Santé et médecine dans l'Ouest médiéval

Health and Medicine in the Early Medieval West

Call for papers

IMC Leeds 2017

We are inviting papers for sessions at IMC Leeds 2017 on Health and Medicine in the Early Medieval West. Despite important new work, early medieval medicine still remains quarantined from the mainstream of early medieval historiography. The aim of these sessions is to diagnose and treat this historiographical “otherness” by bringing health and medicine into conversation with other areas of early medieval historiography, and by using health and medicine as ways of exploring early medieval societies.

Papers on post-Roman, pre-university medicine and/or health from c.500-c.1000 are welcomed on any of the following themes:

a) Situating medical texts and traditions

Possible topics: what counts (and counted) as a medical text/tradition in the early middle ages; continuation of, adaptation of or deviation from medical traditions; manuscript contexts of medical texts; authors and audiences; social, political and/or intellectual contexts of medical learning.

b) Medical ideas outside medical texts

Possible topics: migration of ideas within or outside medical texts; bibliographical evidence (e.g. library catalogues) for medical learning; medical learning and the laity; medical metaphors; health and medicine in pastoral rhetoric; liturgy as medicinal.

c) Moving beyond texts

Possible topics: interdisciplinary approaches to early medieval health; use of aDNA, palaeopathology and bioarchaeology; material culture of health; comparative history.

d) Humans and other animals

Possible topics: animal products in medical practice; health implications of interactions between humans and animals; analogies between human and animal medicine; veterinary medicine.

If interested, please send your details, paper title and an informal abstract to Zubin Mistry (zubin.mistry@ed.ac.uk) and Claire Burridge (cpsb2@cam.ac.uk) by Friday 9th September. Please get in touch if you have any questions and please do pass on the CFP to anyone who may be interested.

La fondation secrete de l'homéopathie

La fondation secrete de l'homéopathie (Reseaux Francs-Macons et théories médicales de 1750 a 1810) 

Patrice Pinet 


Editeur : Jacques Andre (5 avril 2016)
Collection : THERIAKA
ISBN-13: 978-2757002964

Le succès social et industriel de l’homéopathie nécessitait une analyse approfondie de ses origines. Cet ouvrage forme le premier volet d’une vaste étude sur la genèse de l’homéopathie d’Hahnemann (1755-1843) jusqu’en 1810, date de la première édition de son Organon. Nous analysons en détail, outre les sources hippocratiques et paracelsiennes traditionnellement reconnues, mais parfois contestées, du système homéopathique, ses origines historiques et philosophiques qui lui sont les plus contemporaines. Parmi celles-ci figure la pensée médicale de la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle que nous illustrons par l’examen d’ouvrages de médecins praticiens ou expérimentateurs. Nous montrons la filiation, soupçonnée mais à notre connaissance jamais étudiée, entre l’homéopathie d’Hahnemann, le rosicrucisme et la Franc-maçonnerie. Dès l’âge de vingt-deux ans, Hahnemann fut en effet initié franc-maçon et entra en contact avec un courant ésotérique véhiculant des «sciences» secrètes ou dites occultes. Le centre de gravité de la franc-maçonnerie était alors très mouvant, à la fois dans l’espace européen et dans les idées des différents ordres qui l’investissaient, allant de la philosophie des Lumières radicale à l’illuminisme spiritualiste. Nous dévoilons comment Hahnemann a puisé dans ce fonds commun humaniste et philanthropique pour combattre une médecine alors peu scientifique et une thérapeutique nuisible. Outre la découverte d’un pharmakon original, son œuvre nous invite à ne pas négliger l’hygiène et l’écoute de l’âme du patient

Histoire et culture de l'alimentation

History and Cultures of Food 14th–18th Centuries

Call for proposals for a new series from Medieval Institute Publications

Series Editor: Allen J. Grieco, Sr. Research Associate (Emeritus),Villa I Tatti 

Food, its preparation and the act of eating are basic cultural acts that characterize all human groups;
reiterated on a daily basis, they constitute the cornerstone of social and cultural interaction. This series seeks to publish contributions to the field of history and culture of food, broadly conceived: a rapidly expanding discipline addressing a rich variety of approaches to a subject that stands at a major disciplinary crossroad. From cultural history to economic history, from the history of heritage products to the history of manners, food is a truly interdisciplinary topic of inquiry, open to research ranging from the history of the cookbook to literary texts, from the still-life to banquet scenes, including the analysis of account books and beyond.
Food history is, at present, a field very much in the making; it is now beginning to establish a
canon. This series aims to publish the best work that is being produced today and make available
the work of historians coming from different historiographical horizons. To that end, it welcomes
scholarly monographs and edited volumes in English by both established and early-career researchers.

To submit a proposal, please contact series editor Allen Grieco (allengrieco@gmail.com) and
acquisitions editor Erika Gaffney (Erika.Gaffney@arc-humanities.org).

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Dernier volume de Social History of Medicine

Social History of Medicine

Volume 29 Issue 3 August 2016


Original Articles

Wanda S. Henry
Women Searchers of the Dead in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century London 

Alun Withey
Medicine and Charity in Eighteenth-century Northumberland: The Early Years of the Bamburgh Castle Dispensary and Surgery, c. 1772–1802 

Kalle Kananoja
Infected by the Devil, Cured by Calundu: African Healers in Eighteenth-century Minas Gerais, Brazil 

Becky Taylor
Immigration, Statecraft and Public Health: The 1920 Aliens Order, Medical Examinations and the Limitations of the State in England
Andrew J. Hogan
Medical Eponyms: Patient Advocates, Professional Interests and the Persistence of Honorary Naming 

Rana Hogarth
The Strange Case of Hannah West: Skin Colour and the Search for Racial Difference

Minna Harjula
Health Citizenship and Access to Health Services: Finland 1900–2000 

Johan Edman
Transnational Nationalism and Idealistic Science: The Alcohol Question between the Wars 

Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen
The Hard School: Physical Treatments for War Neurosis in Britain during the Second World War 

Book Reviews

Stephen Gordon
Matthew M. Mesley and Louise E. Wilson, Contextualising Miracles in the Christian West, 1100−1500
Geoffrey Samuel
Janet Gyatso, Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet

Anna Winterbottom
Peregrine Horden and Elisabeth Hsu, The Body in Balance: Humoral Medicines in Practice

Carmel Raz
James Kennaway (ed), Music and the Nerves, 1700–1900

Paulo Drinot
José R. Jouve Martín, The Black Doctors of Colonial Lima: Science, Race and Writing in Colonial and Early Republican Peru

Erica Wald
Daniel Walther, Sex and Control: Venereal Disease, Colonial Physicians and Indigenous Agency in German Colonialism, 1884–1914

Steven M. Stowe
David Seed, Stephen C. Kenny and Chris Williams (eds), Life and Limb: Perspectives on the American Civil War

Julia Moses
Judith Rainhorn, ed., Santé et travail à la mine, XIXe–XXIe siècle

Tiffany F. Jones
Anna Greenwood and Harshad Topiwala, Indian Doctors in Kenya, 1895–1940: The Forgotten History

Adele Oltman
Tanya Hart, Health in the City: Race, Poverty, and the Negotiation of Women’s Health in New York City, 1915–1930

Kathleen W. Jones
Angela Davis, Pre-school Childcare in England, 1939–2010; Theory, Practice and Experience

Dora Vargha
Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs, Jonas Salk: A Life

Jonathan Sadowsky
S. D. Lamb, Pathologist of the Mind: Adolf Meyer and the Origins of American Psychiatry

Becky Taylor
Roberta Bivins, Contagious Communities. Medicine, Migration and the NHS in Post-War Britain

Nancy J. Tomes
Scott H. Podolsky, The Antibiotic Era: Reform, Resistance, and the Pursuit of a Rational Therapeutics

Erin J. Lux
Robert Peckham (ed.), Disease and Crime: A History of Social Pathologies and the New Politics of Health

Scott C. Martin
Laura D. Hirshbein, Smoking Privileges: Psychiatry, the Mentally Ill, and the Tobacco Industry in America

Melissa S. Dale
Everett Yuehong Zhang, The Impotence Epidemic: Men’s Medicine and Sexual Desire in Contemporary China

Julia R. Cummiskey
James C. McCann, The Historical Ecology of Malaria in Ethiopia. Deposing the Spirits

Priscilla Wald
Christopher Hamlin, More Than Hot: A Short History of Fever

Louise Hide
Petteri Pietikäinen, Madness. A History

Susan Pickard
Sharon R. Kaufman, Ordinary Medicine: Extraordinary Treatments, Longer Lives, and Where to Draw the Line

Les politiques de reproduction en France et en Grande-Bretagne

Reproductive politics in France and Britain

Conference

5 September 2016, 19:30 - 7 September 2016, 17:00

GR06/07 Seminar Room, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP

This two-day conference brings together historians, demographers and other social scientists from France and Britain working in the field of reproductive politics.

In recent decades, scholars have explored the politics of reproduction in the twentieth century from different national perspectives. It is now well established under what circumstances and with which purposes laws regulating reproduction have been implemented. More recently, individual reproductive behaviours have been made central to historical understandings of long-term demographic change. Richly detailed and contextualized studies are becoming commonplace in the field. These have generated new insights and complicating too the linear narrative of reproductive emancipation that has dominated since the 1970s. While much has been learned about the legal, social and intimate aspects of reproduction in France and Britain, less has been done to understand the differences and similarities between these two countries.

Monday 5 September - CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road19.30 - 21.00

Film screening of Une affaire de femmes (1988), introduced by Fabrice Cahen (INED, Esopp (EHESS/CRH) France)

Tuesday 6 September - English Faculty, 9 West Road

8.45 - 9.15 Registration

9.15 - 9.30 Welcome and opening

9.30 - 11.00 Session 1: IVF, media and reproductive work

Chair: Professor Nick Hopwood (Cambridge)

Dr Katie Dow (Cambridge)

'Looking into the test tube: the on-screen birth of IVF'

Professor Laurence Tain (Lumière Lyon Lumière2)

'The world chain of reproductive work'

11.00 - 11.30 Break

11.30 - 13.00 Session 2: Prevention through reproductive technologies

Chair: Professor Sarah Franklin (Cambridge)

Isabelle Ville (EHESS)

'Prenatal genetic diagnosis in France and Britain'

Dr Cathy Herbrand (De Montfort)

'How was the legalisation of mitochondrial donation possible in the UK? Bridging the recent and past debates'

13.00 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 - 15.30 Session 3: Pregnancy, government and activism

Chair: Dr Lucy Delap (Cambridge)

Dr Fabrice Cahen (INED, Esopp (EHESS/CRH) France)

'Pregnancy: a matter of government and governmentality'

Dr Jesse Olszynko-Gryn (Cambridge)

'The feminist appropriation of pregnancy testing in 1970s Britain'

15.30 - 16.00 Break

16.00 - 17.30 Keynote

Professor Simon Szreter (Cambridge)

Wednesday 7 September - English Faculty, 9 West Road

9.30 - 11.00 Session 4: Abortion, family planning and demography

Chair: Dr Jenny Bristow (Canterbury Christ Church)

Professor Sally Sheldon (Kent)

'The Abortion Act: a biography'

Professor Virginie De Luca Barrusse (IDUP, France)

'"Le syndrome de dénatalité"? Demographic issues in family planning debates (France 1950-1960)'

11.00 - 11.30 Break

11.30 - 13.00 Session 5: Pregnancy, surveillance and childbirth

Chair: Professor Anne-Françoise Praz (Fribourg)

Dr Salim Al Gailani (Cambridge)

'Liberty, confidentiality and the surveillance of pregnancy in interwar Britain'

Marylène Vuille (UNIG, Switzerland)

'Teaching women to give birth: from the prevention of birthing difficulties to psychological analgesia (UK, France, 1930s–1950s)'

13.00 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 - 15.30 Session 6: Contraception knowledge and public health

Chair: Dr Lesley Hall (Wellcome Library)

Dr Caroline Rusterholz (Cambridge)

'Transfer of contraceptive knowledge from England to France'

Dr Bibia Pavard (Panthéon-Assas University, CARISM, Paris)

'Let’s talk about it? Contraception from anti-conception propaganda to public health campaigns (France, 1950s-1980s)'

15.30 - 16.00  Break

16.00 - 17.00  Final discussion

Histoires d'alimentation et de sentiment

Cooking Cultures. Convergent Histories of Food and Feeling

Ishita Banerjee-Dube (ed.)


Cambridge Univesrity Press
Hardcover: 300 pages
June 30, 2016
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-1107140363

This volume offers a study of food, cooking and cuisine in different societies and cultures over different periods of time. It highlights the intimate connections of food, identity, gender, power, personhood and ‘national culture’, and also the intricate combination of ingredients, ideas, ideologies and imagination that go into the elaboration of food and cuisine.
Tracking such blends in different societies and continents churned out of trans-cultural flows of goods and peoples, colonial encounters, adventure and adaptation, and change in attitude and taste, Cooking Cultures makes a novel argument about convergent histories of the globe kneaded by food and cooking.

Les premières impressions

“First Impressions”: Faces, clothes, and bodies, 1600-1800

Call for Papers

Thursday 10thNovember 2016, 9.30am to 5.30pm at York Medical Society, York, UK

Submission guidelines: Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words in length and an accompanying 100 word biography to firstimpressionsconference@gmail.com by Monday 29th August.

In the early modern world, ‘first impressions’ played a central role in the establishment and maintenance of individual and group identities; faces, clothes, and bodies provided a number of sensory clues as to a person’s gender, social status, age, and even health. Appearances were described, depicted, and consumed. However, anxiety over the potential for outward appearances to confuse, disguise, or deceive also gained increasing momentum in this period – ‘first impressions’ were not always as they seemed. Emulation and the erosion of the social hierarchy caused particular alarm, and even the most respectable members of society were now understood to be vulnerable to deception. Clothing, cosmetics, and deportment could all alter appearance and render ‘first impressions’ as shifting and uncertain. In addition, the dissemination of images and descriptions of appearances across the social hierarchy markedly increased throughout the period; the explosion of print culture meant that descriptions of felons were now widely circulated in newspapers, for example, whilst satirical prints prompted a familiarity with images of public figures.

This one-day interdisciplinary symposium takes ‘first impressions’ as a starting point in order to explore these issues, focusing on the many different ways in which appearances were understood, described, or depicted in early modern Europe, 1600-1800. The conference welcomes submissions from postgraduates and early career researchers working within any discipline. Proposals are for 20 minute individual papers.

Proposed topics may include, but are certainly not limited to:

• Appearance and the social hierarchy – establishment or confusion of social hierarchy, regulation
• Disseminating appearances – royalty, celebrity, print, portraiture, caricature
• Crafting appearances – altered appearances, clothing, fashion, cosmetics, appearance as a political or social tool
• Disguise and deception
• Criminal appearances – criminals, prostitutes, the ‘lower sort’, the criminal body, trials
• Health and medicine – appearance of health, physical marks of illness, complexion, posture, the body
• Appearing different – social, racial, national, gender
• Public and private appearances – domestic sphere, public sphere, gender
• Beauty – ideal beauty, ugliness, representations
• ‘First impressions’ – first meetings, friendship, love, attraction

L'eugénisme en Roumanie

The Eugenic Fortress: The Transylvanian Saxon Experiment in Interwar Romania 

Tudor Georgescu


Series: CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine
Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Central European University Press (June 30, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-9633861394

The ever-growing library on the history of eugenics and fascism focuses largely on nation-states, while Georgescu asks why an ethnic minority, the German-speaking Transylvanian Saxons, turned to eugenics as a means of self-empowerment in inter-war Romania. The Eugenic Fortress examines the eugenic movement that emerged in the early twentieth century, and focuses on its conceptual and methodological evolution during this turbulent period. Further on, the book analyzes the gradual process of radicalising and politicization by a second generation of Saxon eugenicists in conjunction with the rise of an equally indigenous fascist movement. The Saxon case-study offers valuable insights into why an ethnic minority would seek to re-entrench itself behind the race-hygienic walls of a 'eugenic fortress', as well as the influence that home nations had upon its design. Georgescu's work is ground-breaking in the sense that the history of this uprooted community is usually handled with extreme sensitivity and serious (and critical) research into Transylvanian Saxon involvement with Nazism has been scant, until now.