi nous proposons d’élargir le sens de l’expression « geste barrière ». Elle intègre forcément une dimension prophylactique, mais elle peut également s’appliquer à la prévention de risques sanitaires liés au travail et à l’environnement. Ces risques ont été démultipliés à l’ère industrielle, qui est celle de la « contamination du monde » (François Jarrige, Thomas Le Roux, 2017).

L’histoire de ces gestes a partie liée avec celles de l’hygiénisme (Jean-Pierre Goubert, 2008 ; Gérard Jorland, 2010 ; Caroline Moriceau, 2011) et des pollutions (Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud, 2010 ; Thomas Le Roux, 2011). Ces approches sont aujourd’hui largement explorées. Toutefois, la crise sanitaire a stimulé la réflexion des chercheurs sur le sujet des gestes barrières, comme en témoigne des manifestations scientifiques récentes : le congrès « Gestes, pratiques, mémoire : trente ans d’humanités médicales » à l’université de Strasbourg (9-11 juin 2022), et le colloque « Matters of containment », organisé par le Quarantine Studies Network en 2020 et dont les actes ont été publiés en 2022.

Par ailleurs, l'étude des gestes barrières peut enrichir les réflexions nouvelles portées sur « l'histoire environnementale des mondes du travail » (Renaud Bécot, 2022). En effet, l'adaptation des travailleurs aux environnements malsains, par la mise à distance des substances toxiques ou le port de protections spécifiques, est un sujet qui mérite d'être davantage abordé dans l'historiographie francophone. Cette dynamique est notamment portée par Judith Rainhorn (2019), qui a mis en lumière le fait que les industriels de la céruse ont minimisé les risques posés par ce « poison légal », produisant toute une « grammaire de l’opacité ». On peut également citer les contributeurs du numéro Santé au travail et santé environnementale de la revue Sociétés contemporaines (2021).

Du reste, la construction des savoirs sur les gestes barrières fut progressive, non linéaire, et a été entravée par des luttes d’intérêts. « La Science » a servi de prétexte pour occulter les craintes environnementales et sanitaires (Guillaume Carnino, 2015), et pour se « désinhiber » face aux risques (Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, 2012). L’histoire des gestes barrières n’est donc pas étrangère à celle de l’élaboration des consensus scientifiques et médicaux, et leur reconnaissance par les pouvoirs politiques et économiques (Jean-Claude Devinck, Paul-André Rosenthal, 2009). 

Attendus

Cet appel à communication s’adresse aux doctorant.e.s, aux post-doctorant.e.s et aux jeunes docteur.e.s (5 ans après la soutenance de thèse). Les contributions pourront porter sur tous types de territoires et d’échelles géographiques. Il est cependant attendu de bien définir le cadre territorial et de s’appuyer sur un travail d’archives.

Les propositions doivent pouvoir s’intégrer dans un ou plusieurs des axes suivants. 

Axe 1. Identification et perception des gestes barrières

Il s’agira d’identifier, de caractériser et de décrire les gestes adoptés pour diminuer les risques sanitaires. Il faudra aussi s’interroger sur l’efficacité de ces gestes et la manière dont ils ont été perçus. Aussi, la question de la réversibilité du jugement porté sur ceux-ci est incontournable, du fait de l’évolution des savoirs, de celle de la réflexivité environnementale, mais aussi des éventuelles instrumentalisations provenant des milieux politiques et économiques. 

Axe 2. Acteurs et institutions

Parallèlement à l’identification des gestes, une réflexion doit être menée sur les acteurs dans toute leur diversité, en prêtant attention à leur catégorisation sociale (âge, classe, genre, etc.), à leur ancrage territorial et aux temporalités. Cette diversité va de pair avec une variété de contextes : santé au travail, hygiène corporelle et intime, crises épidémiques… Elle est de même inséparable de l’existence d’institutions. 

Axe 3. Apprentissage et réception

Les gestes barrières n’ont pas été adoptés de manière passive. Les acteurs participent, chacun à leur manière et à leur niveau, à leur application. Celle-ci peut susciter des réactions enthousiastes, indifférentes ou conflictuelles. Elle nécessite souvent un apprentissage, lequel peut se traduire par un enseignement clairement formalisé, d’une formation sur le tas ou de l’intégration de savoirs vernaculaires. Elle peut aussi faire naître des revendications : celles du droit à la santé et à la protection sociale en sont des illustrations remarquables. 

Axe 4. Matérialité

Enfin, l’étude des gestes barrières s’inscrit pleinement dans le cadre de l’histoire matérielle. Le risque est souvent réduit à l’aide d’un objet ou d’un dispositif technique : du masque chirurgical au masque à gaz, en passant par la protection intime, les exemples abondent. Comment ces objets sont-ils produits ? À quelles normes de fabrication sont-ils soumis ? Comment les acteurs, dont les revenus et les conditions d’existence sont très inégaux, peuvent-ils se les procurer ? Ce sont-là autant d’interrogations qui, sans épuiser le sujet, peuvent être posées. 

Modalités de proposition

La journée d'études se tiendra le 11 octobre 2023 à l'IRHiS (Université de Lille, site du Pont-de-Bois, Villeneuve d'Ascq).

Les propositions qui seront soit en français soit en anglais sont à envoyer au plus tard le 10 mai 2023 à 20h et comprendre les informations suivantes : 

• Nom, prénom, affiliation et courriel
• Titre de la communication proposée
• Résumé en 2000 signes maximum comprenant une problématique et une brève présentation du terrain et des sources

Nous répondrons aux propositions avant le 14 juin 2023.

Les demandes d’informations sur le projet peuvent être adressées à l'adresse ci-dessous : je.gestes.barrieres@gmail.com

Selon les subventions que nous aurons pu obtenir, les communicants pourraient avoir à financer tout ou partie de leurs frais de mission voire d’hébergement. Le déjeuner du midi sera pris en charge par les organisateurs. 

Comité d’organisation 

BOUNOUA Samy, Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR 8529 - IRHiS - Institut de Recherches Historiques du Septentrion, F-59000 Lille, France
HEUGUEBART Léo, Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR 8529 - IRHiS - Institut de Recherches Historiques du Septentrion, F-59000 Lille, France
MÉRIAUX Valentin, Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR 8529 - IRHiS - Institut de Recherches Historiques du Septentrion, F-59000 Lille, France
 

Comité scientifique 

DARRIULAT Philippe, Sciences Pô Lille, CNRS, UMR 8529 - IRHiS - Institut de Recherches Historiques du Septentrion, F-59000 Lille, France
FRIOUX Stéphane, Univ. Lumière Lyon 2, CNRS, UMR 5190 - LARHRA - Laboratoire de Recherches Historiques Rhône-Alpes, F-69363 Lyon, France.
GALVEZ-BEHAR Gabriel, Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR 8529 - IRHiS - Institut de Recherches Historiques du Septentrion, F-59000 Lille, France
PARMENTIER Isabelle, UNamur, PolleN - Pôle de l’histoire environnementale de l’Université de Namur, Namur, Belgique
TOUCHELAY Béatrice, Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR 8529 - IRHiS - Institut de Recherches Historiques du Septentrion, F-59000 Lille, France

 


Contacts Valentin Mériaux
courriel : je [dot] gestes [dot] barrieres [at] gmail [dot] com

Prendre soin de ses ancêtres noirs dans les colections de squelettes

A Bioarcheology of the Self: Caring for Black Ancestors in Skeletal Collections


Talk by Dr. Aja Lans: Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University

Monday, April 3, 2023
Thomson House Ballroom
12:30-3pm


This talk discusses how my identity as a Black anthropologist influences and strengthens my work as a bioarchaeologist. My research focuses on the histories of Black people whose bodies have been curated in anthropological and medical skeletal collections. Such studies require an understanding of the ethical implications of working with human remains and descendant communities in ways that are rarely sufficiently addressed in anthropology. Accordingly, my research and writing are informed by a broader body of social theory and draw from Black feminism, critical race theory, and the history of science and medicine. I will discuss how I developed my research topics and the obstacles I encountered during the process.


Please register for the event with this link: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/a-bioarchaeology-of-the-self-tickets-591697532247
or with the QR code.

Poste à l'Université de Warwick

Teaching Fellow in the History of Medicine - University of Warwick - Department of History


Call for applications

Location: Coventry
Salary: £33,348 to £43,155 per annum.
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Fixed-Term/Contract


Placed On: 15th March 2023
Closes: 16th April 2023
Job Ref: 1890464



Full-time (1 FTE) fixed-term contract for 12 months.

The Department of History seeks to appoint a Teaching Fellow in the History of Medicine for a fixed-term period of 12 months commencing on 1 September 2023.

The Warwick University History Department is one of the largest history departments in the UK, with teaching and research notable for its disciplinary range and geographical scope. The Department is comprised of 49 academic staff, 8 postdoctoral staff, 11 support staff, ~800 undergraduate students, and ~100 postgraduate students. The Department has a strong international reputation and consistently high rankings in both UK and international surveys. In the recent REF 2021 exercise 92% of research was ranked as world leading (4*) or internationally excellent (3*). The Department is committed to maintaining and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion amongst its staff and student community.

The Department is home to five research centres: the Global History and Culture Centre; the Centre for the History of Medicine; the European History Centre; the Early Modern and Eighteenth Century Centre; and the Centre for Global Jewish Studies. We also engage with two faculty research centres, the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance and the Centre for Caribbean Studies.

All staff have access to an Individual Research Account (currently £500) to support their research. In addition, you will be eligible to apply for faculty and university funding to support teaching and research initiatives. We will assign you a mentor from among the permanent members of staff who will help your continued professional development.

You will teach the following modules: HI176 “Mind, Body and Society: The History of Medicine and Health”

And (depending on experience) contribute to one or more of: HI113 “Europe in the Making, 1450-1800”
HI153 “Making of the Modern World”
HI2E1/HI2E2 “Historiography”
MA in the History of Medicine

You will also supervise final-year dissertations.

You will undertake lecturing, seminar teaching, essay tutorials, office hours, marking of undergraduate work, exam invigilation, and monitoring of student attendance in accordance with the Department’s quality assurance practices. You will also act as personal tutor to an assigned group of undergraduate students, providing pastoral support and guidance during the academic year. You will be actively engaged in research in the History of Medicine or a comparable field.

All applications must be accompanied by a CV and a covering letter. Writing samples might be requested from candidates at the shortlisting stage of the recruitment process and should not be submitted with the initial application.

Please direct all informal enquiries to Professor Tim Lockley, Head of Department, at T.J.Lockley@warwick.ac.uk.

Expected interview date: Mid-May 2023. Interviews may take place remotely via Microsoft Teams if this proves necessary.

Full details of the duties and selection criteria for this role can be found in the vacancy advert on the University of Warwick's jobs pages. You will be routed to this when you click on the Apply button.


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Giovanni Batista Canani

Myology before Vesalius – Giovanni Batista Canani 

Francis Van Glabbeek, Maurits Biesbrouck, and Jacqueline Vons

Garant Publishers

 

Giambattista Canani (1515-1579 n.s.) from Ferrara was a remarkable and leading physician-anatomist in the sixteenth century, but he is far less well known today than his contemporaries such as Vesalius, Fallopio or Colombo. His only work on the muscular anatomy of the upper limb Musculorum humani corporis picturata dissectio can in fact be considered as a masterpiece of its time, no less innovative than Vesalius’ Fabrica. The Picturata dissectio is revolutionary in its content and contains copper etchings
of exceptional quality and precision. This is the result of Canani’s extensive dissections of human corpses, performed meticulously and with a determination to discover the tiniest details of the human anatomy.
Only a few original copies of this very rare work are now in existence, and it can only be seen in a small number of the most prestigious libraries: in Europe mostly in Italy (Bologna, Ferrara, Padua, Pavia, Milan) but also in Dresden, Glasgow, Krakow, London, Oxford, Uppsala and Vienna. The only two original copies in the United States are in the Yale University Library and the Rubenstein Library of Duke University, the latter here published in facsimile. The study of this beautiful and historically significant work is strongly recommended.

Francis van Glabbeek is Professor at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Antwerp. He is an orthopaedic surgeon and Assistant Head of the Orthopaedics and Trauma Department of Antwerp University Hospital, specialising in the upper limb. Within the faculty of medicine, he is responsible for musculoskeletal anatomy and the history of medicine.

Maurits Biesbrouck published a Dutch translation of the first volume of the 1543 Fabrica by Vesalius, as well as a Vesalius bibliography and a summary and discussion of the editions of his works, both of which are updated every year at www.andreasvesalius.be.

Jacqueline Vons Professor Emeritus of classical languages at Université François Rabelais in Tours and a member of the Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Touraine. Together with Prof. Stephane Velut, Professor of anatomy at the same university, she published the first French translation of Vesalius’s Epitome and is currently working for the Interuniversity Library of Medicine (BIUM)
in Paris on the French translation of Vesalius’s 1543 Fabrica.

François-Vincent Raspail

François-Vincent Raspail. Apôtre de la république et de la science

 
Jean-Pierre Dadoune
 

L'Harmattan
Collection : Acteurs de la Science
Date de publication : 16 février 2023
Broché - format : 13,5 x 21,5 cm • 246 pages
ISBN : 978-2-14-032374-4

François Vincent Raspail (1794-1878), républicain irréductible, s'est opposé avec constance et opiniâtreté à tous les régimes qui se sont succédés depuis la Restauration, avant d'être nommé en 1876, en tant que doyen d'âge, président de l'Assemblée nationale de la toute jeune Troisième République. Son combat résolu pour la démocratie et l'instauration d'une République sociale a posé les bases de bon nombre de réformes politiques et sociales qui deviendront effectives après sa mort. Il s'est affirmé très tôt comme un savant visionnaire, en soutenant dès 1827 que la cellule est l'unité élémentaire de la matière vivante aussi bien végétale qu'animale. Il a fondé une nouvelle science, l'histochimie, qui permet d'analyser la composition chimique des cellules sur la platine du microscope. De façon plus générale, il a été un artisan du décloisonnement des disciplines scientifiques. Enfin, il a été le promoteur d'une véritable médecine sociale qui a trouvé un écho dans les couches sociales les plus défavorisées. On lui doit d'avoir préconisé des règles d'hygiène personnelle et sociale qui n'étaient pas encore à l'ordre du jour, et d'avoir ouvert la voie à la pratique de l'asepsie et de l'antisepsie en milieu chirurgical.

Céline le médecin-écrivain

Céline le médecin-écrivain


David Labreure

Bartillat
Parution : 09/02/2023
238 pages
Format : 140 x 205
ISBN : 9782841007448

Derrière les rebondissements éditoriaux et les polémiques, on oublie souvent que Louis-Ferdinand Céline fut aussi médecin et un auteur prolifique de textes et d’articles sur les questions d’hygiène et de santé publique. La plupart de ces publications scientifiques étaient signés Louis Destouches, à commencer par sa thèse de médecine sur Ignace Philippe Semmelweis (1924). Toute son œuvre littéraire porte également la trace d’un intérêt profond pour la médecine, tant dans ses romans les plus célébrés que dans ses pamphlets qui en témoignent aussi pour le pire.

Chez Céline, le statut du médecin et celui de l’écrivain se retrouvent étroitement et perpétuellement mêlés : à l’époque de Voyage au bout de la nuit (1932), celui-ci se présente avant tout en médecin, alors que c’est le romancier que les journalistes viennent interroger. C’est donc bien parce que Céline est devenu écrivain par la suite que les écrits médicaux apparaissent, a posteriori, dignes d’intérêt. Ce dernier ne s’est contenté ni d’être seulement médecin, ni tout à fait uniquement écrivain. Fort d’une connaissance en histoire sociale, médicale et littéraire, David Labreure s’est attaché à retraverser la vie et l’œuvre de Céline sous cet angle original. C’est ce continuel dialogue à trois voix entre l’homme, le médecin et l’écrivain qui sera au cœur de cet essai biographique.

Docteur en lettres modernes, David Labreure a consacré sa thèse à l’hygiénisme chez Céline. Directeur du musée et du centre d’archives « La Maison d’Auguste Comte », il a publié Le Paris d’Auguste Comte (Éditions Alexandrines, 2022). Il est aussi président de la Fédération nationale des maisons d’écrivains et des patrimoines littéraires.

Postdoctorat sur les plantes psychoactives en Amérique latine

Postdoctoral Researcher: Psychoactive Plants and Tourism in Latin America
 

Call for applications

Employment 0.8 FTE
Gross monthly salary € 3,974 - € 5,439
Required background PhD
Organizational unit Faculty of Arts
Application deadline 03 April 2023
Apply now


The Faculty of Arts at Radboud University is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to collaborate on the project 'Poison, Medicine or Magic Potion? Shifting Perceptions of Drugs in and from Latin America (1820-2020)', which was recently awarded a grant by the Dutch Research Council. As a postdoctoral researcher, you will join the VICI research team (including two PhD candidates, two postdoctoral researchers and the PI) and also be a member of the Radboud Institute for Culture and History (RICH) and the department of Modern Languages and Cultures (MTC).

The Radboud Institute for Culture and History is looking for a postdoctoral researcher for the NWO-funded project Poison, Medicine or Magic Potion? Shifting Perceptions of 'Drugs' in and from Latin America (1820-2020). The conception of drugs has differed greatly over time, and the distinction between 'illegal drugs' and 'legal medicines' continues to be contested. An increasing number of scientists claim that it is necessary to demythologise drugs and to revise the perception that they constitute a threat to society. Latin America plays a key role in this debate, as psychoactive plants are part of its natural resources and Indigenous cultural history.

The main aim of this project is to analyse the changing perceptions of drugs in Latin America from the continent's independence to the present day (1820-2020). The project focuses on the representation of ayahuasca, peyote and coca/cocaine over time. It uses a partially unexplored corpus of discourses on these plants, including literature, ethnography and travel writing. The project will nuance the complex yet often reductive link between drugs and violence by studying the multifaceted perceptions of drugs from a cross-cultural, diachronic and interdisciplinary perspective. Two workshops and a symposium with stakeholders will examine how cultural perceptions of drugs influence policy making and vice versa.

As a postdoctoral researcher, you will analyse and compare tourist practices related to peyote, ayahuasca and coca, using the more established scholarship on ayahuasca tourism as a starting point. You will use the different theoretical frameworks of the project (decolonial theory, posthumanism and affect studies) to study tourist practices and cultural transfer in different geographical and ritual contexts, such as the Amazonian Basin, the Andes region, the Sierra Madre Occidental and the Netherlands. You will contribute to the development of the PhD candidates' methodological and theoretical skills. You will work closely together with your fellow postdoctoral researcher on Drugs and Cultural Heritage in Latin America. In addition, you will work with scientific and societal partners in Latin America and in the Netherlands. You will organise several events for stakeholders in Nijmegen and make a podcast together with the other members of the team.

Your research will be embedded in RICH. Apart from the specific context of the VICI research project, you will participate in one of its research groups and contribute to the institute in general. Together with the present staff of the research institutes, you will set up research collaborations on these topics. You will publish about your research in highly qualified journals, conference proceedings, or edited volumes. Lastly, you will be expected to teach a limited number of Bachelor's and Master's courses.

Profile 

You hold a PhD in a relevant field, such as Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Tourism Studies or a comparable discipline.
You have excellent oral and writing skills in Spanish (C2 or native) and hold a Cambridge Certificate (CPE2 level) in English or equivalent, or you are committed to obtaining this certificate within six months.
You are able to work independently and flexibly, taking initiative where needed, but are also able to communicate and collaborate effectively in a team setting.
You have administrative and organisational skills and you easily manage social media.
You are willing to live in the Netherlands during the contract period and to do field work in Latin America.
You have a track record of international high-profile publications.
Demonstrable experience with fieldwork in Latin America is highly recommended.
Demonstrable experience in interdisciplinary research, including ethnobotany, environmental humanities, historiography or anthropology, is recommended.
Passive knowledge of Indigenous languages of Latin America relevant in this field and of Dutch is considered an advantage.

We are

The Faculty of Arts is committed to knowledge production with a significant scientific and social impact. With over 500 academic and support staff, we teach and conduct research in the fields of history and art, languages and cultures, and linguistics and communication, using innovative methodologies and working in close collaboration between the disciplines. Our research is embedded in two research institutes: the Centre for Language Studies (CLS) and the Radboud Institute for Culture & History (RICH). We currently have approximatively 2,500 students, enrolled in three departments: the Department of History, Art History and Classics, the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, and the Department of Language and Communication. We aim to contribute to a more sustainable and inclusive world, which is why we especially seek applications from candidates who bring diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and skills that will be assets to our study programmes and research profiles.

Radboud University We want to get the best out of science, others and ourselves. Why? Because this is what the world around us desperately needs. Leading research and education make an indispensable contribution to a healthy, free world with equal opportunities for all. This is what unites the more than 24,000 students and 5,600 employees at Radboud University. And this requires even more talent, collaboration and lifelong learning. You have a part to play!

We offer It concerns an employment for 0.8 FTE.
The gross monthly salary amounts to a minimum of €3,974 and a maximum of €5,439 based on a 38-hour working week, depending on previous education and number of years of relevant work experience (salary scale 11).
You will receive 8% holiday allowance and 8.3% end-of-year bonus.
It concerns a temporary employment for 3 years.
You will be able to use our Dual Career and Family Care Services. Our Dual Career and Family Care Officer can assist you with family-related support, help your partner or spouse prepare for the local labour market, provide customized support in their search for employment and help your family settle in Nijmegen.
Working for us means getting extra days off. In case of full-time employment, you can choose between 30 or 41 days of annual leave instead of the legally allotted 20.

Additional employment conditions Work and science require good employment practices. This is reflected in Radboud University's primary and secondary employment conditions. You can make arrangements for the best possible work-life balance with flexible working hours, various leave arrangements and working from home. You are also able to compose part of your employment conditions yourself, for example, exchange income for extra leave days and receive a reimbursement for your sports subscription. And of course, we offer a good pension plan. You are given plenty of room and responsibility to develop your talents and realise your ambitions. Therefore, we provide various training and development schemes.

Would you like more information? For questions about the position, please contact Brigitte Adriaensen, Professor in Hispanic Studies, at brigitte.adriaensen@ru.nl.

Practical information and applying You can apply until 3 April 2023, exclusively using the button below. Kindly address your application to Brigitte Adriaensen. Please fill in the application form and attach the following documents: A letter of motivation, including a description of your research agenda of approximately 500 words.
Your CV, including the contact details of two references, a list of publications and a description of your teaching experience.
A writing sample, relevant for this vacancy (preferably in English, but Spanish will be accepted) The first round of interviews will take place on Friday 14 April. The second round of interviews will take place on Friday 12 May. You would preferably begin employment on 1 September.
We can imagine you're curious about our application procedure. It offers a rough outline of what you can expect during the application process, how we handle your personal data and how we deal with internal and external candidates. 

Apply now Application deadline 03 April 2023

We would like to recruit our new colleague ourselves. Acquisition in response to this vacancy will not be appreciated.


Prof. Adriaensen, B.Y.A. (Brigitte) Professor in Hispanic Studies
brigitte.adriaensen@ru.nl

Les publics et leur santé

Publics and their health: Historical problems and perspectives

Alex Mold, Peder Clark, Hannah J. Elizabeth (Editors) 

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Manchester University Press (February 21, 2023)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 216 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1526156754

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a renewed interest in the relationship between public health authorities and the public. Particular attention has been paid to ‘problem publics’ who do not follow health advice. This is not a new issue. As the chapters in this collection demonstrate, the designation of certain groups or populations as problem publics has long been a part of health policy and practice. By exploring the creation and management of these problem publics in a range of time periods and geographical locations, the collection sheds light on what is both specific and particular. For health authorities, publics themselves were often thought to pose problems, because of their behaviour, identity or location. But publics could and did resist this framing. There were, and continue to be, many problems with seeing publics as problems.

Les discours de la folie

Discourses of Madness

Call for papers


Special volume of Humanities (Journal)

Today I felt pass over me a breath of wind from the wings of madness.

—Charles Baudelaire

Literary artists and textualists have long been fascinated by the alienated, the marginalized, the eccentric; intrigued, if not befuddled, by their non-conformity, their recalcitrance, their obstinate refusal to adhere; seized by their indifference to social norms and prescribed dictates; lured, if not bemused, by their fundamental apartness or uncompromising candor. In this optic, the non-clinical dimensions of madness have been extensively explored in short stories, novels, poems, dramas, comedies, treatises, exposés, essays, epistles, even in post-modern counter-narratives masquerading as autobiographical memoirs. In consequence of this critical and meta-critical abundance, it is not uncommon to discover specialists in applied psychiatric theory, eager to proffer accounts of “textualized” insanity. From Viking berserkers to impassioned lovers in search of elusive soulmates, emotional excess has often served to delineate norms and to assign diagnostic terms to those who fall without prescribed, predisposed boundaries.

This Special Issue invites contributions that span chronology, culture, and genre in an attempt to probe the depths of a heterogenous phenomenon that has fascinated and perplexed writers and readers since the beginning of time. Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural, the essays to inhabit this volume will constitute a trans-temporal illumination—pathological and poetic—of discourse and madness alike.

NOTE

Articles will be published on a continuing basis – shortly after final acceptance.

Prof. M. J. Muratore
Guest Editor

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MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION

Submit manuscripts at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once registered, click here to go to the submission form.

Consult Instructions for Authors before submission.

NOTE: ALL PROCESSING AND OTHER FEES FOR PAPERS ACCEPTED INTO THIS SPECIAL VOLUME WILL BE WAIVED. PUBLICATION WILL BE COST-FREE TO AUTHORS.

Les bains publics

Bains publics. Se laver en ville (1850-2000)

Sophie Richelle

 

Éditions de l'Université de Bruxelles
Collection MSH
2 mars 2023
ISSN 27365956


Avec Bains publics, Sophie Richelle propose un double récit original. Celui de l'histoire des bains communaux, compris comme les endroits où il était possible de se laver en dehors de chez soi à moindre coût aux XIX e et XX e siècles. Et celui de la quête historienne en train d’être menée. 

Trop souvent cantonnée au XIX e siècle, l'histoire des bains publics, se décline pourtant au 20e siècle. Lieux oubliés et méconnus, à l’heure des douches quotidiennes, ils sont un observatoire inédit de l’histoire du corps, de l’histoire de l’intime, de l’hygiène populaire et des inégalités sociales et genrées qui les ont traversées.

En poursuivant une écriture sensible où la subjectivité a sa place, l’historienne Sophie Richelle nous plonge également dans les coulisses de sa recherche. Partagée à l’origine sur Twitter, l’enquête historienne est reprise ici. L’ouvrage est hybride et permet, par la juxtaposition des résultats et de la quête, une réflexion sur le métier et les écritures historiennes.

Les animaux, les rues et la santé

Animals, Streets, and Healh

 

Call for papers

 

Hybrid Workshop, University of Liverpool, 15 June 2023
 

Streets are lively more-than-human spaces. Dogs, cats, monkeys, rats, cows, and pigeons are amongst those animals who share streets with humans. In different places and at different times, animals are variously welcomed, tolerated, or prohibited from streets. Street animals raise a host of questions around urban life and public health, as well as who belongs and who deserves care in urban environments. They are sometimes framed as evidence of healthy urban environments and sometimes as obstacles to urban health. Their presence on the street also invites us to consider animal agency, autonomy, and mobility.

This interdisciplinary workshop will explore the relationship between animals, streets, and health. We welcome proposals from any discipline that tackle any period and place. Topics might include:

· Animals and waste

· Zoonoses

· Affective responses to street animals

· The politics and practices of welfare

· Streets as sites of cruelty and care towards animals

· Campaigns to remove animals from streets

· More-than-human labour and streets as places of work for animals

· Animal agency, autonomy, and mobility

· Animals and urban planning

· Transnational/comparative approaches towards animals, streets, and health

· Representing street animals

· Ownership of street animals

· Researching street animals

· One Health Approaches

The workshop will be hybrid, with expenses covered for those attending in person from the UK. Papers will be considered for inclusion in a journal special issue.

The workshop is part of the Wellcome-funded project “Remaking One Health: Decolonial approaches to street dogs and rabies prevention in India” (ROH-Indies): https://rohindies.org/

Please send an extended abstract of between 500-750 words and a short bio by 31 March 2023 to the ROH-Indies team at the emails below.

For further information, please contact Dr Chris Pearson (chris.pearson@liverpool.ac.uk) or Dr Heeral Chhabra (heeralchhabra.univ@gmail.com)

Explorer les contours du bien-être et de la santé

Exploring the Contours of Wellness & Health
 

International Conference

Sorbonne University
23-25 March 2023


23 March 2023
Sorbonne University, Amphithéâtre Louis Liard
17 rue de la Sorbonne, 75005 Paris 

8.30-9.00 Registration – Welcoming participants

9.00-9.15 Opening remarks: Vice Dean for Research Pascal Aquien, Sorbonne University

9.15-10.15 Keynote speaker: Professor Deirdre Cooper Owens, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, “Why History Matters: Reckoning with Slavery and American Medicine”

10.15-10.45 Coffee break

10.45-12.30 Panel 1 – Chair: Thibaut Clément, Sorbonne University
– Marie ASSAF, EHESS: “Trump contre l’assurance santé, un terrain de lutte pour les personnes handicapées ?”
– Vanessa BOULLET et Julien GUILLAUMOND, Université de Lorraine: “Bien-être et santé en République d’Irlande et en Irlande du Nord post Brexit : une affaire de coopération ?”
– Audrey DUCAFFY, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle: “L’OTC pharmaceutique, une comparaison États-Unis/France”

12.30-14.00 Lunch break

14.00-15.45 Panel 2 – Chair: Steven O’Connor, Sorbonne University
– Cecilia Di MARCO et Stéphane SADOUX, Université de Grenoble Alpes: “Designing Healthier Cities”
– Chloé PASTOUREL, Université Clermont Auvergne: “La mobilisation de la philanthropie américaine dans la diffusion du sport en France de 1914 à la fin des années 1930”
– Rachna SIKARWAR, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi: “Of Noble Intentions and Deficient Executions: Exploring the Understandings and Disjunctions Around the Teaching of Well-Being in the Mainstream Indian Education System”

15.45-16.15 Coffee break

16.15-18.00 Panel 3 – Chair: Nathalie Caron, Sorbonne University
– Ryoa CHUNG, Université de Montréal: ‘‘Penser la justice en santé par le prisme des vulnérabilités structurelles de santé’’
– Julie CROWE, Seattle University, et Colleen DERKATCH, Toronto Metropolitan University: “How Are Wellness Practices Entangled in Discourses About National Identity?”
– Ted SCHRECKER, Newcastle University: “Long, Long Covid: Health and the “Inequality Machine” in the Post-Pandemic World”

18.30 Cocktail, Club des Enseignants, Sorbonne University


24 March 2023
Campus Cordeliers, Amphithéâtre Gustave Roussy
15 rue de l’École de Médecine, 75006 Paris

 
8.30-9.00 Registration

9.00-10.10 Panel 4 – Chair: Thomas Constantinesco, Sorbonne University
– JAGRITI, Indian Institute of Technology: “Christian Medical Missionaries Role in Colonial India: A Case Study of American Baptist Missions in the Assam Province, 1886-1946”
– Lionel LARRÉ, Université Bordeaux Montaigne: “Santé en transition et bien-être en question dans les écrits des intellectuels amérindiens du début du XXe siècle”

10.10-10.30 Coffee break

10.30-11.40 Panel 5 – Chair: Andrew Diamond, Sorbonne University
– Justine COUSIN, Université de Caen Normandie: “Les marins de couleur employés par les compagnies maritimes impériales britanniques, un accès limité à la santé (1890-1945)”
– Judith RAINHORN, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne: “The Green of the Period, ou comment le papier peint devint un poison dans l’Angleterre du XIXe siècle”

11.45-13.00 Lunch break

13.00-15.00 Panel 6 – Chair: Carolin Görgen, Sorbonne University
– Screening of Clean With Me (After Dark), G. Stemmer (2019)
– Joséphine SOURGNES, Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3: ‘‘The Representation of Teenage Human Trauma in 13 Reasons Why: A Public Service TV Show or a Public Health Threat?’’
– Élodie EDWARDS-GROSSI, Université Paris Dauphine: ‘‘Mad with Freedom: The Political Economy of Blackness, Insanity, and Civil Rights in the U.S. South, 1840-1940”

15.00-15.15 Coffee break

15.15-16.15 Keynote speaker: Professor Martin Powell, University of Birmingham: ‘‘Does Britain have a National Health Service?”

16.20-17.30 Guided tour of the History of Medicine Museum

19.00 Conference dinner, Au Petit Riche, 25 Rue Le Peletier, 9ème Arrondissement


25 March 2023
Sorbonne University, Amphithéâtre Milne Edwards
17 rue de la Sorbonne, 75005 Paris 9.00-9.30 Registration

9.30-10.40 Panel 7 – Chair: Arnaud Page, Sorbonne University
– Kim WILTSHIRE & Dawn PRESCOTT, Edge Hill University, Liverpool: “Embedding the Arts into Healthcare Setting: Creative Workshops for NHS Frontline Staff to Improve Wellness and Health”
– Kay SIMPSON, University of Cambridge: ““In the Pink,” or “Feeling Blue:” The Healthy Colors of Howard Kemp Professor”

10.40-10.50 Short break

10.50-12.20 Panel 8 – Chair: Alexandre Escargueil, Sorbonne University
– Yves FIGUEIREDO, Sorbonne University: “Going ‘Back of Thought:’ the Intricacies of Health, Politics and Aesthetics in F. L. Olmsted’s Landscape Architecture”
– Servane ROUPNEL, Université Laval, Québec: ‘‘Médicaliser l’expérience de guerre : les limites du diagnostic de trouble de stress post-traumatique lors de la réintégration à la vie civile des militaires”
– Arielle FLODROPS, Université de Rouen-Normandie, ‘‘Le Néopaganisme britannique et la question du soin : entre sciences et pseudosciences’’

12.30 Concluding remarks – End of the conference




L'inscription est requise : merci d’écrire à hdea2023@gmail.com pour faire part au comité d’organisation de votre intention d'assister au colloque.

Faire de l'histoire par le bas en pratique

How to take patients’ histories: Doing medical history from below in practice

Call for papers

Workshop organized by Hieke Huistra (Utrecht University), Noortje Jacobs (Erasmus MC, Rotterdam) and Martijn van der Meer (Erasmus MC, Rotterdam)

28 and 29 September, Utrecht


Almost forty years ago, Roy Porter published his seminal article ‘The Patient’s View: Doing Medical History from Below’. Historians routinely ignored the roles, perspectives, and experiences of sufferers, Porter argued, even though sufferers were the source and origin of any history of healing, and shaped medical encounters and health experiences just as much as healers did. Hence, Porter formulated his ambitious research agenda to shift focus to “the history of the sick,” which he considered central to all medical history and the backbone of social history as well.

In the past decades, historians have taken up the gauntlet. However, as scholars working on patients’ histories will know, doing “medical history from below” can be challenging. First of all, Porter’s research agenda consists of systematic steps that are so all-encompassing—from collecting “the terra firma of the material conditions of communities in times past” to the “basic mappings of experience, belief systems, images and symbols [of classes and communities]”—that executing his vision seems insurmountable, certainly in an age of academia in which research is project-based and limited in resources. Secondly and more practically, the sources left to trace sufferers’ roles, experiences, and perspectives are often scant, difficult to interpret, and fraud with challenges in terms of how representative they are for more general conclusions about sufferers in history.

In this workshop, we want to explore these two challenges with scholars working on patients’ histories. We want to discuss what these historians do in practice: which sources might yield new and important insights, which methodologies help to retrieve and interpret them, what sort of meaningful historical perspectives these sources and methods can—and can’t!—bring, and how we may generalize individual patients’ experiences into broader historical patterns. We want to think practically and hands-on:we invite scholars working on such histories to share their experiences, struggles, and tips and we will read and think along with each other’s work-in-progress. We particularly welcome papers that explore specific sources that help with doing (medical) history from below, such as, but not limited to, ego documents, court proceedings, patient files, health manuals, advertisements, newspapers, and popular magazines, but also medical journals and other professional publications that offer their own—indirect—insights into patients’ histories.

Practical Information

The workshop will take place on 28 and 29 September in Utrecht. We plan to organize an informal opening dinner on Wednesday evening 27 September; the sessions will be scheduled on Thursday 28 and Friday 29.

If you are interested in participating please send an abstract (300-500 words) and a short bio (2-5 lines) to Hieke Huistra (h.m.huistra@uu.nl) before or at April 14th, 2023. We aim to get back to you with a decision at the end of April.

We have some funding available for supporting travel costs. If the travel costs form a barrier for you to participate in the workshop, please contact us to discuss the options.

Les mardis de l'histoire médicale

Les mardis de l'histoire médicale


Le Département d'Histoire des sciences de la Vie et de la Santé (DHVS) de l'Université de Strasbourg propose les mardis de l'histoire médicale.

Mardi 21 mars 2023
Les collections d’anatomie pathologique Dupuytren : entre gestion, conservation et valorisation, Eloïse QUETEL

Mardi 11 avril 2023
Pilule, défaire l’évidence ? La construction d’une norme de prescription pilulocentrée en France (1960-2000), Alexandra ROUX

Mardi 16 mai 2023
Mobiliser la science contre les épidémies. La gestion du choléra et de la peste au Japon à l’ère de l’essor de la bactériologie et de la mondialisation impériale (circa 1880-1930), Shiori NOSAKA

Mardi 6 juin 2023
Le syncrétisme des pratiques et des savoirs médicaux luso-brésiliens (1500-1650), Marion PELLIER

Suivez les conférences en ligne à : https://bbb.unistra.fr/b/mar-y4e-zng-hvx

Santé et socialisme pendant la guerre froide

Connecting three worlds: health & socialism in the Cold War


Call for papers

Conference

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Funded by the Wellcome Trust

Berlin, Germany, June 14th- 16th, 2023

Organizers: Dora Vargha, Sarah Marks and Edna Suárez-Díaz



Keynote: Sean Brotherton (NYU)



This conference is organized under the auspices of the Wellcome Trust Collaborative Award “Connecting three worlds: socialism, medicine and global health after WW2”. The project aims to push the boundaries of the history of global health by identifying the particular health cultures produced by socialism. It is clear, however, that to write the history of how socialism has shaped the health cultures of countries around the world we need to go beyond the identification of socialism with the state and identify certain common practices, values, and ways of organization in medicine, public health, and biomedicine that gave shape to different versions of socialism.



In our working definitions, we have included the distinction between ‘socialist by default’ and ‘socialist by design’(Savelli 2018) to describe practices in health and medicine, suitable to describe the overall context of Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, Cuba, and China after WW2 -also commonly called “real existing socialisms”. “Socialism”, however, is a flexible category, and conditions changed rapidly and radically during the cold war period, as it was the case for some African countries in the decades after decolonization; for which we have added the concept of ‘intermittent socialisms’.



What happens in places where socialism takes place outside of the state? Often, the constellation of socialist networks, practices, and institutions that have shaped the long history of social medicine, as is the case in Latin America, have taken place in the interstices of the state. Social democrats, socialist planners, self-declared communist physicians, and progressive left-wing activists —among them women— squeezed their values, practices, and policies into local projects around health care, sometimes even within some of the most notable developmentalist programs and institutions. For those cases, we can also talk about a socialism in the interstices.



How do these socialist networks, practices and institutions relate to those of state socialisms, or where socialism in some form was endorsed by political leadership? How does the inclusion of various socialist health practices, their relationships and exchanges challenge our ideas of national and international histories of health? This latter question becomes especially crucial when we consider how international conflicts, whether economic, diplomatic, or military overlapped and interacted with tensions over class, ethnicity, and nationalism.



This conference aims to bring together scholars studying situated, highly localized experiences in various regions of the globe, while emphasizing the very international nature of socialist networks and values, and the unexpected connections rising through those collaborations. In telling these stories, we aim to transcend the received periodization and the bipolar confrontation between the US and the USSR, expanding the history of socialist health in the First, Second and Third Worlds.



Participants will be invited to submit their paper to an edited volume, to be published with a leading academic publisher. We will be able to contribute to travel costs and accommodation and cover full expenses for early career researchers.



Please send your title, abstract of 300-500 words, and CV to vivienne.bates@exeter.ac.uk by March 20. More information about the project can be found at https://connecting3worlds.org/

La gestion de la Peste par les Provençaux au XVIIème siècle

La gestion de la Peste par les Provençaux au XVIIème siècle

Conférence de Didier Cremades


Web-conférence (gratuite) le samedi 22 avril 2023 à 20h00.
 

Il sera alors question d'évoquer la gestion des crises sanitaires, tracer la chronologie des vagues les plus meurtrières, aborder les nouvelles approches scientifiques et échanger avec vous sur le thème.
 

Voici le lien Teams de la conférence: https://teams.live.com/meet/9435770169838...

La bataille clandestine contre l'occupation nazie de la France

Doctors at War: The Clandestine Battle against the Nazi Occupation of France 

Ellen Hampton 

 
Publisher ‏ : ‎ LSU Press (March 1, 2023)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0807178737


Doctors at War tells the stories of physicians in France working to impede the German war effort and undermine French collaborators during the Occupation from 1940 to 1945. Determined to defeat the Third Reich’s incursion, one group of prominent Paris doctors founded a medical network to treat injured Resistance fighters who they then secretly transported to Allied countries to avoid forced labor in Germany. Another team of medics organized a cabal focused on intelligence gathering and sabotage that became one of the largest in wartime France, even after the Gestapo arrested and imprisoned its leaders. Deported to concentration camps, these physicians continued to frustrate Nazi efforts by rendering aid and keeping their fellow prisoners alive. Others joined rural guerrilla camps to care for the young conscripts fighting to block German reinforcements from reaching Normandy after the D-Day landing.

These stories, assembled here for the first time, add a crucial dimension to the history of Occupied France. Written for both historians and general readers of World War II history, Doctors at War stands as a dramatic, character-driven account of physicians’ courage and resilience in the face of evil. It serves as a window into life under a fascist regime and the travails of doctors who negotiated the terrifying moral labyrinth that was the German military’s occupation of France.

Faire l’histoire des réseaux du soin

Faire l’histoire des réseaux du soin, de l’Antiquité à nos jours

Journées d’études 

Organisées par Laura Pennanec’h (docteure de l’EHESS, Anhima/CAK) et Bérengère Pinaud (doctorante de l’EHESS, CAK) — avec le soutien du CAK.
 

Les 13 & 14 avril 2023.
 

Salle 0.015, Bâtiment de recherche Sud, Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers.
Accès : entrée libre / pour nous aider à mesurer le nombre de participant·e·s et auditeur·rice·s, merci de vous inscrire via https://forms.gle/HKanQm8g7qAF6Biu7.
 

Pour plus d’informations, retrouver la page de l’événement sur le site du CAK.
Ou nous contacter à lau.pennanech@gmail.com ou berengere.pinaud@ehess.fr (de préférence).

Jeudi 13 avril

 
9h30-10h15 Accueil
 

10h15-11h00 INTRODUCTION. Laura Pennanec’h et Bérengère Pinaud
 

PANEL 1. Réseaux médicaux et circulations d’informations
 

11h00-11h20 Estela Bonnafoux (docteure de l’Université de Tours, CESR) : Les médecins et leurs
proches dans les écrits médicaux pratiques (xve siècle) : l’exemple de Giovanni Matteo Ferrari di
Gradi.
 

11h20-11h40 François Zanetti (MCF de l’Université Paris-Cité) : Médecins des eaux : articuler
parcours individuels et vision d’ensemble (France 1770-1850).
 

11h40-12h00 Arnaud Bubeck (doctorant à l’université de Strasbourg, SAGE) : Les nombres comme
liant, une analyse des réseaux d’acteurs dans le domaine du sport-santé.
 

12h00-12h20 Tour de questions.
 

12h30-14h00 Pause déjeuner
 

PANEL 2. Réseaux médicaux psychiatriques
 

14h00-14h20 Camille Jaccard (post-doctorante à l’Institut d’histoire du temps présent, CNRS, Paris
8) : Réseaux franco-suisses en psychiatrie infantile (1945-1960).
 

14h20-14h40 Paul Marquis (post-doctorant à l’IMAF, CNRS) : La formation, la doctrine et l’action.
L’École d’Alger, un réseau psychiatrique en contexte colonial (années 1920 – années 1960).
 

14h40-15h00 Tour de questions.
 

15h00-15h10 pause-café
 

PANEL 3. Réseaux médicaux et circulations d’acteurs
 

15h10-15h30 Martin Robert (post-doctorant de l’IFRIS, CERMES3, CNRS) : Mapping Medicine :
retracer les écoles de médecine à travers le globe.
 

15h30-15h50 Soheila El Ghaziri (doctorante à l’université de Montréal, Québec) : Mobilité et
échanges des médecins dans les mandats français et britanniques du Levant.
 

16h10-16h30 Tour de questions.
 

16h30-17h00 REPRISE. Claire Barillé (MCF de l’université de Lille, IRHiS, en accueil au CAK)
 

Vendredi 14 avril

 
09h15-09h30 Petit accueil

PANEL 4. Structure d’un espace de soin
 

09h30-09h50 Julie Caddeo (doctorante de l’université de Nantes, Laboratoire Droit et changement
social) : La Société Royale de Médecine, acteur institutionnel central du réseau de soins sous l'Ancien
Régime (1778-1793).
 

09h50-10h10 Pierre-Yves Lacour (MCF de l’Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier 3, en accueil au CAK) : Le champ médical du Montpellier des Lumières : institutions, réseaux, pratiques. Premiers jalons
d’une enquête d’histoire sociale.
 

10h10-10h30 Tour de questions.
 

10h30-10h40 Pause-café
 

PANEL 5. Réseaux des marges
 

10h40-11h00 Léo Bernard (post-doctorant de l’IFRIS, CERMES3, CNRS) : Cartographier le milieu
naturiste français des années 1950 et 1960.
 

11h00-11h20 Carole Carribon (MCF de l’université de Bordeaux-Montaigne) : Être dans un « réseau
du soin » sans soigner ? L’exemple de Germaine Montreuil-Straus durant l’entre-deux-guerres.
 

11h20-11h40 Damien Jeanne (Lycée Augustin Fresnel, membre associé du Centre Michel de Boüard,
CRAHAM) : Notion de réseaux de soins et léproseries : un paradigme efficient ?
 

11h40-12h00 tour de questions.
 

12h00-14h00 Pause déjeuner
 

14h00-14h30 REPRISE. Rafael Mandressi (directeur de recherche, CAK-CNRS)
 

14h30-15h00 CONCLUSION GÉNÉRALE. Laura Pennanec’h et Bérengère Pinaud

Soins infirmiers et économies

Nursing and Economies

Call for Abstracts

European Journal for Nursing History and Ethics

Sixth Issue 2024

The European Journal for Nursing History and Ethics is an interdisciplinary Open Access and peer-reviewed eJournal spanning the Humanities, Nursing Science, Social Sciences, and Cultural Studies. The journal is published online once a year with each edition having an individual theme and an open section that contains articles on various topics. In addition, the sections “Forum” and “Lost and Found” offer the opportunity to publish shorter articles on current debates or to present remarkable objects, texts, pictures or movies with relevance to nursing history and ethics and to discuss their significance.

• The Journal is seeking contributions tothe open section
• themed section
• Lost and Found
• Forum

Theme 2024: Nursing and Economies
Deadline for abstracts: May 31, 2023
Deadline for manuscripts: November 30, 2023


Economic conditions have shaped the working conditions of nurses in different ways throughout history. Since the 1960s, there have been increasing complaints about the economization of health care and the social and human costs to nurses on the one hand and patients on the other. The thematic issue aims to approach the meaning of economics for nursing in a broader sense, namely in terms of economies. The focus is not only on economic constraints, but also on the potentials of economic thinking in nursing: What changes when nurses are seen as a valuable resource? What influence does the remuneration of nursing have? Furthermore, non-material economies of labor, economies of care could come into view.


Possible historical topics are:

• Negotiations around the valuation of nursing care work
• Actors of a revaluation of work in nursing care, their argumentations and strategies
• Relationship between material and immaterial values
• Organization of work in care: e.g. negotiations about skilled worker quotas (who does
• what with which qualification?), rationalization of nursing work, outsourcing
• The care responsibility of the employers
• Dealing of nurses with their work capacity and forms of self-care

Possible ethical topics are:

• Influence of economization processes on nursing practice and the ethical implications
• of their use
• Conflicts of norms and values as a result of economization processes
• Moral distress and ‘moral injury’
• Ethical nursing questions of overuse vs. underuse
• Organizational ethics

The aim of the special issue is to bring historical and ethical research on nursing and economies into dialogue with each other.


Please note! An authors’ workshop will be held in Heidelberg, Germany on October 27/28, 2023 to discuss the articles. Participation in the workshop is appreciated but not a prerequisite for publishing the article in the Issue 6/2024 “Nursing and Economies”of the European Journal for Nursing History and Ethics. Travel and hotel expenses for authors traveling within Europe can be reimbursed.

Please note the following remarks on the concept of the European Journal for Nursing History and Ethics:


The journal creates a dialogue between the history and the ethics of nursing, while providing new impulses for advancing the subfields of the history as well as the ethics of nursing. Historians are asked to include the ethical dimension of the topic into their research project; researchers interested in ethics are requested to reflect on the historical dimensions of their projects. This does not mean, however, that articles on ethics should be preceded by a historical overview in the style of a manual. Rather the latest developments and socio-political debates that have led to the current issues in the ethics of nursing should be put in their historical context and be used in the analysis. Likewise, papers on the history of nursing should address ethical questions within the historical context or refer to current issues in the ethics of nursing. The journal publishes research both on European History and the history of the reciprocal relationships and interplays of European and non-European societies. The journal only publishes original contributions. When submitting their manuscript, authors agree that their text has not already been submitted or published elsewhere.


Please submit your abstract (max 500 words) in English and separately a short CV by May 31, 2023 to Prof. Dr. Susanne Kreutzer: kreutzer@fh-muenster.de and Prof. Dr. Karen Nolte: karen.nolte@histmed.uni-heidelberg.de.

Race, capital et coûts des soins de santé américains

Hospital City, Health Care Nation: Race, Capital, and the Costs of American Health Care

Guian A. McKee

Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Pennsylvania Press (March 7, 2023)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 392 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1512823936


Hospital City, Health Care Nation recasts the story of the U.S. health care system by emphasizing its economic, social, and medical importance in American communities. Focusing on urban hospitals and academic medical centers, the book argues that the country’s high level of health care spending has allowed such institutions to become vital, if often problematic, economic anchors for communities. Yet that spending has also constrained possibilities for comprehensive health care reform over many decades, even after the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010. At the same time, the role of hospitals in urban renewal, in community health provision, and as employers of low-wage workers has contributed directly to racial health disparities.

Guian A. McKee explores these issues through a detailed historical case study of Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins Hospital while also tracing their connections across governmental scales―local, state, and federal. He shows that health care spending and its consequences, rather than insurance coverage alone, are core issues in the decades-long struggle over the American health care system. In particular, Hospital City, Health Care Nation points to the increased role of financial capital after the 1960s in shaping not only hospital growth but also the underlying character of these vital institutions. The book shows how hospitals’ quest for capital has interacted with structural racism and inequality to shape and constrain the U.S. health care system. Building on this reassessment of the hospital system, its politics, and its financing, Hospital City, Health Care Nation offers ideas for the next steps in health care reform.