Maladie, douleur et soins de santé dans le christianisme primitif

Illness, Pain, and Health Care in Early Christianity

Helen Rhee

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Eerdmans (October 22, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 367 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0802876843

In this wide-ranging interdisciplinary study, Helen Rhee examines how early Christians viewed illness, pain, and health care and how their perspective was influenced both by Judeo-Christian tradition and by the milieu of the larger ancient world. Throughout her analysis, Rhee places the history of medicine, Greco-Roman literature, and ancient philosophy in constructive dialogue with early Christian literature to elucidate early Christians’ understanding, appropriation, and reformulation of Roman and Byzantine conceptions of health and wholeness from the second through the sixth centuries CE.

Utilizing the contemporary field of medical anthropology, Rhee engages illness, pain, and health care as sociocultural matters. Through this and other methodologies, she explores the theological meanings attributed to illness and pain; the religious status of those suffering from these and other afflictions; and the methods, systems, and rituals that Christian individuals, churches, and monasteries devised to care for those who suffered. Rhee’s findings ultimately provide an illuminating glimpse into how Christians began forming a distinct identity—both as part of and apart from their Greco-Roman world.

Santé et mobilisation sociale

 

Health Sciences and the Social: Health and Social Mobilization, 1950-2020s
 

Call for papers

Workshop
Paris, CERMES3
19-05-2023

Rudolf Virchow’s much quoted aphorism “Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale” (1848) dominated an era, from the late 19th to the mid-20th century, when medicine provided a series of concepts, instruments and practices, models and experiments to a wide range of social and political experiences, especially in the framework of projects such as hygienism, eugenism, social medicine or colonialism. By contrast, the 1960s opened an era where an increasing number of activists, health experts, and social and life scientists, could have claimed that “medicine is nothing else but politics, and social science is a foundation of medicine”. Across a variety of health domains, experts developed discourses and practices with the aim of intervening on, correcting and at times changing society. On the reverse, various social mobilizations reflected, were based on, or challenged medical discourses and practices.

Several scholars, including sociologists and historians, have provided fascinating insights into the cross fertilization of social mobilizations and health in specific contexts from the 1960s onwards. Most of this scholarship has focused on a small number of examples such as the relationship between antipsychiatry and leftist social movements in Europe in the 1970s, the connections between the anti-AIDS mobilisations and the broader gay movement from the 1980s, or the emergence of humanitarian medicine in the 1970s. Beyond these examples, sociologists have investigated the ascent of health social movements (HSMs) in a variety of contexts in the last decades of the century. More generally, the “new social movements” paradigm in political science has provided a framework to account for the emergence, in the post industrial society, of a new type of social mobilization led by the new middle classes and centering on quality of life, with health as a central component of these mobilizations.

Yet beyond these theorizations and local examples, we lack a broader understanding of the ways in which various branches of the health sciences have contributed to, have been embedded in and have been shaped by the specific social contexts, agendas and/or movements of 1968 and post-1968 societies. What conditions explain the politicization of certain segments of medicine and health? What specific terrain have medicine and health provided for social movements? How have these processes competed with the growing trend of privatization of health care since the late twentieth century?

This workshop will explore the historical aspects of the interrelationships between health sciences and the social, from the mid-twentieth century to today, a period of rapid scientific developments, profound social changes, and intense social movements. We propose a two-fold approach: on the one hand, we would like to investigate the social and political agendas developed within the various branches of medicine; on other hand we also want to account for the ways in which social movements and mobilizations have tackled health issues. We are interested in case studies that investigate particularly (but not exclusively) the following questions/thematic axes:

• How have health professionals (physicians, therapists, nurses etc.) linked health and healthcare issues with wider social and political developments? What were their positions towards these developments? For instance, did they try to have an impact on them or on the contrary did they derive inspiration from them in order to trigger change within their own professional field? What sort of coalitions did they try to create with actors of these developments?
• Which social movements and mobilizations have had specific health agendas, either supporting or challenging medical authority? For example, we are interested in social movements/mobilizations that have criticized the medicalization of social problems, the lack of medical services for specific problems, or the specific kinds of health interventions, such as biomedical approaches, calling for and suggesting alternative methods. How have health experts responded to or featured in these movements/mobilizations?
• How have social movements contributed to both creating medical knowledge and shaping medical practices? Conversely, what scene did the medical setting specifically provide for social mobilizations?
• How and why have health experts and social movements/mobilisations challenged the ways in which political and medical power have allied to obtain privileges or manage certain social groups? Of specific interest would be the challenging of health sciences as perpetrators of structural violence and inequalities based on race, ethnicity, gender, class, sexuality, disease and/or disability.
• In what instances has health been conceptualized as a social right? We welcome case studies of health experts and social movements/mobilizations that addressed the issue of social inequalities and articulated specific concepts of justice. How have the issues of inequality, discrimination, and rights been framed?
• How can we understand recent social movements that have resisted the public health measures taken by governments and local health bodies in response to COVID 19? How do the convictions guiding these forms of protest differ from or continue earlier forms of health mobilization? As a consequence, how is the relationship between the public and state power reshaped and novel forms of protest put into action?
• We are particularly interested in methodological approaches and case studies that move beyond European and North America. How can a focus on health mobilizations in the Global South reshape our understanding of these social movements? What global, hemispheric, or regional dynamics have escaped the attention of scholars in the field so far?
  

Proposals of no more than 300 words and a one-page CV should be sent by 31/12/2022 to Nicolas Henckes (nicolas.henckes@cnrs.fr) or Despo Kritsotaki (despo.kritsotaki@gmail.com). Notification of acceptance: 31/1/2023

Organizing committee
Alexander Dunst, Assistant Professor of American Studies, Paderborn University, Germany
Nicolas Henckes, Associate Researcher, CNRS, France
Despo Kritsotaki, Associate Member, CERMES3, France
Chantal Marazia, Lecturer, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany
Matthew Smith, Professor of Health History, University of Strathclyde, UK

Femmes missionnaires, lèpre et autochtones australiens

Missionary Women, Leprosy and Indigenous Australians, 1936–1986 

 

Charmaine Robson

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2022 edition (October 2, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 279 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3031057953

This book focuses on twentieth-century Australian leprosaria to explore the lives of indigenous patients and the Catholic women missionaries who nursed them. Distinguished from previous historical studies of leprosy, the book examines the care and management of the incarcerated, enabling a broader understanding of their experience, beyond a singular trope of banishment, oppression and death. From the 1930s until the 1980s, respective governments appointed the trained sisters to four leprosaria across remote northern Australia, where almost two thousand people had been removed from their homes and detained under law for years - sometimes decades. The book traces the sisters’ holistic nursing from early efforts of amelioration and palliation to their part in the successful treatment of leprosy after World War II. It reveals the ways the sisters stepped out of their assigned roles and attempted to shape the institutions as places of health and hygiene, of European culture and education, and of Christianity. Making use of accounts from patients, doctors; bureaucrats; missionary men; and Indigenous families and communities, the book offers fresh perspectives on two important strands of history. First, its attention to the day-to-day work of the Australian sisters helps to demystify leprosy healthcare by female missionaries, generally. Secondly, with the sisters specifically caring for Indigenous people, this book exposes the institutional practices and goals specific to race relations of both the Australian government and Catholic missionaries. An important and timely read for anyone interested in Indigenous history, medical history and the connections between race, religion and healthcare, this book contextualizes the twentieth-century leprosy epidemic within Australia's broader colonial history.

Enfance et handicap

Enfance et handicap. Discrimination, voix et pouvoir d’agir, inclusion 


Appel à communication 

Colloque

Université d’Angers - 30 et 31 mars 2023

Argumentaire

Ce colloque vise à offrir un espace d’échanges interdisciplinaires et inclusifs autour de la thématique de l’enfance et du handicap. Le colloque veut présenter la recherche récente sur les enfants en situation de handicap dans l’espace francophone, en prenant en compte non seulement les dimensions sociohistoriques, géographiques et politiques du handicap, mais aussi l’expérience des enfants et des protagonistes de la prise en charge des jeunes concernés. La conférence propose aussi de décloisonner les recherches sur le handicap en privilégiant une approche pluridisciplinaire et intersectionnelle, cherchant à mettre en lumière les expériences plurielles d’enfants oubliés et invisibilisés : enfants en situation de handicap racisés, jeunes polyhandicapés, enfants autochtones, filles handicapées, enfants vivant dans le « Sud global », enfants marginalisés par une «différence» visible ou invisible (enfants ayant le trouble du spectre de l’autisme ou un trouble du déficit de l’attention, par exemple). 

Les dernières données de l’Unicef parues en 2021 font état de la situation alarmante à laquelle sont confrontés les enfants en situation de handicap dans un monde secoué par de graves crises sanitaires, humanitaires, économiques et climatiques. La pandémie de COVID-19 a montré que les acquis en matière de droits, d’accès aux soins, à l’éducation, à la vie sociale sont fragiles et risquent à tout moment de basculer dans des mécanismes de discrimination et d’exclusion. En outre, les enfants handicapés sont particulièrement vulnérables à toutes formes de violences ancrées dans un passé colonial, sexiste, raciste, capacitiste. Pourtant, loin d’être des victimes passives, les enfants en situation de handicap ont une voix qui résonne dans les documents d’archives, témoignant de leur pouvoir d’agir et de leur résilience, et qui s’exprime aujourd’hui sur diverses tribunes, y compris dans les médias sociaux. 

Nous invitons donc les universitaires à proposer des communications sur l’une de ces thématiques :

Thèmes

Définitions, concepts, terminologies : Pourront être abordés à la fois l’historicité des terminologies et des catégorisations de l’enfance « en difficulté », infirme, inadaptée (arriération mentale/folie, handicap visible/invisible) ainsi que les modèles théoriques et les termes utilisés pour désigner les systèmes de discriminations (validisme, capacitisme, oculocentrisme, audisme). 

Discours et représentations socioculturelles des enfants en situation de handicap : Ce thème met en cause la pérennité de l’image de l’enfant handicapé comme un être vulnérable, parfois perçu comme inutile, voire menaçant, dans les sociétés occidentales. Comment se modulent et fluctuent ces représentations selon les espaces géographiques, les cultures ; quelles en sont les contradictions ? Quelles voix portent les discours religieux, politiques, médiatiques, et avec quelles intentions, quelles répercussions ? Comment ces discours se sont-ils exprimés lors de crises sanitaires, notamment la pandémie de COVID-19 ? 

Droits des enfants, État et politiques sociales : Comment le handicap est-il devenu depuis le long XXe et au début du XXIe siècle, un enjeu global et essentiel devant être pris en compte dans toute perspective de santé et de défense des droits ciblant les enfants ? Déclarations et conventions nationales, internationales des droits des enfants, législations, charte des droits et libertés en constituent les jalons et les références. Les réseaux de défense des droits des enfants, le rôle de l’État, les politiques sociales et les mobilisations citoyennes engagent les réflexions des chercheurs et des acteurs. 

Santé, soins et réadaptation : Dans la mouvance d’une histoire globale et inclusive de la santé, les professions et les pratiques de la réadaptation, les lieux de pratiques de soins (asiles, institutions spécialisées, hôpitaux pédiatriques, centres de réadaptation, domicile) sont abordés en portant une attention à la diversité des acteurs (professionnels, paramédicaux, mais aussi tradipraticiens, guérisseurs) et de leurs pratiques (soins, chirurgies, cures, médicaments, remèdes traditionnels, pratiques ancestrales de guérison, auto-soin). Comment se redéfinissent les pratiques de soins et de réadaptation aujourd’hui ? 

Éducation, du préscolaire au collège, entre exclusion et inclusion : Quel accès à la scolarité et à l’instruction pour les enfants en situation de handicap d’hier à nos jours ? Quelles retombées des lois sur l’instruction obligatoire et de la démocratisation de l’instruction sur l’éducation des enfants en « difficulté » ou « ayant des besoins particuliers » ? Personnel des écoles, philosophies et pratiques pédagogiques (intégration, inclusion à la garderie, à l’école). Regard et interventions des experts psychosociaux sur les élèves, élaboration de normes, prévention, médicalisation de la sphère éducative. 

Participation sociale, sociabilités, trajectoires et expériences de vie : Adaptation et accessibilité des sports et des loisirs, expériences et trajectoires de vie, voix et récits des enfants (archives orales, témoignages, méthodologie), parole, agentivité et pouvoir d’agir. 

Les enfants et leurs proches : Le rôle des parents dans la prise en charge des besoins des enfants (soins, éducation, démarches administratives, les relations familiales, adelphie, affectivité), l’adaptation des familles (résilience, réseaux d’entraide et d’écoute) représentent des avenues de recherche à prometteuses à documenter, tout comme le rôle des associations de parents (prévention, sensibilisation et éducation du grand public, rôle auprès des décideurs publics). 

Modalités de soumission :

Les propositions de communication, d’une longueur de 2 000 signes maximum et comprenant un titre, une présentation de la méthode mise en oeuvre et des références bibliographiques, accompagnées d’une courte notice biographique (un paragraphe), sont à envoyer par courriel à susanne.commend@univ-angers.fr avant le 30 novembre 2022. Les organisateurs indiqueront les propositions retenues par le comité scientifique le 20 décembre 2022.

Pour chaque communication retenue un résumé d’une page devra être envoyé avant le colloque en février 2023. Un projet de publication est prévu. Les textes complets devront être déposés le 30 mai 2023 et ne seront retenus qu’après évaluations scientifiques.

Organisation du colloque

Le colloque se tiendra en format hybride, à la Maison de la recherche Germaine-Tillion de l’Université d’Angers et sur la plateforme Zoom. Les conférenciers qui ne seront pas présents physiquement pourront faire une présentation virtuelle « en direct ». Toutefois pour des raisons logistiques, les présentations à distance constitueront au maximum 30% des communications sélectionnées.

Un temps d’échange sera prévu avec des acteurs du milieu de la réadaptation, communautaire et associatif.

IMPORTANT, INDIQUER dans votre proposition de communication :

 Les besoins en adaptations (mobilité, interprète, informatique) dans votre proposition de communication. Un service d’interprètes LSF sera disponible sur le lieu du colloque.

 votre choix :

1. présentation à l’Université d’Angers (Maison de la recherche Germaine Tillion)

2. présentation en direct via Zoom.




Organisateurs :

Susanne Commend, chercheuse postdoctorale boursière Actions Marie Sklodowska-Curie (AMSC), Université d’Angers-UMR TEMOS.

Avec Yves Denéchère, professeur d’histoire contemporaine, Université d’Angers, directeur de l’UMR TEMOS et du Pôle universitaire ligérien d’études sur l’enfance/jeunesse, titulaire de la Chaire « Parole et pouvoir d’agir des «enfants et des jeunes »

et Mickaël Dinomais, professeur en médecine physique et réadaptation, directeur du centre pédiatrique «Les Capucins», CHU Angers.

Comité scientifique

Maria Fernanda Arentsen, professeure de langues et littérature, Université de Saint-Boniface, Manitoba

Gildas Brégain, chargé de recherche CNRS, UMR Arènes

Yves Denéchère, professeur d’histoire contemporaine, Université d’Angers-UMR TEMOS

Susanne Commend, chercheuse postdoctorale MSCA IF, Université d’Angers-UMR TEMOS

Hervé Guillemain, professeur d’histoire contemporaine, Le Mans Université–UMR TEMOS

Julien Prud’homme, professeur de sociologie de la santé, département des sciences humaines, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières - CIEQ, CIRST

Hervé Rihal, professeur émérite de droit public, Université d’Angers-Centre Jean Bodin

Anne Roekens, professeure d’histoire contemporaine, Université de Namur.

Ce colloque est soutenu par la Commission européenne (bourse AMSC Individual Fellowship), l’Université d’Angers, TEMOS (UMR CNRS), le Pôle universitaire ligérien d’études sur l’enfance/jeunesse EnJeux, la chaire « Parole et pouvoir d’agir des enfants et des jeunes » et la MSH Ange Guépin.

L'histoire de la réforme de la santé mentale par des activistes

Fighting for Recovery: An Activists' History of Mental Health Reform

Phyllis Vine

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Beacon Press (September 27, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 408 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0807079614

This definitive people’s history of the recovery movement spans the 1970s to the present day and proves to readers just how essential mental health activism is to every person in this country, whether you have a current psychiatric diagnosis or not.

In Fighting for Recovery, professor and mental health advocate Phyllis Vine tells the history of the former psychiatric patients, families, and courageous activists who formed a patients’ liberation movement that challenged medical authority and proved to the world that recovery from mental illness is possible.

Mental health discussions have become more common in everyday life, but there are still enormous numbers of people with psychiatric illness in jails and prisons or who are experiencing homelessness – proving there is still progress to be made.

Hannah Studentship 2023

Hannah Studentship 2023 

Call for applications

AMS Healthcare and the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine (CSHM) are pleased to offer four three-month studentships to undergraduate and MA students registered in a Canadian university, for a supervised project in the history of medicine. These studentships offer awardees an opportunity to learn historical research techniques, and they aim to encourage future study of medical history.

The funds are provided by AMS Healthcare. AMS focuses on healthcare’s past and its future. Their work fosters a Canadian healthcare system that advances technologically, while remaining rooted in compassion and a rich understanding of our medical history. They convene networks and fund crucial activities in healthcare research, education, leadership and clinical practice. By combining work on the past and the future of healthcare, they ensure that people are always at the centre of Canadian care.

For the 2023 studentship, research will ideally relate to the strategic priorities of AMS Healthcare.

This research focus reflects AMS’ current strategic priority “Compassionate Care in a Technological World” which focuses on: Promoting the education and practice of compassionate care;
Fostering new delivery models of compassionate care;
Facilitating the leadership needed to realize the promise of technology, while safeguarding humanistic care in our rapidly evolving healthcare system. 

Purpose

CSHM is pleased to offer stipends of up to $5,500 and to oversee the review of applications.

The award may be held for a period of three months during the Fall, Winter or Summer semester. Payment is made to the institution where the student is registered, which will then pay awardees directly. These awards are considered taxable income by the Canadian government.
Eligible Research Topics

The 2023 grant supports research in the area of the impact of technology on the practice of medicine and the delivery of healthcare services. The project may form part of an honours thesis, MA thesis, major research paper, or an elective project, and the student may receive course credit for the work. The proposed research must have a clearly defined timeline suitable for completion during the three-month Studentship. It is not required that topics relate to Canadian medicine or medical history. 

Eligibility

Applicants must be registered in an undergraduate or MA program at a Canadian university at the time of application. Any full-time undergraduate or MA student is eligible to apply provided the proposed project and supervisor meet the criteria detailed below. Medical students are welcome to apply!

Awards are normally tenable only at universities in Canada. 

Deadline

Please email applications to the Vice-President of the CSHM by 10 February 2023:annmarie.adams@mcgill.ca. Applications must follow the formatting guidelines.

 
Language

The jury includes bilingual evaluators to review applications in Canada’s official languages.
Publication and Acknowledgement

There are no restrictions on publications. However, acknowledgement of support from AMS Healthcare and the CSHM shall appear on any publication resulting from this award.

We recommend the following descriptor: Originally established in 1936 by Dr. Jason Hannah as a pioneer prepaid not-for-profit healthcare organization in Ontario, AMS Healthcare is a Canadian charitable organization with an impressive history as a catalyst for change in healthcare. Innovating healthcare education and practice, championing the history of medicine and healthcare, supporting leadership development and advancing research in both the humanities and health, AMS strives to improve the healthcare of all Canadians.

AMS may reproduce, at its discretion, the title and/or blog post submission (detailed below).
Instructions for Completing Application

Complete applications must include each of the following sections.

Applications should be typed in Arial or Calibri font, minimum size of 12pt. Please do not condense type or spacing. Pages should be numbered, with the applicant’s name at the top right corner of each page. Application Form

The application form must have all electronic signatures.

A representative of the university office which administers student awards must sign the application form. Payment is made to the institution, which will then pay awardees directly. By signing, the university office agrees to assume administrative responsibility for payment to the awardee.

Institutional signatures also indicate compliance with the AMS policy that overhead costs, university, or other institutional administrative costs may not be paid out of AMS grant funds. Project Abstract

Provide a brief description (max. 150 words) in non-technical language, outlining the proposed project and its relevance to the history of medicine. Project Proposal (maximum 3 pages double-spaced)

State the main research question, its connection to the relevant literature, and how you intend to undertake the project (methodology, location of sources, time lines, etc.). Provide some brief biographical information to demonstrate why you should be the one undertaking this project. This could include a list of relevant university courses, personal experience, or interests that are relevant for this project, along with proficiency in other languages if necessary. Supervisor Assessment and Supervisor CV

The applicant’s supervisor should submit two documents confidentially and directly to annmarie.adams@mcgill.ca.

First, a brief assessment of the project’s feasibility, the student’s suitability, and a commitment to oversee the project. Second, the supervisor should submit a condensed (max. 3 pages) CV to provide the committee with information pertaining to the supervisor’s familiarity with the research topic, including research activities most relevant to the proposed research project. Transcript(s)

Please include one official undergraduate transcript. Students registered in the first year of an undergraduate program, where a university transcript may not give sufficient information, should include previous academic certificates. MA students may also submit, in addition, a transcript from their current institution. Ethics Clearance

All projects involving the use of human subjects must receive ethics clearance by the Research Ethics Board of the home university of either the student or the supervisor. If ethics clearance has been received prior to submitting the proposal, please submit a copy of the ethics clearance certificate with the proposal. If ethics clearance has not yet been received, funds will not be released until proof of clearance has been obtained and submitted to the CSHM. If you determine that ethics clearance is not necessary, please include a brief statement explaining your reasoning.

In signing the AMS application form, applicants are committing themselves to act in accordance

with the following statement when working with research subjects:

“I give my assurance that the human rights and personal dignity of all research subjects will be rigorously safeguarded and that no written or oral communications with research subjects will contain language that they may reasonably construe as offers of clinical or other assistance that I or my staff are not in a position, and willing, to offer.” Final Reporting

Successful candidates must submit a final report and a 500-word blog post at the conclusion of the Studentship. AMS will publish the blog post on its website and showcase it on social media. The final report should describe the research activities that comprised the project. The blog post could summarize research findings and comment on how research in the history of medicine and healthcare shapes or informs the Canadian healthcare system of today and tomorrow. The final report and blog post should be submitted to AMS and the CSHM — Anne Avery (Anne.Avery@amshealthcare.ca) and Annmarie Adams (annmarie.adams@mcgill.ca).

Please address all correspondence or questions about this application to:

Annmarie Adams

annmarie.adams@mcgill.ca

Application Guidelines: Word | PDF

Application Form: Word | PDF
 

The 2022 Hannah Studentships have been awarded to:


Gabrielle McLaren, Master of Arts, Department of History, Concordia University, Supervisor Prof Anya Zilberstein. “‘Not so very fine and healthy, as has been reported’: Settlers, Malaria, and Improvement along the Rideau Canal (1826-1832)”


Laura Bergen, Master of Arts, Department of History and Classical Studies, McGill University, Co-supervisors Profs Elsbeth Heaman and Annmarie Adams. “Bodies on the Shelf: The (After)lives of Osler’s Medical Specimens”


Sandra Smiley, UBC MD Undergraduate Program (MDUP), Supervisor Dr Christopher Ong, “‘A very, very dangerous experiment’: a social history of safer supply in Canada”


Thomas Nadeau-Mercier, Université Laval, département des sciences historiques, maitrise en histoire avec mémoire, Supervisor Prof Aline Charles, “La pilule en débat au Québec: Médecins, féministes et utilisatrices (1961-1980)”

Les docteurs régents de la Faculté de médecine en l'Université de Paris au XVIIIe siècle

Corps aux temps des Lumières. Les docteurs régents de la Faculté de médecine en l'Université de Paris au XVIIIe siècle 

Isabelle Coquillard
 

Honoré Champion
Collection SCIENCES TECHNIQUE
Nombre de pages 800
Type de reliure BROCHÉ
Date de publication 23/09/2022
ISBN 9782745358011


Au XVIIIe siècle, les docteurs régents de la faculté de médecine de Paris bénéficient, avec les médecins en Cour, du privilège de pouvoir pratiquer la médecine dans la capitale. Partageant une même formation médicale donnant accès à la qualité de régent, les docteurs sont les membres d’un corps puissant – la Faculté – dirigé par son doyen. Enseignants, ils investissent les institutions savantes, participent à la circulation et au contrôle des savoirs médicaux.

Soucieux de satisfaire leurs « patients-clients », les docteurs régents prennent position dans le marché thérapeutique avec les autres professionnels de santé et les « charlatans ». Lucratives, leurs activités professionnelles les intègrent dans la bourgeoisie parisienne. La monarchie, soucieuse de l’encadrement sanitaire de ses sujets les mobilise en raison de leur expertise.

En s’appuyant sur des sources variées, cette étude montre que les docteurs régents de la faculté de médecine en l’Université de Paris conjuguent logique corporative et liberté professionnelle pour étendre leurs espaces d’intervention et demeurer au sommet de la hiérarchie des professions de santé.

Isabelle Coquillard est docteure en histoire moderne et membre du MéMo (Centre d’histoire des sociétés Médiévales et Modernes) de l’Université Paris Nanterre. Ses domaines de recherche sont l’histoire des professions de santé, de la bourgeoise, des corporations et des institutions savantes.

Perspectives historiques sur les valeurs morales et éthiques de la santé publique

Historical perspectives on morals, values, and ethics in public health



Call for seminar papers



The Centre for History in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine invites expressions of interest from researchers who would like to give a seminar paper as part of a series focusing on morals, values, and ethics in public health (in any time period or geographic location), from historical perspectives.

Public health, meaning collective organised action to prevent illness and promote health at population level, draws upon a distinctive array of powers and methods including surveillance, compulsion, coercion, and wide-ranging state intervention. This has often prompted debates about the morality of such activities, with reference to individual rights and freedoms, the needs of the population, and the duties or responsibilities of individuals, groups, and governments. Implicit morals and values have always informed the horizons of public health as well, determining the populations and problems that are prioritised and the interventions that can be imagined or implemented.

How have these implicit and explicit morals and values shaped public health, and how have they changed over time and in relation to different populations and public health problems? Which public health issues have prompted close attention to ethical questions, and which have not? How have disagreements about fairness, justice, or morality in public health work been resolved? And what has been the impact of more official ethical guidelines for public health, emerging from the second half of the twentieth century?

Seminar papers may address any aspects of these questions as they have played out the in past (including the very recent past). Papers must adopt a historical perspective, but presenters may be from any disciplinary background, including but not limited to history.

Seminars run from 2022-2024 as part of the Wellcome Trust-funded project ‘Ethics and British public health law’. Solo presentations should be around 40 minutes long; a pair of shorter presentations can also be accommodated. Presentations can be delivered on Zoom or in person in London. Some limited funding is available to cover travel expenses and other costs.

To express an interest in presenting a paper as part of this series, please send a summary of the work that you would like to present (up to 250 words) and a short biography to janet.weston@lshtm.ac.uk by 28 October 2022. Prospective presenters are also very welcome to get in touch with any questions.