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Des diabétiques célèbres

Des diabétiques célèbres. De l’Antiquité à nos jours

Françoise Guillon-Metz


L'Harmattan
Date de publication : 31/10/2024
Collection : Médecine à travers les siècles

Les acteurs, les hommes politiques, même s’ils disparaissent de la vie publique, sont rattrapés un jour par l’âge et la maladie. Portraits figés de rois ou d’hommes politiques de tous pays, films régulièrement diffusés, ils semblent intemporels et immortels.
Pourtant, nombreux sont ceux qui souffrent de pathologies importantes comme le diabète notamment et ses complications dont le traitement a été longtemps ignoré.
Après une brève rétrospective sur cette maladie et ses symptômes, Françoise Guillon-Metz nous fait découvrir quelques illustres personnes qui en ont été atteintes. De Louis XIV à Charles de Gaulle, de Balzac à Jules Verne, de Marlon Brando à Tom Hanks, elle s’attarde sur leur histoire et les thérapies mises en place pour les soulager.

Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland, hygiéniste, professeur de médecine et premier médecin à la cour de Prusse, 1762-1836

Patrice Pinet

 

 L'Harmattan, Paris, 2024.

Collection : Médecine à travers les siècles.

EAN : 9782336490755

 

Ce livre expose la vie et l’œuvre de C.W. Hufeland (1762-1836) qui acquit la célébrité par un traité d’hygiène publié en 1796 à une époque où régnait une thérapeutique faible sinon délétère.

Si l’usage de médicaments est aujourd’hui incontournable, la présente étude de son œuvre tente de sensibiliser le public et les médecins à l’hygiène, discipline trop souvent négligée parmi les moyens préventifs des maladies. Mieux respectée elle améliorerait beaucoup la santé et la longévité moyennes de la population, en synergie avec les mesures écologiques mondiales aujourd’hui primordiales, et réduirait le gouffre abyssal des dépenses de santé.

Apôtre de l’hygiène, Hufeland fut aussi un observateur pertinent des épidémies en vantant la vaccination jennérienne et en émettant une théorie parasitaire et vivante des maladies contagieuses parachevée l’année même de sa mort.

https://www.editions-harmattan.fr/catalogue/livre/christoph-wilhelm-hufeland-hygieniste-professeur-de-medecine-et-premier-medecin-a-la-cour-de-prusse/77494?utm_campaign=2024/12/13%20NL%20Thématique%20%28Histoire%29%20%5BAuteurs%20%2B%20Directeurs%20de%20collection%5D&utm_content=Nouveautés%20Histoire%20-%20Décembre%202024&utm_medium=Emailing&utm_source=Sendethic

Bourses de voyage de la Osler Library

Osler Library's travel awards


Call for applications

Each year the Osler Library offers a number of awards and travel grants to local and international historians, physicians, graduate and post-doctoral students, and others whose research touches upon the history of medicine. From now through 15 January 2025, we are accepting applications for the following awards/grants and kindly ask you to share this notice widely within your own networks, listservs, and social media outlets to help us spread the word. Please note that for research travel awards, the award will typically be made as a reimbursement for travel and travel-related expenses.


Dr. Edward H. Bensley Osler Library Research Travel Grant - Awarded to those whose project requires travel to Montreal to consult material in the Osler Library, such as rare books, archives, and artifacts. Each year up to $5,000 (CDN) in awards will be made available to one or more individuals who require a minimum of 2 weeks to carry out their research.

 
Mary Louise Nickerson Travel Grant - This award is open to scholars who need to travel to Montreal to carry out research using Osler Library collections (e.g., rare books, archives, and artifacts). Awards totalling approximately $13,000 (CDN) are typically divided among a small number of scholars, whose individual awards depend upon need and duration of visit.

 
Dr. Dimitrije Pivnicki Award in Neuro and Psychiatric History - Awarded to one or more students and/or scholars wishing to carry out research utilizing the rich archival and monographic holdings at McGill University, such as the Osler Library (including the Penfield Archive), the Montreal Neurological Institute, and the McGill University Archives. Awards totalling approximately $13,000 (CDN) are usually divided among a small number of scholars, whose individual awards depend upon need and duration of visit.

Please note that all research in this grant cycle must be completed during the next fiscal year, 1 May 2025 – 30 April 2026. We welcome all further inquiries at osler.library@mcgill.ca.

L'avortement au Mexique

Abortion in Mexico: A History

 Nora E. Jaffary

Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Nebraska Press (October 1, 2024)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 180 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1496239628
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1496239624

Abortion in Mexico: A History concisely examines the long history of abortion from the early postcontact period through the present day in Mexico by studying the law, criminal and ecclesiastical trials, medical texts, newspapers, and other popular publications.

Nora E. Jaffary draws on courts’ and medical practitioners’ handling of birth termination to advance two central arguments. First, Jaffary contends, the social, legal, and judicial condemnation of abortion should be understood more as an aberration than the norm in Mexico, as legal conditions and long periods of Mexican history indicate that the law, courts, the medical profession, and everyday Mexicans tolerated the practice. Second, the historical framework of abortion differed greatly from its present representation. The language of fetal personhood and the notion of the inherent value of human life were not central elements of the conceptualization of abortion until the late twentieth century. Until then, the regulation of abortion derived exclusively out of concerns for pregnant people themselves, specifically about their embodiment of sexual honor.

In Abortion in Mexico Jaffary presents the first longue durée examination of this history from a variety of locations in Mexico, providing a concise yet comprehensive overview of the practice of abortion and informing readers of just how much the debate has evolved.

Doctorat sur les données raciales de l'empire

Data, Race and Empire: African Health, Scottish Missions and the Information Strategies of Dr Archibald Hewan (1832-1883)



Arts and Humanities Research Council PhD Studentship

Durham University


Project Summary

The Data, Race and Empire PhD studentship offers an innovative methodology for knowledge-exchange and collaboration between Durham University, the National Museum of Scotland (NMS) and Uppsala University on the extraordinary biomedical career of Dr Archibald Hewan (1832-1883), the first black missionary physician in West Africa. The student will be based at Durham University, but will perform research at the NMS and receive further training at Uppsala University. Focusing on recently discovered Hewan sources, and combining methods from Science and Technology Studies with training in the NMS collections, the student will explore Hewan’s career as a black physician who adapted imperial communication networks to proactively collect, interpret and disseminate biomedical information in ways that disrupted several of the European stereotypes about the people and culture of Africa.



Studentship Summary

The studentship is funded by the British Arts and Humanities Research Council in collaboration with the Northern Bridge Consortium. It covers tuition fees (British home rate), expenses, room and board. The main supervisor is Durham University's Prof Matthew Daniel Eddy, Chair in the History and Philosophy of Science. The successful candidate will be based in the Science, Medicine and Society research group in Durham University's Department of Philosophy and spend time researching in the African collections of the National Museum of Scotland. The student will also be part of the Northern Bridge AHRC Consortium, which offers further training and placement opportunities.


How to Apply

The successful applicant will have a bachelors and a masters degree in History, HPS (History and Philosophy of Science), STS (Science and Technology Studies), or subjects such as museology, anthropology, archaeology, etc. that offer significant and demonstrable training on the history and science and/or medicine. Students with training on the pre-digital history of health and communication in the British Empire or on the pre-20th century history of Africa will also be considered.

To apply for the studentship, please submit a PhD application no later than 14 February 2025 to Durham University Department of Philosophy. Indicate you are applying for the 'Data, Race and Empire' Northern Bridge Award. Early applications prior to 14 February are most welcome and highly encouraged. Preliminary questions about the application may be sent directly to Prof Eddy (m.d.eddy@durham.ac.uk). Durham's PhD application portal can be found unit the 'Apply for postgraduate study' tab at:
https://studyatdurham.microsoftcrmportals.com/en-US/

When preparing your application, be sure to include a full CV, three reference letters, and two 3,000-5,000 word writing samples. In lieu of a PhD proposal, please read the project description (appended below) and submit a 1,000 word personal statement that explains how your previous academic experience will bring insight to the themes, methods and questions the project will be addressing.

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PROJECT SUMMARY

Data, Race and Empire:
African Health, Scottish Missions and the Information Strategies of Dr Archibald Hewan (1832-1883)


Research Question

Historians have traditionally ignored the contributions of black physicians and intellectuals who lived during the long nineteenth century in the transatlantic world. Joining the expertise and resources of Durham University and the National Museums of Scotland (NMS), this PhD project seeks to address this lacuna by focusing on the biomedical career of Dr Archibald Hewan (1832-1883), the first black physician to serve in British West Africa as a Free Church of Scotland missionary doctor. Hewan was born in Jamaica, studied medicine at Edinburgh University, worked in Old Calabar (modern Nigeria) and then settled in London as a medical practitioner and expert on the diseases and natural history of Africa. Using newly discovered Hewan manuscripts, specimens and artefacts, the project seeks to answer the following research question: How did Hewan use African health and natural history data within church and medical communication networks to become a scientific expert?

Research Context

During the early 19th century black scholars from the Atlantic world studied medicine in Scottish hospitals and universities. Aside from one chapter in Mia Bay’s ground-breaking The White Image in the Black Mind (2000), most studies that mention 19th century black physicians are largely biographical and give little attention to the roles they played as knowledge-brokers, as collectors and disseminators of data, within transatlantic information networks. Likewise, though historians of global health have written about the medical activities of 19th-century missionaries, a Hewan biography, surprisingly, has not been written. Only a handful of studies have briefly outlined his medical career, or have glossed his missionary activities. Similar professional and intellectual gaps exist in the literature for other black physicians as well.

Additionally, though black physicians working in the Atlantic world collected and disseminated important information from local populations relating to health and human rights, research on their place within the media ecology of empire is thin. In Hewan’s case, he operated within the Free Church’s global information and communication networks. While media historians have explored how other imperial institutions operated as global information machines and though church historians have investigated the role played by communications technologies within ecclesiastical networks, the Free Church’s status as an organisation that collected and managed medical data and the role played by its members as information gatherers and strategists, particularly those of African descent, remains virtually unmapped. This project seeks to shed new light on the subject by using Hewan as a case study.

Research Methods

During the mid 19th century, intelligencers with competing information-gathering strategies circulated data in the British Empire via diverse media. The student will explore Hewan’s role in this context with historically-orientated Science and Technology Studies (STS) methods that reconstruct how cultural values shaped biomedical data. In particular, the socio-historical methods developed by Ruha Benjamin and Meredith Broussard will be used to reconstruct how data related to black actors was collected, who collected it, why it was collected and where it was circulated. The student will also learn to employ STS methods developed by Matthew Daniel Eddy, Zachary Kingdon, Linda Burnett-Andersson, all members of the supervisory team, that treat the material culture of manuscripts, specimens and artifacts as important historical forms of biomedical data. Additionally, curators in the National Museum of Scotland will offer hands-on methodological training to the student in their collections.

Special attention will be given to how these exciting sources offer insight into Hewan’s agency as a black data-broker who adapted ecclesiastical and medical communication networks of empire to proactively collect, interpret and disseminate information in ways that disrupted several European stereotypes about the people and culture of Africa.


Museum Training

In addition to writing a thesis under the supervision of Prof Eddy and other experts based in Durham's anthropology, history and philosophy departments, the successful candidate will learn transferable skills relevant to working in a large, public facing museum. The student will gain object interpretation skills from a training project in the NMS Edinburgh collections, and management and collection accessibility skills through training sessions offered by the museum’s Data and Systems teams. The student's understanding of the collections will be enhanced through writing several brief reports on objects and they will also benefit from working with NMS curatorial staff in developing a new approach to representing missionary collections.


Research Community

Durham’s Philosophy Department will be the lead department responsible for coordinating academic training and support, and for advising the student on how to access Durham's robust history of science and medicine research community. The successful student will join the Science, Medicine and Society (SMS) cluster, a specialised research group within the Department with a longstanding history in mentoring and training postgraduate researchers. Upon arrival, the student will be offered doctoral training by the Arts and Humanities Faculty and by the Department on practical topics ranging from keeping an organised work schedule to how to publish a research paper. Further practical workshops of this nature are offered on a regular basis to postgraduates students every term. In addition to the advice, training and support regularly offered or recommended by the supervisory team, the student will be part of Philosophy's graduate cohort of MA, MRes and PhD candidates. All first-year PhD students attend Eidos, the weekly doctoral research forum, which helps them design, discuss and implement their research. They also attend departmental workshops that address practical topics such as understanding the job market, publishing articles, submitting conference abstracts, etc. The student will also be able to access the postgraduate training and mentoring opportunities offered by the History and Anthropology Departments, the two partner departments of the project.

Supervisory Team

Prof Matthew Daniel Eddy (lead supervisor) is Chair in the History and Philosophy of Science in Durham University’s Department of Philosophy. He is a cultural historian of science and medicine in modern Britain and its former empire. His first book The Language of Mineralogy: John Walker, Chemistry and the Edinburgh Medical School (Routledge: 2008; 2016) focused on the different kinds of interdisciplinary data that Scottish middle-class professionals used to create the emerging field of environmental science during the Enlightenment. His recent book, Media and the Mind: Art, Science and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700-1830 (Chicago: 2023), used hundreds of notebooks kept on scientific topics during the Scottish Enlightenment to argue that ‘reason’ was a contingent skill learned through the manipulation and re-manipulation of manuscript media technologies. He is currently writing a book about the relationship between race, information and science in the pre-digital Atlantic world.

Prof Justin Willis (supervisor) is Professor of Modern African History in Durham University's History Department. His work has been largely concerned with identity, authority and social change in Africa over the last two hundred years. He is author of Mombasa, the Swahili and the Making of the Mijikenda (Clarendon: 1993) and Potent Brews. A Social History of Alcohol in East Africa 1850-1999 (Currey: 2002). He is presently researching debates over Uganda's future in 1979-80, in the months after Amin's fall, and the history of saving and lending in Africa since the 1940s.

Prof Hannah Brown (supervisor) is Professor of Medical Anthropology in Durham University’s Department of Anthropology. Focusing on West and East Africa, her publications focus on the delivery of biomedicine in developmental spaces. Previous work includes ethnographic fieldwork in hospitals and with health managers. Her current work is funded by an ERC starting grant, AliveAFRICA: Animals, Livelihoods and Wellbeing in Africa. This project explores changing animal-based economies in Kenya and Sierra Leone, and the implications of human-animal entanglements for health and well-being.

Dr Zachary Kingdon (non-HEI advisor) is Senior Curator of African Collections in the National Museums of Scotland. He is an expert on colonial collecting in Africa, the anthropology of creative spractice, and museology and participatory practice. He is author of A Host of Devils: The History and Context of the Making of Makonde Spirit Sculpture (Routledge: 2002) and Ethnographic Collecting and African Agency in Early Colonial West Africa: A Study of Trans-Imperial Cultural Flows (Bloomsbury: 2019).

Dr Linda Andersson Burnett (external advisor) is Associate Professor and Research Group Director in the Department of the History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University, Sweden. She is co-author of Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History, 1750-1820 (Yale: 2025).

Corps et environnements dans le monde moderne

Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World


Call for Papers

9-10 June 2025. John Rylands Research Institute, Manchester, UK

The Sleeping Well in the Early Modern World team invites papers for our end-of-project conference on the topic of ‘Bodies and Environments’ in early modernity.

Keynote speakers: Marcy Norton (University of Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti (The Warburg Institute)

Scholarship on early modern embodiment has emphasised the body’s porosity, permeability and instability. Early modern bodies did not end at the skin, but rather their interior and exterior worlds were in constant material exchange. Close engagement with, and management of, the body’s surroundings was thus essential for ensuring health and wellbeing. European theories of embodiment drew on Hippocratic-Galenic medical teachings in which bodies shared a common elemental make-up with the world around them. Healthcare knowledge and practice could be localised and geo-specific, therefore, as the ecological profiles of different places informed a ‘geo-humoral’ health paradigm in which bodies were understood to become accustomed to particular locales over time. Other cultures conceptualised the relationship between bodies and their surroundings differently. Indigenous communities across the Atlantic, for example, placed greater emphasis on the permeability and interconnectedness of all beings and understood animals and plants as relations to, rather than resources for, human bodies. In a variety of global contexts, flora and fauna were enfolded in practices of health preservation and restoration in diverse ways, often with broader environmental implications. The interdependencies of bodies and environments meant that processes of environmental change likewise impacted on healthcare knowledge and practice.

The entanglement of early modern bodies and environments lies at the heart of our research for the Sleeping Well project, as we investigate how early modern people engaged with their physical surroundings in an effort to sleep well. Our project has uncovered an environmentally informed culture of ‘sleep care’ in this period, which we approach by applying the concept of ‘environing’ to sleep care practices. We conceptualise environing as processes through which humans and nature co-produce environments, and we examine how early modern people engaged in environing practices to safeguard their health.

We invite papers examining the relationship between bodies and environments in any context and geographical location c. 1500-1750. Topics may include but are not limited to: 

• Practices of ‘environing’ (or human engagements with physical surroundings) aimed at preserving or restoring health
• The health or embodied consequences of environmental interventions or ‘improvements’
• The use of place-specific materials for practices of bodily management and health preservation
• Multispecies approaches to health and wellbeing
• ‘Geo-humoral’ concepts of embodiment

Please send an abstract (max. 300 words) and a short bio (100 words) to eleanor.shaw@manchester.ac.uk by 3 February 2025.

PhD students and ECRs are particularly encouraged to apply. Reasonable travel and accommodation expenses for speakers will be covered.

Notes d'un médecin

Notes d'un médecin

Vikenti Veressaïev

Dimitri Bortnikov (Préfacier),
Julie Bouvard (Traducteur)

 

Editeur
Les Editions Noir sur Blanc

Date de parution
10/10/2024 

ISBN
978-2-88983-053-4

Nb. de pages
272 pages




Peu de livres ont autant ému la société russe à leur parution que ces Notes d'un médecin (1900) de Vikenti Veressaïev, auteur par ailleurs d'une vingtaine de récits et de nouvelles. La raison tient au caractère du texte, littéraire en même temps que naturaliste, mais aussi à la charge critique de l'auteur envers sa profession et la société en général. Comparables aux Récits d'un jeune médecin de Mikhaïl Boulgakov, ami et admirateur de Veressaïev, ces Notes nous plongent dans la société russe de la fin du XIXe siècle, avec toute sa misère, ses préjugés sociaux et ses drames individuels et collectifs, décrits avec un tel talent qu'elles seront saluées par les plus grands écrivains de l'époque, à l'exemple de Tchekhov.
Bien plus que des mémoires, ces Notes d'un médecin nous présentent la face sombre de la pratique médicale, sans occulter les tourments et désillusions qu'elle peut faire naître. Veressaïev interroge la moralité des expérimentations sur des patients consentants ou non, les conséquences délétères des autopsies obligatoires, l'indécence des consultations publiques. Les images, saisissantes, s'imprimeront dans l'esprit des lecteurs, et feront de cet ouvrage le livre de référence des médecins qui, à la science pour la science, préfèrent l'humanisme.

Roger Heim et la découverte des champignons hallucinogènes

« Une science est née [?] » Roger Heim (1900-1979) et les conséquences heuristiques de la découverte des champignons hallucinogènes du Mexique

Soutenance de thèse

Jeudi 19 décembre à 9h30, en salle E002 de l’Université de Picardie Jules Verne, à Amiens.



La soutenance se déroulera en présence du jury suivant :

M. Samir Boumediene, Chargé de recherche, CNRS
M. Jean-Christophe Coffin, Maître de conférences, CNRS
M. Jean-Claude Dupont, Professeur émérite, UPJV
Mme Margot Morgiève, Chargée de recherche HDR, Inserm
M. Xavier Guchet, Professeur, UTC
M. Stéphane Tirard, Professeur, Nantes Université

Ce travail a été réalisé sous la direction de Mme Céline Cherici, professeure d’épistémologie à l’UPJV.


Cette thèse explore les conséquences heuristiques de la redécouverte des champignons hallucinogènes à travers les travaux du professeur Roger Heim (1900-1979). Au XVIe siècle et XVIIe siècle, lors de la colonisation du Mexique, des chroniqueurs européens avaient observé et décrit l'usage de ces champignons, mais ce n'est qu'au milieu du XXe siècle que l'intérêt scientifique sur ceux-ci renaît, grâce aux recherches des époux Wasson, pionniers de l’ethnomycologie. Roger Heim, mycologue et professeur au Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, joua un rôle déterminant dans cette redécouverte, en menant et en coordonnant des recherches sur les champignons hallucinogènes du Mexique, tant sur les plans ethnologique, biologique, chimique que psychologique. La thèse analyse le processus par lequel une expérience psychique issue des mondes amérindiens a été transférée et « naturalisée » dans la culture scientifique occidentale, à travers des recherches pluridisciplinaires qui ont également ouvert la voie à des recherches médicales. La thèse montre que les travaux de Heim ont entraîné une rupture épistémologique. En s'ouvrant aux pratiques divinatoires des guérisseurs mexicains et en expérimentant les effets de ces champignons, Heim a initié une reconfiguration de ses croyances métaphysiques. Fondée sur une analyse historique de sources variées, dont des correspondances et un film documentaire, la thèse conclut que Heim a posé les bases d'une nouvelle discipline. Bien qu'il n'ait pas su la nommer, cette science en devenir repose sur l’exploration prudente des propriétés psychotropes de la psilocybine et sur l'ouverture à l'altérité épistémique.

200 ans de sauvetage en Manche et mer du Nord

200 ans de sauvetage en Manche et mer du Nord : histoire, patrimoine et enjeux contemporains

Appel à communications


 

L'Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale accueillera les 26 et 27 juin 2025 un colloque en lien avec les célébrations du bicentenaire du sauvetage institutionnel en France : 200 ans de sauvetage en Manche et mer du Nord : histoire, patrimoine et enjeux contemporains, 26-27 juin 2025, Boulogne-sur-Mer


Argumentaire

En septembre 1825, la Société humaine et des Naufrages était fondée à Boulogne-sur-Mer, un an après la création de la Royal National Lifeboat Institution britannique. Il s’agit de la première institution de secours aux noyés et aux naufragés en France, qui précède de quarante ans la constitution, à l’échelle nationale, d’une Société Centrale de Sauvetage des Naufragés (1865).

Cette commémoration nous donne l’occasion de rassembler chercheurs, conservateurs du patrimoine et professionnels autour de la thématique du sauvetage dans une zone géographique au trafic particulièrement dense. A l’exception du colloque organisé à Royan en 2011, et publié huit ans plus tard (Éric Kocher-Marboeuf, Jacques Péret, Thierry Sauzeau (dir.), Histoire du sauvetage et de la sécurité en mer. Du phare d'Alexandrie au satellite, Les Indes savantes, 2019), les rencontres scientifiques sur ce thème sont rares. Nous proposons ici de prolonger les réflexions des années 2010 en resserrant la focale, dans l’espace et dans le temps, mais en ouvrant les échanges aux problématiques contemporaines et au patrimoine, à la mémoire et aux représentations.

Le sauvetage en mer est souvent réduit à une succession d’actes héroïques exposés dans des publications insuffisamment problématisées et à diffusion souvent limitée, alors qu’il constitue un terrain fécond pour des approches pluridisciplinaires faisant appel à l’histoire sociale, culturelle, à la géographie, aux sciences politiques, juridiques et à l’étude des politiques publiques. Le sauvetage en mer renvoie en effet plus largement aux problématiques de sécurité de la navigation et du trafic maritime, ainsi qu’au développement des infrastructures de signalisation, de surveillance et de communication. On s’interrogera sur les ruptures et les continuités qu’a connu l’organisation du sauvetage maritime au cours de ces deux derniers siècles sur les côtes de la Manche et de la mer du Nord.

Ce colloque veut également être l’occasion de réfléchir aux enjeux de sauvegarde du patrimoine matériel et immatériel du sauvetage en mer. Il est ainsi envisagé de classer les gestes du sauvetage au patrimoine immatériel national, voire mondial. La réouverture du musée de la Marine à Paris a également jeté un coup de projecteur sur la richesse des collections muséales, à Paris mais aussi sur le littoral. Enfin, il souhaite aborder les enjeux du temps présent, parmi lesquels les naufrages des exilés dans le détroit du Pas de Calais, qui ont fortement mis à contribution les stations SNSM de la région. Ce colloque invite donc à confronter les approches des chercheurs, des conservateurs et des professionnels du sauvetage en mer et de la sécurité de la navigation.


Axes thématiques

● Histoire du sauvetage maritime et de la sécurité de la navigation

● Collections muséales, patrimoine matériel et immatériel

● Représentations : naufrage, sauvetage et culture

● Enjeux contemporains du sauvetage maritime


Date limite de soumission : 1er mars. Les propositions de communication accompagnées d’un argumentaire d’une dizaine de lignes et d’un bref curriculum vitae sont à déposer sur https://200anssauvetage.sciencesconf.org/

Eugène Minkowski

Eugène Minkowski. De la psychiatrie à la cosmologie
 

Collectif

 

Éditions des Compagnons d'humanité

Octobre 2024

Eugène Minkowski (1885-1972) est une des figures majeures de la psychiatrie française tout autant que de la phénoménologie. Psychiatre, philosophe, médaillé de Verdun, résistant et grand humaniste, il fut l’auteur de nombreux articles, livres et conférences. Le présent ouvrage, édité à l’occasion de l’anniversaire du cinquantenaire de sa disparition, célèbre les différentes facettes de ce grand clinicien et philosophe que fut Eugène Minkowski : l’homme, sa trajectoire de vie, ses engagements, inséparables de ceux de son épouse Françoise Minkowska, ses recherches cliniques et psychopathologiques ainsi que son œuvre philosophique, faisant de lui à la fois l’un des principaux passeurs de la phénoménologie allemande en France et l’un des fondateurs de la psychiatrie phénoménologique.

De la psychiatrie à la cosmologie, est une invitation à célébrer à nouveau les noces de la psychiatrie et de la philosophie, deux disciplines s’enrichissant mutuellement et dialoguant de manière féconde, comme Minkowski l’appelait de ses vœux. Contre toute forme d’idéologie dans le champ des idées, son œuvre est marquée par le souci de toujours préserver non pas tant le doute que les ressorts de la contradiction dialectique. Minkowski fut très tôt convaincu que la psychiatrie devait cultiver ce dialogue avec d’autres disciplines, dans la mesure où « ces disciplines cherchent à devenir humaines ». Face au désenchantement post-moderne, il paraît aujourd’hui urgent de considérer l’appel que lance l’œuvre d’Eugène Minkowski, un homme qui n’a jamais renié sa confiance en l’humain.

Sport, genre et citoyenneté au Ghana et en Côte d’Ivoire

Une si longue course. Sport, genre et citoyenneté au Ghana et en Côte d’Ivoire (années 1900-1970)
 

Claire Nicolas

Presses universitaires de Rennes
Date de parution : 21/11/2024
Collection : Histoire
EAN : 9782753596351
Nb de pages : 306

Au travers d’une histoire comparée du Ghana et de la Côte d’Ivoire au XXe siècle, l’ouvrage propose un regard inédit sur l’histoire des sports en Afrique. Il montre comment ces activités ont participé à construire des dynamiques de domination racialisée et genrée au sein d’institutions qui émergent pendant la période coloniale : écoles, clubs sportifs, mouvements de jeunesse. Grâce à une chronologie longue (du début du XXe siècle aux années 1970), il met en lumière la façon dont les États indépendants réinterprètent l’ensemble du champ sportif colonial. À la croisée de plusieurs champs historiographiques (histoire du sport, de l’Afrique, du genre, et de la citoyenneté), ce livre montre des tensions propres à différents régimes politiques en Afrique de l’Ouest : colonisation britannique ou française, régimes postcoloniaux militaires, démocratiques, socialistes ou capitalistes. Enfin, cet ouvrage met au jour les connexions globales de l’histoire de l’Afrique, alors que les acteurs et actrices du champ sportif s’inscrivent dans des circulations locales, régionales, continentales et globales. Il permet dès lors de comprendre que l’histoire des sports en Afrique a des ramifications globales qui dépassent largement le seul football masculin.

L'histoire expérimentale des sciences

Experimental History of Science Workshop

Call for Proposals

25 April 2025, University College London




History of science works within well-worn (and of course often successful) genres of writing and presentation. But do these structural constraints encourage some insights, arguments and ideas and not others? If we experimented in form, would new insights, arguments and ideas come to the surface?

In recent years STS scholars have challenged ideas that “science” should equate to an exclusively European, capital-intensive form of natural inquiry, opening up history to diverse and often marginalized forms of natural knowledge from across the globe. Surprisingly, however, the formats and media through which history of science is written, presented, and published have barely changed in this time, despite many of them having roots in precisely the contexts under critique. What new ways of articulating and exploring the history of science can we develop that go beyond traditional formats? What role is there for gossip, ritual, storytelling, game-playing, silence, music, action, poetry and proverb, quilting, walking, performance, place-naming, or other forms of expression in the practice our discipline?

The Experimental History of Science Workshop (25 April 2025) is a space to take a risk, try something out, and get a response. The aim is to identify, try and explore new historiographical paths and possibilities. Some might meet their expected experimental aim. Others, perhaps even better, might work or fail in unexpected but interesting ways. We intend to shake things up. The workshop would most definitely applaud interesting flops. It may be fun.

We at UCL can provide the organisation, support, and the basics of time and space, as well as the enabling on the day.

Proposals are sought for ‘papers’, ‘events’, ‘interventions’, that have an explicit aim to experiment in how history of science is conducted or presented, ie experiments primarily in method or form.

The organisers will select a programme from among those that meet the following criteria and can be achieved with resources available. We do have a small amount of funding available to develop experiments, so talk to us if this support would make a difference.

Experiments in research question are moot if they might be answered through mere conventional methods or presented in conventional forms, but more radical proposals might be considered.

The method, form or question should depart from usual practice in interesting and bold ways.

The choice of the method, form or question should be justifiable and reasoned. Mere anarchy is boring.

The experimental aim should be articulable and clear.

Not all experiments might be realistically achievable, although a challenge is welcome. If we can, we will work with the selected experimenters to realise their experiment.

There should be a criterion for ‘success’, even if it is not met in practice.


To get you thinking, the following categories might prompt a response. What might be:


Impossible Plans – presentations that couldn’t possibly be realized in a workshop or perhaps not even in current reality. These can be presented in conventional ways but don’t have to involve conventional ambitions.

Real World Plans - presentations that can be done within the space of a theatre or lecture hall.

Sustainable Plans – presentations that make sustainability – however we define that – a key element in new ways to explore the history of science.


Or you may have an entirely different experiment in mind.


Please send an outline (one page) of your experiment to either catherine.lucas.19@ucl.ac.uk, s.werrett@ucl.ac.uk or jonathan.agar@ucl.ac.uk by 22 December 2024. The outline should include: a) experiment title, b) statement of aim of the experiment in method or form (or radical research question), c) a description and reasoned justification for the experimental design, d) a statement of in what ways the experimental departs from usual practice, and e) a clear criterion for ‘success’ of the experiment (bearing mind it is fine to fail in interesting ways).


A provisional programme will be communicated early in 2025.


The workshop, at which experiments will be either reported or performed, will take place at University College London on Friday 25 April 2025.



Organisers:
Jon Agar, Cathy Lucas, Simon Werrett
Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS), University College London

La dernière grande peste de l'inde coloniale

The Last Great Plague of Colonial India
 

Natasha Sarkar 

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press (September 24, 2024)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0198873220
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0198873228

Plague has attained pandemic proportions on three occasions in recorded history. It is within the context of the third, modern pandemic that this book unfolds: an outbreak which took over twelve million lives in India alone.

Natasha Sarkar examines for the first time the full social history of this extraordinary medical crisis in India at the end of the nineteenth century, detailing the nature and progress of the disease within a complex colonial environment. Deep-seated colonial anxieties about governing India influenced and are disclosed in responses to the pandemic. Disease carriers were identified and labelled, and scapegoats stigmatized. Western Imperialism and its developments in biomedicine clashed with older indigenous medical systems.

Sarkar also considers attitudes, approaches, and mentalities in indigenous Indian society. She explores what individuals and communities made of the disease, and how social prejudices surrounding it and its sufferers became increasingly heightened in a colonial environment. The plague crisis reveals disparate, heterogeneous voices across communities--the contradictions of a multi-religious, multi-lingual, and multi-cultural society. The last great plague of Colonial India is thus portrayed in all its political, social, economic, and demographic dimensions.

David B. Baker Fellowship in the History of Psychology

The David B. Baker Fellowship in the History of Psychology

Call for applications

Dr. David Baker, a historian of psychology and Emeritus Director of the Cummings Center for the History of Psychology, has served as an important mentor for students interested in studying history. Throughout his career, he encouraged students to engage with history by making use of the vast collections of the Archives of the History of American Psychology.



The David B. Baker Fellowship in the History of Psychology supports student research at the Archives of the History of American Psychology. The Fellowship supports travel expenses for one graduate or undergraduate student whose research will benefit from access to the Archives’ collections. One Fellowship of up to $2500 will be awarded annually.



Eligibility

All applicants must be currently enrolled in a graduate or undergraduate program
conduct onsite research at the Archives for 1 to 4 weeks, as the scholar deems necessary
be engaged in research that will directly benefit from use of the Archives’ collections

How to Apply

Applicants should submit: A project description, including a clear and detailed statement of how the Archives will be helpful to your research (500 words max). The extent to which the Archives will benefit the project will be the main criteria for evaluation.
A current CV
One letter of support for your application

Submit these materials by December 20, 2024 to the Center’s Executive Director Cathy Faye at cfaye@uakron.edu. The successful applicant will be notified by January 30, 2025. All onsite research must be completed by January 30, 2026.



More Information To learn more about the Archives, explore the website or contact our reference archivist. 

Contact cfaye@uakron.edu with any questions.
View past fellowship recipients

Nature et politique à l'Escorial et au Vatican

Le Monde sous l'oeil des médecins. Nature et politique à l'Escorial et au Vatican (XVIe siècle)

Elisa Andretta

Classiques Garnier

10/07/2024

464 pages

ISBN 978-2-406-16515-6

Centré sur l'Escorial et le Vatican, le livre explore le rôle des médecins dans la production et l'ordonnancement des connaissances sur le corps et la nature au sein de deux cours-monde du XVIe siècle. Dans ces cadres, grâce à leurs outils techniques et intellectuels, les médecins se révèlent être des acteurs indispensables à la mise en oeuvre de programmes politiques qui placent les savoirs au coeur de l'exercice du pouvoir. Leur implication dans l'aménagement de jardins, de bibliothèques ou de collections, leur production éditoriale, leurs activités médicales ou naturalistes les amènent à participer pleinement à l'élaboration de pratiques d'interprétation et de gouvernement du monde qui dépassent largement les limites de la cour.

STAND 2025 ECS Prize

STAND 2025 ECS Prize

Call for papers


STAND ECS Prize

The Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy (STAND) recognizes outstanding papers by early career scholars addressing the history of science, technology and medicine in their international contexts. Since the inaugural award was announced in 2022, the annual STAND ECS award aims to provide support and recognition for fresh voices in the field.

Topics might include, but are not limited to: science diplomacy, international cooperation in fields related to science, technology or medicine, and the transnational circulation of technoscientific and medical knowledge, materials, and expertise. The annual STAND ECS award aims to provide support and recognition for fresh voices in the field.

Candidates must have recently been awarded a PhD (within the previous 8 years) or must be enrolled in a PhD program. We particularly encourage submissions from groups and regions underrepresented in the aforementioned research themes/areas.


2025 STAND ECS Prize

The award consists of a cash prize of 500 USD and comes with the chance to present the winning paper at a virtual seminar. The award winner will be announced at the beginning of 2025. The prize committee of the Commission will consider in their reflection on entries the following: academic quality, methodological innovation, clarity in expression, and the integration of novel historical perspectives on science, technology, and medicine in their interplay with diplomatic history and the history of international relations.

Submissions should be in the form of an essay of 7,000 to 10,000 words (including citations and references). Entries should be of work not previously published.

Deadline for submission is Friday 20 December 2024


For all early career scholars interested in entering the prize competition, please send your submissions to the Commission Secretary, Matthew Adamson, email: mhadamson@mcdaniel.hu

La santé au-dehors de l’hôpital

La santé au-dehors de l’hôpital : politiques publiques et maladies professionnelles



La prochaine journée du cycle Pratiques et usages des archives médicales aux Archives départementales du Val-de-Marne aura lieu le vendredi 20 décembre de 13h à 17h



Les dossiers médicaux des égoutiers (1890 - 1970) :Traces bureaucratiques de la santé au travail. Kamel Amichi (Archives départementales du Val-de-Marne).
 

Respirer l'air des égouts : pistes de recherche en histoire. Charles-Antoine Wanecq (IRHiS, Université de Lille).

VIH et psychiatrie : circulations et usages d’archives à travers la production documentaire d’un directeur d’hôpital dans les années 1990. Magalie Moysan (TEMOS, Université d’Angers).



La journée se conclut avec une visite de l’exposition des Archives départementales du Val-de-Marne : Aux sources de la psychiatrie : la Maison de Charenton (1641-1920).

Maladie et capitalisme

Sickness and Capitalism: New Essays on Public Health, Medicine, and the Environment


Call for Papers



This new edited volume provides insights into how the history of capitalism can be analyzed in relation to the production of racial, gendered, and social inequalities in the field of public health and healthcare. While labor and environmental historians and social science researchers have explored how growing industrial productions have contributed to producing toxic residues (Boudia et al, 2021) that affect the health of workers and populations (Bécot & Le Naour, 2023), few books focusing on environmental deterioration and health have united the long-term history of pre-capitalist systems of exploitation and extraction of labor to the industrial society and the post-industrial era. Therefore, this new book will seek to explore these macro-social changes by focusing on diverse case studies addressing the health and social impacts of the plantationocene during the slavery and post-slavery eras (Nading, 2023; Wilson, 2023) as well as the colonial and post-colonial eras (Jobson, 2024), the gradual expansion of industrialization in the 19th century, to deindustrialization processes and disaster capitalism (Pyles et al, 2017) in the 20th century. Organized labor practices through unionism will be explored in relation to workers’ health and workers’ rights (Dewey, 1998; Bécot, 2012; Marichalar, 2018; Marichalar, Markowitz and Rosner, 2021). Furthermore, the financialization of medicine and healthcare has shaped how care is delivered, the conditions healthcare workers labor under, and how human subjects are compensated for medical experimentation (Winant, 2021; Shah, 2006; McQueeney, 2023).

Case studies will also engage with reflections on the production of scientific and medical expertise, to understand how industrial firms and corporations have negotiated with norms set by local, national and international authorities, how populations have perceived medical and scientific expertise focusing on health and toxicity (Brown, 1992) and how expertise have also been produced in relation to industrialists’ expectations regarding industrial and labor productivity. Public health initiatives and medical expertise seeking to target and experiment on specific populations groups in relation to their work environment will also be studied. Works will also examine how State-sponsored policies regarding the dissemination of funding have organized programs in public health and medical research or even impeded modern environmental protection (Fredrickson et al, 2018).

The financialization of healthcare and medicine has also had profound effects on the labor market internal to medicine. As historian Gabriel Winant has shown recently (2023), deindustrialization has shifted workers from factories to the care economy. As the ownership of hospitals has been consolidated by corporations, they have sought to maximize profits through cutting labor costs, affecting patients and healthcare workers. Similarly, closures of unprofitable hospitals have led to the emergence of hospital deserts, often in communities most affected by toxic exposure. On the other hand, international pharmacological study has allowed for a dynamic market to emerge for the procurement of medical test subjects. Thus, case studies could examine the market economy for test subject and human remains, labor organizing among test subject communities, the creation of healthcare deserts, and the labor movement and working conditions for healthcare professionals.

Case studies will also reflect on how State and local policies have conditioned spatial formations (with the implementation of zoning laws or urban renewal programs), urbanization patterns and in industrial sprawl (Fricklel & Elliott, 2018) that have produced increased social and sanitary impacts and health risks for low-income racialized populations, who are overrepresented in areas where petrochemical industries, dumping grounds and other heavy-polluting infrastructures have been sited. Attention will be given to reflections on race, labor and migratory patterns, to study the overrepresentation of newly arrived immigrants in heavily polluted work environments such as mining where they are exposed to health risks such as sarcoidosis. Psychological well-being and mental health care will also be analyzed, beyond the topics of exposure to toxic and industrial residues. Key processes such as slow violence (Davies, 2018; Nixon, 2013), the fabrics of contrived silences and ignorance (Frickel & Vincent, 2007) will also be studied in relation to these empirical cases.

The book will also focus on knowledge production and datactivism. Physicians have long engaged with data production and analysis in order to challenge racial and social assumptions about bodies and ideals of productivity (Eddy, 2021). Data collection and management in environmental health have given rise to counterresistance practices to fight against the exploitation of workers and the subjugation of their health and basic needs to labor incentives. The book will therefore explore how medical professionals have risen to these new tasks, sometimes beyond their primary area of expertise, to become community advocates and build community science or citizen science projects.

Looking at case studies from the 18th century to the early 21st century focusing on rural and urban contexts, the essays will stem from a wide range of fields such as history of science, technology and medicine, economic, social and industrial history, environmental history, sociology of health, medicine and expertise, historical sociology and social anthropology. The book editors encourage authors to submit works that address case studies from all continents.

• Sub themes for essays are given below but not limited to:
• Carceral logics, incarceration, prisoners’ labor and health risks
• Trade unions and workers’ health
• Political and moral economy
• Occupational health
• Empires and medicine
• Slavery and health
• Disaster capitalism
• Slow violence
• Migration and labor
• Urban/environmental history and sociology
• Regulatory history of toxicity and health
• Medical knowledge production and scientific expertise on toxicity
• The financialization of healthcare and medicine
• Experimental subjects as workers
• Workplace environmental and health
• Urban segregation, zoning and racial inequalities

Applying

We seek 250–500-word abstracts outlining the author’s argument and how it connects to one or several of the larger themes outlined above. Please send your abstract and bio to sicknessandcapitalism@gmail.com by December 20, 2024. In Summer 2025, selected authors will participate in a zoom workshop, as a first round of peer review. At this point, editors and commentators will supply detailed feedback in preparation for submitting the manuscript. Expected book chapters will be about 5000-7000 words and will feature theoretical discussions and/or empirical case studies.

About the editors

Elodie Edwards-Grossi is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Université Paris Dauphine-PSL and a Junior Fellow at the Institut Universitaire de France. Her first book, Bad Brains: la psychiatrie et la lutte des Noirs américains pour la justice raciale, XXe-XXIe siècles was published with Presses Universitaires de Rennes in 2021. A new, revised English edition is currently under contract with Palgrave Macmillan. Her second book, Mad with Freedom: The Political Economy of Blackness, Insanity and Civil Rights in the US South, 1840–1940, was published with LSU Press in Fall 2022, and received the 2023 Jules and Frances Landry Award. She is currently working on a new book project which is tentatively titled Hidden in Plain Sight: Race, Petrotoxicity and Disaster Capitalism in California. The book examines the production of polluted spaces due to the presence of petrochemical industries in socially disadvantaged, predominantly Black and Latino neighborhoods. Drawing from extensive fieldwork and historical sociology, the project focuses on the residents' past and current perceptions of social, racial and environmental inequalities and territorial stigma in their community.

Christopher D. E. Willoughby is an Assistant Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is the author of Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools (University of North Carolina Press, 2022) and coeditor of Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery (Louisiana State University Press, 2021). He is currently working on a history of capitalism and U.S. medicine from 1500 to the present. Entitled Capitalism & Medicine: a History, this project examines how significant shifts in social life and political economy from the conquest of the Americas to the rise of neoliberalism created the United States’ most peculiar medical profession and healthcare system. Previously, Edwards-Grossi and Willoughby have organized the 2021 symposium “Legacies of Slavery, Racism, and Empire in the History of Medicine” at the University of Chicago Center in Paris, and most recently, they wrote the article “Slavery and its Afterlives in US Psychiatry”, published in the American Journal of Public Health.

Contact Information

Elodie Edwards Grossi and Christopher D. E. Willoughby, Eds.

sicknessandcapitalism@gmail.com

Contact Email
sicknessandcapitalism@gmail.com

URL
https://www.christopherdewilloughby.com/sickness-and-capitalism

Une histoire sociale et politique de la folie sur les Hautes Terres de Madagascar

Délirer la situation coloniale. Une histoire sociale et politique de la folie sur les Hautes Terres de Madagascar (1863 – années 1950)

Soutenance de thèse de Raphaël Gallien


La soutenance aura lieu le lundi 9 décembre 2024 à 14h à l’université Paris Cité (salle 209 du bâtiment Olympe de Gouges, 8 rue Albert Einstein, 75013 Paris) devant un jury composé de :



- Aude FAUVEL, Maître d'enseignement et de recherche, Université de Lausanne, IHM (Examinatrice)

- Nancy R. HUNT, Professeure, University of Florida (Rapportrice)

- Hervé MAZUREL, Maître de conférences HDR, Université de Dijon, LIR3S (Rapporteur)

- Didier NATIVEL, Professeur, Université Paris Cité, CESSMA (Directeur)

- Marie-Caroline SAGLIO-YATZIMIRSKY, Professeure, INALCO, CESSMA (Présidente)

- Violaine TISSEAU, Chargée de recherches, CNRS, IMAF (Examinatrice)



Résumé de la thèse :

À partir de l’étude des dossiers d’internement de l’hôpital d’Anjanamasina – plus de 1480, qui constituent le corpus principal –, auxquels s’ajoutent archives administratives, religieuses, littérature médicale et presse écrite, cette thèse installe le délire en son centre, comme un prisme révélateur du quotidien colonial à Madagascar durant la première moitié du XXe siècle. Le délire est analysé selon une approche multiscalaire, à partir d’une lecture microhistorique qui n’exclut pas le global, afin d’interroger l’articulation qui s’opère entre subjectivités, quotidiens coloniaux et recompositions politiques. Plutôt que de le considérer comme une expérience uniquement personnelle ou de le réduire à une histoire de la médecine et de ses catégories, l’objectif est de tirer parti de sa puissance expressive pour offrir une étude originale de la société malgache. Une grande attention est donc portée aux motifs, noms, dates, évènements convoqués par le délire, constituant autant de « survivances » qui nous renseignent sur l’articulation des mouvements de l’histoire au fondement des subjectivités. En examinant comment le trouble se construit et les réponses institutionnelles qui l’accompagnent, il s’agit d’explorer les dynamiques du pouvoir, les circulations de normes et de savoirs, ainsi que la manière dont les individus mobilisent les institutions, l’espace et l’imaginaire pour se réapproprier les frontières du monde social. À terme, là où le symptôme peut être vu comme une tentative de résolution pour le sujet, l’acte de création qu’il implique soulève des questions sur la construction sociale de l’individu au sein de la « situation coloniale », dans ses sédimentations psychiques les plus profondes.

La psychologie différentielle

La psychologie différentielle



William Stern  

 

Présentation et traduction de Serge Nicolas



L'Harmattan
2024

Le psychologue allemand William Stern (1871-1938) fut le fondateur en 1900, comme l’indique le titre de son livre le plus emblématique, de la psychologie différentielle. Il a entrepris à cette époque d’accorder aux différences psychologiques caractéristiques de l’individualité d’une personne le statut de problème théorique en propre à traiter avec des méthodes scientifiques appropriées. C’est ainsi que sont abordées dans la première partie de son livre la nature, les tâches et les méthodes de la psychologie différentielle et où sont présentés les concepts de type, de normalité et d’anormalité. La seconde partie du livre porte sur l’étude de diverses fonctions mentales (mémoire, attention, volonté, etc.) qui font apparaître des différences inter-individuelles plus ou moins marquées.
La traduction française de cet ouvrage fondateur de la psychologie différentielle permettra aux lecteurs d’apprécier une œuvre parmi les plus originales de son temps.

La prochaine séance de la Société Française d’Histoire de la Médecine

La prochaine séance de la Société Française d’Histoire de la Médecine 

Vendredi 13 DECEMBRE 2024 à 14 heures
à l’Académie Nationale de Médecine, 16 rue Bonaparte 75006 Paris. Salle du 3e étage.

PROGRAMME
Informations générales, présentation et élection des candidats…
 

Conférence invitée (60 min)
Patrick BERCHE
"Vie et mort de la variole. De l'Antiquité au monkeypox."
 

Communications (20 min)

Louis CHEVALIER
Psychiatrie, instrumentalisation, répression : L'expertise médico-légale du dissident soviétique Léonide Pliouchtch en 1972.

Baptiste BAYLAC-PAOULY
Histoire de la prophylaxie de la rubéole en France.

Baptiste HAUTDIDIER
Les plus vieux arbres de Paris ont-ils transité par le jardin de l’école de médecine de la rue de la Bûcherie ?

L'imagerie médicale

Imagerie médicale, XIXe - XXIe siècle. Recherche, santé et industrie
 

Les Cahiers du Comité pour l’histoire de l’Inserm, N°5


Depuis les premières utilisations des rayons X jusqu’aux évolutions les plus récentes menant à l’imagerie multimodale, l’imagerie médicale a constitué un axe de mutation décisif pour la médecine. Il s’est trouvé naturellement au cœur du colloque organisé en septembre 2022 par le Comité pour l’histoire de l’Inserm. Son programme a été construit en étroite collaboration avec André Syrota, ancien Président-directeur général de l’Inserm et membre de notre comité. Le colloque se tint au cœur de l’hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, dans l’amphithéâtre de l’Institut du Cerveau qui soutint cet événement et pour lequel Sorbonne Université, l’un des organismes de tutelle de l’ICM, comme l’Inserm, et l’UMR Sirice furent partenaires..

Notre réflexion préliminaire se fondait sur un constat : le faible engagement initial de l’Inserm dans les recherches portant sur les nouveaux dispositifs d’imagerie (ce qui a pu être le cas pour des organismes similaires à l’étranger). Au fil du temps, pourtant, l’imagerie est devenue plus qu’un « outil » pour les chercheurs et, dans un continuum que souligne le concept de « techno-sciences », les projets de l’Inserm ont nourri les avancées de l’imagerie médicale, tout autant que les nouveaux outils lui ont permis d’avancer avec une instrumentation innovante. Autre point de départ : « voir » l’intérieur du corps – sans méthode intrusive – a rapidement redéfini le rapport des soignants et celui des patients à la santé. L’avancée des technologies questionne le statut du médecin, sa place dans le dispositif et, pour les évolutions les plus récentes – l’intelligence artificielle par exemple –, le rôle même du spécialiste dans le diagnostic. Enfin, l’imagerie médicale recouvre des disciplines et des métiers divers et le domaine présente des dimensions multiples. Les enjeux sont économiques et sociaux (coût et accès aux équipements, politique industrielle), éthiques (place du médecin dans le diagnostic, accès aux données), culturels (rapport à l’image, banalisation des hautes technologies), scientifiques (quelles relations entre ingénieurs, informaticiens et chercheurs en biomédecine). Les dernières innovations soulignent l’importance du soutien à apporter dans la longue durée au développement des technologies, que l’on parle des dernières performances de l’imagerie par ultrasons ou des technologies numériques et des jumeaux numériques. .

Ce cinquième numéro des Cahiers du Comité pour l’histoire de l’Inserm rend compte des trois axes principaux développés lors du colloque : la recherche, l’industrie et la santé. Rendant compte des discussions riches et fournies, ce numéro permet de comprendre comment la recherche en imagerie médicale, initialement localisée dans les domaines éloignés de ceux de l’Inserm comme le nucléaire, l’informatique ou l’électronique, a fini par converger avec les objectifs de l’Institut. Conformément à la mission confiée à notre Comité, ce nouveau numéro adopte une approche historienne susceptible d’éclairer les questions du temps présent. La perspective chronologique est large s’étendant depuis le début du XXe siècle à nos jours et les approches spatiales multiples, combinant le spectre national, les circulations internationales et le développement de pôles régionaux.



Éditorial Pascal GRISET

Hommage à Suzy Mouchet (1938-2023) Le Comité pour l'histoire de l'Inserm

Marie Curie, la radiologie et la guerre, 1914-1918 Natalie PIGEARD-MICAULT

Le développement de l’imagerie médicale en France depuis les années 1960. Le rôle clef du Commissariat à l’énergie atomique Pascal GRISET

Rétrospective sur le développement de la plateforme TEP pour la recherche en neurosciences (CYCERON) et l’implantation de l’Inserm à Caen,1980-2000 Jean-Claude BARON

Béatrice Desgranges (1955-2021), clinicienne-chercheuse en neuropsychologie et en neuroimagerie Francis EUSTACHE, Mickaël LAISNEY

La genèse de Neurospin et du projet Iseult: imagerie du cerveau à très haut champ magnétique Denis Le BIHAN

Les avancées récentes de l'imagerie par résonance magnétique (IRM) pour explorer le développement du cerveau du nourrisson Jessica DUBOIS, Ghislaine DEHAENE-LAMBERTZ, Lucie HERTZ-PANNIER

X-rays, MRI and Philips Research c. 1920 - c. 2020 Dirk van DELFT

La Compagnie générale de radiologie, 1930-1987: une trajectoire industrielle interrompue dans l’imagerie médicale Yves BOUVIER

L’imagerie médicale comme outil de santé publique : le cas du dépistage de la tuberculose, années 1940-1960 Kylian GODDE

La radiologie interventionnelle : enjeux juridictionnels de l'entrée d'une spécialité dans le soin Léo MIGNOT

Conclusions André SYROTA

Raconter l'héritage de la psychiatrie

Narrating the Heritage of Psychiatry
 

Elisabeth Punzi, Cornelia Wächter, and Christoph Singer (eds)

Brill
Series: Narratives and Mental Health, Volume: 1 Volume Editors:
Publication: 17 Oct 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-51983-1

This volume highlights the importance of diverse voices and perspectives in understanding the history and heritage of psychiatry. Exploring the complex interrelations between psychiatry, heritage and power, Narrating the Heritage of Psychiatry complicates the pervasive biomedical narrative of progress in which the history of psychiatry is usually framed. By examining multiple perspectives, including those of users/survivors of mental health services, the collection sheds light on neglected narratives and aims to broaden our understanding of psychiatric history and current practices. In doing so, it also considers the role of art, activism, and community narratives in reimagining and recontextualizing psychiatric heritage. This volume brings into conversation perspectives from practitioners, patients/users and scholars from the humanities and social sciences.

Obaid Siddiqi Chair

Obaid Siddiqi Chair in the History and Culture of Science, 2025-26


Call for applications



Deadline: Fri, Jan 10, 2025
Award Confirmation: April 2025
Duration: ~Aug 2025 - Jul 2026 (Start and end dates are flexible; the duration is one year)

Application details: https://archives.ncbs.res.in/os

Overview: The Obaid Siddiqi Chair will be awarded to a distinguished scholar with a substantial body of work that deepens our understanding of the history and culture of science. The applicant will be someone who is known for transcending disciplinary boundaries in their work and engaging with the public. The Chair will work closely with the Archives at NCBS to reimagine the role of the archive in both academic and the public spaces. This position is made possible with generous support from TNQ Foundation.

Duration: 12 months, in residence on the NCBS campus in Bangalore.

Eligibility: We invite applications from individuals around the world. There are no restrictions on the applicant’s discipline or on completed levels of education. Applicants could see their time at NCBS as a way to develop existing projects further. We look forward to applicants from wide-ranging fields such as history, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, law, literature, journalism, archaeology, art, architecture, education, economics, engineering and the sciences.

Compensation and benefits: The Chair will be paid a monthly senior faculty-level salary commensurate with institute norms. NCBS will also provide campus housing for one year, and support toward some research expenses.

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Comment penser les maladies dans la longue durée ?Regards et outils croisés d'un philosophe, d'un historien et d'une biologiste sur le "diagnostic rétrospectif"


Séminaire international en humanités médicales

Mercredi 18 décembre 2024, 15h-17h30, salle OO3, IDHEAP




Modération : Vincent Varlet, CUR de médecine légale, UNIL-UNIGE

Programme :
15h00 - 15h45 Pierre-Olivier Méthot, Faculté de philosophie, Université Laval
15h45 - 16h30 Myriam Lamrayah, Faculté de médecine, UNIGE
-16h30-16h45- Pause
16h45-17h30 Guillaume Linte, IHM, CHUV-UNIL

Assistant.e de recherche sur la main victorienne

Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History


Call for applications

Two-year, full-time Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History to join the AHRC-funded 'd' project at Lancaster in the Dept. of History, working with Michael Brown. Full details can be found here:



https://hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=1263-24



The Department of History at Lancaster University are seeking to appoint a Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History. We are looking for a talented scholar of Victorian culture to join our AHRC-funded project ‘The Victorian Hand: Emotions, Embodiment, and Identity, Past and Present’ (AH/Z505948/1). This is a collaboration between Lancaster University and University of the Arts London (UAL): London College of Fashion. Lancaster University is research-led, ranked 10th in the UK (Complete University Guide 2025), and is among the top 150 universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2025). Meanwhile, London College of Fashion is ranked as the third best fashion school in the world (CEO World, 2024) and UAL is top two in the world for Art and Design (QS World University Rankings 2024).



Our collaboration constitutes a pioneering interdisciplinary exploration of the cultural meaning of the hand in Victorian Britain and its implications for embodied class, racial, and gender identities in an age of imperialism, industrialisation, and social and cultural change. We will combine our historical findings with an extensive programme of public engagement, working with a range of stakeholders, including surgeons, crafters, and students, to explore the hand and its work today. This is an exciting opportunity to join a major collaboration between two leading universities, addressing themes of both historical and contemporary relevance. It is a full-time appointment for a fixed-term of 24 months starting 1 February 2025 or as soon as possible after that.



You will work with Dr Michael Brown (LU) and Professor Joanne Begiato (LCF) to identity, record, photograph, organise, transcribe, and process research data from digital repositories and physical archives across the UK, enabling collaborative coding and analysis. They will work collaboratively with the project leads to shape the project’s online presence, lead on organising the project conference, and co-edit the resulting collection of essays. They will also be provided with the opportunity to prepare and publish their own single-author journal article using their research on this project. Appropriate support and mentoring will be provided. This is a great opportunity not only to develop a range of academic skills, but to produce substantive research outputs.



You will have a doctorate in history (or related research field) and will have extensive experience of working with nineteenth-century source materials in both digital and archival repositories. Experience of using qualitative research software such as NVivo, as well as Omeka-S or other web-publishing platforms is desirable, as is experience of organising academic events, and presenting and publishing research. Those with prior experience of research on the Victorian body and/or material culture are particularly encouraged to apply.



Lancaster University is situated near the historic city of Lancaster. The North West of England offers high standards of living, beautiful countryside, including the Lake District, and excellent national and international transport links. www.lancs.ac.uk.



The post will be based at Lancaster University’s Bailrigg campus with agile working principles.



Informal enquiries are welcomed and should be made to Dr Michael Brown, e-mail: m.brown23@lancaster.ac.uk



You can visit the Department of History’s webpage at: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/history/