Les mémoires infirmières de la Grande guerre

Nurse Memoirs from the Great War in Britain, France, and Germany
 

Jerry Palmer


Publisher ‏ : ‎ Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2021 edition (October 20, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 302 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3030828745

Nurse Memoirs from the Great War in Britain, France, and Germany examines an understudied corpus of memoirs in English, French, and German stemming from the unprecedented involvement of women in the war effort. Jerry Palmer considers the memoirs in relationship to public opinion, collective memory and other women’s writing about the war. Through close-readings of the memoirs and their contexts, the book identifies themes present in the texts and considers the nurse memoir as rhetoric―examining to what extent the texts are promoting or countering arguments in the public sphere about their involvement or more widely about women’s position in society. Palmer explores the multiple contexts related to the nurse memoirs, including public response to volunteer wartime nursing, the organisation of the military health services of the three nations and their conduct in the war, and changes in the post-war organization of public health services and the professionalization of nursing.

Foucault et l'historiographie des sciences

Michel Foucault and the Historiography of the Sciences 

Call for Papers



The June 2022 edition of Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science will present a special issue dedicated to the work of Michel Foucault. The aim is to bring together analyses and reflections on the history of the relationship between Michel Foucault’s work and the historiography of the sciences.

Several axes may guide contributors to this special issue. The first axis concerns the classical relationship between Michel Foucault’s work and the French historical epistemology or philosophical history of the sciences (Gaston Bachelard, Alexandre Koyré, Jean Cavaillès, and Georges Canguilhem). From a methodological point of view, numerous commentators have already highlighted the significance of this tradition in the French philosopher’s books written in the 1960s. Foucault’s first important works on psychiatry, medicine, and the human sciences prolong but, at the same time, produce a series of significant displacements concerning this tradition.

A second axis connects the author of Les Mots et les Choses and the historiography of the sciences tout court. This axis can unfold in several ways. On the one hand, there were proximities, distances, and polemics between Michel Foucault and historians of medicine. The polemic with Jacques Léonard is perhaps the best-known controversy. Erwin Ackerknecht, a disciple of Sigerist, wrote a history of the hospital in France heralded as a counterpoint to Foucault’s theses in Naissance de la Clinique. On the other hand, Foucault’s interest in George Rosen’s work on social medicine shows that this relationship was not made only under the sign of polemics. Moreover, Foucault’s work had important effects on the reconfiguration of the history of science from that time onwards. One can remember the importance of the notion of practice, which became central in the work of many historians from then on, or even the debt that other researchers, such as Ian Hacking, François Delaporte, and, Lorraine Daston claim to have with the Foucauldian work.

A third axis deals with the renewal of the objects of the history of science. Michel Foucault introduced numerous new concepts that have become central to philosophical and historiographical discussions in recent decades and have often transformed the very status of the sciences. Thus, for example, one can think about the concept of biopolitics or in the Foucauldian notion of technology. At the same time, the French thinker opened new domains that have been little explored from a historiographical viewpoint. One can think about such as those linked to economic historiography and neoliberalism.

Finally, we cannot fail to remember the importance of the opening of the Michel Foucault Archives by the National Library of France and the possibilities that these documents open for researchers in the history of the historiography of science.

The expectation is that we will receive contributions that discuss all these possibilities above and other similar topics concerning Foucault’s thought.



Submission details:

Submissions must be received by April 15, 2022, via the journal webpage www.historiographyofscience.org so they can be considered for the June 2022 issue.

Submissions must be prepared for double-blind review. Notification of acceptance will be sent on May 15, 2022.

Please, see the Author’s Guidelines here.

For any further information concerning this Call for Papers please contact:

Marlon J. Salomon – Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil

E-mail: marlonsalomon@ufg.br

Mauro L. Condé – Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

E-mail: mauroconde@ufmg.br

Médecine et guérison à l'âge de l'esclavage

Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery 

Sean Morey Smith  & Christopher Willoughby (Editors)


Publisher ‏ : ‎ LSU Press (November 10, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0807171219


 

 

CONTENTS:

Foreword, Vanessa Northington Gamble

“Introduction: Healing and the History of Medicine in the Atlantic World,” Sean Morey Smith and Christopher D. E. Willoughby

“Zemis and Zombies: Amerindian Healing Legacies on Hispaniola,” Lauren Derby

“Poisoned Relations: Medical Choices and Poison Accusations within Enslaved Communities,” Chelsea Berry

“Blood and Hair: Barbers, Sangradores, and the West African Corporeal Imagination in Salvador da Bahia,
1793–1843,” Mary E. Hicks

“Examining Antebellum Medicine through Haptic Studies,” Deirdre Cooper Owens

“Unbelievable Suffering: Rethinking Feigned Illness in Slavery and the Slave Trade,” Elise A. Mitchell

“Medicalizing Manumission: Slavery, Disability, and Medical Testimony in Late Colonial Colombia,”
Brandi M. Waters

“A Case Study in Charleston: Impressions of the Early National Slave Hospital,” Rana A. Hogarth

“From Skin to Blood: Interpreting Racial Immunity to Yellow Fever,” Timothy James Lockley

“Black Bodies, Medical Science, and the Age of Emancipation,” Leslie A. Schwalm

“Epilogue: Black Atlantic Healing in the Wake,” Sharla M. Fett

Mythe de la science

Mythe de la science 

Appel à propositions

Revue Communications (2023) 

Date limite d’envoi : 20 novembre 2021

MYTHE DE LA SCIENCE

L’un des mythes fondateurs de l’histoire de l’Occident est celui de Prométhée, qui a non seulement été traité par la littérature ou la peinture, mais a travaillé comme paradigme le plus souvent implicite, les sciences sociales et les acteurs des mondes scientifiques.

Avec l’avènement de l’âge moderne, où le « moderne » a le plus souvent été pensé dans une relation étroite avec l’idée de « progrès » par la science, les transformations du concept de science ont libéré des espaces pour valoriser/glorifier les pouvoirs de LA science, voire la transformer en mythe libérateur, mais aussi, de plus en plus souvent, destructeur. On fera l’hypothèse qu’il s’agit là moins d’un retour à Prométhée, que de l’effet combiné des paradigmes post-modernes d’analyse du social et de la nouvelle inscription du rapport au monde naturel frappé au coin d’une nouvelle vision anthropocénique de la terre.

L’objectif de ce numéro est d’abord de déployer ces « mythes de la science » dans le temps et l’espace, en prêtant une attention particulière aux différents mondes, depuis celui de l’Occident où on peut aisément lui trouver une généalogie, à ceux dont les cosmogonies ont été fondées sur des modèles de connaissance distincts.

Il s’agira en outre d’interroger les différents types de représentation de ce mythe en portant une attention particulière aux espaces de la littérature et du théâtre, de la peinture et des représentations visuelles et aux enjeux de vulgarisation qui sont associés à un tel thème.

On cherchera aussi à comprendre comment des situations qui mettent en crise le savoir scientifique (catastrophes naturelles, mobilisation de la science à des fins de destruction de masse notamment) conduisent à transformer le mythe, voire à développer des contre-mythes.

Parmi les différents axes thématiques que l’on entend privilégier dans ce volume, celui des « sciences participatives » et de leur contribution (ou non) à la mise en crise du mythe de la science dans nos sociétés contemporaines (tous espaces confondus) doit faire l’objet d’une réflexion particulière. Les propositions peuvent inclure une réflexion sur le nouveau rôle des réseaux sociaux dans la réflexion sur les possibles reconfigurations de la représentation des sciences dans toutes les sociétés du globe. Nous attendons des propositions précisément sur ces deux dernières thématiques.

Calendrier :

Les propositions de contributions sur ce thème doivent être envoyées pour le 20 novembre 2021 sous la forme d'un résumé de 3000 signes environ (document Word), assorti d'une courte bibliographie. Elles doivent comporter le nom de l’auteur, son affiliation professionnelle et son courriel, et être adressées à revue-communications@ehess.fr avec la mention « Mythe de la science » en objet du message. Elles seront examinées en double aveugle et feront l’objet d’une réponse au plus tard le 17 décembre 2021. Les articles proposés devront être des inédits et être rédigés en français. Les articles correspondant aux propositions acceptées (25 000 signes, espaces compris) devront être remis le 1er avril 2022 au plus tard, mis aux normes typographiques de la revue et assortis d’un résumé de 5-6 lignes en français, anglais et espagnol, comprenant le titre traduit.

Pharmacie et professionnalisation dans l'empire britannique

Pharmacy and Professionalization in the British Empire, 1780–1970 

Stuart Anderson


Publisher ‏ : ‎ Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2021 edition (October 23, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 406 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3030789794


Offering a valuable resource for medical and other historians, this book explores the processes by which pharmacy in Britain and its colonies separated from medicine and made the transition from trade to profession during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

When the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain was founded in 1841, its founders considered pharmacy to be a branch of medicine. However, the 1852 Pharmacy Act made the exclusion of pharmacists from the medical profession inevitable, and in 1864 the General Medical Council decided that pharmacy legislation was best left to pharmacists themselves. Yet across the Empire, pharmacy struggled to establish itself as an autonomous profession, with doctors in many colonies reluctant to surrender control over pharmacy. In this book the author traces the professionalization of pharmacy by exploring issues including collective action by pharmacists, the role of the state, the passage of legislation, the extension of education, and its separation from medicine.

The author considers the extent to which the British model of pharmacy shaped pharmacy in the Empire, exploring the situation in the Divisions of Empire where the 1914 British Pharmacopoeia applied: Canada, the West Indies, the Mediterranean colonies, the colonies in West and South Africa, India and the Eastern colonies, Australia, New Zealand, and the Western Pacific Islands. This insightful and wide-ranging book offers a unique history of British pharmaceutical policy and practice within the colonial world, and provides a firm foundation for further studies in this under-researched aspect of the history of medicine.

La prochaine séance de la Société Française d’Histoire de la Médecine

La prochaine séance de la Société Française d’Histoire de la Médecine

 

Samedi 20 NOVEMBRE 2021 à 14h30

dans l’amphithéâtre de l’École de Kinésithérapie de Paris, 107, rue de Reuilly, 75012 PARIS

Séance habituelle : Lecture du procès-verbal de la séance précédente et adoption, présentation et élection des candidats, informations générales, analyses et présentation d’ouvrages.

 

Communications :

Jean-François HUTIN
L’original docteur Gustave Witkowski (1844-1923)

Patrick BERCHE
John Lykoudis, un pionnier incompris de la découverte de l’origine infectieuse des ulcères et gastrites

Jacques CHEVALLIER
Le musée des moulages de l’hôpital Saint-Louis, source d’inspiration du Pr Photinos à Athènes

Jacques ROUËSSÉ
La création de l’Académie de médecine par Louis XVIII, son premier président, son premier secrétaire perpétuel

Les histoires médicales de la Belgique

Medical histories of Belgium: New narratives on health, care and citizenship in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries 

Joris Vandendriessche & Benoît Majerus, (Editors)


Publisher ‏ : ‎ Manchester University Press (October 26, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 400 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1526151087


Medical histories of Belgium reshapes Belgian history of medicine by bringing together a new generation of scholars. Going beyond a chronological narrative, the book offers new insights by questioning classic themes of the history of medicine: physicians, institutions and the nation state. While retracing specific Belgian characteristics, it also engages with broader European developments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Medical histories of Belgium will appeal to Historians of Belgium in various subfields, especially cultural history and political history and medical historians and medical practitioners seeking the historical context of their activities.

Vers les origines de la syphilis

Towards the origins of syphilis

Mini-Symposium

 Thursday, 18.11.2021, UZH Irchel Campus, Y10-G03/04 and online

 The Institute of Evolutionary Medicine (IEM) at the University of Zurich is holding a mini-symposium on “Towards the origins of syphilis” next Thursday (18 November). I attach the event’s pdf but also copy the event details (and zoom info) below (CET time zone applies):

13:30 – 13:40 Prof. Dr. Dr. Verena Schünemann (Institute of Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland): Welcome and introduction

13:40 – 14:00 Dr. Kathleen Walker-Meikle (Department of History, King’s College London, UK): A brief history of syphilis and other treponemal diseases.

14:00 – 14:20 Prof. Dr. Dr. Verena Schünemann (Institute of Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland): The search for the first historical treponema pallidum genomes.

14:20 - 14:40 Kerttu Majander (Institute of Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland): Diversity of Treponema pallidum in historical Europe: cases and conclusions.

14:40 – 15:00 Coffee Break

15:00 – 15:20 Dr. Natasha Arora (Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland): Insights on syphilis gained from clinical whole genome sequencing.

15:20 – 15:40 Marta Pla Díaz (Department of Genetics, University of Valencia, Spain): The bioinformatic challenges of working with Treponema pallidum genomes.

15:40– 16:00 Dr. Louis du Plessis (Department of Computational Evolution, ETH Zurich, Switzerland): The trials and tribulations of trying to interpret time-calibrated Treponema trees.

16:00 – 16:15 Coffee Break

16:15 – 17:00 Keynote by Prof. Dr. Fernando Gonzales-Candelas (Department of Genetics, University of Valencia, Spain): Recombination and selection in Treponema pallidum genomes.

All talks are public events and participation is free. The Covid-19 safety concept of the UZH applies,

please check the actual regulations: https://www.uzh.ch/de/about/coronavirus.html.

 

Zoom link for online participation:

https://uzh.zoom.us/j/62724129746?pwd=YnlmZk1mSkFEUEN1Y0c0SUFIellkUT09

Meeting ID: 627 2412 9746, Passcode: 626857

Contact: Prof. Dr. Dr. Verena Schünemann, verena.schuenemann@iem.uzh.ch, webpage: www.iem.uzh.ch