Les infirmières britanniques pendant le Première Guerre Mondiale

British nurses of the First World War

 Events at the Royal College of Nursing

From 2014 to 2018, across the world, nations, communities and individuals of all ages are coming together to commemorate the First World War, from its outbreak on 4 August 1914.

At the RCN, the RCN History of Nursing Society is launching a public programme of exhibitions and events commemorating the professional nurses who worked, served and died between 1914 and 1918.



06 November
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Sister Edith Appleton – Front Line nurse and diarist in the Great War
Dick Robinson

5.30 - 7pm
Royal College of Nursing, 20 Cavendish Square, London W1G 0RE


04 December
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In the Company of Nurses: The British Army Nursing Service in the Great War
Yvonne McEwen

5.30 - 7pm
Royal College of Nursing, 20 Cavendish Square, London W1G 0RE



15 January 2015
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Nursing on the Home Front in the First World War
Stuart Wildman

5.30 - 7pm
Royal College of Nursing, 20 Cavendish Square, London W1G 0RE


12 February 2015
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Scottish Women’s Hospitals: The Nurses of Royaumont
Alison O’Donnell

4 - 6pm
RCN Archives, 42 South Oswald Road,Edinburgh EH9 2HH


12 March 2015
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Kate Luard’s Unknown Warriors
Tim Luard

5.30 - 7pm
Royal College of Nursing, 20 Cavendish Square, London W1G 0RE



Booking and visitor information

The Royal College of Nursing Library and Heritage Centre is home to Europe’s largest nursing specific collection. In 2013 we opened an exciting new space which includes public exhibitions, a cafe and a shop within the library space. All events take place here, unless specified above.

Events are open to all, but space is limited and advance booking is required. Use the direct links above to book online, or contact RCN Event Registrations on 029 2054 6460 or eventsreg@rcn.org.uk

Opening Hours
9am – 7pm Monday – Friday
9am – 5pm Saturday

Royal College of Nursing Library and Heritage Centre
20 Cavendish Square
London
W1G 0RN

T: 0345 337 3368
E: rcn.library@rcn.org.uk

How to get to us
Tube: Bond Street/Oxford Circus (Central, Victoria, Bakerloo and Jubilee lines)

Our full event listings and other information is available on the RCN website

Les invalides de la Grande Guerre à l’écran

Les invalides de la Grande Guerre à l’écran, France/Russie/Allemagne

Masterclass


02 décembre 2014, 10 – 16h,

MISHA, Salle de conférence, Université de Strasbourg.
Accès : 5, allée du Général Rouvillois, Strasbourg. http://www.misha.fr/acces.htm
Contact : medfilm@unistra.fr

Dans le cadre des programmes de formation – recherche 2014–2016 du Centre interdisciplinaire d’études et de recherches sur l’Allemagne(CIERA) le projet « SantéFilm : Information, persuasion, propagande. Le film médico-sanitaire comme mode de communication entre science, médecine, sphère publique et société en France, Allemagne et Russie/URSS, 1900-1980 » organise en collaboration avec les projets RhinFilm et MedFilm une Masterclass/ séminaire bloqué / Block-Seminar intitulé : « Les invalides de la Grande Guerre à l’écran, France/Russie/Allemagne ». 

Organisation : Le principe du séminaire consiste à travailler avec des étudiants et des spécialistes internationaux sur un fond d’archives de films originaux français, allemands et russes selon l’argumentaire ci-dessous. Les films qui datent de la période de la Première Guerre mondiale seront à visionner avant le séminaire sur la plateforme pédagogique MEDFILM (medfilm.unistra.fr) afin de servir de base commune pour les analyses et discussions de la journée qui se déroule de 10-17h à la MISHA à Strasbourg. Le séminaire est ouvert à tout.e étudiant.e exterieur.e à l’Université de Strasbourg sur inscription auprès des organisateurs. Les demandes d’inscription extérieures peuvent bénéficier d’une prise en charge de déplacement. La demande de prise en charge doit être accompagnée d’une lettre de motivation (1 page maximum) à adresser également aux organisateurs.

Argument : 

Parmi les victimes de la Grande Guerre, les invalides sont ceux qui ont sans doute le plus profondément frappé l'opinion. En France, mais aussi en Allemagne et en Russie, les « gueules cassées », les soldats souffrant de shell shock et tous ceux qui ont perdu un membre à la guerre ont mobilisé la société civile, inspiré les artistes … et souvent été les moteurs des associations d'anciens combattants. La médecine militaire a accompli d'immenses progrès lors des quatre années 1914-1918: les corps de ces jeunes hommes partis au front en bonne santé ont offert un immense champ d'expérimentation.

Dans la tradition déjà ancienne du cinéma sanitaire et médical, les atteintes corporelles et psychiques ont été captées par les caméras, les inventions et les découvertes scientifiques ont été projetées sur les écrans de tous les pays. La lutte contre l'ennemi dans le champ médical – la maladie et la mort – fait l'objet d'une propagande cinématographique aussi intense que celle sur les champs de bataille. 

Comment filme-t-on en France, en Allemagne et en Russie l'épreuve que fait subir aux chairs et aux esprits la guerre mécanique? Comment fait-on la promotion sur les fronts Ouest et Est de la Grande Guerre de l'organisation des systèmes sanitaires efficaces, dont l'objectif est le renvoi sous les drapeaux du maximum de malades et de blessés? Comment le cinéma permet-il de reconstruire en images le statut social d'hommes diminués, dont la science s'évertue à pallier les évidents défauts?

Pour répondre à cette question, Laurent Véray, Bregt Lameris , Christian Bonah, Philipp Osten, Anne Rasmussen et Alexandre Sumpf présenteront et analyseront des rushes, des sujets d'actualités et des documentaires d'époque, conservés dans les archives françaises (ECPAD), allemandes (BAFA) et russes (RGAKFD), mais rarement projetés.

Personne responsable 

Christian Bonah & Alexandre Sumpf

Bonah@unistra.fr

asumpf@hotmail.com

Le projet « SantéFilm : Information, persuasion, propagande. Le film médico-sanitaire comme mode de communication entre science, médecine, sphère publique et société en France, Allemagne et Russie/URSS, 1900-1980 » s’intéresse au patrimoine audiovisuel (film et non-film) de non-fiction français, allemand et russe dans le domaine de la santé. Il se trouve à la croisée entre histoire, histoire des sciences et des techniques et études audio-visuelles.

La naissance de la pilule

The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution 

Jonathan Eig

Hardcover: 400 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (October 13, 2014)
Language: English

ISBN-13: 978-0393073720

The fascinating story of one of the most important scientific discoveries of the twentieth century.

We know it simply as "the pill," yet its genesis was anything but simple. Jonathan Eig's masterful narrative revolves around four principal characters: the fiery feminist Margaret Sanger, who was a champion of birth control in her campaign for the rights of women but neglected her own children in pursuit of free love; the beautiful Katharine McCormick, who owed her fortune to her wealthy husband, the son of the founder of International Harvester and a schizophrenic; the visionary scientist Gregory Pincus, who was dismissed by Harvard in the 1930s as a result of his experimentation with in vitro fertilization but who, after he was approached by Sanger and McCormick, grew obsessed with the idea of inventing a drug that could stop ovulation; and the telegenic John Rock, a Catholic doctor from Boston who battled his own church to become an enormously effective advocate in the effort to win public approval for the drug that would be marketed by Searle as Enovid.

Spanning the years from Sanger’s heady Greenwich Village days in the early twentieth century to trial tests in Puerto Rico in the 1950s to the cusp of the sexual revolution in the 1960s, this is a grand story of radical feminist politics, scientific ingenuity, establishment opposition, and, ultimately, a sea change in social attitudes. Brilliantly researched and briskly written, The Birth of the Pillis gripping social, cultural, and scientific history.

Histoire de la sexualité

History of Sexuality Seminar series 

Institute of Historical Research, London
Holden Room, 103, first floor of Senate House

 Time: Tuesdays 18:00

28 October - Echoes and nods: recognition, genealogy and writing the queer archive, Dr Natasha Alden (University of Aberystwyth);
and 'What went on between Brock and Bob?' Robert Oboussier, Werner Brock, and the evolution of gay identities in the Twentieth Century, Dr Lars Fischer (University College London)

18 November - Attitudes to ejaculation in early modern England, Dr Tim Reinke-Williams (University of Northampton)

9 December - Reproductive Health, the Ford Foundation, and the Chinese Sexual Revolution, Dr Leon Antonio Rocha (University of Liverpool)



For abstracts: http://www.history.ac.uk/events/seminars/385

Rêver à Byzance

Dreaming in Byzantium and Beyond

Christine Angelidi, George T. Calofonos (Editors) 

Hardcover: 232 pages
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co; New edition edition (October 8, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-1409400554

Although the actual dreaming experience of the Byzantines lies beyond our reach, the remarkable number of dream narratives in the surviving sources of the period attests to the cardinal function of dreams as vehicles of meaning, and thus affords modern scholars access to the wider cultural fabric of symbolic representations of the Byzantine world. Whether recounting real or invented dreams, the narratives serve various purposes, such as political and religious agendas, personal aspirations or simply an author's display of literary skill. It is only in recent years that Byzantine dreaming has attracted scholarly attention, and important publications have suggested the way in which Byzantines reshaped ancient interpretative models and applied new perceptions to the functions of dreams. This book - the first collection of studies on Byzantine dreams to be published - aims to demonstrate further the importance of closely examining dreams in Byzantium in their wider historical and cultural, as well as narrative, context. Linked by this common thread, the essays offer insights into the function of dreams in hagiography, historiography, rhetoric, epistolography, and romance. They explore gender and erotic aspects of dreams; they examine cross-cultural facets of dreaming, provide new readings, and contextualize specific cases; they also look at the Greco-Roman background and Islamic influences of Byzantine dreams and their Christianization. The volume provides a broad variety of perspectives, including those of psychoanalysis and anthropology.

Les textes médicaux grecs et leur public

Greek Medical Texts and their Audience: Percetion, Transmission, Reception

Symposium

Friday 12th - Saturday 13th December 2014


SW 1.09, Somerset House East Wing

Strand Campus, King's College London

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/eventrecords/2014-2015/CHS/gmtconference.aspx


This event is open to all and free to attend, but booking is required via our Eventbrite page:

http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/greek-medical-texts-their-audience-perception-transmission-reception-tickets-12512187289


Any enquiries please email the organisers: petros.bouras-vallianatos@kcl.ac.uk or sophia.xenofontos@glasgow.ac.uk


Friday 12 December


14.00 Registration


14.15 Introduction


14.30 Session 1

Stavros Kouloumentas (Berlin) Alcmaeon & his addresses: revisiting the preface of a treatise On Nature

Jordi Crespo Saumell (Cagliari) The Anonymus Londinensis & the paideia of the Imperial Period


Michiel Meeusen (Leuven) Solving medical problems 101: an interpretation of Ps.-Alexander of Aphrodisias' Med. puzz. 1, Praef.in light of medical school practice


16.00 Break


16.30 Session 2

Lesley Dean-Jones (UT Austin) Extending the family, the protreptic aim of some Hippocratic treatises


Chiara Thumiger (Berlin) The multiple audiences of the Hippocratic Epidemics


Laurence Totelin (Cardiff) Gone with the wind: laughter & the audience of the Hippocratic treatises


Daniel Bertoni (Miami) A popular history of medicine



Saturday 13 December


09.00 Registration


09.30 Session 3

Antoine Pietrobelli (Reims) Galen's books & friends


Sophia Xenophontos (Glasgow) Philosophical protreptic in Galen's Exhortation to the Study of Medicine: construction of authority & audience response


Maria Luisa Garofalo (Rome) The De Propriis Placitis: evolution & systematisation of medical doctrines in Galen's medical & philosophical testament


Dimitris Karambelas (London) Greek medicine & the law: juristic readings & reception of medical texts in the Imperial Age


11.30 Break


12.00 Session 4


Uwe Vagelpohl (Warwick) The user-friendly Galen: Hunayn ibn Ishāq & the Syro-Arabic translation tradition


Elvira Wakelnig (Vienna) Arabic De Natura Hominis-treatises: their tradition, scope & audience


Katherine van Schaik (Boston, MA) Text-less medical instruction? The evolving role of texts in an experiential profession


Joshua Olsson (Cambridge) Medical tetrads in Medieval Islam


14.00 Lunch


15.30 Session 5

Petros Bouras-Vallianatos (London) Reading Galen in Byzantium


Christophe Erismann (Lausanne) Medicine & philosophy according to Meletius' De Natura hominis


Erika Gielen (Leuven) Physician versus physician: a comparison of On the Constitution of Man by Meletius and On the Nature of Man by Leo Medicus


17.00 Concluding remarks


17.30 Drinks reception

Anesthésie, Analgésie, Réanimation et Samu

Anesthésie, Analgésie, Réanimation et Samu (de 1945 aux années 2000)

TOME I : L’ANESTHÉSIE-RÉANIMATION

Club de l’histoire de l’anesthésie et de la réanimation

Glyphe Editions
ISBN 978-2-35815-139-9
340 pages

Née aux États-Unis au milieu du xixe siècle, l’anesthésie a permis, avec l’asepsie, l’essor de la chirurgie. Elle va connaître un développement considérable au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Bénéficiant des progrès pharmacologiques et techniques de l’époque, elle engendre également les siens, comme ceux de la ventilation artificielle, ouvrant la voie à la réanimation.

En France, l’anesthésie doit surmonter de nombreux obstacles pour devenir une discipline à part entière. Elle étend alors son domaine hors des blocs opératoires, dans la lutte contre la douleur et vers la réanimation pré-hospitalière.

C’est l’histoire, tant humaine que technique, de l’essor de l’anesthésie-réanimation en France à partir de 1945 qu’aborde ce volume. Il sera suivi d’autres, traitant de la réanimation et du Samu.

Œuvre collective, élaborée par le Club de l’histoire de l’anesthésie et de la réanimation, l’ouvrage mêle anecdotes et témoignages aux données scientifiques.

Les anciens y voient retracées leurs années de jeunesse, les plus jeunes y trouveront les origines de leur activité et des enseignements pour l’avenir.

Corps féminins et praticiennes dans les traditions médicales antiques

Female Bodies and Female Practitioners in the Medical Traditions of the Late Antique Mediterranean World


Berlin, 27.-29.10.2014

Convenors:
Lennart Lehmhaus, Matteo Martelli, Christine Salazar

Research project A03 "The Transfer of Medical Episteme in the '˜Encyclopaedic' Compilations of Late Antiquity" (Heads: Philip J. van der Eijk/Markham J. Geller)
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/en/teilprojekte/sagen/A03/index.html

Collaborative Research Center (SFB 980) "Episteme in Motion", Freie Universität Berlin.
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/en/index.html

The conference aims at discussing the emergence and transmission of gynaecological knowledge from different angles in ancient medical theory and practice. Beside the medical approach, we will consider cultural practices and socio-religious norms that enable and constrain the production and application of gynaecological know-how (e.g. certain taboos on examining or touching the female body, etc.). The role and function of female specialists (e.g. healers, midwives or wet-nurses) as objects and subjects within ancient medical discourses will also be elaborated in further detail.

The combination of topics from various disciplines will provide ample possibilities for a comparative exploration of this field. The multi-perspective approach will help to sharpen our understanding of similarities and differences between Talmudic knowledge on this topic and the medical traditions in Ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Graeco-Roman, Persian, Byzantine, and Syriac cultures.

PROGRAMME
Monday evening, 27/10/2014 (Freie Universitat Berlin, SFB-Villa, Schwendenerstrate 8, 14195 Berlin), 

Conference opening: 18.00 ct.;


Keynote Lecture (in colaboration with BabMed project)

Charlotte Fonrobert (Stanford)
Talmudic Gynecology and its Relationship to Late Antique Medical Literature: Transfigurations of ‚Women’s Affairs‘(Gynaikeia)



Tuesday, 28/10/2014
(Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, Institut für klassische Philologie, Room 2103)

session 1: 9.30–11.00

Tanja Pommerening (Mainz)
Ancient Egyptian Concepts of Female Anatomy, Physiology, and Specified Pharmacotherapy.

Ulrike Steinert (FU Berlin)
Women’s Healthcare in Ancient Mesopotamian Medicine: Texts, Problems, Interpretations.

Coffee Break

session 2: 11.30–13.00

Giulia Ecca (BBAW Berlin)
Women’s (and Men’s) Infertility in Galen’s Commentary on Aphorisms, Book 5.

Siam Bhayro (Exeter)
Gynaecology in Syriac Sources: Theory and Practice.

Lunch Break

session 3: 14.30–16.00

Caroline Musgrove (Cambridge)
Finding the Authorial Voice in Late Antique Medicine: Maternal Bodies and the Generation of Seeds in the Encyclopaedic Traditions.
Tirzah Meacham (Toronto)
Reality or Theoretical Discussion: Pre-Menarchal Pregnancy, Superfetation, and Pregnancy during Lactation in Rabbinic Literature.

Coffee Break

session 4: 16.30–18.00

Monika Amsler (Zürich)
„My Mother Told Me ...“. An Evaluation of the Treatments of the Sickly Newborn in bShab 134a.

Hannah Tzuberi (FU Berlin)
The Difficult Birth in Mishnaic Law: Regulation, Failure and Empathy.


Wednesday, 29/10/2014
(Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, Institut für klassische Philologie, Room 2103)

session 1: 10.00–11.30

Tal Ilan (FU Berlin)
Salome’s Medicinal Recipes and Jewish Women Doctors in Antiquity.

Carmen Caballero-Navas (Granada)
On the Medieval Beginnings of Jewish Gynaecology.

Coffee Break

session 2: 12.00–13.00

Sean Coughlin (TOPOI Berlin), Marzia Soardi (Palermo)
The Female in Aristotle’s Biology and its Byzantine Reception.

Lunch Break

session 3: 15.00–16.30

Petros Bouras-Vallianatos (London)
Byzantine Criticism of Galenic Theories on Conception: the Case of Symeon Seth’s Refutation of Galen.
Rebecca Flemming (Cambridge)
John of Alexandria and the ‘sex which is not one’: commentary and gynaecology in late antique medical schools.

Final discussion/Concluding remarks: 16.30–17.00



We would be happy to welcome you at our conference in Berlin. Admission is free, but registration is required. Contact: f.herklotz@hu-berlin.de

For a detailed programme and other practical information please visit:
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/en/veranstaltungen/Vorschau/Tagung_A03_Gynaekologie.html