La folie infantile en Angleterre

Child Insanity in England, 1845-1907

Steven Taylor


Palgrave Macmillan UK

2016

ISBN 978-1-137-60026-4

This book explores the treatment, administration, and experience of children and young people certified as insane in England during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It uses a range of sources from Victorian institutions to explore regional differences, rural and urban comparisons, and categories of mental illness and mental disability. The discussion of diverse pathways in and out of the asylum offers an opportunity to reassess nineteenth-century child mental impairment in a broad social-cultural context, and its conclusions widen the parameters of a ‘mixed economy of care’ by introducing multiple sites of treatment and confinement. Through its expansive scope the analysis intersects with topics such as the history of childhood, institutional culture, urbanisation, regional economic development, welfare history, and philanthropy.

Genre et douleur dans l'histoire moderne

Gender and Pain in Modern History

Call for Papers 

Birkbeck, University of London
Public Conference: 24 – 25 March 2017


In 2012, The Journal of Pain published a definitive study about the relationship between gender and pain, showing that for the vast majority of ailments, women reported significantly higher levels of pain (approximately twenty per cent higher) than men. In a variety of historical contexts, the female body has been associated with heightened sensitivity of various types. These images were borne out by cultural representations of female delicacy. However, female bodies have also been singled out for their ability to bear heightened pain, especially during childbirth. Representations of male stoicism (or perceived lack thereof) in the face of pain have also been a powerful image in many contexts. Women and men have long been thought to experience bodily sensations including discomfort and pain in a variety of culturally and historically specific ways: pain has routinely been gendered.

This two-day conference focuses on the historical relationship(s) between gender and pain between the early modern period and the present day. It aims to foster discussion among experts working on women’s history, the history of masculinity, and the history of gender; the history of science, health, and medicine; and the history of the body, with perspectives from a variety of national contexts and disciplinary backgrounds. Possible paper topics include, but are not limited to:

• Histories of female and/or male experiences of pain, including attention to uniquely female or male medical ailments or conditions
• Attention to historical representations of pain as they relate to femininity or masculinity
• Gendered experiences of emotional pain and trauma
• Attention to the role of other categories including race, ethnicity, age, and class or mode of living as they relate to gendered experiences of pain
• Intersections of pain and sexuality, including pain during intercourse, sadism and masochism
• Intersections of pain and reproduction – attention to the history of pain during pregnancy and childbirth, and perceptions of fetal pain including during abortion
• The effects of gender on engagement with medicine and medical practitioners
• The responses of various medical and cultural communities to pain in women and in men
• Pain, gender, and social relationships
• Representations of gender, sensitivity, and pain in art, literature, film, and drama

Confirmed speakers include Professor Keith Wailoo, Townsend Martin Professor of History and Public Affairs (Princeton University), Professor Wendy Kline, Dema G. Seelye Chair in the History of Medicine (Purdue University), and Dr Lisa Smith (University of Essex).

Please send abstracts of up to 350 words together with a brief (1 page) curriculum vitae to w.wood@bbk.ac.uk by October 14, 2016.

This conference is organized by Dr Whitney Wood and Professor Joanna Bourke, in affiliation with the Birkbeck Trauma Project. This event is supported by the Birkbeck Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology.

The conference will be held at Birkbeck, University of London, located in Russell Square in central London. Following the conference, presenters will be invited to submit papers for a special journal issue or edited collection based on the conference themes.

Dernier numéro d'History of Psychiatry

History of Psychiatry

Volume 27 Issue 3 September 2016

Articles

Theory of mind and Verstehen (understanding) methodology 

Tsutomu Kumazaki

Insanity, belonging and citizenship: mentally ill people who went to and/or returned from Europe in the Late Ottoman Era 

Fatih Artvinli

Memory as persona non grata in the work of Eugène Minkowski: a historical approach 

João M Vaz

Prohibited or regulated? LSD psychotherapy and the United States Food and Drug Administration 

Matthew Oram

Graphology in German psychiatry (1870–1930) 

Armin Schäfer

The problem of sexual imbalance and techniques of the self in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

Jacinthe Flore

Max Scheler’s influence on Kurt Schneider 

John Cutting ... Gareth Owen

Taphophobia and ‘life preserving coffins’ in the nineteenth century 

Marco Cascella

Classic Text No. 107 

Joseph Maxwell on mediumistic personifications 

Carlos S Alvarado

Book Reviews 

Book Review: David W Jones, Disordered Personalities and Crime: An Analysis of the History of Moral Insanity

John Callender

Book Review: Michel Guy Thompson (ed.), The Legacy of R.D. Laing: An Appraisal of his Contemporary Relevance

Oisín Wall

Book Review: Gabriel N Mendes, Under the Strain of Color: Harlem’s Lafargue Clinic and the Promise of an Antiracist Psychiatry

Dennis Doyle

Book Review: Annie Bartlett, Secure Lives: The Meaning & Importance of Culture in Secure Hospital Care

Erin J Lux

L'asile de Bedlam

Bedlam: the asylum and beyond

Exhibition

15 September 2016 - 15 January 2017

Wellcome Collection
183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, UK.

Follow the rise and fall of the mental asylum and explore how it has shaped the complex landscape of mental health today. Reimagine the institution, informed by the experiences of the patients, doctors, artists and reformers who inhabited the asylum or created alternatives to it.

Today asylums have largely been consigned to history but mental illness is more prevalent than ever, as our culture teems with therapeutic possibilities: from prescription medications and clinical treatment to complementary medicines, online support, and spiritual and creative practices. Against this background, the exhibition interrogates the original ideal that the asylum represented – a place of refuge, sanctuary and care – and asks whether and how it could be reclaimed.

Taking Bethlem Royal Hospital as a starting point, ‘Bedlam: the asylum and beyond’ juxtaposes historical material and medical records with individual testimonies and works by artists such as David Beales, Richard Dadd, Dora García, Eva Kotátková, Madlove: A Designer Asylum, Shana Moulton, Erica Scourti, Javier Téllez and Adolf Wölfli, whose works reflect or reimagine the institution, as both a physical and a virtual space.

‘This Way Madness Lies: The Asylum and Beyond’, a highly illustrated book produced to accompany the exhibition, will be available from the Wellcome Shop and online.

Histoire de la grossesse

Women's History 

Summer 2016 - Pregnancy Special Issue

Katarzyna Bronk on From one father to another: William Cobbett’s advice on motherhood and maternity, 5

Sara Read on ‘Thanksgiving after Twice Miscarrying’: Divine Will, Women, and Miscarriage in Early Modern England, 11

Hannah Charnock on ‘This Haunting Sadness’: Press coverage of John Corrie’s Abortion (Amendment) Bill, 1979-1980, 16

Chelsea Phillips on Mrs. Pickle’s mistake: the origins of an eighteenth-century satirical print, 23

Emma O’Toole on Dressing the expectant mother: Maternity fashion in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Ireland, 26

Book Reviews

Jessica L. Malay, The Case of Mrs Mary Hampson: Her Story of Marriage, Abuse and Defiance in Seventeenth-Century England, Stanford: Stanford University Press: 2014, 33

Sean Ward (ed. and trans.), Memoirs (1630–1680): Sophia of Hanover, Toronto, Centre For Reformation and Renaissance Studies and ITER: 2013, 33

Yvonne McEwen, In the Company of Nurses. The History of the British Army Nursing Services in the Great War, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014, 34

Vivien Newman, We Also Served. The Forgotten Women of the First World War, Barnsley, Yorkshire: Pen & Sword History, 2014, 34

V. Brownlee, & L. Gallagher, (eds), Biblical Women in Early Modern Literary Culture, 1550-1700, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015, 36

P. G. Maxwell-Stuart, The British Witch: The Biography, Stroud: Amberley Publishing, 2014, 36

Hester Vaizey, Born in the GDR Living in the Shadow of the Wall, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2014, 37

Christine Muscat, Magdalene Nuns and Penitent Prostitutes, Malta Book Distributors Limited, 2013, 38

Deborah Heller (ed.) Bluestockings Now! The Evolution of a Social Role, Farnham, Surrey and Burlington VT: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2015, 39

Purchase this journal as a hard copy or download  here.

Les discours et pratiques de l'intoxication

Intoxication, Discourse and Practice

Call for papers

Interdisciplinary Workshop

Friday 30th September and Saturday 1st October, 2016

Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield

Since at least the sixteenth century intoxication has frequently been seen as a problem in western cultures – a medical, social, political, moral, and economic concern, affecting both individuals and social bodies, that huge amounts of public funding and energy have been devoted to understanding, addressing, and preventing. Just as frequently, these attempts have failed, even when they are based on apparently incontrovertible ‘scientific’ evidence – to do with serious physiological damage done by alcohol to the brain and liver, for example, or serious personal and social harms caused by illicit drugs.

Organised by the Sheffield research project Intoxicants and Early Modernity: England, 1580-1740, the focus of this workshop is:

• discourses that have and/or continue to frame intoxication as a problem over time
• other discourses that have represented intoxicants as an integral and valuable feature of social life and personal identity
• the relationship between these various discursive traditions and practices of intoxication in different times and places

To this end the interdisciplinary workshop brings together exponents of and experts in different kinds of discourse: medical, psychological, cultural, economic, law and politics, public health. But it also brings together experts in social practice: for example, social historians, anthropologists, and sociologists. The workshop provides an opportunity for speakers to think about the epistemologies, language, and assumptions of discourses relating to intoxicants and – in particular – the means by which they are publicly communicated: by whom, to whom, in what media and genres. It also asks students of social practices to think about the key discursive influences on their construction, reproduction, meaning, and value over time.

For a full list of speakers and registration, please click https://www.intoxicantsproject.org/project-workshop-intoxication-discourse-and-practice/ The deadline for registration is 16 September 2016.

Les Nourritures de Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Les Nourritures de Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Cuisine, goût et appétit

Assouly (Olivier) 

Garnier classiques
Collection Les Anciens et les Modernes - Études de philosophie
Nombre de pages 444 pages
Date de parution 27/07/2016
ISBN 978-2-406-05751-2

Tout en raillant les vanités gastronomiques, Jean-Jacques Rousseau accorde au sens du goût d'être indispensable à la formation d'un homme; même si dans l'Émile, la notion d'appétit semble s'affirmer comme une thématique centrale constamment en tension tant avec les prérogatives du goût que l'ordre politique.

Conférences d'histoire de la médecine d'Ottawa