Infirmières en colonie

Yatdjuligin: Training the ‘natives’ as nurses, voices from the colony


RCN History of Nursing Forum Annual Lecture



Online event, Monday 28 March, 12pm

Book your free ticket here: www.rcn.org.uk/whatson



The annual RCN History of Nursing Forum lecture will be given by Professor Odette Best, from the University of Southern Queensland on Yatdjuligin - Training the ‘natives’ as nurses: voices from the colony. Odette Best is a Wakgun clan member of the Gorreng Gorreng Nation and holds a Boonthamurra Bloodline with adoption ties to the Koomumberri, Yugambeh People. Odette is a Professor and Associate Head: Indigenous Research and Community Engagement, School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Southern Queensland. She commenced her training in the 1980s at Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane and went on to work clinically for more than a decade in the Brisbane Aboriginal Medical Service and Boggo Road Women’s Prison. Odette further holds a Bachelor of Health Science, Master of Philosophy and PhD.



It was whilst undertaking her PhD on Aboriginal women as Registered Nurses in Queensland 1950-2000 that her passion was realised in uncovering this largely untold historiography. Odette is currently the Primary Investigator on an Australian Research Council grant in uncovering Aboriginal women as nurses and midwives from the 1890s to the 1940s in Queensland.

Odette is a Churchill Fellow (2002), a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (2018) and a Fellow of the Australian College of Nurses (2021) and is passionate about uncovering and documenting Aboriginal women’s nursing and midwifery histories.



This event is open to all, and will take place online. Please sign up to attend and the link to join will be circulated in advance.

Physiologies hellénistique et romaine

Physiologies hellénistique et romaine

Séminaire

Une série de trois communications sur les théories physiologiques des époques hellénistique et romaine, organisées dans le cadre du séminaire de recherche du programme Physiologies médicales et philosophiques (Ve s.AEC-Ve s.EC) (Sorbonne Université : Initiative Sciences de l'Antiquité, Centre Léon Robin, Orient & Méditerranée). Vous en trouverez le programme et l'affiche ci-dessous. Les séances se dérouleront en visioconférence par Zoom (lien de connexion sur demande).

 (Physiologies médicales et philosophiques, 2022)



5 avril (14h30–16h30 UTC+2) Giulia Scalas (ISAntiq – Centre Léon Robin)

La théorie des flux chez Épicure, Lucrèce et Asclépiade de Bithynie



17 mai (14h30–16h30 UTC+2) Peter N. Singer (Birkbeck, University of London)

Aspects of Galen's psychology and physiology in De locis affectis



2 juin (14h30–16h30 UTC+2) Benjamin Morison (Princeton University)

Le syllogisme relationnel dans l’Institutio Logica de Galien





Contacts :

Catherine Darbo-Peschanski, Centre Léon Robin | UMR 8061 : catherine.darbo@sorbonne-universite.fr

Julien Devinant, Université de Lille, Faculté de Médecine | STL, UMR 8163, julien.devinant@univ-lille.fr

Alessia Guardasole, Orient & Méditerranée | UMR 8167: alessia.guardasole@cnrs.fr

Giulia Scalas, ISAntiq, Centre Léon Robin | UMR 8061 : giulia.scalas@sorbonne-universite.fr






À propos du programme Physiologies médicales et philosophiques :

http://www.centreleonrobin.fr/partenariats-et-programmes-de-recherche?id=301

Une histoire de la chirurgie

Empire of the Scalpel: The History of Surgery
 

Ira Rutkow M.D. 

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Scribner (March 8, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 416 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1501163744

There are not many events in life that can be as simultaneously life-frightening and life-saving as a surgical operation. Yet, in America, tens-of-millions of major surgical procedures are performed annually but few of us pause to consider the magnitude of these figures because we have such inherent confidence in surgeons. And, despite passionate debates about healthcare and the endless fascination with surgical procedures, most of us have no idea how surgeons came to be because the story of surgery has never been fully told. Now, Empire of the Scalpel elegantly reveals the fascinating history of surgery’s evolution from its earliest roots in Europe through its rise to scientific and social dominance in the United States.

From the 16th-century saga of Andreas Vesalius and his crusade to accurately describe human anatomy while appeasing the conservative clergy who clamored for his burning at the stake, to the hard-to-believe story of late-19th century surgeons’ apathy to Joseph Lister’s innovation of antisepsis and how this indifference led to thousands of unnecessary surgical deaths, Empire of the Scalpel is both a global history and a uniquely American tale. You’ll discover how in the 20th century the US achieved surgical world supremacy heralded by the Nobel Prize–winning, seemingly impossible feat of transplanting a kidney and how the heart-lung machine was developed, along with much more.

Today, the list of possible operations is almost infinite—from knee and hip replacement to heart bypass and transplants to fat reduction and rhinoplasty—and Rutkow draws on his five-decade career to show us how we got here. Authoritative, captivating, and comprehensive, Empire of the Scalpel portrays the evolution of surgery in all its dramatic and life-enhancing complexity and shows that its history is truly one awe-inspiring triumph after another.

Le paratexte médical

The Medical Paratext

Call for papers

7-8 September 2022, University of Glasgow


Organised by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos (University of Edinburgh) and Sophia Xenophontos (University of Glasgow)

Funded by the Wellcome Trust


‘Paratext’ is a term coined by Gérard Genette in 1987 to refer to the material surrounding a printed text, including titles, prefaces, introductions, and footnotes. The notion of the paratext has recently been introduced to the study of medieval codices, with scholars working on medieval palaeography and codicology currently negotiating its various categorisations and the challenges thereof. An important category of medieval manuscripts that has often been neglected in that respect is that of medical codices. This conference aims to plug this gap by applying the concept of the paratext right to the very heart of the study of medieval medical manuscripts containing texts in a variety of languages, including Arabic, Persian, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and other European vernacular. It thus seeks to make a significant advance in our understanding of how medieval medical manuscripts were used by their producers and consumers. We are interested in encouraging theoretical reflection on the following subjects/questions:

Different kinds and categories of paratextual elements (e.g. prefaces, foliation, decoration, illustrations, diagrams, annotations of any sort, colophons) and their significance;

• Transformation of texts through paratexts. How can the use of specific paratextual elements enhance/influence the reading/understanding of a particular medical text/theory?
• Paratextual elements as visual aids, especially, but not exclusively, in scholastic settings;
• The features of scribal and editorial paratextuality in medical works;
• Extensive paratexts (e.g. commentaries and scholia) and their function;
• The mobility of paratexts (e.g. their infiltration into the main text) and the transmission of the resulting ‘hidden’ paratext;
• Medical paratexts and their reception;
• Paratext and memory in medieval medicine (e.g. through the lens of cognitive theory);
• Paratext as a means of tracing the history of medical codices through time, geographical and social space;
• Paratext as a means of constructing and disseminating medical knowledge.

Confirmed speakers:

• Giulia Ecca (Sapienza University of Rome)
• Sivan Gottlieb (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
• Fabian Käs (University of Cologne)
• David Langslow (The University of Manchester)
• Oliver Overwien (Humboldt University of Berlin)
• Ignacio Sánchez (University of Warwick)
• Anna Maria Urso (University of Messina)
• Iolanda Ventura (University of Bologna)
• Elvira Wakelnig (University of Vienna)

Our aim is to hold a face-to-face event. Each paper will be 30 minutes long followed by a session of questions and answers (around 10 minutes). We are looking for papers dealing with original and previously unpublished material; extended versions of the papers will form a peer-reviewed edited volume. For a brief introduction to the medieval paratext, please see the study by Cooper.

Scholars are invited to submit abstracts of ca. 250 words to sophia.xenofontos@glasgow.ac.uk and petros.bouras-vallianatos@ed.ac.uk by 30 April 2022.

The University of Glasgow is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC004401.

Histoire de la pilule

Histoire de la pilule - Libération ou enfermement 
 

Myriam Chopin et Olivier Faron

 

Passés composés

2 mars 2022

L'un des plus petits objets de la vie quotidienne, la pilule contraceptive, est un grand objet d'histoire. Une histoire « à la française », tant les femmes en France l'ont adoptée massivement. Véritable révolution, la légalisation de la pilule par la loi Neuwirth de 1967 symbolise pour ses utilisatrices l'accès à l'indépendance et à la liberté. La pilule marque un avant et un après. Avant, c'est le temps des approximations, des bricolages, des censures de l'intime.

Les femmes sont vouées à une vie consacrée aux enfants et à la sphère familiale, parfois même menacées à l'occasion d'avortements clandestins. Avec la pilule, la modernité est portée par les femmes, qui contrôlent leur fécondité et conquièrent la souveraineté sur leur corps. Pour autant, cette histoire ne s'est pas déroulée sans embûche : journalistes, hommes et femmes politiques, médecins et associations se sont vite emparés du sujet au point de susciter un débat sans fin.

Et aux années de silence et d'interdit, succèdent aujourd'hui de nouvelles polémiques face aux menaces que laisse planer la pilule sur la santé des femmes et sur l'environnement.

Santé et résilience dans le Commonwealth et le centre de l'Atlantique

Health and Resiliency in the Commonwealth and Mid-Atlantic

Call for Papers

Pennsylvania Historical Association -  2022

After nearly two years of a global pandemic, combined with the fractures of deep political unrest and creeping economic uncertainty, how health is defined in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Mid-Atlantic has taken on new meanings. While issues of physical health and well-being often take center stage, the last two years have also illustrated how definitions of economic health, community health, political health, and organizational health have altered in the face of rapidly shifting circumstances. Yet, these challenges have also brought forward stories of historical and contemporary resiliency, offering hope better to understand the past and its relationship to the future. 

This year the Pennsylvania Historical Association’s Program Committee invites submissions for our annual meeting—currently to be held in person in October 2022. Projects engaging with the theme of health (broadly defined) and/or resiliency are preferred, but proposals on all aspects of Pennsylvania and Mid-Atlantic History, on pedagogy, public history, or material culture, will be considered. Past formats include panels, roundtable discussions, and lightning rounds. 

Submissions from all disciplinary backgrounds, including but not limited to history, the medical humanities, economic and community development, public policy, sociology, and political science are welcomed.

We also strongly encourage submissions by students at all levels, including graduate students, undergraduate students, and high school students. Student submissions may take one of the following forms: 1) a poster presentation; 2) a short video or digital history project; 3) a paper/podium presentation detailing primary source research or a public or oral history project.

Full session proposals are preferred, but individual papers will be considered. Membership in the PHA is required to present at the 2022 annual meeting.

Proposals must be submitted electronically by April 15, 2022, to https://pa-history.org/meetings/

The conference will be held October 13-15, 2021, at Lycoming College in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

For more information, please contact Dr. Andrew Simpson, Associate Professor of History, Duquesne University at simpson4@duq.edu.

L'épopée Nozière

L'épopée Nozière
 

Guy Casadamont
 

Éditions Epel
Date de parution : janvier 2022
360 pages
Illustrations
ISBN : 978-2-35427-504-4 

 

Aucune affaire criminelle n’aura fait couler autant d’encre au XXe siècle que le parricide imputé à Violette Nozière. Monstrueuse jeune fille dévoyée pour les uns, victime expiatoire d’un père incestueux pour les autres : elle a déchaîné les passions, et risqué l’échafaud.
Guy Casadamont livre ici le dossier le plus complet et ordonné que l’on puisse souhaiter sur l’épopée Nozière. Des premiers rapports de police aux actes du procès, de la grâce présidentielle aux années de prison, de sa vie ultérieure d’épouse et de mère à sa postérité actuelle, l’ensemble des acteurs entre ici en scène.
Le récit minutieux des événements s’appuie sur les discours policier, judiciaire, pénitentiaire, littéraire, psychiatrique et psychanalytique qui auront contribué à faire de Violette une héroïne sans pareille.

Guy Casadamont, juriste et sociologue de formation, membre de l’École lacanienne de psychanalyse, a été responsable de la revue Spy, après avoir dirigé la revue Quid pro quo, l’une et l’autre publiées par les éditions Epel.

L'accouchement dans la culture mondiale de l'écran

Push: Childbirth in Global Screen Culture

Call for papers


Editors: Amy C. Chambers, Xi W. Liu, Kate Taylor-Jones

Proposals due: 27th May 2022


The act of childbirth is a global experience and yet, on film, it often remains hidden behind careful framing and a stereotypical and often inaccurate imagination of this event. Muriel Zagha (2019) notes that childbirth ‘remains a richly problematic object for film’ and to date, there has been little sustained scholarly attention on this topic.

The experience has for the most part been heavily mediated via the lens of cinematic genres, indeed, as Anne Carruther’s (2021) notes there it is not really possible to neatly group and locate films that present a gynae-narrative once the ‘supporting structures’ of genre conventions are removed.

Horror studies has been one area where work has been done on images of childbirth and gestation. However, all too often in this genre, the pregnant person’s body is positioned as abject and their pain and suffering offered up for spectatorial enjoyment. Pregnancy horror or gynaehorror as termed by Erin Harrington (2018), is also explored by a number of scholars including Amanda DiGioia (2017), Sarah Arnold (2013), Kelly Oliver (2012), and Lucy Fischer (1996). For the Anglo-American comedy genre (examples include Nine Months [Colombus, 1995], What to Expect When You’re Expecting [Jones, 2012], Father of the Bride Part 2 [Shyer, 1995], Knocked Up [Apatow, 2007]), the breaking of water and the uncontrollable nature of the gestating/labouring body is seen as itself as a comic act. With the exception of Alice Lowe’s Prevenge (2016) and Leigh Janiak’s Honeymoon (2014) these gynae-horrors and -comedies are exclusively directed by men (see Chambers, 2020). Reality birthing programs and documentaries such as One Born Every Minute (2010-2018, Channel 4), woman-directed documentary films The Business of Being Born (Eptein, 2008), and Birth Time (Hunter, Naylor, and Sutton, 2018) have developed the spectrum of the visual of childbirth but it is one that continues to enhance and promote the medical model of childbirth.

In comparison, films such as Pieces of a Woman (Mundrucz, 2021), Umameru (Goda, 2010), and Roma (Cuarón, 2018) present a vision of ‘corporeal normality’ (Carruthers, 2021:2) and woman directors such as Haimy Assefa, Naomi Kawase, Luk Yee-sum have sought to approach the topic with a more nuanced and interrogative lens. This is alongside fictional TV dramas such as Birthcare Center/Sanhujoliwon (2020, tvN) that have focused on exploring both pregnancy, birth and the postpartum period and The Handmaid’s Tale (2017- , Hulu) that has placed the whole process as part of the nightmare of dystopian state power.

This collection will seek to expand beyond mainstream and often solely man-directed representations of pregnant and labouring bodies as abject and monstrous and/or comic and uncontrollable. We are particularly interested in chapters (solo or co-written) that include a global perspectives that focus on potential topics such as:

• Socioeconomics of labour and childbirth

• Gendered experiences

• Non-binary and trans experiences of childbirth

• The wider gestational journey and its impact on birth

• Defining childbirth in the cinematic frame

• Childbirth and narratives of nationhood

• The interplay between childbirth and educational policy features


We are especially interested in chapters with a focus on indigenous, Latin American, Asian and African experiences to ensure a wider understanding of the issues and to ensure a multiplicity of voices.

Initially we are after 300-word abstracts detailing the focus of the proposed chapter and an indication of approach and a brief biographical note. To ensure continuity and cross-engagement between the works the plan is to run an online workshop between all the participants to ensure peer to peer learning and development as the project continues.

This project is committed to ensuring meaningful change via a focus on decolonisation practices and to provide a safe and supportive environment for those working with us. We believe that there is an urgent need to amplify and listen to marginalised voices and acknowledge the need to develop and explore the wider structures that surround us. We wish to firmly state our commitment to supporting the rights of trans, non-binary, and gender diverse communities and their experiences related to the topic we are working on.

Please note: since we wish to expand the discussion of childbirth beyond the narrative of horror, essays that focus on mainstream Hollywood examples such as Rosemary’s Baby (Polanski, 1968), Demon Seed (Fielding, 1977) The Brood (Cronenberg, 1979), Alien (Scott, 1979) and sequels, The Terror Within (Notz, 1989), Alien Resurrection (Jeunet, 1997), and more recent examples like A Quiet Place (Krasinski, 2018) will not be considered. Similarly, we will not be interested in chapters where analysis relies heavily upon Julia Kristeva's concept of abjection and Barbara Creed’s monstrous-feminine and the monstrous womb/matrix.

Please email enquiries and proposals to amy.c.chambers@mmu.ac.uk by 27th May 2022.

https://amycchambers.com/2022/01/10/cfp-push/