Conservateur à l'université de médecine de Syracuse

Health Sciences Library Curator of Historical Collections

Job Opportunity

The Health Sciences Library at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY is seeking a Curator to develop and implement restoration and preservation procedures and to maximize the visibility of the History of Medicine collections through programming, exhibits, and the development of web content. This position reports to the Health Sciences Library Director. Responsibilities include enhancing access to collections through the innovative application of technologies; cataloging items; digitizing photographs; preservation of paper and objects; developing a plan to organize the collections; responding to History of Medicine requests from scholars and the SUNY Upstate community; conducting tours of the collections; supervising scholars’ use of the collections; assisting with primary research; preparation of reports, surveys, budget requests and justifications; and identification of external funding in support of exhibits, programming and digitization projects..

The SUNY Upstate Medical University is Central New York’s only academic medical center and the region’s largest employer. Our community includes colleges of medicine, nursing, allied health, & graduate studies; the downtown and community campuses of University Hospital, the Golisano’s Children’s Hospital and the forthcoming Cancer Center. For more information about us, please visit: SUNY Upstate @ www.upstate.edu ; University Hospital @ upstate.edu/hospital and the Library @ library.upstate.edu

Required: Masters degree in History (Archives emphasis), Library Sciences, or other closely related field; professional archival experience, preferably in an academic archives; demonstrated knowledge of and experience with program planning, web based content development, digital imaging and archives related information technologies, and the preservation process; demonstrated familiarity with primary research methods and materials; a strong customer service orientation; ability to work independently and collaboratively in a complex, fast-paced environment; and proficiency with MS Office products.

Preferred: knowledge of history of medicine and experience in an academic library.

SALARY AND BENEFITS: Initial appointment will be at the rank of Senior Assistant Librarian. Excellent benefits package including TIAA-CREF and other retirement options. One year term appointment with the potential to be extended. Position is open until filled.

Interested candidates may learn more and apply on-line (Job # 037844) at www.upstate.edu. For initial consideration, please apply prior to March 14, 2014. Position is open until filled. SUNY Upstate Medical University is an AA/EEO/ADA employer seeking excellence through diversity.

L'électrothérapie en Grande-Bretagne au début du XXe siècle

Modern Scientific Artificial Electric Feeding: Electrotherapy, rejuvenation, and the Medical Trade in Early Twentieth Century Britain

Jamie Stark (University of Leeds)

 Thursday 13th Feb

WF38 on the first floor of the Medical School at 5.30pm

College of Medical and Dental Sciences

School of Health and Population Sciences

Although historians have shown that there has been a complex and multi-layered relationship between the body, medicine and the force of electricity, many avenues remain to be explored. One of the most prominent of these is the way in which electrotherapy technologies were marketed to a wide variety of different end users and intermediaries.

This paper engages with the role and use of one such device – the Overbeck Rejuvenator – a 1920s electrotherapy machine designed for use by the general public. Its inventor, Otto Overbeck, was not a medical man and this enabled him to use aggressive strategies of newspaper advertising, using testimonials to market his product alongside appeals to his own scientific authority. He commissioned the prestigious Ediswan Company to manufacture the Rejuvenator on a large scale, and took out patents in eleven countries to persuade users of the efficacy of the device. In response to Overbeck’s activities, the British Medical Association enlisted an electrical engineer to examine the Rejuvenator, contacted practitioners whose endorsements were being used in publicity material, and denied Overbeck permission to advertise in the British Medical Journal. Despite this, the Rejuvenator brought its inventor wealth and notoriety, and helped redefine the concept of “rejuvenation”, even if the professional reception of such a device was almost universally hostile. This paper shows how the marketing, patenting and publishing of Overbeck combined to persuade members of the laity to try the Rejuvenator as an alternative form of therapy, bypassing and irking the medical profession in the process.

ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND

Details of future seminars are available from: Dr Vanessa Heggie, History of Medicine Unit, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT.

Email: v.heggie@bham.ac.uk Tel: 0121 415 8184

HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH RESEARCH SEMINAR SPRING TERM 2014

Se souvenir de la révolution bactériologique

Remembering the Bacteriological Revolution: Koch's Postulates and 20th Century Medicine

Dr. Christoph Gradmann (University of Oslo)

Tuesday 18 February, 16:00-17:30

Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM) University of Manchester

Seminar, Room 2.217, University Place, 178-186 Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL

This lecture is on the historical origins and the popularity of 'Koch's Postulates'. In fact, it was his colleague Friedrich Löffler who in 1884 wrote down the well-known three steps of isolation, cultivation and inoculation as criteria for establishing a bacterial aetiology of an infectious disease. These postulates are a classic in medical history and they are frequently invoked in medical research papers. Yet, strict adherence to them is rarely to be found – not even in Koch himself. He produced numerous variations of the methodology that Löffler had credited him with and usually avoided discussing principal questions anyway. Given that, it is not surprising that references to Koch's postulates in the 20th century usually refer to the spirit rather than the literal meaning of the postulates. There are innumerable variations of those postulates. For example, proponents of virology or molecular medicine devised variations of Koch's postulates that serve to relate their own work to classical bacteriology. The nature of such references is anecdotal: referring to a historical event that has never happened in a strict sense, they produce ex traditione credentials for experimental medicine.

All are welcome and please feel free pass this list on to interested colleagues.

Event co-organized by Niki Vermeulen and Ray Macauley http://www.chstm.manchester.ac.uk/newsandevents/seminars/chstm/index.aspx

44e congrès de la Société internationale d'Histoire de la médecine

44th Congress of the International Society for the History of Medicine (ISHM)

Call for papers 

http://ishm-congress-tbilisi2014.org/

The Scientific Committee welcomes the submission of original contributions on the fields of the History of Medical Sciences and the Congress Topics. Accepted papers will be presented as Oral or Poster presentations.

Poster Sessions will be organized to complement symposia and cover additional fields and topics.

Abstracts must be submitted not later than May 31, 2014. Abstracts received later than May 31, 2014 will not be accepted. Should you need assistance or advice you may address to the Congress Secretariat via email: ishm2014@artion.ge.

Abstracts Guidelines:

Deadline for abstract submission: May 31, 2014.

An abstract template is available here.

Abstracts must be written in English or French in MS Word format and must include: title, authors, institutions and subtitles.

More specifically:

Font-spacing
Arial, letter size 10 cpi, justified alignment, single space, no space between the paragraphs of the text, no space in the beginning of each paragraph. Only, 1 blank line should be left between the institutions and the subtitles.

Title
Capital letters, bold, left alignment (e.g. TITLE)

Authors
All names should be written in Title Case, with the family name following the first name and the superscript at the end. The name of the presenting author must be underlined, but not the superscript. Names should be separated with commas. Please do not include degrees or professional titles (Dr, PhD, Prof,MD, etc.).
e.g. Μ. Papadopoulou1, A. Papadopoulos2

Address of Institution
As regards the institution name, Each Word Should Be Capitalized. First the Department should be mentioned; afterwards the name of the Institution/University; finally the City and the Country. All separated by comma. Please note that in case the City is part of the Institution name, then it should not be repeated before the Country (e.g. Department of Orthopaedics, University of Utah, USA).

When more than one institution is mentioned, the correspondence between authors and institutions should be done with the use of superscripts as per below.
e.g. Μ. Papadopoulou1, Α. Papadopoulos2
(1) Departmentof Neurosurgery,KlinikumOffenbach,AkademischesLehrkrankenhausderUniversität Frankfurt, Germany
(2) Department of Neurology, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium

Abstract main text - Subtitles

Maximum length 250 words.
The Abstract main text should include a SUMMARY, whether according to the writer, subtitles cannot be used.
Each one of the above mentioned subtitles should be written in bold, followed by a colon “:”, a space and then the description text. Each subtitle should start in a separate paragraph. No blank lines between the paragraphs.


Each abstract should be divided into the above four sections, provided the content permits it. Each section must be analyzed in a separate paragraph, preceded by the relevant title. There should be no spaces between paragraphs. Abbreviations of terms can be used, provided their explanation is included in parentheses, when they are used in the text for the first time. Please so not identify author(s) or institution(s) in the text.

Acceptance of papers for review

Abstracts of papers will not be accepted for review, in any of the following cases:


Deadline for submission of the abstract (May 15, 2014) is not strictly respected


Missing data or forms


An abstract exceeding 250 words

If instructions are not followed, abstracts will be returned to sender / writer to correct them, if the abstract deadline hasn't expired. In case of the submitted abstract which does not respect the rules and there is not time for correction due the abstracts deadline, it will be disqualified automatically. We recommend that you do not let the presentation of your work for the last week, as the electronic system can be overloaded and may not be able eventually to submit your abstract.

Authors are responsible for the content since the abstracts will not be edited.

Audiovisual Equipment

Facilities for laptop use, power point presentation and Computer Assisted Presentation will be available.

Posters

Posters will be displayed in a special room adjacent to the main hall.

Publication of accepted papers

The abstracts of all papers presented will be published in the book of abstracts.

Abstract Submission

To Submit an Abstract you may follow this link. Should you need any further assistance you are welcome to contact ishm2014@artion.ge.

Séminaire de l'Institut universitaire d'Histoire de la médecine de Lyon

Conférences d'histoire de la médecine

Cycle 2013-2014 (2)

Université Claude Bernard - Lyon 1
8, avenue Rockefeller – 69008 Lyon.


Organisé par l'Institut Universitaire d'histoire de la Médecine en partenariat avec la Société Nationale de Médecine et des Sciences Médicales de Lyon



Mardi 11 février 2014
« La saignée, la purge, et le clystère ; histoire des pratiques médicales au Grand Siècle. »
Dr. Y. BOUCAUD-MAÎTRE

Mardi 18 février 2014
« Histoire de la médecine arabe. »
Pr. P. COEUR

Mardi 25 février 2014
« Quelques horreurs urologiques et gynéco-obstétricales du temps jadis... toujours d'actualité (témoignages). »
Pr. J. P. H. NEIDHARDT

Mardi 4 mars 2014
« Le rôle des organisations internationales dans la lutte contre les maladies contagieuses de l'homme et de l'animal. »
Dr. Vet. M. FEDIDA

Mardi 11 mars 2014
« Usage de l'or en médecine ; petite histoire de la chrysothérapie. »
Dr. M. KARAMANOU (Athènes)

Mardi 18 mars 2014
« La création de la chirurgie viscérale. »
Pr. J. P. H. NEIDHARDT

Mardi 25 mars 2014
« Conception d'une médecine chinoise ancestrale, l'acupuncture. »
Ch. M . AGNES

mardi 1er avril 2014
"Histoire du numerus clausus dans les études de médecine".
Dr D.WALLACH (Paris)


La conférence sera suivie d'un cocktail au Musée Testut-Latarjet

L' expérience chirurgicale

L' expérience chirurgicale. De la vivisection ... à l'expérimentation


Frédéric Dubrana


Préfaces de Jean Gayon et d'Alain Charles Masquelet

L'Harmattan
ISBN : 978-2-343-02237-6
janvier 2014
148 pages





Professeur des Universités, chirurgien des hôpitaux, spécialiste en orthopédie traumatologie et docteur en philosophie depuis 2009, Frédéric Dubrana nous montre comment l'idéal de la profession chirurgicale, alliant un savoir-faire technique et un engagement moral peut franchir les limites entre l'expérimentation susceptible d'amener un progrès et les dérives d'instrumentalisation.

Education et santé avant 1800

Early Developments of Health and Education: Global and RegionaL Perspectives on the Pre-1800 Evidence

Call for papers

Barcelona, NWO-ClioInfra Workshop, Oct 2-3, 2014

This workshop aims at bringing together scholars working with archaeological, archival and other sources in order to trace early developments. Health indicators such as height or longevity and educational indicators (literacy, numeracy) will be studied in their role for standards of living during the ancient, medieval and early modern era as well as their impact for later economic growth and human development.

Can we identify deviations of health development from early income trends and levels, or the traditionally ‘perceived’ degree of development? Were there Impoverished Sophisticates, i.e. economies or regions which reached a surprisingly high educational level, but without a corresponding record of material well-being? Can the new empirical evidence inform us about general theories of human well-being and development?

This workshop is supported by the NWO ClioInfra research project, and will be hosted by the University of Barcelona, Dept. of Economic History and Institutions. The organizers will be Nikola Koepke (Univ. Barcelona) and Joerg Baten (Univ. Tuebingen), supported by an international programme comittee. It will take place Oct 2-3, 2014. We invite paper proposals of 200 words (and max. 2-3 Figures or Tables) to be submitted until

May 1st, 2014.

Limited travel and accomodation support is available. Papers on the above-mentioned indicators and the whole pre-1800 period (1500-1800, 500-1500, ancient, or comparative) are preferred for all world regions,

relative to newer periods. Given the relative scarcity of sources, we will also give prefererence to papers on Africa and (West-, South-,Southeast-) Asia for the 19th C (and will accept 19th C studies on other world regions). Please explain the sources and methods in your proposal, and how you will assess potential selectivities. Papers may be of an exploratory nature. The acceptance (or rejection) of proposals will be 

notified by May 31st, 2014.

Joerg Baten

joerg.baten@uni-tuebingen.de

Univ. Tuebingen

Boire aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles

Drink in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries


Susanne Schmid and Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp (Editors)


Pickering & Chatto
February 2014
978 1 84893 436

These essays cover the representation and practice of drinking a variety of beverages across eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain and North America. A crucial period for the development of modern drinking culture, this period saw the emergence of urban public places connecting drinking and sociability. Divisions across class were particularly stark, with the London coffeehouse at one end and the low tavern or inn at the other. Similarly, certain drinks – chocolate and tea, for instance – had strong gender connotations, which became fixed over time. The case studies in this volume cover drinking culture from a variety of perspectives, including literature, history, anthropology and the history of medicine.

Introduction – Susanne Schmid and Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp

Part I: Ritual and Material Culture
1 Politics by Design: Consumption, Identity and Allegiance – Karen Harvey
2 Drinks, Domesticity and the Forging of an American Identity in Susan Warner’s The Wide, Wide World (1850) – Caroline Rosenthal

Part II: Institutions and Social Class
3 Café or Coffeehouse? Transnational Histories of Coffee and Sociability – Brian Cowan
4 Claret at a Premium: Ned Ward, the True Tory Defender of Fine Wines? – Fritz-Wilhelm Neumann
5 Eighteenth-Century Travellers and the Country Inn – Susanne Schmid
6 Drinking, Fighting and Working-Class Sociability in Nineteenth-Century Britain – John Carter Wood

Part III: Temperance and the Misery of Alcohol
7 Romantic Radicalism and the Temperance Movement – Rolf Lessenich
8 The Myth of ‘Misery Alcoholism’ in Early Industrial England: The Example of Manchester – Gunther Hirschfelder

Part IV: Intoxication and Therapy
9 Alcohol, Sympathy and Ideology in George Gissing’s The Nether World (1889) and The Odd Women (1893) – Anja Müller-Wood
10 Legends of Infernal Drinkers: Representations of Alcohol in Thomas Hardy and Nineteenth-Century British Fiction – Norbert Lennartz
11 The Spirit of Medicine: The Use of Alcohol in Nineteenth-Century Medical Practice – Jonathan Reinarz and Rebecca Wynter

Part V: Case Studies: Rum, Cocoa and Magical Potions
12 ‘Been to Barbados’: Rum(bullion), Race, the Gaspée and the American Revolution – Eva-Sabine Zehelein
13 A Beverage for the Masses: The Democratization of Cocoa in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction – Monika Elbert
14 The Power of the Potion: From Gothic Horror to Health Drink, or, How the Elixir became a Commodity – Elmar Schenkel