Les images de la profession infirmière

Les images de la profession infirmière: entre fantasmes et représentations biaisées… comment s’en sortir ?


Colloque 

 

Vendredi, le 06.11.2026
La Source - Vinet, Auditoire Gasparin
9:00 à 16:30 Formulaire d'inscription

Dévouée, héroïque, discrète, exécutante... Les images associées à la profession infirmière sont nombreuses et souvent réductrices. Loin d'être de simples mots, ces représentations influencent la manière dont la société perçoit le corps infirmier, ses compétences et son rôle dans le système de santé. Demeure une certitude qu’infirmières et infirmiers réaffirment régulièrement depuis 1988: Ni bonne, ni conne, ni nonne !
Organisée par l’Institut et Haute École de la Santé La Source et l’Institut des humanités en médecine CHUV-Unil, une journée d’étude propose d'explorer l'histoire de ces imaginaires, leurs manifestations dans les médias et la culture populaire, ainsi que les moyens de promouvoir une image plus fidèle de la profession infirmière contemporaine. Historien·nes, chercheur·euses et professionnel·les de Suisse, de France, de Belgique et du Canada partageront leurs analyses et leurs perspectives lors de cette rencontre.
 

Objectifs du colloque

• Identifier les principaux imaginaires, représentations et clichés associés à la profession infirmière
• Repérer ces représentations dans différents supports: photographies, films, séries télévisées, affiches, publicités, réseaux sociaux, etc.
• Analyser la manière dont l’image de l’infirmier·ère est construite et véhiculée à travers ces différents supports et sous quelle influence
• Comparer les représentations de la profession infirmière selon les époques, les contextes et les types de médias
• Favoriser les échanges entre différentes disciplines et différents points de vue afin de développer une réflexion collective et critique, afin de proposer une image plus fidèle et représentative de la profession
• Questionner l’influence de ces représentations sur la perception sociale de la profession infirmière, sur son identité professionnelle, voire sur les trajectoires de carrière
• Amener les participant·es à déconstruire certains clichés et à proposer des représentations plus diversifiées et réalistes de la profession et ce grâce à la médiation théâtrale

Programme

09:00: Accueil des participant·es

09:10-09:20: Mot d’introduction


Session 1
Dociles et douces ou indépendantes et rebelles? Premières images et premières divergences
Animatrice, Marie Leyder, La Source

09:20-10:00: "L’histoire des infirmières… Mille et un clichés à déconstruire", par Marie-Claude Thifault, Université d’Ottawa

10:00-10:40: "Autour de Mademoiselle Friquette, super infirmière: pour une autre culture visuelle de l’histoire des femmes et des professions de soin (1890s-2020s)", par Aude Fauvel, IHM CHUV-Unil

10:40-11:20: "Forte et impériale ? Images de l’infirmière missionnaire à partir du cas des Sourciennes (1920s-1950s)", par Guillaume Linte, CNRS-Université Aix-Marseille-Sciences Po Aix


11:20-11:40: Pause


11:40-12:20: "De l’image historique à l’image contemporaine de l’infirmière de La Source", par Eva Yampolsky, La Source

12:20-12:30: Synthèse de la matinée et ouverture du dialogue

12:30-14:00: Pause repas


Session 2
À la télévision, dans les films, les séries: questionner les stéréotypes contemporains
Animatrice: Amélie Puche, IHM

14:00-14:40: "Le nouveau visage de la profession infirmière psychiatrique : la propagande de Cery dans les années 1950-1980", par Mikhaël Moreau, IHM

14:40-15:20: "La colère noire des bonnets blancs: infirmières et mobilisations au prisme des télévisions (Belgique, 1967-1974)", par Alexandra Micciche, Université Libre de Bruxelles et Université de Namur

15:20-15:30: Pause santé


Session 3
Promouvoir une image plus fidèle, voire plus politique
Animateur: Philippe Delmas, La Source

15:30-16:15: Le théâtre des soins ! Une recherche-médiation

Médiation théâtrale de la compagnie Fools, par Amélie Puche, IHM et Murielle Tenger, Compagnie Fools, avec le soutien de l’Atelier des histoires de l’UNIL


16:15-16:30: Dialogue conclusif par Aude Fauvel, IHM 

Tavernes, cafés, bistrots

Tavernes, cafés, bistrots. Lieux de sociabilité populaire des années 1750 aux années 1920

Robert Beck, Stéphanie Sauget, Jean-Claude Yon (dir.)



Presses universitaires de Rennes
2026

De nos jours, une institution capitale de la vie sociale des milieux populaires se trouve en pleine régression : il s’agit de ces lieux de sociabilité qu’étaient jadis les cafés, bistrots, tavernes et autres débits de boissons, dont le nombre diminue sensiblement partout. Pourtant, dans les sociétés européennes, méditerranéennes et nord américaines, entre le milieu du XVIIIe siècle et les débuts du XXe siècle, ces établissements souvent reconnaissables depuis la rue et s’inscrivant dans une topographie particulière, animés par des entrepreneurs parfois hauts en couleur et multitâches, étaient des pivots de la vie sociale, économique, politique et culturelle. Comprendre la fonction du bistrot de quartier pour la structuration du voisinage ou de la taverne de village pour la communauté villageoise est une des premières missions de ce livre qui fait aussi entrer le lecteur et la lectrice à l’intérieur de débits de boissons très divers pour tenter d’en restituer l’atmosphère : que buvait-on dans ces endroits ? Qui étaient les buveurs et les buveuses ? Qu’y faisaient-ils habituellement ? Les salles des cafés et autres bistrots constituent un formidable observatoire des normes sociales, de genre et de santé publique que l’usage de la comparaison, les changements d’échelle et de terrains d’observation permettent d’éclairer autrement. Voyons comment concrètement fonctionnaient ces « salons du pauvre ».

Publié avec le soutien du laboratoire CeTHIS de l’université de Tours

Âge, alcool et drogues : histoires mondiales

Age, Alcohol, and Drugs: Global Histories 

Call for papers

August 4 & 5, 2027

University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario Canada

Sociologists have long been interested in the phenomenon of “maturing out” out of alcohol and drug use. Yet recent data suggests that the history of drug and alcohol use over the life course is more complicated than people becoming more moderate or abstinent as they age. People often use the drugs of their youth into older ages, even if the ways in which they use these drugs changes over time. This is particularly true of alcohol, a drug whose legal status in most countries means that some of the important incentives for quitting or reducing use are absent. By contrast, there are legions of ex-smokers in most Western countries today. There are interesting questions to be asked about how the use of legal psychotropics such as SSRI’s, tranquillizers and amphetamines changes over the life course. We are interested in how changing patterns of use are impacted by race, ethnicity, gender, and class – including differential access to prescription pharmaceuticals, different understandings of pain and disability, and the question of affordability. This workshop will examine the historical use of psychotropic substances, including studies of children, youth, young adults, middle-aged adults and the elderly. Histories from all parts of the world are welcome. While the focus of the conference will be on historical approaches to age, alcohol and drugs, applications from non-historians working on historical topics are welcome.

The papers at this conference will be considered for a special issue of the Social History of Alcohol and Drugs.

Potential questions include:

• How have older people inducted younger people into drug use and what lessons have they tried to impart?
• How have societies at different times and places tried to encourage or prohibit the drug use of individuals based on their age through law (such as legal drinking ages), informal prohibitions, or incentives (such as teachers encouraging the use of Ritalin and other drugs)?
• How have the manufacturers of licit and illicit drugs marketed their products to different age groups?
• Often, drug and alcohol use among young people causes the most societal concern, but are there instances in which drinking or drug-taking has been problematized among the elderly or the middle-aged?
• How do the spaces of drinking and drug-using change over the life course and how have the spaces of drinking and drug -taking changed over time?
• How do the experiences and/or motivations for consuming drugs and alcohol change over people’s lifetimes? How do these experiences and motivations differ by race, class, culture and nationality?

This conference will be held in University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada on August 4th & 5th 2027.

Deadline: Abstracts (350 words maximum) and short CVs (2 page maximum) are required by December 15th to ccarstai@uoguelph.ca

Contact Email
ccarstai@uoguelph.ca

Les Filles de la Charité, les hôpitaux catholiques et l'expansion du système de santé américain

The Daughters of Charity, Catholic Hospitals, and the Expansion of American Healthcare

Carl F. Ameringer

Notre Dame Press
Octobre 2026 

For more than two centuries, the Daughters of Charity quietly worked to shape the institutions that became the backbone of American healthcare. Drawing on his experience as a healthcare attorney and his expertise in health policy and health administration, Carl F. Ameringer offers the first comprehensive history of the Daughters’ healthcare apostolate in the United States, from the founding of their first ministry in 1823 to the transfer of their extensive hospital network in 2012.

Donning their distinctive white-winged cornettes, the Daughters served the sick poor during wars and epidemics, economic recessions and urbanization, founding more than fifty hospitals nationwide. Ameringer shows how they navigated major transformations in medicine and society while overcoming prejudice against women and Catholics and opposition from clergy, physicians, and politicians along the way.

The Daughters of Charity, Catholic Hospitals, and the Expansion of American Healthcare reveals the scale and significance of the Daughters’ contribution to American healthcare and traces a legacy that continues to influence the field today.

Les médecins vaudois

Les connaissez-vous vraiment ? Ces médecins vaudois qui honorent de leur nom les auditoires du CHUV



Conférences



Un.e historien.ne de l'IHM et un.e clinicien.ne mettent en lumière des aspects moins connus de ces médecins.





Mardi 27 octobre 2026, 12h30-13h, aud. César Roux, CHUV

« César Roux, un féministe avant l'heure ? » par Aude Fauvel, IHM, et Ilaria Lucca, Service d’urologie, CHUV


Lundi 9 novembre 2026, 12h30-13h, auditoire Yersin, CHUV
« Alexandre Yersin, un homme libre » par Magdalena Czartoryjska Meier, IHM, et Matthias Cavassini, CHUV


Jeudi 19 novembre 2026, 12h30-13h, auditoire Tissot, CHUV
« Auguste Tissot, le sexe et la santé », par Vincent Barras, IHM, et Michaël Saraga, DP-CHUV


Lundi 30 novembre 2026, 13h-13h30, auditoire Mayor, CHUV
« Mathias Mayor, innover et transmettre », par Mariama Kaba, IHM, et Olivier Lamy, Service de rhumatologie, CHUV


Lundi 7 décembre 2026, 12h30-13h, auditoire Olivier, CHUV
« Charlotte Olivier, médecin du peuple », par Paul Turberg, IHM



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L'aide médicale japonaise, le sang iranien et la diplomatie du racisme génétique

Japanese Medical Aid, Iranian Blood, and the Diplomacy of Genetic Racialism
 

Elise Burton (University of Toronto)

21 October at 2:30pm 

Room 101, 3647 Peel 

In 1966, Japan’s Overseas Technical Cooperation Agency (OTCA) established an office for “medical cooperation,” which recruited Japanese medical schools to participate in international aid projects to strengthen scientific, as well as political, ties with countries across Asia and Africa. Gifu University Medical School was selected to work in Iran, launching a flow of Japanese personnel and scientific equipment to the laboratories of Tehran University. While Iranian scientists were primarily interested in receiving technical aid, Japanese scientists were eager to conduct joint fieldwork projects. The organization of a joint expedition to northern Iran in 1972 exposed a series of tensions in the Japanese-Iranian collaboration. The team eventually collected blood samples from thousands of Iranian villagers to screen them for pathologies. Then, most of these blood samples were shipped to Japan, where they had a surprising afterlife. Circulating through laboratories in Tokyo, Nagasaki, and Osaka, the Iranian blood was incorporated into a research project to analyze genetic variation within Japan’s own population, and data from the samples featured in Japanese publications hypothesizing about the origins of the Japanese race. Meanwhile, in publications with Iranian co-authors, the meaning of the genetic data had to be re-negotiated according to Iranian understandings of racial identity.

Séminaires de l'Université de Cambridge

History of Medicine Seminars, Michaelmas Term 2026


University of Cambridge - Department of History & Philosophy of Science


Seminars are on Tuesdays from 5.00 to 6.30pm in Seminar Room 1, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RH. All welcome!

Early Science and Medicine

Organised by Beatrice Bottomley, Lauren Kassell and Dániel Margócsy. 

19 October (please note this seminar will be on a Monday!)
Colos, Snak, and Suhak Scytharum: making and mistaking the saiga in early modern natural history
Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (University of Warsaw)

3 November
Thumbnails, or, a microphotographic wild goose chase from medieval monasteries to digital repositories
Jack Hartnell (National Gallery, London)

24 November
The fats of life in the early modern world: matter in multispecies medicine
Holly Fletcher (University College London) 

History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Organised by Mary Brazelton, Rosanna Dent and Staffan Müller-Wille. 

13 October
Interpreting STS in the 1960s and the biological revolution: at stake the nature of Life
Robert Bud (University College London)

17 November
Making dust governable: the technology of face masks and industrial hygiene in Mao-era China
Zhang Meng (University of Manchester)

1 December
The architecture of imperial science: collecting Asia-Pacific heritage in Germany, 1870–present
Marissa Petrou (University of Louisiana at Lafayette) 

Generation to Reproduction
Organised by Salim Al-Gailani and Beatrice Bottomley. 

27 October
Christian Science and childbirth pain in the Gilded Age
Nienke Groskamp (University of Cambridge)

10 November
Polluted objects, unnatural epidemics: the rise of posthumous magic in early modern Moravia
Ádám Mézes (European University Institute)

La santé mentale communautaire dans une perspective comparative et transnationale

Community Mental Health in Comparative and Transnational Perspectives

Call for Papers


May 3–4, 2027
University of Chicago Center in Paris

“Community” has become one of the most powerful and mobile concepts in contemporary mental health policy. Across diverse settings, community mental health (CMH) is invoked as a humane alternative to asylum-based psychiatry, a cost-effective response to scarcity, and a means of promoting social inclusion and citizenship for persons with mental illnesses. Yet “community” is neither conceptually stable nor politically neutral. Community mental health has taken divergent institutional forms across different national and regional contexts, shaped by distinct histories of psychiatry, welfare regimes, family structures, disability politics, and state governance.

This two-day international workshop, to be held at the University of Chicago Center in Paris on May 3–4, 2027, brings together scholars working on community mental health from comparative, historical, and transnational perspectives. Rather than asking simply whether particular models of community mental health “succeed” or “fail,” we are interested in how ideas and practices of community care are translated, institutionalized, and contested across different settings, and what these processes reveal about changing relationships among psychiatry, disability, governance, expertise, family, and social citizenship.

We welcome papers from anthropology, history, sociology, and related fields. We especially encourage submissions based on research in the Global South, as well as papers that trace connections and circulations between the Global South and Europe, North America, or other regions. Comparative papers are welcome, but papers focused on a single setting are equally appropriate when they engage broader historical or transnational questions.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to: 

• Histories of institutional and community psychiatry: What meanings and values have been attached to the idea of community in the mental health field? How have psychiatric institutions and community-based systems developed in relation to one another? How has deinstitutionalization, sectorization, decentralization, or other reforms transformed systems of care? Which policy and social processes drove these changes?
• Community mental health, disability rights, and social citizenship: How have disability movements, mad activism, service-user organizing, and changing ideas of autonomy and participation reshaped community services? How do human rights contribute to challenge, reshape, or reinforce community mental health policies? To what extent have advocacy movements and survivors been integrated into services?
• Governance, expertise, and care: How does CMH redistribute authority and responsibility among psychiatrists and other professionals, families, peers, community organizations, and state actors? How do funding, welfare provision, and security concerns shape the landscape of community services? How are community mental health systems stratified along lines of class, race or ethnicity, age, gender, and other forms of social inequality, and how do these differences shape access to and experiences of care? What sorts of regulations contribute—or fail to contribute—to the organization of services in specific areas?
• Transnational circulation and policy translation: How do models of CMH travel across countries and regions? What happens when concepts such as recovery, case management, psychosocial rehabilitation, peer support, sectorization, or community-based care are translated into new institutional and political environments? What role do international and transnational organizations play in the development and circulation of these models and concepts?

The workshop is designed to encourage sustained discussion rather than conventional short conference presentations. To facilitate that, participants will be expected to circulate a paper in advance of the workshop. We plan to publish select papers as a special issue or an edited volume after the workshop.

The workshop will be held in English.

Submission

Please submit an abstract of approximately 500 words, along with a brief biographical statement, by October 30, 2026. We aim to notify applicants of decisions by the end of November 2026.

In your submission, please indicate whether you would require financial support to participate in the workshop and, if possible, the approximate amount or nature of support needed. Limited travel support may be available for participants with limited institutional funding, but support cannot be guaranteed.

Please send submissions to co-organizers Zhiying Ma (zhiyingma@uchicago.edu) and Nicolas Henckes (nicolas.henckes@cnrs.fr) with the subject line “CMH Workshop CFP.”