Folies à la Salpêtrière

Folies à la Salpêtrière. Charcot, Freud, Lacan


Houchang Guilyardi (dir.)



Broché: 238 pages
Editeur : EDP Sciences (11 juin 2015)
Langue : Français
ISBN-10: 2759812685
ISBN-13: 978-2759812684

Possédées du malin au Moyen Age, les sorcières hystériques sont vouées au bûcher. Enfermées au XVIIe siècle, maltraitées, elles rejoignent la Cour des Miracles de l'Hospice de la Vieillesse-Femmes à la Salpêtrière, lieu de réclusion des femmes dérangeantes, indigentes, folles incurables, âgées ou gâteuses .... Jusqu'à ce que le Dr Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893) mène le combat qui transforme l'ancien hospice en hôpital : l'Ecole de la Salpêtrière de Paris est née, qui devient lieu de recherche, d'enseignement et de soins, de renommée internationale. Tels des prestidigitateurs, les médecins hypnotiseurs de la Salpêtrière, font surgir et disparaître contractures, paralysies, spasmes, convulsions, cécité... Attiré par la notoriété de Charcot, le jeune Freud, arrive à Paris fin 1885 comme neuro-pathologiste. Il en repart quelques mois plus tard pour fonder la Psychanalyse. Au travers du corps de l'hystérique en convulsions, incarné par Blanche, Augustine ou Geneviève, vedettes des Leçons du Mardi, Freud découvre une mise en scène de fantasmes et de désirs inconscients. C'est à cette traversée historique et conceptuelle que nous vous convions dans l'amphithéâtre qui porte aujourd'hui le nom de Charcot.

Les folles savantes

Les « folles » peuvent-elles être des femmes savantes ? (France et Grande-Bretagne, 1850-1920)

Aude Fauvel (IUHMSP– Chuv/Unil – Lausanne, Suisse)

Jeudi 18 juin 2015 de 14 h à 16 h 30
Centre Alexandre-Koyré, 27 rue Damesme (5e étage) 75013 Paris

Discutante : Juliette Lancel (doctorante EHESS- Centre Alexandre Koyré)

Dans le domaine médical, la psychiatrie est sans doute la discipline où il a semblé que les femmes avaient été le moins susceptibles d’avoir pu contribuer à la fabrique du savoir. De Phyllis Chesler à Lisa Appignanesi en passant par Elaine Showalter, pour de nombreuses historien.n.e.s, la psychiatrie apparaît comme la science sexiste par excellence, les spécialistes du psychisme ayant non seulement nourri les discours sur l’infériorité du « sexe faible », mais aussi très concrètement contribué à l’exclusion des femmes en acceptant d’hospitaliser les « malades » qui osaient aller contre les désirs de la gent masculine. Dans ce cadre, les patientes psychiatriques ont ainsi souvent été décrites comme étant les plus aliénées parmi les femmes, doublement disqualifiées dans le champ du savoir, puisque portant à la fois l’étiquette de femme et de folle.

Cet exposé visera à nuancer cette perspective. Car si cet examen d’une certaine victimisation des femmes par la médecine mentale est une veine utile et même nécessaire de l’historiographie, il n’empêche que cet angle d’approche a parfois restreint le regard et eu l’effet paradoxal d’éclipser le rôle que les femmes, et singulièrement les patientes, ont pu jouer dans cette histoire. Or il s’avère que les « folles » se sont essayées, parfois avec succès, à répondre aux médecins, influant ainsi sur la construction des savoirs et sur l’évolution des pratiques médicales. Comment les patientes ont-elles porté leurs voix dans l’espace psychiatrique ? Et, plus largement, comment penser le lien entre histoire des femmes, mouvements féministes et discipline psychiatrique ? C’est ce qu’on tâchera de cerner dans cet exposé, en comparant la façon dont les sociétés française et britannique ont différemment fait place à la parole des femmes aliénées.

Séminaire Femmes savantes et représentations 

La maison de l'anatomie de Copenhague

Thomas Bartholin. The Anatomy House in Copenhagen

Niels W. Bruun (Editor), Peter Fisher (Translator), Morten Fink-Jensen (Introduction)


Hardcover: 286 pages
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press (June 15, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 8763542595
ISBN-13: 978-8763542593

The first anatomical theater was established at the University of Copenhagen in 1644, and it was there that Thomas Bartholin first demonstrated the existence of the thoracic duct, and, later, the lymphatic vessels, an achievement that brought him immediate fame.

In 1662, Bartholin published A Short Description of the Anatomy House in Copenhagen, which meticulously describes the layout of the Anatomy House alongside the first eighteen years of its history. This book presents Bartholin’s work for the first time in English, enabling a broader audience to draw on the detailed accounts of Bartholin and the other doctors who used the Anatomy House. Notes and an introduction, as well as numerous illustrations, help to make this a valuable resource for historians of medicine.

Historiographie des sciences dans la période pré-moderne

Before Montucla: Historiography of Science in the Early Modern Era 

Call for papers

Interdisciplinary Centre for Science and Technology Studies,
Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany, March 3/4, 2016

During the last decades many new topics, approaches and research agendas emerged in historiography of science. The field extricated itself from descriptive positivism and celebratory Whiggism and began to take account of the various contexts of historical writings, creatively combining methods of the humanities and the social sciences with knowledge of the sciences. Historiography of science, however, still lacks evaluation and interpretation of its own history. In other words, the history of historiography of science has not been written yet. General overviews of the origins of history of science as a discipline usually go back to the end of the 19th century but historiography of science is much older. Some scholars say that it began in classical antiquity, among pupils of Aristotle. Other authors argue that the discipline originated in the efforts of early modern scientists to convey legitimacy and nobility to their field. Other authors argue that historiography of science arose in the Enlightenment in close relation to the study of the history of the human spirit. Every attempt to seriously study the history of historiography of science must therefore start with finding out when the moment came in which historiography of science emerged as a discipline with its own themes, specifics methods and supporting institutions. We assume that historiography of science originated in the early modern period because at that time “science” in the modern meaning of the word emerged – and in order to be recognized as a producer of knowledge worth of knowing it had to offer its impressive pedigree. But still there are a lot of questions concerning the origins, aims, functions and methods used in the first outlines of the history of science.  

The workshop wants to address these gaps in our knowledge. We welcome all contributions that relate to the history of historiography of science especially in the period from the Renaissance to the beginning of the 19th century. We want to examine how the perception of the history of science was influenced by philosophical assumptions, mainly by philosophy of history: e. g. did scientists and historians view the history of science as a linear accumulation of knowledge or as a cyclical process in which periods of blossom and barbarism alternated? We are interested in how the themes of contemporary general historiography, including chronology or biblical history, affected the outlines of the history of science. Did scientists and historians synchronize the history of science with the political and socio-economic events (as in the Marxist historiography)? What factors were recognized as decisive in the development of science? Further, we are interested in the role of mythological and religious strategies in promoting particular points of view on the history of science. We are interested in nationalist, racist and religious prejudices that influenced different forms of interpretation of the history of science. We welcome papers that relate to the iconography of the historiography of science and various ways of graphical representations of and in the history of science. The literary strategies of early historians of science are an interesting problem as well. We want to discuss key concepts of the historical forms of historiography of science: the changing ideas of scientific progress, of history, of science; emancipation from prejudices, tradition, cumulativism etc.  We are also interested in what scientists and historians expected of their historical overviews of the development of science, i.e.: what were the functions of historiography of science? What kind of transformations can be seen, especially in the period from 16th to the early 19th century? Who were the supposed (and real) addressees of such historical accounts. What was the public for which the outlines of the history of science had been prepared? And what effect and impact was expected?

The workshop is being organized at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Science and Technology Studies (IZWT) at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal. For further information on the topic, please get in touch with Volker Remmert, remmert@uni-wuppertal.de; or Daniel Špelda spelda@kfi.zcu.cz. The workshop’s ambit invites interdisciplinary collaboration. Proposals for papers from all who can contribute to the topic are therefore welcome. Special consideration will be given to proposals from young scholars. The language of the workshop will be English. 

Submissions must include a title, an abstract (1–2 pages) of a 20 minute presentation, and a short CV (maximum one page). Submissions should be sent to Volker Remmert at remmert@uni-wuppertal.de no later than July 18, 2015. Contributors’ overnight accommodation costs will be covered. But because funds are limited, please let us know well in advance if you will need support to cover travelling expenses.

Histoire des workshops sur la cartographie du génome humain.

Human Gene Mapping Workshops c.1973-c.1991

Jones E M, Tansey E M. (eds) (2015) 


Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine, vol. 54.
London: Queen Mary University of London.
ISBN 978 1 91019 503 1
http://www.histmodbiomed.org/witsem/vol54



This Witness Seminar discusses the scientific origins of gene mapping and emergence of the Human Gene Mapping Workshops (HGMW). From HGM1 in Yale (1973) to HGM11 in London (1991), key scientists, based principally in the UK, share memories of participating in these workshops and reflect on the historical importance of the HGMW in contemporary biomedicine.

Topics include the influence of somatic cell genetics; role of non-human gene mapping; advent of DNA-based techniques; the culture of collaboration in the gene mapping community; nomenclature challenges; clinical applications; the informatics revolution; the origins of the Human Genome Project and advent of sequencing technologies. Throughout, tribute is paid to the contributions of international colleagues to gene mapping.


The seminar was chaired by Professor Peter Harper, and the volume is introduced by Professor Peter Goodfellow.

'… criticism is so characteristic of nomenclature, it’s always so controversial and people get so het up about it. Their gene is like their baby and everyone always agrees that one gene should only have one name but they are sure it should be theirs.' Professor Sue Povey

'… as soon as two kilobases of human DNA sequence was accumulated it would be released immediately on the internet, the ‘no intellectual property’ position would be taken rather than a protective position to make sure that the data remained freely available. That’s had as much of an impact outside of genomics as probably the human genome has had within genomics.' Professor Michael Morgan


This volume can be ordered from www.amazon.co.uk; www.amazon.com; and all good booksellers for £6/$10 plus postage, using the ISBN. For further details of this and other volumes in the series visit: http://www.histmodbiomed.org/article/wellcome-witnesses-volumes.


All volumes are freely available to download.

Les filiations psychanalytiques

Psychoanalytic Filiations: Mapping The Psychoanalytic Movement

Workshop 

Saturday, 18 July 2015 from 14:00 to 18:00 (BST)

UCL Centre for the History of Psychological Disciplines
London, United Kingdom

How does one write the history of the psychoanalytic movement? This event marks the publication of Ernst Falzeder’s book, Psychoanalytic Filiations: Mapping the Psychoanalytic Movement (Karnac Books), with a series of debates and discussions on this theme. Written over a span of nearly a quarter century, the “red thread” running through the book is the network of psychoanalytic “filiations” (who analysed whom), and how crucial concepts of depth psychology were developed before the  background of those intense relationships: for example, Freud’s technical recommendations, the therapeutic use of countertransference and the view of the psychoanalytic situation as a social, interactive process, the introduction of the anal phase, the birth of the object-relations-model as opposed to the drive-model in psychoanalysis, or the psychotherapeutic treatment of psychoses. Several chapters deal with key figures in that history, such as Sándor Ferenczi, Karl Abraham, Eugen Bleuler, Otto Rank, and C. G. Jung, their respective relationships to each other and to Freud, and the consequences that their collaboration, as well as conflicts, with him had for the further development of psychoanalysis up to the present day. Other chapters give an overview on the publications of Freud’s texts and on unpublished documents (the “unknown Freud”), the editorial policy of the publications of Freud’s letters.

Discussants:
Dr. Ernst Falzeder (UCL)
Dr. Shaul Bar-Heim (Birkbeck College)
Arthur Eaton (UCL)
Dr. Matt ffytche (University of Essex)
Prof. Brett Kahr (Roehampton University)
Dr. Sarah Marks (University of Cambridge)
Dee McQuillan (UCL)
Dr. Richard Skues (London Metropolitan University)

Chair: Prof. Sonu Shamdasani (UCL)

Full details and registration online here:
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/ucl-centre-for-the-history-of-psychological-disciplines-4646137887

Charles Bell, chirurgien à Waterloo

Charles Bell, chirurgien à Waterloo

Martine Devillers argouarc'h


Broché: 304 pages
Editeur : Michalon (7 mai 2015)
Collection : DOCUMENT
Langue : Français
ISBN-13: 978-2841867868

Dix jours à peine après la bataille de Waterloo, Charles Bell quitte l'Angleterre pour Bruxelles. Chirurgien, professeur d'anatomie doué pour le dessin, il est le premier à rejoindre un personnel médical dépassé par l'afflux des blessés, sans autre passeport que ses instruments de chirurgie. Charles Bell s'est distingué des autres chirurgiens britanniques par son choix de soigner les Français, dont les blessures étaient les plus graves puisqu'ils furent relevés les derniers sur le champ de bataille. Il fut le seul Britannique à écrire sur Waterloo autre chose que des descriptions techniques d'ordre purement médical. S'il fut au début très intéressé et très lié à la nature des pathologies des blessés, il changea rapidement de disposition, oubliant son objectif premier pour simplement soulager des hommes atteints dans leur chair mais aussi dans leur âme. En dessinant non seulement leurs blessures mais aussi l'expression de leur visage, il chercha à les comprendre, en particulier leur affection pour Napoléon, que les Anglais connaissaient si mal. Dans ce récit entièrement inspiré de faits et personnages réels, Martine Devillers-Argouarc'h, tout en offrant une magnifique reconstitution de Bruxelles au lendemain de Waterloo, fait revivre un homme de science peu banal qui, d'abord mû par son ambition, a fini par n'écouter que son humanisme.

La Médecine à Quebec du XVIIe

Docteurs, Guérisseurs et Fossoyeurs.
La Médecine à Quebec du XVIIe
 
Services Historiques

Broché
Éditeur : Septentrion (11 mai 2015)
Langue : Français
ISBN-13: 978-2894488195

Le temps d'une promenade, plongez dans l'univers des guérisseurs d'autrefois, des Hospitalières aux médecins, en passant par les sages-femmes et les chirurgiens. Revivez les grands maux qui ont affligé Québec à une époque où la profanation des sépultures servait l'avancement de la médecine! Découvrez les remèdes concoctés par les apothicaires et repérez les cabinets des hommes de science, les hôpitaux et les hospices. Mais méfiez-vous des charlatans qui se disputent le privilège de guérir votre corps et votre âme…

Facile d'utilisation et abondamment illustré, ce guide donne au lecteur des indications précises sur le parcours à suivre. Celui-ci peut s'effectuer d'un seul coup (environ 90 à 120 minutes, incluant marche et lecture) ou par sections, selon l'agenda du visiteur!