Comment les scientifiques sud-africains ont étudié la race

Bones and Bodies. How South African Scientists Studied Race

Alan G Morris

NYU Press

HARDCOVER
9781776147243
PUBLISHED: JANUARY 2022

South Africa is famed for its contribution to the study of human evolution. In Bones and Bodies Alan G. Morris takes us back over the past century of anthropological discovery in South Africa and uncovers the stories of the individual scientists and how they contributed to our knowledge of the peoples of southern Africa, both ancient and modern. Not all of this history is one which we should feel comfortable with, as much of the earlier anthropological studies have been tainted with the tarred brush of race science. Morris critically examines the work of Raymond Dart, Thomas Dreyer, Matthew Drennan, and Robert Broom who all described their fossil discoveries with the mirror of racist interpretation, as well as the life and times in which they worked.

Morris also considers how modern anthropology tried to rid itself of the stigma of these early racist accounts. In the 1960s and 1970s, Ronald Singer and Phillip Tobias introduced modern methods into the discipline that jettisoned much of what the public wished to believe about race and human evolution. Modern methods in physical anthropology rely on sophisticated mathematics and molecular genetics but are difficult to translate and sometimes fail to challenge preconceived assumptions.

In an age where the authority of the expert and empirical science is questioned, this book shows the battle facing modern anthropology in how to explain science in a context that seems to be at odds with life experience. In this highly accessible insider account, Morris examines the philosophical motivations of these researchers and the discipline itself. Much of the material draws on old correspondence and interviews as well as from published resources.

Figures féminines de la psychanalyse en France

Figures féminines de la psychanalyse en France


Cycle de conférences

Du 10 janvier au 23 mai 2022
18 h 30 - 20 h
entrée libre -réservation fortement recommandée via l’application Affluences ou sur affluences.com (rubrique BnF-Evénements culturels)
BnF l François-Mitterrand Petit auditorium ou salle 70
Quai François-Mauriac, Paris 13e

 

Avec un nouveau cycle de conférences consacré à la place des femmes dans l’histoire de la psychanalyse en France, la BnF s’inscrit dans les réfexions actuelles autour du genre, du féminisme et de la sexualité. À travers une série de conférences centrées sur la vie et l’oeuvre de quelques-unes des principales analystes françaises du siècle passé, de Marie Bonaparte à Maud Mannoni en passant par Françoise Dolto, ce cycle invite à une réfexion sur le rôle des femmes dans le développement de la psychanalyse et sur l'apport de la psychanalyse à l'émancipation des femmes au XXe siècle.

Le pass sanitaire est obligatoire pour accéder aux manifestations. Les modalités d'accès étant susceptibles d'évoluer en fonction de la situation sanitaire, nous vous invitons à consulter bnf.fr avant votre venue

Lundi 10 janvier 2022
PETIT AUDITORIUM

CONFÉRENCE INAUGURALE
Les femmes dans l’histoire de la psychanalyse en France : les enfants, la sexualité, les courants
Par Élisabeth Roudinesco, historienne et psychanalyste
 

Lundi 7 février 2022
SALLE 70
 Marie Bonaparte et le projet d'une science du plaisir féminin (1920-1930)
Par Rémy Amouroux, psychologue, professeur associé de psychologie à l’université de Lausanne

 

Lundi 14 mars 2022
SALLE 70
 Françoise Dolto. Regards croisés d'un historien et d'une psychanalyste
« Françoise Dolto au travail : une archive de l'autre et de soi », par Yann Potin, chargé d’études documentaires aux Archives nationales et maître de conférences à l'université Paris-Nord « Pour parler comme tu le fais, tu es culottée » (Lacan), par Éva-Marie Golder, psychologue et psychanalyste

 

Lundi 4 avril 2022
SALLE 70
 Maud Mannoni, la psychanalyse, l’institution et les marges
Par Claudia Maier-Höfer, professeure de sciences de l'éducation à la Evangelische Hochschule de Darmstadt

 

Lundi 9 mai 2022
SALLE 70
 Joyce McDougall
Par Philippe Porret, psychanalyste et écrivain

 

Lundi 23 mai 2022
SALLE 70
Les féminismes, voix d’émancipation de la psychanalyse ?
Par Laurie Laufer, psychanalyste et professeure à l’Université de Paris

Enquêtes médicales

Enquêtes médicales (XIXe-XXIe siècle)

Histoire, médecine et santé, 19 (été 2021)

 

L'enquête comme forme savante légitime s'affirme au XIXe siècle, devenant, dans le domaine sanitaire et médical, le mode de connaissance par excellence. Ce numéro s’inscrit dans une démarche comparatiste, de la France du XIXe siècle à la Côte d'Ivoire des années 1980, en passant par Madagascar en 1933. Il s’intéresse tant à l’épistémologie qui sous-tend les enquêtes qu’à leur influence réelle sur la société, car produire des connaissances ne suffit pas toujours à les imposer comme base pour l’action publique. Ce numéro souligne la diversité des acteur·ices et des fonctions des enquêtes médicales, qui peuvent être outils d'oppression comme d'émancipation. La mise en perspective d’espaces et de périodes différents permet pourtant de mettre en lumière l’existence d’une grammaire commune à ces entreprises savantes néanmoins toujours situées. Ce numéro étudie l'avènement de l'enquête comme genre dont le prestige est instrumentalisé dans des débats savants ou politiques. Mode de connaissance, outil légitime d’administration de la preuve, l’enquête peut aussi être productrice d’ignorance : enquêteur·ses comme enquêté·es peuvent chercher à restreindre les possibilités de connaissance.

Enquêtes médicales (XIXe-XXIe siècle)

Léa Delmaire, Pierre Nobi et Paul-Arthur Tortosa
Enquêtes médicales (xixe-xxie siècle) 

Amélie Bonney
Les enquêtes sur les dangers du vert de Schweinfurt et la santé au travail en France (1835-1860) 

 

Alexandra Hondermarck
La preuve par l’enquête : médecins et promotion du végétarisme en France et en Belgique autour de 1900

Raphaël Gallien
Désigner la folie, manquer le « fou ». Quand l’enquête psychiatrique ne parvient pas à identifier et à comprendre la maladie mentale (Madagascar, années 1930)


Cyrille Jean
Enquêter sur l’efficacité contraceptive pour normaliser le contrôle des naissances

Anicet Zran et Pamela N’Guessan
Les malades du VIH/sida après la mort. Enquêtes rétrospectives sur les décès liés au sida dans les CHU de Côte d’Ivoire (1984-1989)


Entretien

Léa Delmaire, Pierre Nobi, Paul-Arthur Tortosa et Catherine Cavalin
Enquêtes médicales, enquêtes en sciences sociales [Texte intégral]
Entretien avec Catherine Cavalin

 

Varia

Nicolas Sueur
Le traitement médicamenteux de l’angoisse collective à partir de la Première Guerre mondiale


Reine-Marie Bérard
« Nous sommes en guerre » ? Perception des crises de mortalité épidémiques et militaires dans le monde grec antique

Comptes rendus

Caroline Husquin
Véronique Boudon-Millot et Françoise Micheau (dir.), La thériaque. Histoire d’un remède millénaire [Texte intégral]
Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2020, 434 pages

Nicolas Moreau
Alexandre Klein, Hervé Guillemain et Marie-Claude Thifault (dir.), La fin de l’asile ? Histoire de la déshospitalisation psychiatrique dans l’espace francophone au xxe siècle [Texte intégral]
Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2018, 240 pages

Sylvie Chaperon
Delphine Gardey, Politique du clitoris [Texte intégral]
Paris, Textuel, 2019, 154 pages

Thibaut Serviant-Fine
Laurence Monnais, The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals. Medicine and Modernity in Vietnam [Texte intégral]
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019, 280 pages

Mathilde Martinais
Ruben Verwaall, Bodily Fluids, Chemistry and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Boerhaave School [Texte intégral]
Basingstoke, Palgrave MacMillan, 2020, 295 pages

Guillaume Linte
Janina Kehr, Spectres de la tuberculose. Une maladie du passé au temps présent [Texte intégral]
Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2021, 168 pages

2nd Annual JAS-EASTM

2nd Annual Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine

Call for papers

May 5–6, 2022 | virtual conference hosted at Harvard University

https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/jas-eastm


We are thrilled to put out this call for papers for the 2nd annual Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine (JAS-EASTM).

JAS-EASTM seeks to inspire a tradition of collegiality among historians of science, technology, and medicine in East Asia who are based along the eastern seaboard of North America (Canada and the United States). Bringing together scholars at various stages of their careers, this seminar offers junior colleagues (graduate students and recent PhDs), in particular, an opportunity to present and receive feedback on their work in a friendly and supportive setting.

The inaugural conference was hosted by Johns Hopkins University and held online in Spring 2021. Because of continued concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic, we will once again be convening virtually for our Spring 2022 meeting.

JAS-EASTM 2022 will be held online from the afternoon of Thursday, May 5, to the evening of Friday, May 6. The conference will be made up of panels for the discussion of pre-circulated papers, a keynote address, a topical roundtable, and opportunities to meet and chat with fellow scholars in small groups.

Graduate students and recent PhDs who would like to present a paper should submit proposals (involving principally an abstract of no more than 250 words) here: https://forms.gle/6S6LFaQqriETM6j89.

While priority will be given to junior scholars from the North American Atlantic coast, the online nature of this conference allows us to more easily include those located beyond this region, and we welcome submissions from these scholars too.

The deadline for submitting proposals is Tuesday, February 1. Notifications will be sent out by Tuesday, March 1.

Presenters are expected to submit papers of up to 2,500 words by two weeks before the conference on Thursday, April 21. These papers will be made available to those who register for the conference.

JAS-EASTM 2022 is generously sponsored by the Science and Technology in Asia seminar series of the Harvard University Asia Center.


For all inquiries, please contact the organizers at jas.eastm.2022@gmail.com.

Histoire des sciences, de la technologie, de l'environnement et de la médecine en Inde

History of Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine in India
 

Suvobrata Sarkar (Editor)


Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge India; 1st edition (November 30, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1032148458

This volume studies the concept and relevance of HISTEM (History of Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine) in shaping the histories of colonial and postcolonial South Asia. Tracing its evolution from the establishment of the East India Company through to the early decades after the Independence of India, it highlights the ways in which the discipline has changed over the years and examines the various influences that have shaped it. Drawing on extensive case studies, the book offers valuable insights into diverse themes such as the East-West encounter, appropriation of new knowledge, science in translation and communication, electricity and urbanization, the colonial context of engineering education, science of hydrology, oil and imperialism, epidemic and empire, vernacular medicine, gender and medicine, as well as environment and sustainable development in the colonial and post-colonial milieu.

An indispensable text on South Asia’s experience of modernity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of modern South Asian studies, modern Indian history, sociology, history of science, cultural studies, colonialism, as well as studies on Science, Technology and Society (STS).

Les humanités médicales au Moyen Orient

The 2nd International Conference on Medical Humanities in the Middle East


Call for Papers
 

April 9, 2022 to April 10, 2022
Online

Submission Deadline: February 15, 2022

The 2nd International Conference on Medical Humanities in the Middle East invites proposals for oral presentations, posters, and creative work on the topics of design and medicine, art and medicine, narrative medicine, philosophy of medicine, medical ethics and narrative ethics, expressive arts therapies, literature and medicine, history of medicine, the anthropology, psychology, and sociology of medicine/health care and other humanistic initiatives within the context of health, medicine, and medical education in the Middle East and North Africa region. All submissions are double-blind peer reviewed and extended abstracts will be published in an indexed proceedings by Hamad bin Khalifa University Press. The keynote speakers are Ala Bashir and Paul Crawford. The conference is sponsored by VCUArts Qatar and Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar. For more information contact the conference conveners:

Dr. Alan S. Weber
Dr. Byrad Yyelland

Contact Info:

Dr. Alan S. Weber: alw2010@qatar-med.cornell.edu
Dr. Byrad Yyelland: bayyelland@vcu.edu

Website: https://qatar-weill.cornell.edu/event/medical-humanities-in-the-middle-east
To submit a paper: https://weillcornell.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4HOvMvfFstwa8tv

Contact Email:
alw2010@qatar-med.cornell.edu

URL:
https://qatar-weill.cornell.edu/event/medical-humanities-in-the-middle-east

Les permanences d'accès aux soins de santé

Dans la salle d'attente du système de santé. Enquête dans les permanences d'accès aux soins de santé
 

Jérémy Geeraert
 

Presses universitaires de Rennes
Le Sens social
Date de publication06/01/2022.
Nombre de pages338

Comment l'hôpital public prend-il soin des personnes exclues du système de santé ? Quels sont les enjeux sociaux et biopolitiques de l'accès aux soins des étrangers démunis et sans couverture maladie ? Quels effets les réformes néomanagériales ont-elles sur la mission d'accueil et de soin de l'institution hospitalière ? C'est à ces questions que cette enquête sociologique menée au sein de permanences d'accès aux soins de santé (PASS) tente de répondre.À travers une étude du traitement de la question sociale à l'hôpital, cet ouvrage explore les interactions quotidiennes dans les PASS. Il révèle les tensions contenues dans son activité, tiraillée entre des missions souvent contradictoires : santé publique, protection de la santé des exclus, contrôle de la migration, insertion et accès aux droits. L'enquête met en lumière le rôle que les PASS jouent dans la stratification du système de santé à ses marges les plus basses. Les patients sont ainsi séparés en groupes plus ou moins légitimes selon des critères de citoyenneté et de solvabilité. Cela se caractérise dans le quotidien par une tension permanente entre inclusion et exclusion des patients et une distribution différenciée des soins. Un gouvernement individualisé et flexible permet de poursuivre dans un tel contexte la multiplicité des objectifs (bio)politiques dans les PASS.

Histoire de l'invalidité dans les objets et le patrimoine

"Invisible and Underrepresented?": Disability history in objects and heritage



Call for Papers



22nd and 23rd March 2022

Online via Zoom



This conference seeks to highlight the work of researchers who are investigating object-based histories of disability and/or the place of disability and disabled people in museums, archives and heritage institutions. The experiences and histories of disabled people, like other marginalised groups, are often absent from the museum or archive. However, due to disabled people’s unique relation to the material world (Ott, 2018), objects can be drawn upon by the heritage industry to bring disabled people and their narratives into the public consciousness.



We hope to create spaces to foster further discussion around these topics, alongside presenting these ideas and methodologies to those not within the study of disability or disability history. Ideally, talks will be orientated both towards those within the academic and heritage sectors, promoting further work between the two. We are particularly keen to highlight work being undertaken by PhD students.



Topics may include (but are not limited to):


● Absence/invisibility of disability in museums and archives ● Objects and material culture of disability ● Highlighting disability in existing archives and collections ● Methodologies in the study of disability history ● How we interpret disability historically / the ethics of display ● Democratising disability heritage / barriers to access in academia and heritage ● Activism and museums / Heritage as a site of activism ● Disability in art and heritage ● Changing language and terminology of disability / tackling offensive language in the archive ● Disability and other intersectional identities and histories ● Problematic commemoration of disabled people / historical supercrips


Papers will be 20 minutes long.


Please send a 200 word (max.) abstract to underrephistory22@gmail.com<mailto:underrephistory22@gmail.com>, along with a brief bio and the best email address to contact you on.


The deadline for these will be 11:59pm (GMT) on Friday 21st January 2022.


Please note that to ensure accessibility, successful speakers will be contacted to detail any terminology that may need to be explained for BSL translators. For any further accessibility details for speakers, please contact underrephistory22@gmail.com<mailto:underrephistory22@gmail.com>.


Funding for this event is provided by the AHRC and the British Museum, as part of the Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) programme.

This conference is organised by three UK-based PhD students whose research projects are being funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council's (AHRC) Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) programme.



* Louise Bell is a second year PhD student at the University of Leeds, undertaking a Collaborative Doctoral Partnership with The National Archives. Her research explores British state provision of prosthetic limbs in the two world wars, with a particular focus on the prostheses themselves and the lives of the men who used them.

* Sam Brady is a third year PhD student with the University of Glasgow, undertaking a Collaborative Doctoral Partnership with the National Paralympic Heritage Trust. His research explores the political, social and technological history of sporting wheelchairs, and he has conducted a number of oral history interviews to build up an archive of information about this subject. Sam also has other research interests regarding the intersectionality of disability with other marginalised groups, such as racial and ethnic minorities.


* Isabelle Lawrence is a third year PhD student with the University of Leicester School of Museum Studies, undertaking a Collaborative Doctoral Partnership with the British Museum. Her research is concerned with the way collaborative methodologies can be utilised to improve disability representation in museums. In particular, she is interested in how involving people with lived experience of disability in decision making



Conference website: https://underrephistory22.mystrikingly.com/

Twitter account: https://twitter.com/UnderrepHist22