Les approches thérapeutiques

Swiss seminar in the history of medicine: therapeutic approaches

This is a Swiss-wide lecture series jointly organized by the chairs and institutes of the history of medicine/medical humanities at Bern, Fribourg, Geneva, Lausanne, and Zürich. This year’s theme engages with the long and varied history of medical remedies and therapeutics, ranging from early modern mineral waters and pharmaceutics to twentieth-century surgery and psychotherapy. The lectures rotate among the participating institutions; the exact locations (buildings, room numbers) will be communicated via newsletters and website of the Swiss Society for the History of Medicine and Science shortly before the respective events.



Jeudi 19 octobre 2023, 17h-18h30, Institut d’histoire de la médecine, Université de Berne

Elaine Leong, University College London | The Many Afterlives of the Pharmacopoeia Londinensis: Print, Drugs and Knowledge Maintenance in Early Modern England


Jeudi 16 novembre 2023, 17h-18h30, iEH2, Université de Genève

Sophie Vasset, Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier 3 | "Come, Judge and Try": Mineral Waters and the Experience of Treatment in Eighteenth-Century Britain


Mercredi 6 décembre 2023, 17h-18h30, IHM, CHUV & Université de Lausanne

Hervé Guillemain, Université Le Mans | The pendulum that diagnoses and cures. The emergence and dissemination of a popular medical object in France in the 1930s and 1940s


Organisation : Flurin Condrau, UNIZH, Aude Fauvel, UNIL-CHUV, Laurence Monnais, UNIL-CHUV, Felix Rietman, UNIFR, Lisa Haushofer, UNIBE, Hubert Steinke, UNIBE