Le corps médicalisé

The Medicalised Body


Call for papers

Edinburgh Philosophy and Phenomenology Group (EPiPHENy)

University of Edinburgh, Hybrid, May 11^th & 12^th, 2023

The University of Edinburgh is the seat of many historical and contemporary breakthroughs in medicine and epidemiology. On top of this, the medical humanities are increasingly influential at the university, with high-quality research output from the Usher Institute, Edinburgh Futures Institute, and Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities. Meaningful connections between these centres, however, are lacking, as too are links to other schools and departments. In the philosophy department, medicine is rarely discussed, despite expertise in several relevant areas (e.g., philosophy of cognitive science, phenomenology, epistemology). The intention behind this conference is to begin generating critical discussions about medicine within the department of philosophy at Edinburgh, with the additional goal of creating interdisciplinary links between departments inside and outside the school of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences as well as with our academic partners at other institutions. By bringing interdisciplinary researchers together at this event, we hope to initiate formal connections between the philosophy department and the medical humanities research already taking place at the university and at other institutions across the country. This conference further aims to demonstrate the valuable contributions philosophy and phenomenology can make to medicine. If successful, we might establish regular meetings of this kind for knowledge exchange.

The focus of the conference is a phenomenological approach to the body in medicine, and what this means for research and society at large. Phenomenology is already a strength of the department at Edinburgh, which hosts the Edinburgh Philosophy and Phenomenology group (EPiPHENy), and therefore the natural place to start these discussions. As such, I have invited experts in the field of phenomenology and medicine to share with us their expertise:

• Dr Lucy Osler, University of Cardiff
• Prof Havi Carel, University of Bristol
• Prof Luna Dolezal, University of Exeter
• Prof Yochai Ataria, Tel Hai College

Additionally, EPiPHENy is looking for 8 speakers, early-career researchers or individuals who work in medicine with a phenomenological approach, to give short 30-minute presentations followed by a 15-minute Q&A. Presentations should discuss phenomenology in relation to how the body is medicalised in various ways, such as in disability, illness, and mental disorder. This theme should be taken broadly and, in particular, we encourage talks which incorporate philosophy and phenomenology in interdisciplinary ways to further demonstrate the value of incorporating philosophy in other approaches to medicine and the body. These talks will highlight not only the current theoretical and methodological worries present in medicine from the perspective of the medical humanities but also exemplify the benefit a philosophical outlook can bring to the table for medicine and other disciplines.

Contributors are welcome to present either in person in Edinburgh or online, although we will be aiming for a balance of in-person and online talks when grading abstract submissions. All in-person speakers will also be invited to an evening meal on the second day, the expenses of which will be covered by the conference. Currently, reimbursement of short presentation speaker travel is dependent on funding.

To apply for one of the short presentations, please submit to edepipheny@gmail.com by February 17^th 2023 an anonymised 500-word abstract, with title and keywords, alongside a separate file that includes:

• Talk Title
• Author name(s)
• Affiliation(s)
• Current occupation/position of all authors (PhD researcher, post-doc, nurse, clinician etc.)
• A short bio
• Preferences for online or in-person presentation.

We especially encourage submissions from marginalised and minority groups; if you identify as part of one of these groups, please do indicate this as part of your bio if you feel comfortable doing so. As much as possible, we will be following the BPA/SWIP Good Practice Scheme for conferences and seminars.

This conference is funded by the Student Staff Initiative Fund from the University of Edinburgh. Any enquiries should be directed to Jodie Russell at s1402420@ed.ac.uk

Travail et occupation dans les hôpitaux psychiatriques français et anglais

Work and Occupation in French and English Mental Hospitals, c.1918-1939
 

Jane Freebody 

Palgrave Macmillan
2023

This open access book demonstrates that, while occupation has been used to treat the mentally disordered since the early nineteenth century, approaches to its use have varied across different countries and in different time periods. Comparing how occupation was used in French and English mental institutions between 1918 and 1939, one hundred years after the heyday of moral therapy, the book is an essential read for those researching the history of mental health and medicine more generally. It provides an overview of the legislation, management structures and financial conditions that affected mental institutions in France and England, and contributed to their differing responses to the new theories of occupational therapy emerging from the USA and Germany during the interwar period.

Écologies de la santé et des maladies en Eurasie

Ecologies of Health and Disease in Eurasia: New Perspectives in the Medical-Environmental Humanities and History

Call for papers


Oslo School of Environmental Humanities, University of Oslo, Norway

June 1-2, 2023

Keynote speaker: Professor Kate Brown (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

This workshop aims to develop a multidisciplinary dialogue on the entanglements of politics, society, ecology, environment, health, and disease in the regions of East-Central Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, bringing together scholars in the history of medicine and the medical humanities with scholars in environmental history and the environmental humanities. It aims to deepen understandings of regional particularities and traditions, including a possible divergence in approaches to environment and health in Eurasia from approaches taken in other regions, such as Western Europe, East Asia, and South Asia. At the same time, the workshop aims to explore the local, transnational, international, and global connections, circulations, and integrations that cut through and extend beyond the regions of Eurasia and call its distinctiveness into question. It aims to foster a discussion about what the study of the regions of Eurasia might contribute to the developing fields of medical-environmental humanities and medical-environmental history. Questions that the workshop will address include: Where were links between the physical environment, health, and disease made visible in the regions of Eurasia, and where were they obscured? How can these developments be explained?

Which categories, concepts, disciplines, and practices were employed to analyse and enact the relationship between environment, health, and disease in the regions, and how did these shape approaches to managing, protecting, building in, and transforming the physical environment? Who were the main actors participating in these processes?

The workshop welcomes papers on diverse topics, building on a range of methodologies and theories. Drawing on the “environmental turn” in the history of architecture, design, and planning, it seeks also to integrate the built environment into the medical-environmental humanities and history of the regions of Eurasia. Papers are welcome in and across such disciplines as history; anthropology; science and technology studies; literature; film studies; history of art, architecture, design and planning; and geography. Papers may address some of the following themes: 

• the role of ecology, climate, geography, and/or landscape in medical research, theory, and practice
• the environmental knowledge produced in biomedical research, also in relation to indigenous and vernacular knowledge
• indigenous, vernacular, religious, and spiritual epistemologies, knowledges, practices, and environments
• psycho-physiological responses to the physical environment and understandings of the human body and mind
• antibiotic and probiotic medical research, theory, and practice in ecological and environmental context
• entanglements of human and more-than-human health and disease
• biopolitics and micro-biopolitics in relation to the physical environment
• (divergences in) approaches to global health, international organizations, and congresses in relation to the physical environment
• architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, and environmental design in relation to environmental management, transformation, and protection and to medicine and public health
• agriculture and the health and disease of plants, animals, and soils
• toxicity, radioactivity, and pollution, in relation to environment, medicine, health, and disease

To apply for the workshop, please send a paper title and abstract (200-400 words) and a brief academic biography (200-400 words) to Johanna.Conterio@iakh.uio.no by February 1, 2023. Workshop papers will be pre-circulated and are due May 15, 2023. The workshop will be in a hybrid format, allowing for virtual participation. Accommodation for two nights in Oslo will be provided for all in-person participants. Limited funds will be available to offset travel costs. PhD students and early career researchers are encouraged to apply. An edited volume drawing on workshop papers is planned.

Contact Info:
Dr Johanna Conterio, conference convener
Associate Professor of Environmental History
University of Oslo
Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History
PB 1008, Blindern, NO-0315 Oslo, Norway


Contact Email:
johanna.conterio@iakh.uio.no

URL:
https://www.hf.uio.no/english/research/strategic-research-areas/oseh/news-and-events/news/call-for-papers-ecologies-of-h…

Maladies médicales et spirituelles dans la péninsule ibérique médiévale

The Aesthetics of Melancholia: Medical and Spiritual Diseases in Medieval Iberia

Luis F. López González

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press (January 6, 2023)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0192859228 

This book explores the intersection between medicine and literature in medieval Iberian literature and culture. Its overarching argument is that thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Iberian authors revalorized the interconnection between the body, the mind, and the soul in light of the evolving epistemology of medicine. Prior to the reintroduction of classical medical treatises through Arab authors into European cultures, mental disorders and bodily diseases were primarily attributed to moral corruption, demonic influence, and superstition. The introduction of novel regimens of health as well as treatises on melancholia into academic institutions and into the cultural landscape provided the tools for newly minted authors to understand that psychosomatic illnesses stemmed from malfunctions of the body's biochemical composition.

This book demonstrates that the earliest books written in the Iberian vernaculars contain the seeds that effect the shift from a theocentric worldview to a humanistic one. The volume features close readings of multiple texts, including medical treatises and religious writings, and King Alfonso X's Cantigas de Santa Maria, Juan Manuel's Conde Lucanor, and Juan Ruiz's Libro de buen amor. Even though these texts differ in literary genre, rhetorical strategy, and even purpose, this study argues that they collectively employ humoral pathology and melancholic discourses as a means of underscoring the frailty and transience of human life by showing how somatic conditions sicken the body, mind, and soul unto death.

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

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

VENDREDI 20 JANVIER 2023 à 14 heures

dans la salle de conférence (3ème étage) de l’Académie Nationale de Médecine 16, rue Bonaparte 75006 Paris. Un lien zoom pour une visioconférence vous sera envoyé.

Séance habituelle : informations générales, présentation et élection des candidats, présentation d’ouvrages.

Éloge de Monsieur Michel ROUX-DESSARPS par le Dr Pierre THILLAUD

Conférence invitée (60 min)

Philippe BONNICHON
Ambroise PARÉ

Communications (20 min)

Jean-François SCHUHL
Le Docteur Joseph SCHUHL

Jacques BATTIN
Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU : le malade et le penseur de la médecine

Prochaine séance : le vendredi 17 février 2023

Secrétariat général :
Dr Jacques CHEVALLIER, 15 rue Guilloud, 69003 LYON, secretariat.sfhm@gmail.com


Propositions de communications et organisation des séances :

Dr Jean-François HUTIN, 2, rue de Neufchâtel, 51100 REIMS jfhutin@wanadoo.fr ou comite.de.lecture.sfhm@gmail.com

L'addiction en Amérique

Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, 1776-1914 

Elizabeth Kelly Gray


Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press (December 16, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0190073121

Habitual drug use in the United States is at least as old as the nation itself. Habit Forming traces the history of unregulated drug use and dependency before 1914, when the Harrison Narcotic Tax Act limited sales of opiates and cocaine under US law. Many Americans used opiates and other drugs medically and became addicted. Some tried Hasheesh Candy, injected morphine, or visited opium dens, but neither use nor addiction was linked to crime, due to the dearth of restrictive laws. After the Civil War, American presses published extensively about domestic addiction. Later in the nineteenth century, many used cocaine and heroin as medicine. As addiction became a major public health issue, commentators typically sympathized with white, middle-class drug users, while criticizing such use by poor or working-class people and people of color. When habituation was associated with middle-class morphine users, few advocated for restricted drug access. By the 1910s, as use was increasingly associated with poor young men, support for regulations increased. In outlawing users' access to habit-forming drugs at the national level, a public health problem became a larger legal and social problem, one with an enduring influence on American drug laws and their enforcement.

Le monde médical de Margaret Cavendish

The Medical World of Margaret Cavendish. A Critical Edition


Justin Begley & Benjamin Goldberg

Palgrave Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine (PSMEMM)
2022

This book is the first transcription and extensive commentary on a fascinating but almost entirely overlooked manuscript compilation of medical recipes and letters, which is held in the University of Nottingham. Collected by the Marquess and Marchioness of Newcastle, William and Margaret Cavendish, during the 1640s and 1650s, this manuscript features letters of advice, recipes, and sundry philosophical and medical reflections by some of the most formidable and influential physicians, philosophers, and courtly scholars of the early seventeenth century. These include “Europe’s physician” Theodore de Mayerne, the adventurer and courtier Kenelm Digby, and the natural philosopher, poet, and playwright Margaret Cavendish. While the transcription and accompanying annotations will allow a diverse array of readers to appreciate the manuscript for the first time, the introduction situates the Cavendishes’ recipe collecting habits, medical preoccupations, natural philosophical views, and politics within their social, cultural, and philosophical contexts, and draws out some of the most significant implications of this important document.

Séminaire du CIRHMS

Séminaire 2023 en Histoire de la médecine et de la santé du CIRHMS


Le séminaire complémentaire en Histoire de la médecine et des maladies est organisé sous l’égide de la Faculté de médecine de Paris Cité et du Collège international de recherche en Histoire de la médecine et de la santé. Il est proposé exclusivement en mode « à distance » en e-learning et diffusé en mode « différé » par consultation de la collection des cours déposés au fur et à mesure de l’avancée des interventions sur un site dédié accessible 24H/24H et 7J/7J, sans limite d’accès.

Aperçu
Mode d'accès : Présentiel & distanciel
Fréquence : un ou deux mercredis par mois, de janvier 2023 à décembre 2023, de 16H30 à 18H00 heures
Frais d'inscription : 50 euros
Langue : Français


Programme du séminaire

L'Anathomia de Mondino de' Liuzzi, deux siècles avant Vésale
11 janvier 2023
Dr Willy Burguet

L’albinisme oculo-cutané en Afrique
8 février 2023
Pr Robert Aquaron

Les représentations des soignants des Lumières à la Restauration (1750-1830)
22 février 2023
Dr Bernard Herman

Lutte contre la trypanosomiase humaine africaine : le succès des équipes mobiles
8 mars 2023
Dr Francis Louis

Molière et la médecine : entre l’agonie et l’euphorie
11 avril 2023
M. Hervé Baudry

La représentation des médecins et chirurgiens dans la peinture de la Renaissance à la fin de l’Ancien régime
10 mai 2023
Dr Brigitte Duboc

Les vases de pharmacie au Moyen-Âge et à la Renaissance
24 mai 2023
Pr Olivier Lafont

Le paludisme sur le front de Salonique en 1916-1918
7 juin 2023
Pr René Migliani

L'école vétérinaire de Lyon, et ses relations à la médecine humaine, de sa création, en 1761, au XXe s
27 septembre 2023
Dr Fanny Demars

Comment la théorie darwinienne a conduit à l’émergence du concept de cellules souches au XIXe siècle
11 octobre 2023
Pr Martin Catala

Le traitement des plaies par balles au XVIe siècle en Occident selon les traités d’époque
15 novembre 2023
M. Maximilien Bui Hai

Suzanne Noël, Pionnière de la Chirurgie Esthétique
6 décembre 2023
Dr Marianne Prevot