Les substances médicales

Medicinal Substances – Historical and Geographical Aspects

Workshop

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

University Library, Braunschweig, Universitätsplatz 1

The history of medicine is rich in accounts of the use of medicinal substances. Usually, research projects in this field either focus on a certain region or on a certain time period. To date, few accounts cross the borders of cultures, periods and languages. The understanding of this issue is a priority for scholars who are working on the history of both medicine and medicinal substances. This workshop aims at being the starting point for historical work from multiple perspectives on the medical and pharmaceutical use of different therapeutical substances from antiquity to Early Modern times. 

The workshop is devided into two sections:

▪▪ In the first, “multi-regional” section, we will cover a wide geographical range, from the Chinese empire to Europe during the Ottoman era; discussions will focus on the mapping of materia medica in Chinese sources, the new iatrochemistry in the Ottoman era, and finally the understanding and classifying of historical drugs in Europe.

▪▪ The second, Arabic section will shed light on the Arabic civilization, an important stage in the global history of the development of medicine; the talks in this section will correspond to two of the three main classification categories used by physicians in this period, namely herbs and minerals. Here, the discussion will go deeper into the relationship between stones and alchemy, and the theory and practice of substituting herbal components in Arabic medicine.

This workshop will provide an essential platform for understanding the usage of medicinal substances in multiple historical periods, geographical regions, and civilizations.

Programm

13:00 Opening of the Conference

Greetings

Introduction: Dr. Ayman Yasin Atat (TU Braunschweig)

13:30 – 15:45 Section I

13:30 Dr. Michael Stanley-Baker (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)

“Datamining, Visualising and Mapping Materia Medica in Chinese Sources”

14:15 Doc. Dr. Rainer Brömer (Istanbul University)

“New Iatrochemistry in the Ottoman Empire in the 17th and 18th Centuries”

15:00 Prof. Dr. Bettina Wahrig (TU Braunschweig)

“Understanding, Registering and Classifying Historical Drugs in Europe (16th to 19th Century): The Sammlung Schneider”

15:45 Coffee Break

16:15 – 17:45 Section II

16:15 Prof. Dr. Regula Forster (Freie Universit.t Berlin/ University of Zurich)

“Of Stones and the Stone. Arabic Medicine and Alchemy”

17:00 Dr. Ayman Yasin Atat (TU Braunschweig)

“Herbal Components in Arabic Medicine and Pharmacopoeias: Substituting Simples Drawing on Galenic Qualities – the Example of Al Shirwānī”

17:45 – 18:00 End of Conference and Closing Remarks

Organized by Dr. Ayman Yasin Atat, Philipp Schwartz Fellow, Prof. Dr. Bettina Wahrig, Head of Department, 

Technische Universit.t Braunschweig

Department of the History of Science and Pharmacy

Beethovenstr. 55

38106 Braunschweig

www.tu-braunschweig.de/pharmaziegeschichte

Registration

For further information please contact Miriam Statnik: m.statnik@tu-braunschweig.de

Language: The workshop will be in English

Histoire mondiale de la silicose

Silicosis: A World History 

Paul-André Rosental 

Hardcover: 296 pages

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press; 1 edition (April 11, 2017)

Language: English

ISBN-13: 978-1421421551

Despite the common perception that "black lung" has been relegated to the dustbin of history, silicosis remains a crucial public health problem that threatens millions of people around the world. This painful and incurable chronic disease, still present in old industrial regions, is now expanding rapidly in emerging economies around the globe. Most industrial sectors―including the metallurgical, glassworking, foundry, stonecutting, building, and tunneling industries―expose their workers to lethal crystalline silica dust. Dental prosthodontists are also at risk, as are sandblasters, pencil factory workers in developing nations, and anyone who handles concentrated sand squirt to clean oil tanks, build ships, or fade blue jeans.

In Silicosis, eleven experts argue that silicosis is more than one of the most pressing global health concerns today―it is an epidemic in the making. Essays explain how the understanding of the disease has been shaken by new medical findings and technologies, developments in industrializing countries, and the spread of the disease to a wide range of professions beyond coal mining. Examining the global reactions to silicosis, the authors trace the history of the disease and show how this occupational health hazard first came to be recognized as well as the steps that were necessary to deal with it at that time.

Adopting a global perspective, Silicosis offers comparative insights into a variety of different medical and political strategies to combat silicosis. It also analyzes the importance of transnational processes―carried on by international organizations and NGOs and sparked by waves of migrant labor―which have been central to the history of silicosis since the early twentieth century. Ultimately, by bringing together historians and physicians from around the world, Silicosis pioneers a new collective method of writing the global history of disease. Aimed at legal and public health scholars, physicians, political economists, social scientists, historians, and all readers concerned by labor and civil society movements in the contemporary world, this book contains lessons that will be applicable not only to people working on combating silicosis but also to people examining other occupational diseases now and in the future.

Contributors: Alberto Baldasseroni, Francesco Carnevale, Éric Geerkens, Martin Lengwiler, Gerald Markowitz, Jock McCulloch, Joseph Melling, Julia Moses, Paul-André Rosental, David Rosner, Bernard Thomann

Poste d'assistant de recherche à l'Université de Bristol

Research Associate post, University of Bristol

Call for applications

The University-funded project Better by Design: Towards a Sensory History of the Modern Hospital invites applications to a fixed-funded (12 months), part-time (0.3 FTE) Research Associate position.

Can sensory history provide new insights into spaces of physical illness and recovery? How have cultural, individual and medical concerns historically shaped experiences of sights, sounds, smells, tastes and touch in hospital environments? This project will explore these questions, focusing on modern British hospitals. It will examine how emerging research on the senses fed into healthcare design and hospital life, and how patients/staff/visitors experienced and gave meaning to these design decisions. In 2017-18 the Principal Investigator (Dr Victoria Bates) will conduct research on the theory, practice and lived experience of sensory ‘design for health’ in hospitals since 1945. During this time the PI, with the support of the person appointed as Research Associate, will also explore future directions for the project with particular attention to methodological innovation, geographical scope and/or time frame, and public engagement opportunities. Overall, the project will establish the ways in which a sensory approach can shed light on historical relationships between health and environment, as a basis both for discrete outputs and further funding applications.

The successful candidate will need to have secured a PhD degree, even if the formal award of the degree has not yet been made, by the date of appointment (1 August 2017). They will be expected to support the whole project, rendering assistance to Dr Victoria Bates in finding sources, discussing ideas, reviewing relevant literature, organizing workshops, supporting social media, and writing grant applications. They may be expected to conduct a literature review and contribute to a jointly authored publication with workshop participants.

For further information about the department, see http://www.bristol.ac.uk/history/

For further details about this post, click here

Contact for informal enquiries:

Dr Victoria Bates victoria.bates@bristol.ac.uk

Ms R Jacks r.jacks@bristol.ac.uk Tel. +44 (0)117 331 7982

Timescale of appointment:

Short-listed candidates will be notified on or about Friday 9 June 2017 and invited to interview.

Interview date: Monday, 19 June 2017

Anticipated start date: 1 August 2017

Closing date for applications is Monday 29 May 2017

Une histoire de l'orthopédie pédiatrique

Une histoire de l'orthopédie pédiatrique

Sous la direction de R. Kohler 

Editeur : SAURAMPS MEDICAL

ISBN 10 : 9791030300994

La Société Française d'Orthopédie Pédiatrique (SOFOP) fête en 2017 ses 40 ans. Notre Société a souhaité, pour cette occasion, éditer un livre anniversaire ayant pour thème « l'histoire de l'orthopédie pédiatrique ». Quoi de plus passionnant en effet que de pouvoir se retourner vers le passé et d'observer les progrès réalisés? Ce livre étudie l'histoire des pathologies auxquelles nous sommes quotidiennement confrontés : traumatologie, scoliose, pied bot, inégalités de longueur des membres inférieurs, luxation congénitale de la hanche, tumeurs osseuses, handicap, etc. On pourra ainsi mesurer, au fil des chapitres, le cheminement des pensées depuis la reconnaissance de ces affections jusqu'aux progrès actuels ; de grands noms de l'orthopédie apparaissent ici et là, qui ont fait cette histoire. Certaines idées se sont avérées géniales -d'autres moins- mais le mérite de tous ces médecins, plus ou moins anonymes, aura été de vouloir progresser pour apporter toujours plus de confort et de guérisons aux enfants malades. Ainsi ce survol est-il une belle leçon d'humilité !

Les auteurs viennent d'horizons très différents : certains exercent en France, d'autres en Suisse, au Canada ou aux USA. Ils nous font partager leur vision de cette histoire, avec le recul rendu possible par leur expertise et leur expérience des sujets abordés. La coordination de l'ouvrage a été assurée par un lyonnais féru d'histoire de notre spécialité, Rémi Kohler, Professeur honoraire d'orthopédie pédiatrique ; il a suivi de près cette véritable épopée, récente, au cours de laquelle sont d'ailleurs nées les principales sociétés savantes consacrées à cette « hyperspécialité » (SOFOP, EPOS, POSNA) . Nous le remercions vivement d'avoir mené à bien ce travail de mémoire.

Séminaire atlantique conjoint d'histoire de la médecine

Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine

Call For Papers

Johns Hopkins University
October 13-14, 2017


The Johns Hopkins University Institute for the History of Medicine is pleased to host the 15th Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine, October 13-14, 2017 in Baltimore.

JASMed is convened annually for the presentation of research by young scholars working on the history of medicine and public health. The meeting was founded in 2002 to foster a collegial intellectual community that provides a forum for sharing and critiquing graduate research.

We welcome student presentations on any topic and time period and especially hope to receive submissions that speak to this year’s theme, “Truth, Power, and Objectivity in the History of Medicine.” As Bruno Latour cautioned in his 2004 essay “Why has critique run out of steam? From matters of fact to matters of concern,” by demonstrating the lack of scientific certainty and socially constructed nature of facts in their work, historians of science, medicine, and technology are at risk of potentiating the arguments of political extremists, such as climate change skeptics or HIV denialists. This theme directs our attention to the ways in which historians of medicine both establish truths and call them into question. Broadly conceived, the theme highlights questions of perspective and power, including the intersections of race, gender, class, sexuality, and disability. It also invites us to critically consider methodological issues in the field, such as which actors get voices in our narratives, how sources can be used to emphasize or obscure different viewpoints, how evidence and authority are mobilized and balanced, and how claims of objectivity in the medical and scientific discourses influence both our scholarship and the ways it is interpreted.

We encourage submissions from a wide range of scholarly disciplines and are eager to hear new voices in the history of medicine and allied fields. Abstracts should be no more than 300 words and clearly convey the argument, sources, and relationship to existing literature of the paper to be presented. Please submit an abstract no later than June 15, 2017 to jashistofmed.wordpress.com/submit.

Registration for the conference is free and will open in September 2017. If you have any questions, please be in touch via email at jashistofmed@gmail.com. We look forward to welcoming you to Baltimore this fall! — Heidi Morefield, on behalf of 2017 JASMed Steering Committee

Les recherches médicales et raciales de nazis

From Clinic to Concentration Camp: Reassessing Nazi Medical and Racial Research, 1933-1945 

Paul Weindling (Editor)

Series: The History of Medicine in Context

Hardcover: 392 pages

Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (May 10, 2017)

Language: English

ISBN-13: 978-1472484611

Representing a new wave of research and analysis on Nazi human experiments and coerced research, the chapters in this volume deliberately break from a top-down history limited to concentration camp experiments under the control of Himmler and the SS. Instead the collection positions extreme experiments (where research subjects were taken to the point of death) within a far wider spectrum of abusive coerced research. The book considers the experiments not in isolation but as integrated within wider aspects of medical provision as it became caught up in the Nazi war economy, revealing that researchers were opportunistic and retained considerable autonomy. The sacrifice of so many prisoners, patients and otherwise healthy people rounded up as detainees raises important issues about the identities of the research subjects: who were they, how did they feel, how many research subjects were there and how many survived? This underworld of the victims of the elite science of German medical institutes and clinics has until now remained a marginal historical concern. Jews were a target group, but so were gypsies/Sinti and Roma, the mentally ill, prisoners of war and partisans. By exploring when and in what numbers scientists selected one group rather than another, the book provides an important record of the research subjects having agency, reconstructing responses and experiential narratives, and recording how these experiments – iconic of extreme racial torture – represent one of the worst excesses of Nazism.

Les valeurs des vaccins

Vaccines: Values, Present and Past

Call for papers

Workshop
Uppsala 23–24 Nov. 2017


Vaccines, their practices, and means of production, are a historically contested field in which different values, experiences, needs, risks, rights and demands from individuals, public authorities, industries and other institutions have recurrently both clashed and coincided in the joint production of the common good: the protection of whole populations from diseases. But what comes to count as good principles for valuing vaccine research, production and vaccination practices?

This workshop brings together researchers who conduct critical work on the diverging values in the world of vaccines and vaccination. Questions of interest for this meeting are:

What comes to count as respectable grounds for producing vaccines and implementing, or resisting, vaccination programs?

Who comes to decide what is a legitimate risk, and what is an ethical practice of vaccination; how?

What is population health worth in terms of the instrumentalization of human and non-human bodies in the production and testing of vaccines?

How do people’s experiences of vaccines come to be taken into account, or silenced?

What values—ethical, economic, or others—are competing, interacting or being performed? By which actors, grounded in which experiences and in which relations of power?


We welcome participants who wish to present work on the conflicted values and ethics of vaccine production and vaccination. We welcome perspectives from history, anthropology, sociology, gender studies, science and technology studies, and other relevant critical fields.

Abstracts for papers of 200-300 words should be submitted no later than June 9, 2017, to Morag Ramsey, morag.ramsey@idehist.uu.se .

Please provide your full name, institutional affiliation, and contact details. The format of the workshop will not allow for more than c. 15 papers. We will evaluate the abstracts based on the originality of the research and the relevance to the theme of the workshop. By the end of June, applicants will be notified if their papers have been accepted or not. The conference language is English.

The workshop will be two full days, i.e. morning to late afternoon, November 23–24, 2017. Registration, lunches, conference dinner and accommodation (two nights at the conference hotel) are free of charge for participants presenting papers. It will also be possible to obtain limited economic support for travel expenses. Please indicate in the application if such support is required for attendance and what level of support is needed.

If you would like to attend without a paper, the deadline for application is also June 9, 2017. For those interested, please indicate your reasons for wanting to take part in the workshop. Please note that only attendees who present a paper are eligible for economic support.


This workshop is organized by the research program “Medicine at the Borders of Life: Fetal Research and the Emergence of Ethical Controversy”, funded by the Swedish Research Council and hosted by the Department of History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University (http://medicalborders.se/).

Le dernier numéro de Social History of Medicine

Social History of Medicine

Volume 30, Issue 2, May 2017


Original Articles

Drugs, Deceit and Damage in Thirteenth-century Herefordshire: New Perspectives on Medieval Surgery, Sex and the Law
Gwen Seabourne
 
‘I am not very well I feel nearly mad when I think of you’: Male Jealousy, Murder and Broadmoor in Late-Victorian Britain
Jade Shepherd

A Trauma Doctor’s Practice in Nineteenth-century China: The Medical Cases of Hu Tingguang
Yi-Li Wu

Shock Troupe: Medical Film and the Performance of ‘Shell Shock’ for the British Nation at War
Julie M. Powell

Lives, Laboratories, and the Translations of War: British Medical Scientists, 1914 and Beyond
Anne Hardy

‘If experts differ, what are we to do in the matter?’ The Medico-legal Investigation of Gunshot Wounds in a 1927 Scottish Murder Trial
Nicholas Duvall

Hiding in the Pub to Cutting the Cord? Men’s Presence at Childbirth in Britain c.1940s–2000s
Laura King

‘A Change of Heart’: Racial Politics, Scientific Metaphor and Coverage of 1968 Interracial Heart Transplants in the African American Press
Maya Overby Koretzky

A Disability Act? The Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 and the British Government’s Response to the Pertussis Vaccine Scare
Gareth Millward

 Essay Review

Redemptive Ancestries: Human Population Genetics, Sex and Antiracism
Sebastián Gil-Riaño

Book Reviews

Sarah S. Richardson and Hallam Stevens (eds), Postgenomics: Perspectives on Biology after the Genome
Michael Yudell

Jennifer S. Singh, Multiple Autisms: Spectrums of Advocacy and Genomic Science
Matthew Smith

Elizabeth W. Mellyn, Mad Tuscans and Their Families: A History of Mental Disorder in Early Modern Italy
David Lederer

Alisha Rankin, Panaceia’s Daughters: Noblewomen as Healers in Early Modern Germany
Katherine Allen

Carin Berkowitz, Charles Bell and the Anatomy of Reform
James Bradley

Victoria Bates, Sexual Forensics in Victorian and Edwardian England: Age, Crime and Consent in the Courts
Seth Stein LeJacq

David Scrimgeour, Proper People: Early Asylum Life in the Words of Those Who Were There
Stef Eastoe

Barbara Mann Wall, Into Africa: A Transnational History of Catholic Medical Missions and Social Change
Shobana Shankar

Srirupa Prasad, Cultural Politics of Hygiene in India, 1890–1940: Contagions of Feeling
Saurabh Mishra

Gabriel M. Mendes, Under the Strain of Color: Harlem’s Lafargue Clinic and the Promise of an Antiracist Psychiatry
Ellen Dwyer

Patrizia Guarnieri, Italian Psychology and Jewish Emigration Under Fascism: From Florence to Jerusalem and New York
Simone Turchetti

Florian C. Mildenberger, Der Deutsche Zentralverein homöopathischer Ärtze im Nationalsozialismus: Bestandsaufnahme, Kritik, Interpretation
Michael G. Kenny

Nancy Tomes, Remaking the Modern Patient: How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers
Alex Mold

Chris Millard, A History of Self-Harm in Britain: A Genealogy of Cutting and Overdosing
Leigh Dale

Corinna Wagner and Andy Brown (eds), A Body of Work. An Anthology of Poetry and Medicine
Clark Lawlor

Jan Plamper, Keith Tribe (trans), The History of Emotions: An Introduction
Grace Moore

Erwin H. Ackerknecht, A Short History of Medicine.
Keir Waddington