Femmes de sciences au Québec

Femmes de sciences au Québec (1765-1918)
 

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Colloque organisé par Kim Gladu (Université du Québec à Rimouski), Karine Hébert (Université du Québec à Rimouski) et Kimberly Glassman (Queen Mary University of London)

Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade, 30 août 2024

L’exposition Religieuses, enseignantes… et scientifiques !, présentée au Musée des Ursulines de Trois-Rivières jusqu’en avril 2024, met en lumière l’apport exceptionnel des femmes au développement des sciences dans le Québec du XIXe siècle. De la botanique à la physique, en passant par la chimie et la biologie, les membres de la congrégation des Ursulines ont contribué à la transmission des connaissances scientifiques aux jeunes générations par le biais de leur enseignement1. Toutefois, cet intérêt a également animé l’esprit des laïques, qui y ont trouvé une manière de mettre à profit leurs moments de loisir, tout en assouvissant une quête de nature intellectuelle plus profondément enracinée. Ce fut notamment le cas de plusieurs femmes d’origine britannique, qui ont suivi leurs époux au Québec après la guerre de Sept Ans, alors que leurs emplois dans la direction de la colonie ou dans le monde militaire les amenaient à s’y installer souvent pour de longues années. Si certaines, telles que Catharine Parr Traill2, sont plus connues et ont suscité l’intérêt des chercheurs et chercheuses, plusieurs sont demeurées dans l’ombre et méritent de voir leur contribution soulignée par l’historiographie québécoise.

La consultation d’archives, notamment, permet aujourd’hui de découvrir l’activité parfois très soutenue de ces femmes dans la recherche scientifique, et la valeur réelle de leur travail. C’est ce qu’ont récemment mis en évidence Ann Shteir et Jacques Cayouette dans un article consacré à trois figures féminines ayant participé activement aux recensions de nature botanique réalisées au Québec au XIXe siècle : Christian Ramsay (lady Dalhousie), Anne Mary Perceval et Harriet Sheppard3. Celles-ci apparaissent comme de véritables pionnières, collectant des spécimens de plantes parfois rares, s’efforçant d’identifier des espèces et faisant preuve d’une rigueur et d’un souci de la précision qui montrent toute l’acuité de leur esprit. Or, ces travaux mettent également en évidence le fait que la majorité des femmes qui ont participé à l’effort scientifique, dans tous les domaines, l’ont fait dans l’ombre d’un homme (frère, père, époux, etc.) et en s’investissant dans des tâches auxiliaires (par exemple, comme dessinatrice pour les planches botaniques ou médicales). C’est d’ailleurs ce qu’a mis en lumière l’ouvrage récemment dirigé par François Olivier Dorais et Louise Bienvenue, qui examine la part occupée par les femmes dans l’historiographie et qui montre qu’elles oeuvraient souvent en dehors des circuits habituels et dans des tâches complémentaires4. On s’aperçoit aujourd’hui de l’importance de ces contributions et du fait que les conditions sociales des femmes leur ont rarement permis d’être pleinement reconnues comme scientifiques (statut marital, accès limité aux laboratoires ou aux archives, difficulté de voyager en raison des contraintes familiales, etc.)5. La diffusion de leurs découvertes dans des articles scientifiques ou par l’envoi de notes et spécimens à des collègues demeurés en Angleterre, comme William Jackson Hooker6, permettent toutefois d’observer la part active qu’elles ont prise au progrès de la recherche. Leurs activités scientifiques leur ont également fourni l’occasion de s’intégrer à des réseaux qui étaient jusque-là inaccessibles et de faire valoir une certaine posture pour la femme de sciences, à la fois consciencieuse et ambitieuse7.

Ce colloque aura lieu au Domaine seigneurial Sainte-Anne de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade afin de souligner le 250e anniversaire de naissance d’Elizabeth Frances Amherst Hale (1774-1826)8. Celle-ci est reconnue comme une aquarelliste de talent qui a produit plusieurs croquis de la seigneurie de Sainte-Anne, léguant ainsi des images inédites de l’état de la région au XIXe siècle. Ses oeuvres montrent son intérêt pour le paysage et la botanique, mais constituent surtout des documents iconographiques inestimables pour l’histoire régionale. Elle a aussi entretenu une correspondance importante avec son frère, William Amherst, où elle fait mention de son intérêt pour l’agriculture locale. Ce colloque sera, par ailleurs, l’occasion de découvrir les jardins, récemment revalorisés, bordant le manoir et qu’Elizabeth Hale et son époux avait contribué à aménager lors de leur séjour à Sainte-Anne.

Plus précisément, ce colloque propose de repenser l’apport des femmes aux différentes disciplines
scientifiques dans la province de Québec, de 1765 à 1918. Les présentations pourront porter sur l’un ou l’autre de ces aspects, dont la liste n’est toutefois pas exhaustive :
• Une ou des femmes de sciences ayant contribué à l’avancement des connaissances.
• Les modalités de pratique des sciences investies par les femmes.
• Les modes de diffusion des résultats de recherche.
• L’établissement de réseaux québécois, américains ou outre-Atlantique.
• L’influence de la pratique scientifique sur la condition féminine.
• La posture de la scientifique mise de l’avant dans les écrits des femmes de sciences.
L’événement, bilingue (français et anglais) aura lieu de manière comodale (en présence et en ligne).
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Date limite de soumission des propositions :
31 mars 2024
 

Les communications auront une durée de 20 minutes. Les propositions doivent contenir un titre, un résumé de 200 à 250 mots, une notice biobibliographique de 150 mots, votre nom, votre adresse électronique, votre statut et votre affiliation institutionnelle. Elles seront envoyées à l’adresse suivante : Kim_Gladu@uqar.ca

 
1 Voir la thèse de Mélanie Lafrance, « Femmes porteuses de savoirs scientifiques. Les Ursulines de Québec et l’enseignement des sciences aux filles (1800-1936) », thèse de doctorat (histoire), Université Laval, 2023.
2 Voir son ouvrage : Catharine Parr Traill, The Backwoods of Canada: Being Letters from the Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America, London, Charles Knight, 1836. Sur cette femme de sciences, on consultera Marianne Gosztonyi Ainley, “Science in Canada’s Backwoods: Catharine Parr Traill”, dans Natural Eloquence: Women Reinscribe Science, ed. Barbara T. Gates & Ann B. Shteir, Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1997, p. 79-97.
3 Voir Ann Shteir et Jacques Cayouette, « Collecting with “botanical friends”: Four Women in Colonial Quebec and Newfoundland », Scientia Canadensis, 41(1), 2019, p. 1–30.4 François Olivier Dorais et Louise Bienvenue (dir.), Profession historienne ? Femmes et pratique de l'histoire au Canada français, XIXe-XXe siècles, Québec, Presses de l’Université Laval, 2023.
5 À ce sujet, voir Françoise Waquet, Dans les coulisses de la science. Techniciens, petites mains et autres travailleurs invisibles, Paris, CNRS édition, 2022.
6 Auteur de la Flora Boreali-Americana; or the Botany of the Northern Parts of British North America (1829-1840), il deviendra le premier directeur des Royal Botanic Gardens de Kew.
7 Voir notamment Suzanne Zeller, Inventing Canada: Early Victorian Science and the Idea of a Transcontinental Nation [1987], Montreal et Kingston, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009.
8 Née en Angleterre, dans une famille fort influente, elle arrive au Canada avec son époux, John Hale, en 1799. Le couple s’installe à Québec, sur la rue St-Louis et se porte acquéreur de la seigneurie et du domaine Sainte-Anne le 27 septembre 1819 pour y passer les mois d’été jusqu’à la mort d’Elizabeth en 1826.

Le corps pathologique

The Pathological Body: European Literary and Cultural Perspectives in the Age of Modern Medicine 

 
Open Library of Humanities, 2024



I am delighted to announce the publication of this open access special issue which highlights the symbiosis of the Modern Languages with Medical Humanities through the ‘pathological body’ in literature. Drawing on Italian, German, Spanish, and French literary texts from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, the articles focus on anxieties around the human body and the sick body’s relationship with language(s) and translation. In their interconnection with the medical sphere, the Introduction notes the critical role that European literature(s) played in creating a medical-humanistic hierarchy in the nineteenth century, including producing the concept of ‘normality’. The special issue calls for the collaboration of researchers across languages—uniquely skilled in the linguistic, socio-cultural, and historical dimensions of their discipline—to help redress entrenched gendered, racialised, and ableist injustices that spread globally from the establishing of nineteenth-century European medicine, thus identifying Modern Languages as a practical and ethical toolbox in raising consciousness about the modern making of the human being.



Kit Yee Wong
Introduction: The Symbiosis of Language(s), Literature, and the Medical Humanities



Françoise Campbell
Doubling, Decay and Discontinuity: Pathology and The (Post)human Body in Marie Darrieussecq’s Notre vie dans les forêts



Kit Yee Wong
Illness, Aesthetics, and Body Politics: Forging the Third Republic in Émile Zola's La Faute de l'abbé Mouret



Marta Arnaldi
Contagious Otherness: Translating Communicable Diseases in the Modern Italian and Francophone Novel



Katharine Anne Murphy
The Contagious Effects of Rural Violence: Social Pathologies and Injured Bodies in Blasco Ibáñez’s La barraca (The Cabin)



James Illingworth
The Cataleptic Novel: Living on with George Sand



Robert Craig
Learning from Psychiatry? Gottfried Benn, Alfred Döblin, and the Limits of ‘Narrative Medicine’

Substances psychoactives, violence et traumatisme

Intoxicated Warfare: Psychoactive Substances, Violence and Trauma


Call for papers


Cross-disciplinary international conference


Organization :Jason Crouthamel (Grand Valley State University) and Julia Barbara Köhne (Humboldt-University Berlin).

Location : Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan.   September, 27–28, 2024

Conference abstract : Since ancient times, drugs have been used in military warfare or other forms of armed conflicts in transcultural contexts in order to enhance fighting performance or manage its traumatic effects in active ways. Psychoactive substances can be considered a crucial military tool in the context of a great number of wars, on various continents. These substances took on diverse and ever-changing functions within the ‘collective imaginary’ of communities, societies, peoples. The 2024 Great Lakes History Conference features a variety of wars in different times, and asks in what way, to what extent, and at whose costs pharmacological substances were consumed. It focuses on the numerous forms of drug usage and their multidirectional causes, aims and effects, including enhancement, stimulation, control, remedy, cover-up, escape, or numbing the side effects of perpetration or experience of violence (Łukasz Kamieński, Norman Ohler). In retrospect, the (mis-)use of drugs appears in various contexts of military activities, ranging from sites of ancient wars to modern warfare, the theatres of war in both world wars, in terrorist actions, and in recent and ongoing wars. Drug intoxication can be traced within fighting units under official military leadership as well as in association with genocidal structures, guerilla tactics, systems of policing, or in the form of private abuse dynamics, as well as (experimental) PTSD self-medication applied by veterans.

The particular functions that drugs performed depended on the question of who applied them (and if they were taken on demand, administered by force, or by free will or out of despair), before, during or after the combat mission/battlefield―be it nicotine/cigarettes, chewing tobacco, coffee/tea/caffeine, chocolate/sugar, alcohol, cannabis/hashish, steroids, barbiturates, or ‘harder’ drugs like methamphetamines (Pervitin, or Captagon), cocaine, speed, opiates, heroin, morphine, psychedelic drugs (LSD/ecstasy, mescaline/mushrooms), etc. The various effects ranged from preparing soldiers to enter war (drill, disciplining, training, fitness), lifting morale, lowering the inhibition threshold and enabling extreme acts of violence (e.g., alcohol as cultural catalyst for hyper-masculine violence, Edward B. Westermann), strengthening of the fighting spirit and effectiveness, combat desire/aggression/combativeness/ecstasy, the need to dehumanize the enemy, and initiating killing sprees (freeing of impulses/intensifying irrationalities; “sensory overexertion,” as noted by Philip Zimbardo). Military and medical authorities used administered drugs to soldiers for a variety of purposes, including the calming of nerves, fighting fear, preventing the reluctance to fight, staving off exhaustion, sleepiness, hunger/appetite, alleviating physical pain, coping with near-death-experiences, or homesickness, and boredom, as well as promoting mental escape, diversion, or relaxation and therapy after combat experiences. These experiences were sometimes associated with mental effects like amnesia, deindividualization, depersonalization, loss of control, as well as with scenes of human experimentation, or the concealing of human rights violations. It is the latter sort of applications that have been displayed in a variety of cultural artifacts, like ego-documents/diaries, novels, and feature films depicting these activities. These sources might criticize asymmetrical hierarchies in the military or militant groups, patterns of obedience, strategies for subduing and (re-) programming soldiers, soldierly resistance, and speculating about the role of intelligence services and illegal kinds of warfare. Adding another dimension, the use of drugs and alcohol have also been connected with instances of sexual violence in the military (e.g., Tailhook scandals in the 1990s), where men in the US armed forces attacked women, and investigations often noted (or even blamed) drugs like alcohol.

Regardless of the types of military actions, and whether these actions are motivated by territorial, imperialistic, socioeconomic factors, or are driven by propaganda and longings for power, or shaped by religion or ideologies, soldiers are confronted with extreme conditions during their deployment or fighting activities. They have to exceed not only physical but also psychological and moral limits (Joanna Bourke, Barbara Ehrenreich). Depending on the site of war, ‘attack’ and ‘defense’ require a high degree of concentration, strength, muscular power, speed, endurance, and constitution. In exceptional situations, soldiers are under extreme military influence, and enormous social pressures, taking on a double role by risking their own life (in proximity to one’s own death), and they are simultaneously defending the group they are representing, or the nation, fulfilling its more or less legitimate aims, in a situation which is often beyond the control of civil law. This is accompanied by enormous psychological stress and includes the need to cope with traumatizing experiences (loss of comrades or allies, feelings of helplessness, as well as shame, [survivor] guilt, etc.), and the negative psychological effects of killing other human beings (Robert J. Lifton).

As political scientist Peter Andreas wrote: “In the end, war will likely be the hardest of all habits to kick […, drugs and war are] making and remaking each other.” – Nevertheless, an experience of intoxication that is substance-induced is ultimately counterproductive and makes it more difficult to solve problems non-violently, to lower tensions between conflicting groups, to show humanity and empathy, to prevent fighting and killing, and to defuse perpetrator culture. Ultimately, the presence of intoxicating substances makes it more unlikely to replace warfare with diplomatic sophistication and peace-making activism.

Keynote speakers include:

Prof. Edward Westermann (Texas A&M University, San Antonio)

Prof. Dessa K. Bergen-Cico (Syracuse University)

Prof. Peter Andreas (Brown University)

We invite proposals from scholars in diverse fields. The range of topics include, but are not limited to, the following: 

• How were drugs perceived as a means to temporarily stimulate, numb or control the emotional economy of soldiers and their supervisors, as well as their consciousness, perceptions, actions, behavior?
• How did drugs contribute to soldiers’ abilities to shift perspective in experiencing war, or reflect on it, in its aftermath (inspiration, mobilization, euphoria/collective rapture, disinhibition)?
• How is the history of drugs in war interwoven with the history of class and social background: from elitist consumption and limited access to drugs, to the increasingly accessible cultivation of drugs and their usage, to today’s global access and mass consumption, including the legalization of drugs?
• Which (post-)colonial structures appear in the realm of drug use within the context of warfare? How can the topic of drugs in war be decolonized by including non-European and Western perspectives?
• What does the drug jargon, linguistic terms, and nicknames for drugs (e.g., “Blue 88,” “Panzerschokolade”, “Jihad pill,” “Rauschgift,” “pep pills,” “Uppers,” Ecstasy, Heroin, Cannabis, LSD, Crack, “doors of perception,” “trips,” etc.) tell about their perception among soldiers, and the particular context of war? Which of them were invented in which war contexts and war cultures and to what aim? What does this language reveal about the culture of drugs and their relationship to violence?
• In what ways is ‘war as such’ constructed as functioning like a drug―as encoded in terms like “trigger happiness,” “killer high,” “getting blitzed,” “shooting mania,” “shooting up”, “ecstasy of war” (G.E. Partridge), etc.?
• Which religious dimensions can be traced with the history of stimulants in warfare: from spiritual and (quasi) religious encounters during warfare to the role that religious identity played in the use, to subjective and collective perceptions, and the validation of various drugs? To what degree do drugs enhance the spiritual-psychological dimensions of the war experience? How do religious beliefs and rituals supplant (or are replaced by) drug-induced experiences?
• How is drug (mis-)use gendered? How are female or LGBTQI+ soldiers associated with psychotropica, and how does this differ from male encodings of war-drugs? Are there particular ways in which drugs are administered and/ or (mis-)used within any particular gender (male, female, diverse/ all genders)?
• How can the topics like death as a result of drugs be approached (intended, or unintended overdose), drug addiction and its side effects, misuse in the aftermaths of war as a pathological feature? How are suicide rates of veterans related to drug/ alcohol use?
• What drug therapies are developed to cope with PTSD (like Cannabis, etc.)?
• Is there evidence of drugs used in the context of human experimentation as part of the top-secret knowledge of militaries?
• How is the history of drugs in warfare intermingled with the civil attempts to decriminalize and legalize psychoactive substances?
• How were drugs used to end war, or to prevent it (e.g., flower power movement)? How are drug cultures/ behaviors defined as a form of resistance to war in a variety of contexts? How is drug/ alcohol use seen as consistent with warfare?

Please send an abstract (up to 500 words) and CV to Jason Crouthamel (crouthaj@gvsu.edu) by May 15, 2024.

We will review abstracts shortly thereafter and let colleagues know by mid-June whether proposals have been accepted.

Contact information:

Professor Dr. Jason Crouthamel (Grand Valley State University, Michigan): crouthaj@gvsu.edu

PD PD Dr. Julia Barbara Köhne (Humboldt-University Berlin): julia.koehne@culture.hu-berlin.de

Perspectives transnationales en histoire de la médecine et de la santé

Histoire de la médecine et de la santé : perspectives transnationales

Séminaire d’initiation à l’histoire de la médicine, organisé par Luc Berlivet (CNRS/Cermes3) et Maria Pia Donato (CNRS/ENS)

 

Le mercredi (sauf le 3 mai), de 16 h à 19 h

Salle d’Histoire

École normale supérieure - PSL

45, rue d’Ulm, Paris 5e

 



Mercredi 28 février 2024
16 h – 19 h

Histoires de la médecine ou histoires des maladies ?
La globalisation par les germes

Mercredi 6 mars 2024
16 h – 19 h

 
Des « fléaux sociaux » aux « maladies de civilisation »
La transition épidémiologique n’est-elle qu’un mythe occidental ?

Mercredi 13 mars 2024

16 h – 19 h

Martin Robert (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
Circulation des théories, pratiques et remèdes entre vieux et nouveaux mondes

Éducation médicale et expansion impériale

Mercredi 20 mars 2024
16 h – 19 h

Catégories médicales, styles de pensée et institutions
Du xixe siècle européen à la médecine globale

Mercredi 27 mars 2024
16 h – 19 h

Gaëtan Thomas (Sciences Po Paris et Cermes 3)
Maladies infectieuses et vaccinations : histoires transnationales


Mercredi 3 avril 2024
16 h – 19 h

Les professions médicales à l’époque moderne
Quelles institutions, quelles formes d’expertise à quelle échelle ?

Mercredi 24 avril 2024
16 h – 19 h

Les professions médicales aux xixeet xxe siècles
Autonomie professionnelle, régulations étatiques, circulations transnationales.

Vendredi 3 mai 2024
16 h – 19 h

Expertise, médecine et santé publique du xixeau xxie siècle

Santé et environnement dans l'Antiquité

Health and Environment in Antiquity

Call for papers

The publishers of Codex: journal of classical studies (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - Brazil) announce the call for papers for the Dossier



Submission languages:

Portuguese, English, Spanish, French and Modern Greek.


Approved articles that are not in Portuguese will be published bilingually (in Portuguese and the original language).



Topics:

- Health and environment in Western Antiquity

- Health and environment in Eastern Antiquity

- Health and environment in African Antiquity

- Medicine and other fields related to the environment in Antiquity

- Reception of Ancient Medicine in relation to the environment



Submission link:
https://revistas.ufrj.br/index.php/codex/about/submissions

Éthique médicale chez Galien

Medicine and Practical Ethics in Galen

Sophia Xenophontos

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date: December 2023
Print publication year: 2024
Online ISBN: 9781009247795

Galen was notable in the ancient world for his creative intermingling of medicine and practical ethics. This book is the first authoritative analysis of Galen's psychological and ethical works alongside a large number of his technical tracts, both medical and philosophical, and offers a robust framework through which we can comprehend his role as a practical ethicist - an aspect of his intellectual profile that has been little understood until now. Sophia Xenophontos explores a wide range of literature on moralia in the Roman imperial period, as well as topics including the pathology of emotions, the social role of medicine, and character formation and social ethics, to show the sophisticated and complex ways in which moral themes and controversies from antiquity were adapted and reinvigorated by Galen. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Voir les personnes ayant une déficience intellectuelle

I See You: A Photo Album of People with Intellectual Disability 

Rory du Plessis

ESI
2024

The casebook for the Institute for Imbecile Children, and the casebooks of the Grahamstown Lunatic Asylum constitutes one of South Africa’s largest archived records for people with intellectual disability (PWID) who were institutionalised from 1890 to 1920. In I See You I testify how the viewing of the casebooks’ content and photographs gave rise to a personal recognition of the personhood of the PWID. My testimony takes the form of poetry that is composed to honour and memorialise each individual person who is included in this album.

Rory du Plessis is a Senior Lecturer in Visual Studies at the School of the Arts, University of Pretoria. He is a NRF-rated scholar, the co-editor of the academic journal, Image & Text, and author of Pathways of Patients at the Grahamstown Lunatic Asylum, 1890 to 1907 (Pretoria University Law Press 2020).

 

https://esipress.up.ac.za/i-see-you/

La relation de soin à l’ombre des conflits

La relation de soin à l’ombre des conflits

Appel à communications

Université Paris-Nanterre

Bâtiment Max Weber – Salle 1

23 mai 2024

Comment la guerre transforme-t-elle les gestes et les pratiques des soignants et la relation de soin qu’ils contribuent à faire naître ?

Les formations théoriques et pratiques – quand bien même la médecine militaire envisage la guerre et l’urgence – organisées à partir du XVIIIe siècle en Europe occidentale et dont on peut dire qu’elles concernent la plupart des systèmes médicaux au début du XXIe siècle, l’éthique médicale (notamment le secret médical, les soins pour tous) ou encore la relation individualisée (le colloque singulier) censée entrer dans le traitement d’une affection – et largement idéalisée -, éléments au cœur de la relation de soin, se sont constitués dans un temps qui reste celui de la « paix ».

Après une rencontre consacrée aux actrices et acteurs du soin en guerre (13 octobre 2023), cette journée d’étude se propose de restituer la complexité des interactions régissant les rapports entre les différentes catégories de soignant.e.s et soigné.e.s en situation de guerre, en s’interrogeant sur les effets de cette séquence particulière sur une économie du soin qui s’est largement organisée dans un cadre différent.

Nous nous attacherons en particulier aux enjeux suivants :

Comment le contexte de guerre, sa violence, l’urgence qu’il implique transforme-t-il les environnements de travail, les rapports sociaux entre soignant.es et soignée.es ?

En quoi d’autres acteurs et d’autres logiques (stratégique, disciplinaire notamment) interfèrent-ils avec la relation de soin ?

Dans quelle mesure les contraintes d’approvisionnement et d’organisation conduisent-elles à l’adaptation des pratiques, à une nouvelle division du travail du soin, et façonnent-elles des rapports nouveaux entre soignants et soignés – la question du triage devenant ici particulièrement sensible, le traitement de l’ennemi également ?

De manière générale, quelle éthique médicale se dessine alors en temps de guerre ?

Que signifie d’ailleurs « être patient » dans un tel contexte, quelle est la place des familles, des accompagnants dans l’environnement du soigné ? Quelle est leur part d’autonomie, de résistance face à de potentielles violences, qu’elles soient physiques, psychiques ou symboliques, qui tendent à refuser au patient le choix du protocole, la possibilité de discuter de sa condition, ou même à nier son humanité ?

Jusqu’à quel point l’agentivité des actrices et des acteurs contribue-t-elle à transformer cette relation et comment les émotions, les assignations raciales et de genre entrent-elles dans les reconfigurations sociales ?

Ces premières – et vastes – questions en appellent naturellement d’autres.

En s’appuyant sur le renouvellement en matière des sources et sur des approches pluridisciplinaires, nous invitons les candidat.es à s’inscrire dans un ou plusieurs de ces questionnements. Les propositions qui prendraient en compte les enjeux sociologiques, anthropologiques, éthiques, émotionnels, médicaux et juridiques sont les bienvenues. La présentation de travaux en cours, en particulier de la part des doctorants et doctorantes, jeunes chercheurs et jeunes chercheuses, est encouragée.



La journée d’études se tiendra sur le campus de l’Université Paris-Nanterre, et les participants et participantes seront conviés à un déjeuner sur place. Un nombre limité de financements sera également disponible pour celles et ceux qui en feraient la demande, en complément d’autres sources de financement.



Candidater :

Les personnes désireuses de présenter leur travail sont invitées à envoyer un titre provisoire, un résumé de 200 mots maximum, et une courte biographie à soinsenguerreUPN@gmail.com avant le 31 janvier 2024. Les propositions retenues seront précisées avant le 15 février 2024.

Une publication est envisagée à l’issue d’un cycle de plusieurs manifestations.



Cette journée d’études est financée par l’Institut des sciences sociales du politique (ISP, UMR 7220), le laboratoire Institutions et dynamiques historiques de l’économie et de la société (IDHE.S, UMR 8533) et l’IUF.



Organisateurs : Élodie Charié (Sciences Po/CHSP), Claire Fredj (IDHE.S), Julie Le Gac (ISP), Paul Lenormand (ISP/CHSP), Ioulia Shukan (ISP/CERCEC).



Comité scientifique :

Laure Humbert (The University of Manchester)

Francisco Javier Martinez (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Benoît Pouget (Sciences Po Aix-en-Provence)

Anne Rasmussen (EHESS)

Bertrand Taithe (The University of Manchester)

Stéphane Tison (Université du Mans)



Plus d’informations sur les partenaires de cette manifestation :

- ISP : https://isp.cnrs.fr

- IDHE.S : https://www.idhes.cnrs.fr/

- IUF : https://www.iufrance.fr/





The care relationship in the shadow of war

Call for papers

University of Paris-Nanterre

Max Weber Building - Room 1

23 May 2024

How does war transform the actions and practices of carers and the care relationships they help to create?

The ideas and practices at the heart of the healthcare relationship were all established in a time that remains that of "peace". These include theoretical and practical training - even though military medicine anticipates war and emergencies - introduced in Western Europe from the 18th century onwards, and which can be said to have influenced most medical systems at the beginning of the 21st century, medical ethics (in particular medical confidentiality, care for all) and the individualized relationship (the “colloque singulier”) supposed to be part of the treatment of an illness (healing process) - and largely idealized.

Following on from a meeting devoted to the actors involved in providing care during wartime (October 2023), this workshop explores the complexity of the interactions governing the relationships between the various categories of carers and cared-for during wartime, by looking at the effects of this particular sequence on an economy of care that was largely organized in a different – peacetime – framework.

We will focus in particular on the following issues:

How does the context of war, its violence and the urgency it implies, transform working environments and the social relationships between carers and cared-for?

How do other players and other logics (particularly strategic or disciplinary) interfere with the care relationship?

To what extent do supply and organizational constraints lead to the adaptation of practices, a new division of care work, and shape new relationships between carers and cared-for – the question of triage becoming particularly sensitive here, as is the treatment of the enemy?

Generally speaking, what kind of medical ethics emerge in wartime?

What, moreover, does it mean to be a patient in such a context, and what is the place of families and carers in the patient's environment? How much autonomy and resistance do they have when facing potential violence, whether physical, psychological or symbolic, which tends to deny patients the choice of protocol, the opportunity to discuss their condition, or even their humanity?

To what extent does the agency of actors contribute to transforming this relationship, and how do emotions, as well as notions of race and gender, impact social reconfigurations?

These first - and broad - questions naturally lead to many more/others.

Drawing on new sources and multidisciplinary approaches, we invite candidates to address one or several of these issues. Proposals that take into account either sociological, anthropological, ethical, emotional, medical or legal issues are welcome. The presentation of work in progress, particularly by doctoral students and young researchers, is encouraged.



The workshop will be held at the Université Paris-Nanterre, and participants will be offered lunch on campus. A limited amount of funding will also be available for those who request it, in addition to other sources of funding.



To Apply:

Those wishing to present their work are invited to send a provisional title, a summary of no more than 200 words and a short biography to soinsenguerreUPN@gmail.com before January 31, 2024. Successful proposals will be announced by February 15, 2024.

A publication is expected at the end of the workshop series.



This workshop is funded by the Institut des sciences sociales du politique (ISP, UMR 7220), the Institutions et dynamiques historiques de l'économie et de la société research center (IDHE.S, UMR 8533) and the IUF.



Organisers: Élodie Charié (Sciences Po/CHSP), Claire Fredj (IDHE.S), Julie Le Gac (ISP), Paul Lenormand (ISP/CHSP), Ioulia Shukan (ISP/CERCEC).



Scientific Committee:

Laure Humbert (The University of Manchester)

Francisco Javier Martinez (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Benoît Pouget (Sciences Po Aix-en-Provence)

Anne Rasmussen (EHESS)

Bertrand Taithe (The University of Manchester)

Stéphane Tison (Université du Mans)



Find out more about the event's partners:

- ISP: https://isp.cnrs.fr/

- IDHE.S: https://www.idhes.cnrs.fr/

- IUF: https://www.iufrance.fr/

Le mouvement de santé féminine

Looking through the Speculum. Examining the Women’s Health Movement


Judith A. Houck

The University of Chicago Press

384 pages | 16 halftones | 6 x 9 | © 2024 

Highlights local history to tell a national story about the evolution of the women’s health movement, illuminating the struggles and successes of bringing feminist dreams into clinical spaces.

The women’s health movement in the United States, beginning in 1969 and taking hold in the 1970s, was a broad-based movement seeking to increase women’s bodily knowledge, reproductive control, and well-being. It was a political movement that insisted that bodily autonomy provided the key to women’s liberation. It was also an institution-building movement that sought to transform women’s relationships with medicine; it was dedicated to increasing women’s access to affordable health care without the barriers of homophobia, racism, and sexism. But the movement did not only focus on women’s bodies. It also encouraged activists to reimagine their relationships with one another, to develop their relationships in the name of personal and political change, and, eventually, to discover and confront the limitations of the bonds of womanhood.

This book examines historically the emergence, development, travails, and triumphs of the women’s health movement in the United States. By bringing medical history and the history of women’s bodies into our emerging understandings of second-wave feminism, the author sheds light on the understudied efforts to shape health care and reproductive control beyond the hospital and the doctor’s office—in the home, the women’s center, the church basement, the bookshop, and the clinic. Lesbians, straight women, and women of color all play crucial roles in this history. At its center are the politics, institutions, and relationships created by and within the women’s health movement, depicted primarily from the perspective of the activists who shaped its priorities, fought its battles, and grappled with its shortcomings.

Abolir le dispositif psychiatrique

Pourquoi il est impératif d’abolir le dispositif psychiatrique

Appel à communications


Colloque dans le cadre du 91e congrès de l'Acfas. 

Ottawa

14 mai 2024

  “Le discours dominant sur la psychiatrie dans les sociétés occidentales propose que l’asile soit une institution du passé et que nous vivons dans une ère de désinstitutionnalisation des asiles psychiatriques. Ce discours suppose que nous sommes arrivés à un point où les « malades mentaux » ont des droits et sont traités avec dignité , et où les contentions physiques et chimiques sont des mesures exceptionnelles déployées envers les « patients » afin de les protéger ou de protéger autrui. Le dispositif psychiatrique est censé aider les personnes en détresse , par contre la réalité est toute autre.
La psychiatrie a toujours été liée aux questions de la vie et de la mort des patients psychiatriques en définissant qui était anormal , quelles vies méritaient d’être vécues et quelles vies méritaient d’être oubliées ou tuées . Dans nos sociétés contemporaines néolibérales, cette obsession de la psychiatrie pour l’a/normalité se traduit par l’exclusion et l’exécution systémique de strates populationnelles, telles que les Noirs , Autochtones , les pauvres , les gens considérés d’un(e) sex e sexualité déviant(e), etc. C’est dans ce contexte que s’inscrit notre colloque . Il se veut un lieu de réflexion au sujet de la relation entre la psychiatrie, la violence et la mort dans une perspective interdisciplinaire : historique, géographique, philosophique, antiraciste et postcoloniale.
En s’appuyant sur les théories développées par Frantz Fanon, Judith Butler, Achille Mbembe et d’autres nous proposons de réfléchir à l’abolition de la psychiatrie, de retracer sa brutalité , et d’exposer les séquelles contemporaines engendrées par la psychiatrie. Toutes les propositions visant une critique abolitionniste de la psychiatrie sont les bienvenues.
Nous encourageons la soumission de propositions venant d’étudiants, d’activistes antipsychiatriques, et de membres de groupes sous représentés, notamment de femmes, de commun autés LGBTQ +, de peuples autochtones, de personnes en situation de handicap, de membres de minorités visibles ou de groupes racisés Suite au colloque, nous planifions consolider les communications sous forme de publication dans un format qui reste à déterminer.
Notre colloque se tiendra le mardi 14 mai 2024 en mode hybride (en personne et en ligne) dans le cadre des activités du 91e congrès de l’Acfas . Il sera composé de communications orales d’une durée de 30 minutes suivi d’un 10 minutes de discussion. À la suite de toutes les communications , il y aura une période de 60 minutes pour approfondir les perspectives théoriques au sujet de l’abolition de la psychiatrie et de développer des collaborations. Les propositions doivent respecter le format suivant
• Le titre doit compter 180 caractères (espaces compris) maximum
• Le résumé doit compter 1500 caractères (espaces compris) maximum
• Inclure le nom, l’affiliation et le courriel des participants
Les propositions doivent être acheminées par courriel à l’adresse suivante avant le 12 février 2024 : jdoming2@uottawa.ca

L’erreur médicale dans l'Antiquité et au Moyen Âge

Dénoncer ou dissimuler ? L’erreur médicale dans l'Antiquité et au Moyen Âge. Grèce, Rome, Proche-Orient

Eruditio Antiqu. Revue électronique de l'érudition gréco-latine, Volume 14 (2022)

Textes réunis par Jeanne Mathieu et Diane Ruiz-Moiret (Université Lyon 2 - Hisoma)

Jeanne Mathieu - Diane Ruiz-Moiret – Introduction

Vérène Chalendar – Chercher l’erreur médicale dans la documentation cunéiforme

Mireille Ausécache – Propriétés, composition, dosage des remèdes : réflexion et débats autour des erreurs de prescription pharmacologique (XIe-XIIIe siècles)

Elke Krotz – Warnungen vor Behandlungsrisiken im Aderlasstraktat Jakob Engelins

Laetitia Loviconi – Sémiologie et erreurs de diagnostic des fièvres dans la Practica canonica de Michel Savonarole (ca. 1385-1466)

Divna Stevanovic-Soleil – L’erreur du malade dans la réflexion et la pratique médicales grecques aux époques classique et impériale

Valérie Gitton-Ripoll – L’appréciation de l’erreur médicale par les patients romains

Paul Luthon – La place de l’erreur dans la conception de l’art médical chez Celse

Estela Bonnaffoux – "Basculer chez Pluton" : Déclinaisons de l’erreur médicale chez Antonio Guaineri (v. 1390-1458)

Histoire de la médecine militaire

History of Military Medicine

Topics in the History of Medicine – Volume 3
 

https://bshm.org.uk/thom/v3
ISSN 2753-9695



Three Bags Full
Edward J Wawrzynczak and Christopher Gardner-Thorpe
THoM 2023; 3: 1-2. PDF


Inspiration from our Heritage
David Vassallo
THoM 2023; 3: 3-8. PDF


The Evolution of Military Surgery during the French Wars, 1793-1815
Michael KH Crumplin
THoM 2023; 3: 9-46. PDF


Daily Medical Care in the British Army during the Crimean War, 1854-56
Mike Hinton
THoM 2023; 3: 47-62. PDF


Walter Calverley Beevor, the Tirah Campaign and the Origins of Military Radiology
Adrian MK Thomas
THoM 2023; 3: 63-76. PDF


Weapons, Injuries and Casualty Care during the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902
Daniel Dry, Adam M Taylor and Quenton Wessels
THoM 2023; 3: 77-91. PDF


The Medical Services in the Mesopotamian Campaign from 1914 to 1915: A Study in Dysfunctionality
Soundararajan Jagdish
THoM 2023; 3: 92-119. PDF


An Army Doctor’s Account of Malaria Prevention during the 1914-18 War
Simon Miller
THoM 2023; 3: 120-132. PDF


Management of Wounds Sustained by British Forces on the Western Front, 1914-18
Tom Scotland
THoM 2023; 3: 133-156. PDF


Fighting the Unseen Foe: Tetanus, Anti-tetanus Serum and the Royal Army Medical Corps in World War I
Edward J Wawrzynczak
THoM 2023; 3: 157-185. PDF


Sir Charles Ballance Removes a Bullet from the Heart: An Audacious Venture
Alexander Manché
THoM 2023; 3: 186-207. PDF


The Impact of World War 2 on the Development of Neurosurgery as a Specialty in Britain
Antony Hollingworth
THoM 2023; 3: 208-221. PDF


The Contribution of Army Psychiatry to Morale and Leadership in World War 2
H Thomas de Burgh
THoM 2023; 3: 222-243. PDF


A British Perspective on Military Healthcare Ethics and War – Past, Present and Future
Martin CM Bricknell
THoM 2023; 3: 244-261. PDF


‘First Do No Harm’: Medics and Chaplains Working Together in the Twentieth and 21st Centuries
Linda Parker
THoM 2023; 3: 262-277. PDF


Researching Modern Military Medical History
Martin CM Bricknell and David Vassallo
THoM 2023; 3: 278-295. PDF

Le Siècle du sport

Le Siècle du sport



Appel à communications



Journée d’études du CL19

Olympiade Culturelle 2024

Lundi 17 juin 2024


À l’heure des Jeux Olympiques de 2024 à Paris, le Comité de Liaison des Associations Dix-neuviémistes (CL19) souhaite apporter sa contribution aux réflexions en examinant les pratiques, études et représentations du sport dans la vie et les œuvres des écrivains et artistes du XIXe siècle. Contrairement au cliché du romantique pâle et languissant, Byron et Hugo nageaient, Lamartine, George Sand, la Malibran ou encore Géricault, sujet de l’exposition 2024 du Musée de la Vie Romantique, pratiquaient assidûment l’équitation, Dumas l’escrime, Mérimée tirait à l’arc pour soulager son asthme, Maupassant, canotier passionné, a préfacé un livre sur les tireurs au pistolet, Zola était un cycliste émérite, sans parler des régiments de promeneurs par monts et vallées…

S’inscrivant dans la programmation de l’Olympiade culturelle de Paris 2024, cette journée d’études se propose donc d’interroger ce rapport aussi inédit que saisissant entre les écrivains et artistes du XIXe siècle et le sport. Ce rapport pourra être étudié à travers différents supports, des témoignages autobiographiques et biographiques aux œuvres artistiques (peinture, littérature, sculpture, musique), tout en considérant les correspondances possibles entre pratique individuelle et évocation et représentation dans l’art. Parmi les sports pratiqués et représentés lors des Jeux Olympiques, ou associés, pourront être évoqués l’équitation, l’escrime, la natation, la marche, la gymnastique, la boxe, la course, le tir (à l’arc ou au pistolet), la voile, ou encore le canotage. Les communications proposées pourront porter sur l’une ou plusieurs des représentations suivantes comme autant d’axes possibles à aborder : 

• Le sport comme performance physique
• Le sport comme exercice pour l’hygiène et la santé
• Le sport comme activité d’agrément ou de loisir
• Le sport comme expression de la liberté
• Le sport comme remède à la mélancolie
• Le sport comme combat, de la pratique sportive au duel dans la vie ou dans l’art
• Le sport comme tragédie
• Le sport comme source d’inspiration
• Le sport comme mise en scène
• Le sport comme métaphore
• Le sport à travers ses costumes et ses lieux de pratique
• Le sport comme objet d’étude
• Le sport comme langage

Modalités de communication et calendrier :

Les propositions de contributions (titre envisagé et résumé de 3000 signes espaces comprises accompagnés d’une brève notice bio-bibliographiques), sont à adresser avant le 1er mars 2024 à bureaudeliaisonxix@gmail.com


Réponse du comité : 15 mars 2024


Comité scientifique : Samantha Caretti, Antonia Fonyi, Mathilde Labbé, Marie-Claude Sabouret, IsabelleSafa.


Lieu : Paris (à déterminer)


Date : Lundi 17 juin 2024


Programmation : Olympiade Culturelle Paris 2024



Bibliographie indicative :

Arnould, Dominique, « Byron et L’Hellespont : à propos de l’Iliade XXIV, 545 » [en ligne], Bulletin de l’Association Guillaume Budé, n°1, 2008, p. 86-95, URL : https://www.persee.fr/doc/bude_0004-5527_2008_num_1_1_2279

Bernard, Tristan, « À la salle » [en ligne], L’Auto, n°2288, 8e année, 21 janvier 1907, URL : https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k4623290t/f1.item.r=%22a%20la%20salle%22

Castle, Egerton, L’Escrime et les escrimeurs depuis le Moyen-Âge jusqu’au XVIIIe siècle : esquisse du développement et de la bibliographie de l’art de l’escrime pendant cette période [en ligne], traduit de l’anglais par Albert Fierlants, Paris, Paul Ollendorff, 1888, URL : https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5494982n

Coubertin, Pierre de, Pascaud, Louis, Traité d’escrime équestre [en ligne], Auxerre, Éditions de la Revue olympique, 1906, URL : https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k3412549d

Daryl, Philippe, Encyclopédie des sports [en ligne], Paris, Librairies-imprimeries réunies, 1892-1895, 4 vol., URL : https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6528229m?rk=42918;4

Delaive, Frédéric, « De la promenade en bateau au canotage, à Paris et ses environs (XVIIIe-XIXe siècles) » [en ligne], Hypothèses, 1998/1 (1), URL : https://www.cairn.info/revue-hypotheses-1998-1-page-89.htm

Grenier, Nicolas, Poings de boxe : les écrivains sur le ring, Paris, Éditions du Volcan, 2020.

- Petite anthologie sportive & autres plaisirs littéraires : d‘Honoré de Balzac à Émile Zola, Le Crest, Éditions du Volcan, 2019.

- Du sport à la plume ; anthologie de la littérature sportive, Paris, Éditions Salto, 2016.

Karr, Alphonse, Gatayes, Léon [et al.], Le Canotage en France [en ligne], Paris, J. Taride, 1858, URL : https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9761649s

Legouvé, Ernest, Soixante ans de souvenirs [en ligne], Paris, J. Hetzel & Cie, 1886-1887, chapitre XII « L’escrime » (p. 211-217), chapitre XIII « Deux épées brisées » (p. 218-233), URL : https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k49924f?rk=21459;2

- Un tournoi au XIXe siècle [en ligne], Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1872, URL : https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6470952x

Loudcher, Jean-François, « Représentations et images du corps dans l’émergence du sport moderne (xixe-xxe siècles) », Apparence(s) [En ligne], 10 | 2021, URL : http://journals.openedition.org/apparences/2654

Murray, Chris, « Byron, Sport, and the Classics » [en ligne], Messolonghi Byron Society, URL : https://www.messolonghibyronsociety.gr/byron-sport-and-the-classics/

Massicotte, Jean-Paul et Lessard, Claude, Histoire du sport : de l’Antiquité au XIXe siècle, Presses de l’Université du Québec, 1984.

Roche, Daniel, La Culture équestre de l’Occident, XVIe-XIXe siècle. L’Ombre du cheval, tome I, Le Cheval moteur. Essai sur l’utilité équestre, 2008, 479 p., tome II, La Gloire et la puissance. Essai sur la distinction équestre, 2011, 501 p., tome III, Connaissance et passion, Paris, Fayard, 2015.

- « Amazones et cavalières. L’équitation et le genre (XVIe-XIXe siècles) [en ligne], Koregos : revue encyclopédie multimédia des arts, URL : https://koregos.org/fr/daniel-roche-amazones-et-cavalieres/

Tailhade, Laurent, L’Escrime et la boxe [en ligne], Paris, Albert Messein, 1924, URL : https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k833156/f6.item

Vaux, Charles-Maurice de, Les Duels célèbres [en ligne], préfacé par Aurélien Scholl, Paris, Éd. Rouveyre et G. Blond, 1884, URL : https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k86302848

- Les Tireurs au pistolet [en ligne], préfacé par Guy de Maupassant, Paris, C. Marpon et E. Flammarion, 1883, URL : https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6574748t

- Les Hommes d’épée [en ligne], préfacé par Aurélien Scholl, Paris, Édouard Rouveyre, 1882, URL : https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k8630548f

Les Carnets asilaires de James Frame

Les Carnets asilaires
James Frame. Une figure oubliée de la psychothérapie institutionnelle écossaise.


Sous la direction de David F. Allen



Éditions Nouvelles du champ lacanien
2024

Lire les ouvrages de James Frame c’est avoir accès au témoignage direct d’un patient interné dans un asile victorien, témoignage qui reste très rare et n’en est que plus précieux, tant pour une meilleure compréhension de la folie que pour un aperçu des modalités de prise en charge de celles et ceux que l’on classait alors dans le vaste groupe des aliénés.

L’auteur convoque le souvenir de ses amis, leurs délires, le transfert sur son thérapeute ainsi que son soutien à la théorie de la psychothérapie institutionnelle, sans oublier sa vive conscience de sa propre folie qui est relatée, ici, avec une fraîcheur saisissante. « Il y a beaucoup de gens, écrit Frame, très fous qui n’ont jamais et qui n’auront jamais de raison d’être entre les murs d’un asile d’aliénés. Ainsi l’étudiant dans ce département des sciences ne sera jamais à court de sujets pour son étude, et peut-être ferait-il bien de commencer par un examen attentif de sa personne, et, ce faisant, il pourrait peut-être découvrir un quelconque point vulnérable bien connu de ses amis et ennemis, et bien visible par presque tout le monde excepté par lui-même. »

Cheiron Meeting

Cheiron 2024 Meeting

Call for papers

The 56th Annual Meeting of Cheiron – The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences – will be held at Cummings Center for the History of Psychology at The University of Akron, Ohio from Thursday, June 13th through Sunday, June 16th, 2024.

Call for Papers

CHEIRON invites submissions of papers, thematic symposia, panels, roundtables, workshops and posters that deal with an aspect of the history of the human, behavioral or social sciences or related historiographical and methodological issues.

Submissions must be received no later than February 12th, 2024, 5 pm EST.

Notification of acceptance will be sent by the end of March 2024.

Attendance at the conference will be required for the presentation of papers. However, we will “stream” sessions using a virtual format so that “Virtual attendees,” as members of the audience, will be able to engage in discussions during sessions.

To see submission guidelines, please go to our web site: https://cheironsoc.org/

To submit proposals and abstracts, please use the following online form: https://forms.gle/FcbMZ7TkZckVqdDt9

Information concerning the conference (registration fees, lodging both on and off campus, travel stipends) will appear shortly.

Genre, espace et autorité médicale dans l'islam médiéval

The Proximity of Masculinity: Gender, Space, and Medical Authority in Medieval Islam.


A talk by Shireen Hamza (Northwestern University)


WEDNSDAY January 24, 2:30pm, 3647 Peel Street SSOM Seminar Room 101



Social Studies of Medicine, the Department of Anthropology and the Institute of Islamic Studies present:






Masculinities shape intimacy, and vice versa. Across the medieval Islamic world, authors of medical texts could draw knowledge from multiple epistemic traditions. Often, their choices were shaped by which authorities they felt closest to and sought to emulate in their lives as well as their medical practice. Focusing on the regions surrounding the western Indian Ocean, I show how physicians and ulema were just as interested in how medical authorities lived as they were in what they knew. Their interest in these ancient and contemporary medical men helped them shape their own notion of an appropriate medical masculinity.

Shireen Hamza is a historian and artist, and an educator with the Prison & Neighborhood Arts/Education Project (PNAP). She continues her research on the history of medicine in the medieval Islamic world through a postdoctoral fellowship at Northwestern University.

Dr. Hamza is also leading a discussion seminar on masculinity in the premodern Islamic World on TUESDAY, January 23rd, 9:00-11:30amm write to setrag.manoukian@mcgill.ca for the pre-circulated reading.

Les techniques médiévales de la connaissance

Medieval Technologies of Knowledge/Medieval Knowledge through Technology

Call for Session Proposals 

 

2025 AHA Annual Meeting, New York City



The Medieval Academy of America (MAA) cordially invites proposals for sessions at the forthcoming annual meeting of the American Historical Association in New York City, January 3-5, 2025.

This year, the Medieval Academy aims to co-sponsor sessions that gravitate around the timely theme of "Medieval Technologies of Knowledge/Medieval Knowledge through Technology." This theme is envisioned to be broad and inclusive, sparking interest among MAA members and a wider audience. We are particularly interested in panels that explore various facets of this theme, such as:

• Technologies of Knowledge in the Middle Ages: Investigating lesser-known or emerging technological advancements of the medieval period. Understanding the role and conception of technologies in medieval societies. Delving into the methods and tools used for knowledge dissemination and storage in medieval times.

• Understanding the Middle Ages Using AI and Other Technologies: Understanding the Middle Ages using current technological advancements. Exploring innovative ideas and perspectives that challenge traditional understandings of the era. Evaluating how new technologies will impact the future of the field.


We are open to various forms of session programming and encourage members to think beyond traditional paper panels. Proposals for roundtables, lightning talks, workshops, digital labs, working sessions, and other innovative and inclusive formats of knowledge-sharing are highly welcomed.

We particularly encourage session proposals from scholars across diverse identity positions and academic ranks and affiliations, including graduate students and independent scholars. Proposals that focus on sources, geographies, and populations under-represented in traditional medieval studies are also highly encouraged.


The committee is available for feedback on draft session proposals. Please contact us at ahacommittee@themedievalacademy.org. Additionally, MAA members can receive feedback on proposals during the review process.


How to Submit a Session Proposal

Session proposal submissions for MAA and AHA co-sponsorship involve a two-stage process:

1) Members of the Medieval Academy submit session proposals to the MAA’s AHA Program Committee via the online submission form by 11:59 p.m., February 1, 2024.

2) Upon approval by the MAA’s AHA Committee, session organizers will be notified by February 11 and will then be responsible for submitting the proposal to the AHA before the deadline of 11:59 p.m., February 15, 2024, indicating that the session has the sponsorship of the Medieval Academy of America.


For more details, please refer to FAQ: Organizing MAA/AHA Sessions

Pratiques médicales et de guérison dans l’Égypte ancienne

Medicine and Healing Practices in Ancient Egypt
 

Rosalie David & Roger Forshaw

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Liverpool University Press (January 12, 2024)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1837644292 

 

Medicine and Healing Practices in Ancient Egypt provides a new perspective on healthcare and healing treatments in Egypt from the Predynastic to the Roman periods. Rather than concentrating exclusively on diseases and medical conditions as evidenced in ancient sources, it provides a 'people-focused' perspective, asking what it was like to be ill or disabled in this society? Who were the healers? To what extent did disease occurrence and treatment reflect individual social status?

As well as geographical, environmental and dietary factors, which undoubtedly affected general health, some groups were prone to specific hazards. These are discussed in detail, including soldiers' experience of trauma, wounds and exposure to epidemics; and conditions - blindness, sand pneumoconiosis, trauma and limb amputations - resulting from working conditions at building and other sites.

Methods of diagnosis and treatment were derived from special concepts about disease and medical ethics. These are explored, as well as the individual contributions and professional interactions of various groups of healers and carers. Medical training and practice occurred in various locations, including temples and battlefields; these are described, as well as the treatments and equipment that were available.

Ancient writers generally praised the Egyptian healers' knowledge, expertise, and professional relationship with their patients. A brief comparison is drawn between this approach and those prevailing elsewhere in Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome. Finally, Egypt's legacy, transmitted through Greek, Roman and Arabic sources, is confirmed as the source of some principles and practices still found in modern 'Western' medicine.

Combining information from the latest studies on human remains and the authors' biomedical research, this book brings the subject up to date, enabling a wide readership to access often scattered information in a fascinating synthesis.

Recherche, Traduction, Enseignement

Research, Translation, Teaching


Call for Abstracts

Circulating Knowledge – 20 Years On Conference/Symposium


August 7-10, 2024.

University of King’s College

Kjipuktuk - Halifax

Mi’kma’ki – Nova Scotia, CANADA


www.cosmolocal.org

In August 2004, the Circulation of Knowledge conference—jointly organized in Halifax, Nova Scotia by the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science, the British Society for History of Science, and the History of Science Society—set out challenges to the then-dominant centre-periphery models of the origins and dissemination of scientific knowledge. Jim Secord’s keynote address, “Knowledge in Transit”, outlined the issues at stake.

Scholarship on the circulation of knowledge has since exploded and it is time not only to take stock, but to open new research avenues in globalised History/Philosophy of Science and Science and Technology Studies. Circulating Knowledge – 20 Years On proposes to revisit the circulation of knowledge, 20 years after this pioneering conference, through a series of plenary presentations, individual talks, roundtables, and special events. The goal of the conference is to foster international collaborative exchange along the axes of research, translation, and pedagogy.

The event is co-sponsored by the History of Science Society, the British Society for the History of Science, the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, and the Division for the History of Science and Technology (International Union for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology.).

Circulating Knowledge – 20 Years On will feature talks by Jim Secord (BSHS), Fa-Ti Fan (HSS), Arun Bala (Singapore), Sarah Qidwai (Regensburg), Lesley Cormack (UBC), Huynhee Park (NYU), Sundar Sarukkai (India), Geoff Bil (Delaware), Elise Burton (Toronto), and more.

We invite the submission of abstracts for potential 30-min. presentations, or special sessions, exploring recent shifts in HPS and STS on 1) the reconceptualization of the global circulation of knowledges, 2) on the roles translation plays in both the circulation and creation of new knowledge, or 3) on pedagogical issues specific to the teaching of a global history of the knowledge of the natural world.

To increase accessibility and reduce our carbon footprint, the conference will be hybrid, offering participants the chance to present either online or in person at the University of King’s College, located in beautiful Kjipuktuk/Halifax in Mi’kma’ki/Nova Scotia.

Associated Virtual Exhibit:

Contributors are further encouraged to suggest a significant artifact that could be included in the virtual exhibit that will showcase the themes of the conference in a digital format. This artifact could be a manuscript, a scientific instrument, an artwork, a work of translation, a historical document, or any tangible item that enriches your exploration of the Circulation of Knowledge.

Submission guidelines

Abstract should be submitted as a Word (.doc) or pdf file to the submission email address:

circ20@dal.ca

and must include: One file containing:Title of the paper
Abstract of the paper (approximately 250 words; fully anonymized, i.e., without any information that would allow referees to identify the author.)
Include the following information:Contact information for all co-authors.
Whether the presenters opt for on-site or online participation.
Suggested artifact for the virtual exhibit, where possible (optional)

Submission deadline: Friday January 26, 2024.

Scholars in early stages of their career, including graduate students, are welcome and are invited to participate in the conference mentorship activities, which will offer them the opportunity to discuss their work with established scholars.

Subject to budget, travel grants to support low-income presenters may be available (presenters will be notified before the meeting of the amount they will receive but funds will only be distributed after the meeting and only upon presentation of original receipts).

For further questions and inquiries, please contact gmcouat@dal.ca
Or consult the conference website:
www.cosmolocal.org

Program Committee:
Gordon McOuat, Andrew Fenton, Sarah Qidwai, Dani Inkpen

Local Organizing Committee:
Melanie Frappier, Dani Inkpen, and Gordon McOuat.

Repenser la naissance dans le sud du Bronx

Mothers, Midwives and Reimagining Birthing in the South Bronx: Breathe, Now Push
 

Jennifer Dohrn

 
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2023 edition (November 9, 2023)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 211 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3031437762

Women came through the doors at a community-based birthing center in the South Bronx seeking prenatal care. They had heard about the center from a neighbor, a parents' group at their children’s school, or the local mosque or church. What they found when they arrived was a brightly-colored waiting area that resembled a living room, children immersed in games in a corner, and staff that reflected the mosaic of cultures living in the surrounding apartments. They also met midwives who asked about their lives, their children, their families and traditions. If pregnancies developed complications, back-up obstetricians were there to give higher levels of care, with the women returning to the midwifery center afterwards. The results were healthy mothers and healthy babies. For over twenty years the center became a haven for women’s health care and a national exemplar. It is a tragic and unjust paradox that the United States, the highest income country in the world and the country with the largest budget for perinatal care, has rising rates of maternal mortality that disproportionately affect women of color. Yet an inner-city maternity center with midwifery care found solutions to the challenge of making birth safe for low-income populations, especially women of color. This oral history presents the stories of twelve women who participated in this care. As they tell it, the experience changed their lives and their understanding of what safe, quality maternal care can achieve. Jennifer Dohrn examines the systems that perpetuate disparities in care, from global to local, and describes essential components needed for change, using oral histories as evidence for the way forward towards maternal health as a human right.

Patrimoine et vestiges humains

Heritage and human remains. The challenges of historical and biomedical research in medical collections and biobanks
 

Workshop

January 26, 2024 at the Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, Geneva (CH).


The workshop is open to anyone interested but registration is required. To register, please send an email by 15 January 2024 at noon to Tricia Close-Koenig tkoenig@unistra.fr and Déborah Dubald ddubald@unistra.fr, stating your name, institution and your interest in taking part.

This workshop is part of the final conference of The Neverending Infectious Diseases Interdisciplinary Research Project (FNS-SNF/ Sinergia 2020-2024): Results and prospects, organised 24-26 January/janvier 2024 at the Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland


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Argument

In the context of the Neverending infectious diseases project, we have been confronted with the challenges of using a historical medical collection for biomedical research. Historical collections have a rich potential for current and future research, but their use is far from straightforward. This is a relatively unexplored topic and as such, this workshop proposes to take concrete situations into account in order to consider the status of historical medical collections and consider them from medical, historical and social science perspectives.

Human biological samples are human remains, and as such, a particular type of object (or preparation) with particular status (a status often dependent on their location). This workshop will focus on the case of historical medical collections, or tissue collections collected in medical practice. These collections might be identified as (but not limited to) part of a medical museum and thereby as a heritage collection, part of a biological archive for healthcare, or part of a biobank for medical research. Outside the medical community, it may be difficult to answer the question of the acceptability of preserving tissue samples (as human remains) and integrating them into collections. In the context of the Neverending infectious diseases project, we have been confronted with the challenges of using a historical medical collection for biomedical research. Historical collections have a rich potential for current and future research, but their use is far from straightforward. This is a relatively unexplored topic and as such, this workshop proposes to take concrete situations into account in order to consider the status of historical medical collections and consider them from medical, historical and social science perspectives.

Medical collections and medical museums are places of heritage and preserve human remains as such. However, the notion of heritage, as a common good to be passed on from one generation to the next, can be contemptuous when speaking of human remains, medical or otherwise. Heritage has been criticised for conveying a universalist viewpoint, where in fact human remains are deeply situated objects. This is particularly true of the controversies surrounding restitutions. Archaeology and ethnography have both discussed (and criticised) the circumstances of why, when, how human remains can be collected, preserved and displayed. These perspectives are notable when evaluating historical collections (especially those containing objects collected over previous decades or centuries). There is a clear contrast between these perspectives and that of the anatomy (or medical) profession for whom human tissues removed from the body are considered similar to raw material or biowaste.

We aim to identify the key issues or challenges in formulating a model to mobilise historical and/or neglected biological sample collections for current (or future) medical research. This might address, for example, why, when, how human remains collected in a medical context can be preserved and used, as well as questions of circumstances of the sample collection and consent (ie for diagnosis or research or postmortem), or questions of registries, catalogues and patient data (without which contents of the collection are unidentifiable, but herein lies the paradox of currently anonymising biological samples in medical research).

In this workshop, we will bring together different professions, including biomedical researchers to discuss what historical collections can do that contemporary biobanks cannot and social scientists and medical historians to present the stakes of working with historical human remains. We further aim to have presentations of examples of medical collections or biobanks that have gone through the shift from neglected to registered collections or biobanks. These examples will highlight particular issues faced, in terms of legislation, material contexts or restraints, current use and other specificities or challenges.

By historicising collections, this workshop therefore proposes to develop methodological avenues for contextualising, adding value and working with such collections and any collections of human tissues.

This workshop is part of the final conference of The Neverending Infectious Diseases Interdisciplinary Research Project (FNS-SNF/ Sinergia 2020-2024): Results and prospects, organised 24-26 January/janvier 2024 at the Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland 

Programme

9:00-9:10 - Welcome

9:10-9:30 - Introductory paper The challenges of a neglected collection: The Strasbourg Pathological Anatomy collection Tricia Close-Koenig & Déborah Dubald, University of Strasbourg
Morning session

Moderator: Eva Åhrén, Director, Medical History and Heritage, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm

9:30-10:00 - Paper 1 The Geneva Brain Bank: Evolution from a neuropathology research laboratory to a modern brain bank Christophe Lamy, Geneva Brain Bank, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Genève and Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève

10:00-10:40 - Paper 2 Researching UCL pathology collections: Development of policies and procedures through lessons learned Emilia Kingham, Conservator, UCL Science and Pathology Collections, London & Liz Blanks (née Eastlake), Curator, UCL Science and Pathology Collections, London"

10:40-11:00 - Coffee break

11:00-11:30 - Paper 3 The evolution of biobanking in Iceland: From small collections to big promises Henry Alexander Henrysson, Research Specialist, The Centre for Ethics, University of Iceland

11:30-11:50 - Commentary by Manon Parry, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam

12:00-13:30 - Lunch break
Afternoon session

Moderator: Ricardo Roque, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon

13:30-14:10 - Paper 4 What if those slides are less than 100 years old? Navigating the UK Human Tissue Act Stephanie Seville, Heritage Officer, Museum of Medicine and Health, University of Manchester & Carsten Timmermann, Director, Centre for the History of Science, Technology & Medicine, University of Manchester

14:10-14:40 - Paper 5 Sample, source and interdisciplinary connections in a bottle Karin Tybjerg, Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen

14:45-15:00 - Coffee break

15:00-15:20 - Commentary Bruno Strasser, University of Geneva

15:20-16:45 - General discussion moderated by Tricia Close-Koenig & Déborah Dubald

17:00 - End
Registration

The workshop is open to anyone interested but registration is required.

To register, please send an email by 15 January 2024 at noon 2024 to Tricia Close-Koenig tkoenig@unistra.fr and Déborah Dubald ddubald@unistra.fr, stating your name, institution and your interest in taking part.