Un médecin des Lumières dans la Révolution

La vie et les écrits de Bernard Nicolas Lorinet (1749-1814). Un médecin des Lumières dans la Révolution

Tomasso Jean-Jacques


L'Harmattan (éd.)
Collection Médecine à travers les siècles
Paris, 2013.
408 pages


Cet ouvrage retrace la vie de Bernard Nicolas Lorinet, médecin et juriste, qui s'engage avec ferveur dans la Révolution à Paris. Militant politique radical dans la section du Panthéon, il est élu à de nombreuses fonctions après la chute de la Monarchie : juge, membre de l'assemblée électorale et officier muinicipal de la Commune de Paris. Dans ce volume, sont aussi présentés et publiés tous ses écrits actuellement accessibles qu'ils soient scientifiques, politiques ou philosophiques.

Histoire des relations médecin-malade

Les relations médecin-malade des temps modernes à l'époque contemporaine

 
Édité par Élisabeth Belmas, Serenella Nonnis-Vigilante

Editeur : Septentrion

Collection Histoire et civilisations 

Parution : décembre 2013

 ISBN-13 978-2-7574-0596-3

Entre l'usage des consilia dans les siècles modernes et le droit du malade à accéder à son dossier médical (loi du 4 mars 2002), la relation médecin-patient, individuelle et idéalisée telle que la définissait Hippocrate au V^e siècle avant J.-C., a connu d’importantes mutations. Relation sociale atypique et toujours complexe, elle revêt, en toute époque, des significations très variées en fonction du statut social de chacun des interlocuteurs. Du « paternalisme médical » aux théories du care, en passant par le concept d’humanisation de l’hôpital, la bientraitance ou la promulgation des lois de bioéthique en France, l’exercice quotidien des professionnels de la santé est jalonné de ruptures et de modifications profondes, toujours en relation avec les agendas politiques, les évolutions sociétales et les pressions médiatiques. La perspective historique et diachronique de l’ouvrage apporte un éclairage pertinent pour mieux appréhender la prise en compte des besoins et des savoirs des patients, à travers leurs relations avec le corps médical. Les auteurs réuni dans cet ouvrage, universitaires et professionnels de santé, nourrissent une réflexion toujours actuelle qui aide à démêler l’écheveau de la construction d’une histoire de la santé.

La philosophie grecque et les sciences de la vie

Early Greek philosophy and life sciences

Ancient philosophy workshop

9-11 January 2014
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, room 2103


Thursday, 9th January
9.30-10 Welcome address

10-11 Maria Michela Sassi (Università di Pisa) The matter of mind for the Presocratics

11-11.30 Coffee break

11.30-12.30 Claire Louguet (Université Lille 3) Aristotle's criticism of pangenetic theories: a fresh start?

15-16 Stavros Kouloumentas (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Alcmaeon on health and disease

16-16.30 Coffee break

16.30-17.30 Daniela Manetti (Università degli Studi di Firenze) In defence of a "worthless" philosopher: Hippo of Croton

Friday, 10th January

10-11 Elizabeth Craik (University of St Andrews) [Hippocrates] On flesh

11-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-12.30 Hynek Bartoš (Charles University, Prague) The concept of pneuma in On regimen

15-16 David Sedley (Christ's College, Cambridge) Empedoclean superorganisms

16-16.30 Coffee break

16.30-17.30 Constantinos Macris (CNRS, Paris)  The Pythagorean taboo on beans: between religion and dietetics, cosmology and magic-chemical experimentation


Saturday, 11th January
9.30-10.30 David Sider (New York University) Anaxagoras on nutrition

10.30-10.45 Coffee break

10.45-11.45 Miriam Peixoto (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais) Life, birth and death in the physiology of Democritus

11.45-12 Coffee break

12-13 Lorenzo Perilli (Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata) Outside the Hippocratic Corpus: losers and winners in early Greek science



The workshop is funded by the research group of Professor Philip van der Eijk Medicine of the Mind, Philosophy of the Body. Discourses of Health and Well-Being in the Ancient World (funded by the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung), by the Topoi Research Group Mapping Body and Soul (funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) and by the Ancient Philosophy and Science Network (funded by DAAD). For registration and queries, please contact the workshop organiser, Stavros Kouloumentas at skouloumentas@gmail.com.


http://www.klassphil.hu-berlin.de/avh-professur/news/workshop-early-greek-philosophy-2014

Histoire de la stérilisation sexuelle au Canada

Facing Eugenics: Reproduction, Sterilization, and the Politics of Choice 

Erika Dyck

• Paperback: 332 pages
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division (December 6, 2013)
• Language: English
• ISBN-13: 978-1442612556
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches 

Facing Eugenics is a social history of sexual sterilization operations in twentieth-century Canada. Looking at real-life experiences of men and women who, either coercively or voluntarily, participated in the largest legal eugenics program in Canada, it considers the impact of successive legal policies and medical practices on shaping our understanding of contemporary reproductive rights. The book also provides deep insights into the broader implications of medical experimentation, institutionalization, and health care in North America.

Erika Dyck uses a range of historical evidence, including medical files, court testimony, and personal records to place mental health and intelligence at the centre of discussions regarding reproductive fitness. Examining acts of resistance alongside heavy-handed decisions to sterilize people considered “unfit,” Facing Eugenics illuminates how reproductive rights fit into a broader discussion of what constitutes civil liberties, modern feminism, and contemporary psychiatric survivor and disability activism.

La clinique de la naissance

The clinic of the birth: obstetric ultrasound, medical innovation and the clinico-anatomical project

 

Malcolm Nicolson (University of Glasgow)

 

The Ninth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

Thursday 16 January 2014 at 4.30pm

 

Department of History and Philosophy of Science

University of Cambridge

Ultrasonic images of the fetus are now ubiquitous. Like many innovations in medical imaging, the origins of obstetric ultrasound are often located in medical physics and engineering rather than to clinical medicine. I will argue, by contrast, for the crucial role of clinical pathology in the invention of diagnostic ultrasound. Several authors, notably Foucault in The Birth of the Clinic, have described the impact on nineteenth-century medicine of systematic correlation between lesions revealed upon dissection and signs and symptoms observed while the patient was still alive. Laboratory medicine is widely presented as having eclipsed the clinico-anatomical project in the twentieth century. This lecture will show that clinical pathology continued to inspire innovation in medical imaging after 1950. It will also argue that ultrasonic scanning is more like traditional forms of physical examination than is usually assumed.

There will be tea before the lecture, at 4pm, and a drinks reception afterwards, at 6pm.

 

*** Workshop ***

In addition, at 11.30am the same day Professor Nicolson will lead a discussion of a precirculated paper on James Young Simpson, the practice of gynaecological examination, and the nineteenth-century medical gaze.

Historians of gynaecology and obstetrics enjoy relating tales of the eighteenth-century man-midwife fumbling blindly under bedclothes or petticoats. Such stories serve to mark a vivid contrast between an older, backward form of practice and a reformed gynaecology led by far-sighted men like James Young Simpson, Edinburgh Professor of Midwifery and pioneer of obstetric analgesia. It is assumed that Simpson, as a disinterested scientific clinician, would have had unrestricted access to the bodies of his patients. The removal of prudish hindrances signals how far gynaecology had emancipated itself from a benighted past. However, reading Simpson, it is evident that, in mid century, the practitioner's ability to examine female patients remained constrained by social conventions. Thus, the extent to which Simpson's practice represents a complete departure from older modes of gynaecological work has been exaggerated. By the 1850s, the medical gaze had gained only partial and conditional access to the female body.

Lecture and workshop are free and open to all. More information: 

http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/medicine/wellcomelecture2014.html

Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RH.

Flaubert, le médecin éclairé

The Enlightened Physician: Achille-Cléophas Flaubert, 1784-1846  
 
Geoffrey Wall is Reader in Modern French at the University of York

• Hardcover: 220 pages
• Publisher: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers (December 10, 2013)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1906165475
• ISBN-13: 978-1906165475

Geoffrey Wall’s narrative biography of Achille-Cléophas Flaubert, the father of the author of Madame Bovary, follows him from his birth in a French provincial town a few years before the Revolution through to his distinguished career as a physician in an industrial city. Growing up under the corrosive anguish of the Terror, he emerged as a talented schoolboy who read Voltaire and imbibed the radical materialism of the 1790s. As an aspiring medical student in Paris, he embraced the new scientific medicine and climbed the ladder of his profession by avoiding military service. As a young doctor animated by humanitarian ideals, he was appointed to run a large hospital in Rouen where too many factory workers were dying young, the most insidious public health problem of the new age. He was to remain there for thirty years. Drawing on archival sources in Paris, Rouen and Sens, the book includes meticulous period details, such as an account of postoperative care in the age before anaesthetics. The author asks what happened to Enlightenment ideals in the age of industry and examines the conflict between science and religion.
This is not only a biography of an eminent nineteenth-century physician but a collective moral history of the Napoleon generation.

Conférences d'histoire de la médecine de l'université de Calgary

23rd History of Medicine Days Conference at the University of Calgary


Call for Papers

THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE DAYS CONFERENCE is an annual two-day, nation-wide conference held at the University of Calgary. The next conference is being held on Friday, March 7th and Saturday, March 8th, 2014.

Undergraduates and early graduate students from across Canada and the United States are invited to submit an abstract for an oral or a poster presentation on the history of medicine and health care. The presentations will be 10 to 12 minutes for oral or 2 to 3 minutes for a poster (with additional discussion time afterwards). The poster display will be up for the whole conference.

The topics for presentation would cover a wide range and could include areas such as the Classics, the History of Public Health, Nursing, Veterinary Medicine, Human Biology and Neuroscience etc. Prizes will be awarded in different categories and all are invited to join us at the Awards Banquet on the last evening of the conference.

Each student must present an original research attempt with new methodological perspectives on the topic and/or have a critical discussion following the presentation.

If two to four students would like to present together on a related topic, this could be done in a panel form. A suitable discussant will then be identified by the conference organizers to comment upon these particular papers. We ask, however, that presentations and poster abstracts be sent in by one author only, not multiple authors.

The Keynote Speaker will be Dr. Thomas Schlich, a James McGill Professor at the Department of Social Studies of Medicine (McGill University, Montreal, Canada). His presentation is entitled: “Genius versus Pedantry – Judging/Evaluating Standards of Surgical Skill (1850-1920)”.

For any further information on available stipends and to see the call for papers and other application related materials please go to the website of the Calgary History of Medicine and Health Care Program (http://www.homhcp.ucalgary.ca).

The deadline for this CfP is January 12, 2014.

Formes, Schémas, figures et symboles corporels en médecine

Formes, Schémas, figures et symboles corporels en médecine

Appel à communications 

Session organisée par Sarah Carvallo dans le cadre du 5e congrès 2014 de la SFHST
Lyon, 28-29-30 avril 2014


On ne voit pas le corps en soi. Le corps se donne à travers des formes, schémas, figures et symboles qui inscrivent notre vision dans des schèmes culturels. La médecine participe à l'élaboration et la transformation des représentations du corps, non seulement en proposant de nouveaux moyens et supports techniques de représentation (planches, préparations anatomiques, modèles de cire, imageries, schémas, Visible human project), mais aussi en prétendant objectiver et légitimer une représentation scientifique du corps. Il s'agit de montrer comment interagissent schèmes culturels et images médicales.

Au cœur de cette problématique, on pourra étudier plus particulièrement les relations entre représentations médicales et esthétiques. Cette thématique permettra de préciser les analogies et différences entre santé et beauté, leur statut de normalité et leur fonction normative.

De façon plus générale, il s'agit d'étudier comment les schèmes culturels opèrent en médecine, et comment, à travers son histoire, la médecine les transforment à son tour en élaborant des images scientifiques du corps. Ces études pourront privilégier une enquête historique ou une description ethnographique, les techniques d'imagerie ou les usages sociaux des images, mais elles devront aussi réfléchir aux objets et méthodes de l'histoire des sciences lorsqu'elle n'envisage plus seulement les textes, mais aussi les images comme lieux de savoir, lorsqu'elle essaie de mettre au jour les interactions entre images scientifiques et représentations culturelles.

Nous attendons vos propositions de communication avant le 10 janvier sur le site.

http://sfhst2014lyon.sciencesconf.org/