Perspectives transnationales en histoire de la santé

Histoire de la médecine et de la santé : perspectives transnationales


Séminaire d’initiation à l’histoire de la médecine, 2025-2026 (S2) organisé par Maria Pia Donato (6 ECTS)

Le mercredi, de 16 h à 19 h

Salle d’Histoire
ENS-PSL
45 rue d’Ulm, Paris 5e

Contact : maria-pia.donato@ens.psl.eu



Mercredi 21 janvier 2026
16 h – 19 h

Santé et maladie(s) : concepts et pratiques

Mercredi 28 janvier 2026
16 h – 19 h

La mort est-elle un objet médical ?

Mercredi 4 février 2026
16 h – 19 h

Médecins et patients : stratégies thérapeutiques et questions déontologiques

Mercredi 11 février 2026
16 h – 19 h

Les « professions » médicales

Mercredi 18 février 2026
16 h – 19 h

Séance pédagogique

Mercredi 11 mars 2026
16 h – 19 h

Avec Juliette Rigaud
Chirurgie et chirurgiens, une histoire à part ?


Mercredi 18 mars 2026
16 h – 19 h

Des figures de soin oubliées ? Femmes et/en médecine

Mercredi 25 mars 2026
16 h – 19 h

Avec Marco Emanuele Omes
La vaccination, enjeux et débats


Mercredi 1er avril 2026
16 h – 19 h

Séance de validation

Séminaire d'Histoire de la psychiatrie de Sainte-Anne

Séminaire d'Histoire de la psychiatrie de Sainte-Anne


Ce séminaire invite à une réflexion sur l’histoire des idées et des pratiques psychiatriques, afin d’éprouver, par le détour de l'histoire, la fragilité de nos certitudes cliniques et pour interroger ce qui fonde nos manières de penser et de soigner.

PROGRAMME 2025-2026 

4 NOVEMBRE / Élisabeth Antoine-König : L’Iconographie de la folie à la Renaissance

2 DECEMBRE / Jérémie Sinzelle : K. Kahlbaum : pionnier de la psychiatrie de l’adolescent

6 JANVIER / Laure Murat : Archives, rencontres, croisements : Itinéraire d’une chercheuse en psychiatrie

10 FEVRIER / Anouck Cape : Les Frontières du délire. Ecrivains et fous au temps des avant-gardes

10 MARS / Jean-Christophe Coffin : Le Genre dans l’histoire de la psychiatrie

7 AVRIL / Jérôme Englebert : La Psychose et le débat sur la liberté dans la pathologie phénoménologique

5 MAI / Denis Forest : Passions prédominantes, consommations préoccupantes, remèdes dévoyés. Ce que dit l’histoire des addictions.

2 JUIN / Clément Fromentin : L’iconographie des aliénistes – les représentations savantes du désordre mental

 

Séminaire d’Histoire de la Psychiatrie de Sainte-Anne, organisé par le Pr Bernard GRANGER, les Drs Yann CRAUS, Clément FROMENTIN, Jérémie SINZELLE. Avec le concours du Dr François BING et de la Bibliothèque Henri Ey - GHU.

Lieu : Amphithéâtre Morel – GHU Paris, psychiatrie et neuroscience – 1 Rue Cabanis – 75014 Paris à 20 h.

Entrée libre sur inscription

INSCRIPTIONS – INFORMATIONS : clement.fromentin@asm13.org

Physiologies médicales et philosophiques

Physiologies médicales et philosophiques - session 2025–2026

Webinaire



5 décembre (14h30–16h30, heure de Paris), Lucia Raggetti (Università di Bologna)
Peculiar Properties of Plants, Animals, and Stones: Clues and Lines of Transmission from an Arabic Perspective

16 janvier (14h30–16h30, heure de Paris), Pauline Koetschet (CNRS, Centre Léon Robin)
L'Abrégé du traité Sur la méthode de traitement de Galien, par Abū Bakr al-Rāzī. Résumé ou reconstruction ?

13 février (14h30–16h30, heure de Paris), Riccardo Chiaradonna (Università Roma Tre)
Galien et la santé humaine : la latitude des formes
séance en hybride — Lille, Pont-de-Bois

3 avril (14h30–16h30, heure de Paris), Pierre-Marie Morel (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Éthique et physiologie chez Aristote : le sommeil et le vin
séance en hybride — Paris, Serpente (Maison de la recherche)

5 juin (14h30–16h30, heure de Paris), Chiara Thumiger (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel)
The Psychology of Stomach Diseases in Greek Medicine

19 juin (14h30–16h30, heure de Paris), Julie Giovacchini (CNRS, Centre Jean Pépin)
« Die griechische Empirikerschule » : école, doctrine ou collection ?

Les séances se dérouleront en visioconférence par Zoom (lien de connexion sur demande : seminaire-physiologies-request@univ-lille.fr).

Séminaires de Cambridge

History of Medicine Seminars, Michaelmas Term 2025


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!



History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Organised by Rosanna Dent, Nick Hopwood, Staffan Müller-Wille and Dmitriy Myelnikov

14 October

Avey Nelson and Kate O'Riordan (University of Sussex)
Thylacine stories: mapping de-extinction

11 November
Timothy Sim (HPS, University of Cambridge)
Dengue in Campaign City: the spectacle of mosquito control in postcolonial Singapore

25 November
Miguel Garcia-Sancho (University of Edinburgh)
Infrastructures, power and filiation: genetic information and the quest for the 'stolen babies' of Spain


Early Science and Medicine
Organised by Philippa Carter and Emma Perkins

21 October
Martha McGill (English, University of Cambridge)
Memory, cognition and selfhood in early modern Britain

4 November
Eva Johanna Holmberg (University of Helsinki)
Experiencing and alleviating pain in a settler colony: Jamestown, 1607–1610

2 December
Mark Jenner (University of York)
A press of death and prices? Reframing London's Bills of Mortality


Generation to Reproduction
Organised by Philippa Carter, Nick Hopwood, Rosanna Dent, Staffan Müller-Wille and Dmitriy Myelnikov

28 October
Tatjana Buklijas (University of Auckland)
The fetus and the lamb: clinical trials and reproductive risks since the 1960s

18 November
Róisín Donohoe (National Library of Ireland)
Devotion and deliverance: childbirth in middle English manuscripts

Les rendez-vous du CRIHM

Les rendez-vous du CRIHM. Cercle de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les humanités médicales
 

Saison 3

Responsables : Claire Barillé, Marie Derrien, Gabriel Galvez-Behar, Mélanie Traversier (IRHiS, ULille)
Samy Bounoua, Léo Heuguebart, Hélène Kowalski, Valentin Mériaux (doctorants, IRHiS, ULille)
Paul Marquis (IRHiS, ANR PSYGNAL), Charles-Antoine Wanecq (Chaire SVT, Sciences Po–Lille)
 

Contacts : Aurélie Ducroquet (IRHiS, ULille, Pont-de-Bois) – aurélie.ducroquet@univ-lille.fr
Sophie Becart (Sciences Po Lille) – sophie.becart@sciencespo-lille.eu


SÉMINAIRE 2025-2026
LES 26 SEPTEMBRE ET 17 OCTOBRE 2025
SALLE DE SÉMINAIRE DE L’IRHiS
UNIVERSITÉ DE LILLE • CAMPUS DU PONT-DE-BOIS • VILLENEUVE D’ASCQ
 

LE 21 NOVEMBRE 2025
SALLE 2.30
SCIENCES PO LILLE • 9 RUE AUGUSTE ANGELLIER • LILLE
 

LES SÉANCES 2026
SALLE 2.44
SCIENCES PO LILLE • 9 RUE AUGUSTE ANGELLIER • LILLE
Séances en hybride à ce lien =>
https://univ-lille-fr.zoom.us/j/94966743441?pwd=A36Yi3fGSCcmgpMyC2S9yvyQnuoqsK.1
[ID de réunion : 949 6674 3441 — Code secret: 735792]

26 septembre 2025 – 10 h - 16 h – à l’IRHiS
—> Respirations
Florian CHARVOLIN (Centre Max Weber, UJean-Monnet-Saint-Étienne)
La lente dépossession, pour les populations, de la mesure de leur qualité de l’air : socio-histoire d’une technicisation de la métrologie française de l’air (1920–2020)

Thierry GUILLOPE (LARHRA, ENS de Lyon)
Le quotidien de la prévention. Une histoire de la santé au travail par l’action des Caisses régionales de Sécurité sociale (milieu des années 1940–milieu des années 1970)

14 h — Véronique STENGER, Yohann GUFFROY (Projet Breathing modernities, UGenève)
Le masque au travail : histoire socio-technique d’un dispositif de prévention face aux dangers de l’air en France et en Angleterre au XIXe siècle

Resp : Samy Bounoua, Léo Heuguebart, Charles-Antoine Wanecq
 

17 octobre 2025 – 10 h - 16 h – à l’IRHiS
—> Addictions

Alis MONTOIS (SM-SHS, GHU-Paris Psychiatrie et neurosciences)
Penser et soigner l’alcoolisme avant l’addictologie : prises en charge dans les asiles publics du département de la Seine (années 1860–1914)

Sophie PANZIERA (CAK, EHESS)
Somnifères, narcotiques et hypnotiques : la question de l’addiction dans les cures de sommeil au début du XXe siècle

14 h — Zoë DUBUS (Cermes3, UParis Cité, CNRS, Inserm)
Les médecins face à l’addiction : morphinomanie iatrogène et crise professionnelle au XIXe siècle
Resp. : Claire Barillé, Marie Derrien

21 novembre 2025 – 10 h - 16 h – à ScPo Lille
—> Corps armés

Thomas RAMONDA (Mesopolhis, Aix-Marseille Université)
Soigner pour occuper : médecine en contexte d’occupation militaire (péninsule ibérique, 1808–1814)

Aude-Marie LALANNE BERDOUTICQ (SIRICE, Sorbonne Université)
La sélection médicale des soldats (France–Grande-Bretagne, 1900–1918)

14 h — Pauline PERETZ (IHTP, UParis 8 Vincennes–Saint-Denis)
Une masculinité martiale noire ? Les Africains-Américains à l’entraînement aux États-Unis pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale
Resp. : Marie Derrien, Paul Marquis, Mélanie Traversier

30 janvier 2026 – 10 h - 16 h – à ScPo Lille
—> Politisations

Marine BOISSON (Chaire Santé, Sciences Po Paris)
La politisation de la médecine en temps d’épidémie : rapports aux soins et rapports à l’État. Retour sur l’enquête COVIPOL à partir d’une comparaison hospitaliers-libéraux

Renaud BÉCOT (Sciences Po Grenoble, UGrenoble-Alpes)
Politiser l’imperceptible. Les fonctionnaires d’État et le risque-amiante bâtimentaire en France, 1972–2020

14 h — Jean-Luc CHAPPEY (IHMC, UParis 1)
Autour de son ouvrage Pasteur et les antivax
Resp. : Gabriel Galvez-Behar, Hélène Kowalski
 

20 mars 2026 – 10 h - 16 h – à ScPo Lille
—> Professions
Jean CORBI (CHSP, Sciences Po Paris)
Médecines et médecins au Sichuan, 1900–1950

Laurène ASSAILLY (CMH, Fédération Sciences sociales et santé numérique de l’Institut Santé Numérique en Société
Produire les données hospitalière. Ethnographie du travail soignant au chevet des données

14 h — Isabelle COQUILLARD (MéMo, UParis-Nanterre)
Dire et pratiquer la médecine à Paris au XVIIIe siècle. Les docteurs régents de la Faculté de médecine en l’Université de Paris (1707–1789)
Resp. : Samy Bounoua, Mélanie Traversier, Charles-Antoine Wanecq

3 avril 2026 – 10 h - 16 h – à ScPo Lille
—> Architectures

Marie THÉBAUD-SORGER (CAK, CNRS)
Bio-politique des micro-atmosphères : le concours sur l’altération de l’air dans les hôpitaux et les prisons, Lyon (1764-1767)

Agathe MERIDJEN (ISP, UParis Nanterre)
Un asile en chantier : histoire sociale et politique d’une architecture vécue (Maison de Charenton, deuxième moitié du XIXe siècle)

14 h — Corinne LUXEMBOURG (PLEIADE, USorbonne Paris Nord)
Pour une histoire matérielle de la vaccination et de la
santé publique
Resp. : Valentin Mériaux, Charles-Antoine Wanecq
 

29 mai 2026 – 10 h - 16 h – à ScPo Lille
—> Diplomatie, transferts

Shiori NOSAKA (SAGE, UStrasbourg)
L’émergence de la bactériologie comme un nouvel espace transnational : analyse à partir d’une étude de cas du Japon

Laure HUMBERT (UManchester)
À venir

14 h — Céline PAILLETTE (INSERM)
La construction de la sécurité sanitaire internationale, 1850–1950
Resp. : Gabriel Galvez-Behar, Valentin Mériaux
 

JOURNÉE D’ÉTUDES — 13 novembre 2025, 13 h 45–23 h — Kino, ULille, Pont-de-Bois, VAscq
—> Recherche-création et soin : archives, récits, voix, expériences
avec la participation de -> Agnès Bourgeois, Maxime Bubrovszky, Fabien D’Hondt, Sarah Feuillas, Raphaël Gallien, Hervé Guillemain, Marielle Hubert, Pauline Peretz, Isabelle Prim, Mathilde Rossigneux-Méheust, Catalina Villar, Sonny Walbrou
organisée en collaboration avec l’IRHiS, Sciences Po-Lille (Chaire Santé, Vulnérabilités, Territoire), UFR3S, Service Culture ULille

La reproduction humaine dans les traités de médecine populaire français

“O Sweet, Sacred, Divine Mystery”: Human Reproduction in French Popular Medical Treatises, 1870–1900 

Seminar



Author: Jessica M. Dandona, Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Comment: Courtney Thompson, Mississippi State University

Thursday, April 29

5:00 PM (ET)

Free, Virtual Event - hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society

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This chapter analyzes the use of “flap anatomies”, or layered, printed illustrations of human anatomy, in three sites of medical training in the late 19th century: Harvard University, the University of Edinburgh, and the Université de Paris. In an era characterized by rampant anxiety concerning both physical and moral ‘degeneration’, the role of flap anatomies in disseminating anatomical knowledge and helping shape public opinion regarding the medical profession was especially crucial in matters related to human reproduction. How was the flap anatomy – with its nudity, references to sexuality, and exploration of the body’s interior – able to reconcile these competing tensions?

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Physiologies médicales et philosophiques

Physiologies médicales et philosophiques (Ve s. AEC-Ve s. EC)

Webinaire

16 mai (14h30-16h30, heure de Paris), Philip van der Eijk (Humboldt-Universität, Berlin)
Two Summaries of Galenic Element Theory from Late Antiquity


30 mai (14h30-16h30, heure de Paris), Caroline Petit (University of Warwick)
Galen, Xenocrates, and the Empiricists: About the Sources of Books 10 and 11 of Galen's Treatise On Simple Drugs


6 juin (14h30-16h30, heure de Paris), Vivien Longhi (Université de Lille)
Les vertus du mélange constitutionnel avant Aristote : quels modèles médicaux ?



Les séances se dérouleront en visioconférence par Zoom (lien de connexion sur demande : seminaire-physiologies-request@univ-lille.fr).


À propos de notre séminaire : http://www.centreleonrobin.fr/recherche/seminaires-2/physiologies-médicales-et-philosophiques

Décoloniser l'histoire de la santé publique

Decolonising Public Health in History

Roundtable

A Panel and Roundtable Connecting Premodern History to Issues in Public Health Today, as part of Global Public Health Week 2025.

When:
9 April, 9am Melbourne local time (GMT+10)
8 April, 6pm Chicago local time (GMT-5)

Where:
Zoom, online

Speakers:

Guy Geltner (Monash University): Social and Environmental Historian, currently researching the public health practices of miners, and their management of the environment, in southern Italy, 1100-1550.

Shireen Hamza (Northwestern University): Historian of Science and Technology in the Islamic World, currently researching the role of the ulema (Muslim scholars) in group prophylaxis and the history of public bathing.

Aydogan Kars (Monash University): Islam intellectual historian, currently researching prophylactic theory and practice in Muslim legal, mystical, and travel texts for religious travelers between 1200-1500.

Registration Form here.

Event Description:

Public health practitioners and researchers increasingly recognise the environment and climate health as integral to the public health of communities. We are tasked with finding sustainable, resilient health systems for an uncertain climate future and changing world, and investigating the multiple ways that “public health” can be practiced. One key part of this process is in the decolonisation of public health, which includes addressing historical and systemic inequities in public health, recognising diverse cultural and social contexts, and building a fairer, healthier future – for all. These are the focus of the Global Public Health Week 2025. Decolonisation is a path forward that could address colonial inequities, but it depends on honest reckonings with the past.

Public health is commonly understood as a modern phenomenon. However, communities all over the world practiced public health in their own ways, with various ingenuities and multiple viewpoints, for hundreds of years. What public health practices have been lost to us over time? Could communities consider harnessing them as resources or inspiration today? Decolonising public health is not just about understanding the impacts of colonisation and systemic inequities now. It is also about understanding the way that the framework of “public health” was constructed in the first place, influenced by colonialism and Eurocentrism.

In this Panel Discussion/ Roundtable, historians Guy Geltner, Shireen Hamza, and Aydogan Kars, share the implications and insights of their work into public health attitudes and practices leading as far back as the 12th century. Their work spans South Asia, the Middle East, and Europe and explores the ways in which “public health” was managed by people. They discuss how public health included practices that we might today take for granted or not immediately recognise as public health – like the importance of water and the environment to bodily constitutions, the dissemination of materials to the public, the entanglement of spiritual and physical health practices, and various prophylactics – preventative methods – to ward off illness. Importantly, their research highlights how public health in history included the integral relationships between environmental health and human health, and between religion and public health dissemination. This panel hopes to highlight to all contemporary practitioners the importance of looking to history – by six hundred years or more – in pursuing public health innovations, and in decolonising its processes.

This Roundtable is an exciting opportunity during GPHW to connect public health practitioners with public health historians, to “Decolonise Public Health for a Healthier World”.

This event is organised by the ARC Discovery Project research project “Pursuing Public Health in the Preindustrial World, 1100-1800” and generously funded by the ARC.

For questions or more information, please contact Sarah May: sarahmay.comley@monash.edu

Médecine, fertilité, maternité et reproduction

Women's Ideas in the History of Medicine. Fertility, Maternity, and Reproduction

2025 Webinars Series



Organised by
Jil Muller
Fabrizio Bigotti




Organised in collaboration with the Centre for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists – University of Paderborn, this series seeks to understand the role of women in the history of medicine by exploring their contributions in fields such as natural philosophy, household remedies, plant manipulation and selection, as well as midwifery.

 
 
Aspasia and the Others: Women and Medicine in Late Antiquity
Irene Calà

19 March 2025 – 4.00 PM (CEST)


Medical texts from Late Antiquity are invaluable for our understanding of lost medical sources. This is particularly true for the medical work of Aetius, a physician native to Amida, lived in the first half of the sixth century AD, and author of a 16-book treatise known as Libri medicinales. This compilation is considered one of the most significant and source-rich works of its time. While female sources in medical texts appear quite limited or entirely absent—such as in the works of Oribasius of Pergamum—they undoubtedly represent one of the primary sources for the last of the Libri medicinales, where Aetius lists a certain Aspasia as a specialist in various medical practices related to gynaecology and obstetrics.

The prominence of Aspasia seems, at times, to overshadow that of the more renowned Soranus of Ephesus, who is considered the foremost authority on women’s diseases. From this observation, we will attempt to trace the remnants of a medical literature written by women, echoes of which are preserved in the medical texts of Late Antiquity. The selected passages related to fertility, pregnancy, and childbirth management will be discussed, highlighting the physical and psychological approach that characterizes Aspasia’s medical practice and the concrete role played by women in the care of women.


About the Speaker…

Irene Calà is research associate at the Institute for Ethics, History, and Theory of Medicine at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. She is specialist of Greek medicine in Late Antiquity, with a focus on the continuity of medical knowledge from antiquity through the Renaissance. She is currently working on the first critical edition of the unpublished books of Aetius of Amida, in the DFG project led by Mathias Witt.


Women’s Health in Early Islamic Medical Works: Contextualising al-Maǧūsī’s "Kitāb al-malakī"
Anna Gili

2 April 2025 – 4.00 PM (CEST)

Al-Maǧūsī, a Zoroastrian physician from the Fārs province, composed his Kitāb al-malakī during the second half of the tenth century. This medical encyclopaedia in ten books which aims to synthesizes and systematizes all earlier medical knowledge into a unified whole also devotes great attention to women health issues. Al-Maǧūsī’s analysis encompasses topics such as foetal formation, growth, and female anatomy along gynaecological diseases, the diet of pregnant women and the role of midwifes, while also examining cures for gynaecological ailments and specific surgical operations.

Based on the assumption that the Kitāb al-malakī should be studied as an organic treatise, my talk will present an overview of how and why reproduction, maternity, and fertility were considered relevant in the tenth century. I will also be assessing to what extent the Kitāb al-malakī relies on earlier sources and which innovations are contributed by al- Maǧūsī himself.


About the Speaker…

Anna Gili is a PhD student in Latin and Arabic philology at the University of Padua and the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (cotutelle de thèse). Her main research interest is the transmission of medical knowledge from Greek into Arabic and from Arabic into Latin during the Middle Ages. Her PhD project aims to critically edit and study the books on pathology in the medical encyclopaedia al-Kitāb al-Malakī, composed by ʿAlī ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Maǧūsī (10th c.) and in its two Latin translations, namely the Pantegni by Constantine the African and the Liber regalis by Stephen of Antioch.



Women’s Reproductive Lives in Renaissance Italian Lyric Poetry
Shannon McHugh

16 April 2025 – 4.o0 PM (CEST)


What can a sonnet teach us about the history of women’s reproductive bodies? For the early modern world, notions about pregnancy and childbirth have been well documented by historians, who have combed through archival and print materials composed by the period’s medical, religious, and humanist authorities. Literary texts, however, have been consulted less, including lyric poetry; short, emotional poems are not normally among the historian’s go-to objects. Yet lyric is rife with representations of motherhood. Examples appear in verse written in vernacular and in Latin, in poems of Marian worship and of autobiographic account, such as the prolific poet Francesca Turina (1553–1641), who composed numerous poems on miscarriage, childbirth, and early motherhood.

The details captured in her descriptions both complicate standard historical narratives and flesh out our understanding of family practices in this period, shading in scholarly models with affective dimensions. This paper expands our understanding of the history of women’s reproductive autonomy by tracing depictions of pregnancy, abortion, miscarriage, birth, and nursing in Renaissance Italian lyric poetry. Unlike texts by medical and theological authorities, lyric provides access to personal experience and can do so on a wider scale: it was the most democratic of literary genres, practiced by men of various social stripes, and, in early modern Italy, by numerous women.


About the Speaker…

Shannon McHugh is Assistant Director of Research at The Huntington Library. Her research focuses on early modern Italian and French lyric poetry and gender. Publications include Petrarch and the Making of Gender in Renaissance Italy (Amsterdam UP, 2023) and the co-edited volume Vittoria Colonna: Poetry, Religion, Art, Impact (Amsterdam UP, 2021). She was the 2023–24 Molina Fellow in the History of Medicine at The Huntington, where she researched her current book project, “Women’s Reproductive Lives in Renaissance Lyric Poetry.”


Fluids as Dynamic and Organic Forces. Medical knowledge in Oliva Sabuco de Nantes
Karin Durin

30 April 2025 – 4.00 PM (CEST)

This work will examine the study of organic fluids and movements in the Nueva filosofía de la naturaleza del hombre, published by Oliva Sabuco de Nantes in 1587. The representation of the internal anatomy shows the dynamics that flow back and forth, combining the power of emotions and affects, the processes of digestion and the influence of the environment, all of which are expressed in Sabuco’s vision through the ebb and flow of movements of growth and decay. The categories of dry and wet are themselves governed by the emotions, in particular tristeza y descontento, when the soul and body are in discord. The regulating role of the emotions on the movement of fluids and even on the principles of digestion brings us back to the centre of the vital composition, which for Sabuco is the brain. From then, the flow of fluids in all their forms (milk, semen, bile, gastric fluid, tears, white blood, chyle) led us to follow Sabuco’s project of medical reform. But what happens in this text with the legacy of ancient and galenic physiology’s theories on fluids and humours? What philosophical interpretation stems from this interpretation of the bodily fluidity, which affects men, women and animals equally? The bodily fluidity in Sabuco gives rise to a rich metaphorical expression and highlights a vitalism correlated with a global vision of society whose reform project concludes the 1587 work.


About the Speakers…

Karine Durin is Full-Professor at the University of Nantes (France). She is a specialist of intellectual history in the Early Modern Iberian World. She recently published a chapter on Sabuco de Nantes, between Epicureanism and Stoicism (“A Female Dissenter in Counter-Reformation Spain”, De Gruyter, 2024) and a contribution on feminine reading of Baltasar Gracián in XVIIth century France (Classiques Garnier, 2024). She is currently working on the first translation of Sabuco’s treatise in French.



A History of Breastfeeding: Its Iconography and Medical Importance
Viktorya Vasilyan

14 May 2025 – 4.00 PM (CEST)


During human history, infants were fed human milk for survival, either through breastfeeding by their mothers or adoptive breastfeeding by other women. From antiquity to today, breastfeeding has been valued, reflected in mythology, philosophy, art, and religion worldwide. In ancient Armenia, it was prized for its health benefits, with wet nurses serving the upper classes while rural women breastfed for economic reasons. Colostrum was once deemed harmful but gained recognition in 1699 through Michael Ettmüller. During the European Renaissance, breastfeeding saw renewed appreciation in art, with depictions like suckler Lady and suckler Eve symbolising respect for motherhood.

Figures such as Hildegard of Bingen and Regina Areshian, founder of the Research Center of Maternal and Child Health Protection in Armenia, studied maternal hygiene and wet nursing. This work explores sociological, medical, and moral treatises on these themes, informed by research on the Virgo Lactans and Virgin of Humility. Iconography studies, such as those by Williamson, Sperling, Rivera, and Bergmann, provide critical insights into the Eve-Mary relationship and sacred images, though scholarly consensus on breastfeeding and wet nursing in the Middle Ages remains elusive.


About the Speaker…

Viktorya Vasilyan holds a PhD in History and serves as a researcher and the head of the Scientific Organisational Department at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, NAS RA. Additionally, she is a lecturer at the Traditional Medicine University of Armenia. Currently, she manages the “100 Archaeological Monuments of Armenia” project, an initiative aimed at exploring and documenting significant archaeological sites across the nation. More information about this project is available at https://ama100.am/en. She is also honoured to serve as a Goodwill Ambassador for Peace, Human Rights, and Humanity with the IHRO in Armenia.


Pregnant Women’s Wellbeing in Jane Sharp’s "The Midwives’ Book" (1671)
Martina Guzzetti

29 May 2025 – 4.00 PM (CEST)


Women’s health, wellbeing, and medical conditions have always been at the centre of gendered debates concerning, among other things, who has the necessary knowledge and authority to discuss and provide advice about them. Of the many branches of medicine involved in these debates, midwifery certainly holds a prominent position: in particular, between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, these controversies saw the rivalry between midwives and the emerging men-midwives encapsulated in their own publications. While men’s textbooks on midwifery were limited to the description of women’s anatomy and the discussion of the birth event itself (without taking into consideration what happened to women before, during, and after pregnancy), the midwives’ manuals offered a different point of view, that is, one of a skilled practitioner (despite the misogynist stereotypes) who could also share with her patients the same experience, thus having access to a kind of knowledge which went beyond the purely technical one. This contribution deals in particular with Jane Sharp’s The Midwives’ Book (1671) and offers to focus precisely on an aspect often overlooked in men’s textbooks, that is, pregnant women’s wellbeing, be it physical and/or mental. The analysis considers the creation of discourses related, for example, to factors helping the conception of a child, to easing labour, and to preventing diseases after childbirth. In the discussion, particular attention will be devoted to the peculiar connection between midwives and pregnant women, and to the references to professional and private experience used to back up such knowledge.



About the Speaker…


Martina Guzzetti is a Post-Doctoral Researcher and Lecturer of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Insubria and the University of Milan. Her research is based around language and gender studies in historical perspective, with a focus on news discourse, lexicography, and the popularisation of medical knowledge. She is currently working on a project about pregnant women’s wellbeing in midwifery manuals and domestic dictionaries.

Séminaire d'Histoire et de Philosophie de la Psychiatrie

Séminaire d'Histoire et de Philosophie de la Psychiatrie
 

IHPST et ISJPS

Organisation : Ronan de Calan, Denis Forest, Mathieu Frèrejouan

Contacts : Ronan.De-La-Lande-De-Calan@univ-paris1.fr, Denis.Forest@univ-paris1.fr,
Mathieu.Frerejouan-Du-Saint@univ-paris1.fr

Les séances ont lieu de 18h00 à 20h00

Mercredi 29 janvier 2025 (salle Cavaillès, Sorbonne) : Samuel Lézé (ENS, Lyon)
“La formation des jugements cliniques dans la médecine aliéniste du XIXe siècle en France”

Mercredi 19 février 2025 (salle Cavaillès, Sorbonne) : Mathieu Frèrejouan (univ. Paris
1/ISJPS)
« Spiritualisme et matérialisme dans la médecine aliéniste des années 1840 : le cas de
l’hallucination»

Mercredi 12 mars 2025 (Salle 216, Panthéon ) : Ronan de Calan (univ. Paris 1/ISJPS) :
« Dialectique hégélienne et psychiatrie. Wilhelm Griesinger et la victoire des Somatiker sur les
Psychiker »

Mercredi 9 avril 2025 (salle 06, Panthéon) : Elodie Boissard (univ. Lyon 3 Jean Moulin)
“Le problème corps-esprit dans la neurasthénie : enjeux d'un débat entre aliénistes et
neurologues français (1890-1910)”

Mercredi 30 avril 2025 (salle Cavaillès, Sorbonne) : Elisabetta Basso (univ. Pavie)
“ La tradition phénoménologique en psychiatrie : révolution ou spéculation”

Mercredi 22 octobre 2025 : Eric J. Engstrom (univ. Berlin) TBA

Mercredi 18 novembre 2025 : Denis Forest (univ. Paris 1/IHPST)
“Le naturalisme en psychiatrie. Variétés, usages, problèmes”

Mercredi 16 décembre 2025 : Steeves Demazeux (univ. Bordeaux)
“L’antipsychiatrie des années 1960 et 1970 : quel héritage aujourd’hui ? ”(titre provisoire)
I S J P S

Séminaires de l'Université de Cambridge

History of Medicine Seminar -University of Cambridge


Lent Term 2025




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!





Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Organised by Philippa Carter, Nick Hopwood, Salim Al-Gailani, Rosanna Dent, Staffan Müller-Wille and Dmitriy Myelnikov



January 28

Emily Baughan (University of Sheffield)

Neonates and Neoliberalism in Contemporary British History



February 18

Emma Kalb (Universität Bonn)

"Cut off from Lineage": Castration and Childlessness in Mughal South Asia





Early Science and Medicine Seminars
Organised by Philippa Carter and Emma Perkins

February 4
Nuno Castel-Branco (All Souls College, Oxford)
“The Earth is a Heaven, and a New Heaven”: Revisiting Early Modern Science and Catholic Theology

March 4
Anuj Misra (Freie Universität Berlin)
Concrescence in Mughal India: Astronomical Encounters at Royal Courts

March 18
Ruth Sargent-Noyes (National Museum of Denmark)
What Descartes’s Woodblock Cutter Knew: Excavating Knowledge from Early Modern Images





History of Modern Medicine and Biology Seminars

Organised by Salim Al-Gailani, Rosanna Dent, Nick Hopwood, Staffan Müller-Wille and Dmitriy Myelnikov


February 11

Elisabeth Yang (University of Leeds)

Constructing Moral and Proto-Scientific Babies: The Medical and Scientific Enterprise of Infancy in Nineteenth-Century America



February 25

Ann Kelly (King’s College London)

Along the Thread of the Mosquito Ovary: Apprehending Malarias Lost and Regained


March 11

Miles Kempton (Christ's College, Cambridge)

How TV Made The Naked Ape

Comment penser les maladies dans la longue durée ?

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

Histoire, Santé, Travail, Environnement

Histoire, Santé, Travail, Environnement

Séminaire 

 

Le séminaire s'inscrit dans l’axe thématique de recherche Écologie et Soins des mondes vivants du Centre Norbert Elias (UMR 8562). Il est organisé par le Centre d'enseignement de recherche (CER) d'histoire, dans le cadre de la Chaire ToxCit, avec le Groupement d’Intérêt Scientifique sur les Cancers d’Origine Professionnelle et Environnementale dans le Vaucluse (GISCOPE 84). 

 Principalement destiné aux chercheur·es et étudiant·es (en premier lieu masterant·es et doctorant·es) de différentes disciplines (sciences humaines et sociales, sciences de l’environnement, du vivant etc.), le séminaire est ouvert à tous·tes.

 

Programme 2024-2025

Jeudi 28 novembre (15h-17h) : Classé cancérogène  : une histoire des classifications du Centre international de recherche sur le cancer . Avec Valentin Thomas, sociologue (Cermes3/CNRS) 

Jeudi 12 décembre (15h-17h) : De l'implantation de Marcoule à la nucléarisation du Rhône (années 1950 - années 1990). Avec Louis Fagon, historien (LARHA/ENS Lyon)

Jeudi 23 janvier (15h-17h) : Le camp militaire de Miramas dans la Crau et les armes chimiques dans les guerres coloniales françaises (1920-2006). Avec Olivier Saint-Hilaire, photographe, historien, (Cired, Iris/EHESS)

Jeudi 27 février (15h-17h) : Avoir l’amiante : trajectoires et perceptions dans le pays roussillonnais (titre provisoire). Avec Bastien Guillermin, sociologue (Pacte/Université Grenoble Alpes)

Jeudi 27 mars (15h-17h) : Habiter la pollution industrielle. Expériences et métrologies citoyennes de la contamination (Presses des Mines, 2023). Avec Christelle Gramaglia, sociologue (G-EAU, INRAE). La séance sera suivie d’une projection-débat consacrée au film Toxicily de François-Xavier Destors et Alphonso Pinto (horaires et lieux communiqués prochainement)

Jeudi 10 avril  (15h-17h) : Comprendre la pollution aux PFAS par l’histoire de la production et des ateliers de production : Arkéma, une enquête en cours. Avec Emmanuel Martinais, géographe, (EVS-RIVES/ENTPE Université de Lyon) 

 

Infos pratiques :  

Les séances ont lieu les jeudis de 15h00 à 17h00 à Avignon Université sur le site Hannah Arendt [https://univ-avignon.fr/universite/plans-dacces] et en visioconférence.

 

Entrée libre avec inscription obligatoire au préalable : https://digipad.app/p/992715/f2960f1567532. Les salles et lien pour la visio seront communiqué·es avant chaque séance aux inscrit·es. 

Les informations sont à retrouver sur le site du Centre Norbert Elias ou sur le site du GISCOPE 84. Contacts : sylvain.bertschy@univ-avignon.fr ou giscope84@centrenorbertelias.fr 

 

Armées, guerres et santé

Armées, guerres et santé



Séminaire 

 organisé en coordination avec l’Académie de Santé des Armées


Le séminaire se tiendra en salle Lévy, Ecole du Val-de-Grâce. Inscription obligatoire (site militaire) par envoi préalable d’un mail la semaine précédant le séminaire à : plenorma@parisnanterre.fr

Lundi, 10h-12h (voir les dates ci-dessous).



2 décembre 2024

Paul Marquis (Institut des mondes africains) : « La psychiatrie coloniale, une psychiatrie militaire ? Réflexions à partir du cas algérien (années 1930 - années 1960) »



3 février 2025

Claire Fredj (Université Paris-Nanterre, Institutions et dynamiques historiques de l'économie et de la société) : « Être médecin militaire au milieu du XIXème siècle »



10 février 2025

Aude-Marie Lalanne Berdouticq (Laboratoire interdisciplinaire d’études sur les réflexivités - Fonds Yan Thomas) : « L’invention médicale de l’aviateur. L’institutionnalisation de la sélection médicale des pilotes de guerre, France-Royaume-Uni (1914-1934) »



3 mars 2025

Charles-Antoine Wanecq (Sciences Po Lille, Institut de recherches historiques du Septentrion) : « Masques à gaz : circulations savantes et techniques autour de la protection respiratoire (1915-1950) »



7 avril 2025

Marie Derrien (Université de Lille, Institut de recherches historiques du Septentrion) : « Les mutilés du cerveau. Statuts et trajectoires des anciens combattants de la Grande Guerre internés dans les hôpitaux psychiatriques français de 1919 aux années 1980 » 

 

 

Comité d’organisation


Claire Fredj, MCF HDR (Université Paris-Nanterre / Institutions et dynamiques historiques de l'économie et de la société)

Elodie Charié, doctorante (Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po)

Julie Le Gac, MCF (Université Paris-Nanterre / Institut des sciences sociales du politique / Institut universitaire de France)

Paul Lenormand, MCF (Université Paris-Nanterre / Institut des sciences sociales du politique / Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po / Centre d'études russes, caucasiennes, est-européennes et centrasiatiques) 

La toxicité

Toxiques : environnement et santé

Rencontre

 

Nous avons le plaisir de vous inviter à la prochaine séance de notre séminaire "Les Rendez-vous du CRIHM" (Cercle de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les humanités médicales). Cette séance est intitulée Toxiques : environnement et santé.

Elle se déroulera le 29 novembre 2024, de 10h à 16h. Elle aura lieu sur le campus Pont de Bois de l'université de Lille, dans la salle de séminaire de l'IRHiS.

Elle sera également retransmise sur Zoom. Le lien est le suivant : https://univ-lille-fr.zoom.us/s/95016269211 Le mot de passe est CRIHM (il est demandé pour pouvoir se connecter)
 

Programme : 

• De 10h à 12h
Anatole LE BRAS (Centre d’Histoire, Sciences Po–Paris), Géopsyché. La longue quête des liens entre climat et maladies mentales (XIXe–XXe siècle) 

 Sylvain BERTSCHY (Centre Norbert Elias, AvignonU), Saisir le travail toxique au prisme des cancers hématologiques 

 • De 14h à 16h
Nathalie JAS (MoISA, INRAE–Montpellier), Une histoire récente impossible ? Quête des traces et mise à jour des processus d’effacement des effets sanitaires des pesticides agricoles dans deux pays africains (Tanzanie et Côte d’Ivoire

Vous retrouverez l'intégralité du programme ici : https://irhis.univ-lille.fr/detail-event/saison-2-les-rendez-vous-du-crihm-cercle-de-recherche-interdisciplinaire-sur-les-humanites-medicales-1-1