La Médecine des Lumières

A l'occasion de la soutenance de thèse d'Alexandre Klein (http://histoiresante.blogspot.ca/2012/12/soutenance-de-these-alexandre-klein.html),

et dans le cadre des travaux de l'axe 5 de la MSH Lorraine,

 Le Professeur Vincent BARRAS

historien et médecin, directeur de l'Institut universitaire d'histoire de la médecine et de la santé publique, université de Lausanne / CHUV

donnera une conférence sur le thème :

La Médecine des Lumières : autour de la Correspondance Tissot 

              Lundi 10 décembre 2012, de 16h à 18h.
                                                                         Salle internationale - MSH Lorraine, Nancy

Ouverte à toutes et tous, dans la limite des places disponibles.

Marie Bonaparte. Entre biologie et freudisme

Marie Bonaparte. Entre biologie et freudisme

Rémy Amouroux est actuellement maître de conférences en psychologie clinique à l’université de Bretagne occidentale et membre de l’équipe « Éthique, professionnalisme et santé », EA 4686. 

Avec une préface de Jacqueline Carroy.

L’ouvrage de Rémy Amouroux s’appuie sur une étude approfondie d’archives en grande partie inédites ou méconnues et il retrace l’univers intellectuel et culturel de Marie Bonaparte  : les milieux psychanalytiques mais aussi scientifiques et littéraires. En replaçant l’œuvre scientifique de Marie Bonaparte dans son contexte, ce livre montre que sa lecture biologisante du freudisme n’avait alors rien d’exceptionnel. Plutôt que de discréditer ou de réhabiliter Marie Bonaparte, cet ouvrage cherche à lui restituer sa part d’inactualité.

Format : 15,5 x 24 cm
Nombre de pages : 278 p.

ISBN : 978-2-7535-2118-6

Disponibilité : en librairie
Prix : 18,00 €
Sommaire
 Le personnage et son traitement biographique

• Les archives de Marie Bonaparte
• Biographie de « La dernière Bonaparte »

Les sociabilités savantes d’une princesse psychanalyse

• Marie Bonaparte et la psychanalyse
• Marie Bonaparte et les milieux littéraires
• Marie Bonaparte et les milieux scientifiques

Le divan et la paillasse

• Les mentors et inspirateurs
• La sexologie
• La psychosomatique

Genre et trangression au Moyen-Âge

Gender and Transgression in the Middle Ages

We are pleased to announce the call for papers for Gender and Transgression in the Middle Ages, a three-day interdisciplinary conference for postgraduate and early career researchers hosted by The University of St Andrews Institute of Medieval Studies (SAIMS), to be held 2nd-4th May 2013. Now in its fifth year, the conference aims to create a lively and welcoming forum for speakers to present their research, make contacts, and participate in creative discussion on the topics of gender and transgression in the Middle Ages. This year’s keynote speaker will be Professor Pauline Stafford, Emeritus Professor in Early Medieval History at the University of Liverpool, who will be speaking on reading gender in chronicles, with special reference to the old English vernacular. We invite postgraduate, postdoctoral and early career researchers from departments of History, Modern and Mediaeval Languages, English, Art History, Theology and Divinity, in addition to scholars working in any other relevant subject area, to submit a papers of approximately 20 minutes that engage with the themes of gender and/or transgression in the mediaeval period. Possible topics for papers might include, but are by no means limited to gender and/or transgression in the fields of: 

• Politics: kingship, queenship, the nobility, royal/noble household, royal favourites and mistresses, royal ritual, display and chivalry. 

• Legal Studies: men, women and the law, court cases, law-breaking, marriage and divorce. 

• Social and economic history: urban and rural communities, domestic household, motherhood and children, widows, working women, prostitution and crime. 

• Religion: monastic communities, saints and saints' lives, mysticism and lay religion. • Literature: chivalric texts, romances, poetry, vernacular works. 

• Visual culture: depictions, architecture, art, material culture and patronage. • Masculinity and femininity in the middle ages and their application in current historiography. 

• Homosexuality, sexual deviancy and cross-dressing. 

To mark the launch of St Andrews Centre for Mediaeval and Early Modern Law and Literature (CMEMLL) we shall be holding a session on medieval law and literature within the broader conference theme of gender and transgression and therefore particularly welcome papers within this field. Those wishing to give a paper please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words to genderandtransgression@st-andrews.ac.uk by Monday 11 February 2013. Your abstract should be attached to your email as a Microsoft Word or PDF file and include your name, home institution and what stage of your postgraduate or postdoctoral career you are currently at. Registration for the conference will be £5 for students/unwaged, £10 for staff, which will cover tea, coffee and lunch on two days, and two wine receptions. All delegates are also warmly invited to the conference meal on Friday 3 May, the cost of which will be covered for speakers. Further details can be found at our website http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/saims/gender/index.html as they come available and we can be followed on twitter @gandt2013.

La science au travail

Science at Work. How Academics and Other Specialists Contributed to the Normalization of Work (late 19th and first half of the 20th century)

Vienna, September 9th to 11th, 2013 

Deadline: January 7th, 2013

The workshop will investigate how science and/or scholarship (in the broadest sense) from late 19th to the first half of the 20th century contributed to the historical production of work. Work has fundamentally changed since the late 19th century. Emerging welfare states not only started to intervene more systematically in labour relations but also to bring forward new social facts. Overall, work was increasingly normalized as regular – at best skillful – gainful employment. It took place in national (instead of just occupational) labour markets and was complemented by new kinds of legitimate non-work (unemployment, illness, childhood, leisure time etc). This new work allowed for a new system of entitlements, thus laying the foundations of welfare states. The history of this normalization is the history of varied and omnipresent struggles over how work should be – and how it should be valued. These struggles cannot be understood without accounting for the “scientification of the social” (Lutz Raphael) or of society in general. On the one hand, successfully defining and imposing what could (or could not) pass for work and how work should be organized became linked to the successful use of sciences, i.e. of arguments, proofs, observations, titles etc. effectively acknowledged as scientific. On the other hand, any attempt to participate legitimately in such struggles could no longer do without Wissenschaftlichkeit, i.e. making credible reference to science and/or scholarship. For instance, - the organization of national labour markets and the official measurement of unemployment were made possible by uses of statistics; - mathematics offered the tools for inventing nationwide systems of social insurance; - psychology developed tests to assess and measure talent, abilities, intelligence and other (similarly constructed) aspects of personality that were deployed by the new vocational counseling; - medicine was assigned the expertise to determine who was physiologically capable to work (healthy, ill, or an invalid); - labour law developed terms of reference for workplaces and for the inspection of labour regulations; - productivity began to be organized by means of scientific measurements of human movements (time and motion studies); - political organizations drew upon the social sciences to confirm their positions (e.g. the famous Marienthal Study); - and several other disciplines (like anthropology, pedagogy, national economics, tax law) were involved in defining work. The sciences of labour did not only strive to examine or describe work but also aimed to form and reform – thereby producing – it. They strived and (in part) succeeded at bringing into existence “things that hold” (Alain Desrosières). They played a role in the production of work by including or neglecting certain activities in their observations, thereby defining the boundaries of what could (or could not) legitimately pass as work. They fundamentally contributed to the production of work from the late 19th century on. The uses made of science and/or scholarship in the production of work were manifold. They differed greatly, according to: the theories, methods, and data used; the disciplines and the areas of research; the representations of science and/or scholarship; the facts constructed; and so on. Some uses made reference to academic neutrality; others to applied management, engineering and applied science. The sciences of work can therefore not be reduced to knowledge but instead were a spectrum of practices. Accordingly, those who developed and deployed sciences of work ranged from practitioners in various fields to academic researchers, to specialists of all kinds of subjects and affiliations in between. Experts became especially important. From the late 19th century on, they emerged as producers of solutions to concrete problems while at the same time drawing on scientific knowledge. Of particular interest to this workshop are the questions of who made claims to having expertise on work and/or non-work as well as how and when decision makers (politicians, governments etc.) referred to work-related expertise.

We welcome contributions that approach case studies of sciences of work as practices of non-specialists as well as specialists like experts and/or researchers/scholars in an academic context as well as those in public administration, private enterprises, trade unions and work situations. We especially appreciate studies that compare genders, periods, places, academic disciplines, (public and private) policies, and so on. Papers should address a few of the following questions: - Which activities were produced as work by science – and which as non-work? - How were the uses of science organized in practice in order to produce work? - Who was engaged in the development of new scientific fields and issues concerning work and who was not? - How (and when) could a preoccupation with problems of work render someone a specialist, an expert or even a scholar and/or scientist? - How were relations to academic and non-academic fields established, handled and maintained? - In what ways (e.g. using theories, methods, data) did specialists attempt to assert the scientific and/or scholarly soundness of their activities? Was their audience composed of scientists and/or scholars or of non-scientists and/or non-scholars?

This workshop is organised by the ERC-starting grant project “The Production of Work: Welfare, Labour-Market, and the Disputed Boundaries of Labour (1880-1938)”, directed by Sigrid Wadauer. For more information on the project, see the homepage http://pow.univie.ac.at. The project will cover travelling expenses and accommodations for invited participants. Abstracts not exceeding 1 page and a short CV should be submitted to pow.wiso@univie.ac.at.

L'oreille psychophysiologique

The Psychophysical Ear. Musical Experiments, Experimental Sounds, 1840-1910

Alexandra Hui is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Mississippi State University.

Hardcover | $34.00 Short | ISBN: 9780262018388 | 256 pp. | 6 x 9 in | 24 figures| November 2012 

In the middle of the nineteenth century, German and Austrian concertgoers began to hear new rhythms and harmonies as non-Western musical ensembles began to make their way to European cities and classical music introduced new compositional trends. At the same time, leading physicists, physiologists, and psychologists were preoccupied with understanding the sensory perception of sound from a psychophysical perspective, seeking a direct and measurable relationship between physical stimulation and physical sensation. These scientists incorporated specific sounds into their experiments--the musical sounds listened to by upper middle class, liberal Germans and Austrians. In The Psychophysical Ear, Alexandra Hui examines this formative historical moment, when the worlds of natural science and music coalesced around the psychophysics of sound sensation, and new musical aesthetics were interwoven with new conceptions of sound and hearing.

Hui, a historian and a classically trained musician, describes the network of scientists, musicians, music critics, musicologists, and composers involved in this redefinition of listening. She identifies a source of tension for the psychophysicists: the seeming irreconcilability between the idealist, universalizing goals of their science and the increasingly undeniable historical and cultural contingency of musical aesthetics. The convergence of the respective projects of the psychophysical study of sound sensation and the aesthetics of music was, however, fleeting. By the beginning of the twentieth century, with the professionalization of such fields as experimental psychology and ethnomusicology and the proliferation of new and different kinds of music, the aesthetic dimension of psychophysics began to disappear.

Histoire de la procréation humaine

Histoire de la procréation humaine ; croyances et savoirs dans le monde occidental

Jacques Gonzalès

Albin Michel - Bibliotheque L'evolution De L'humanite
07 Novembre 2012
Ethnologie Et Anthropologie
705 pages

Nouvelle édition revue et actualisée de la magistrale Histoire de la procréation naturelle et artificielle publiée en 1994 par Jacques Gonzales, professeur de médecine, historien. Introuvable (puisqu'épuisé), ce livre est devenu une référence, Des théories les plus fantaisistes sur la reproduction, nées de l'imagination des hommes, jusqu'aux prouesses de la procréation médicalement assistée aujourd'hui, en passant par le cheminement scientifique qui a permis d'y aboutir, ce livre est une mine formidable, notamment par l'érudition de l'auteur en la matière, mais aussi grâce à son talent de conteur. Seule grande synthèse sur le sujet, il est recommandé à tous les étudiants concernés (histoire, médecine, élèves sages-femmes, notamment).

Gabriel Andral

GABRIEL ANDRAL, PIONNIER DE L'HÉMATOLOGIE. 

La médecine dans le sang

Roger Teyssou

L'Harmattan
ISBN : 978-2-336-00612-3 

novembre 2012 

 410 pages

Ce livre retrace la carrière d'un honnête homme, comme on l'entendait au siècle des Lumières et d'un savant, émule de Laënnec. Gabriel Andral (1797-1876), professeur de pathologie médicale à la faculté de médecine de Paris est un des personnages les plus représentatifs de la médecine française de l'époque romantique et des débuts de l'aire industrielle. Ses travaux sur les maladies du sang en font le créateur de l'hématologie.

Société Française d'Histoire de la Médecine

Réunion de la Société Française d'Histoire de la Médecine

SAMEDI 15 DECEMBRE 2012 à 14 h 30
Amphithéâtre Rouvillois de l’École du Val-de-Grâce,
1 place Alphonse Laveran, 75005 Paris (Métro Port Royal)


1. REMISE DU PRIX SOURNIA 2012
par Mme Jacqueline Vons, présidente de la Commission des Prix

2. Présentation et intervention du lauréat

3. Compte-rendu de la séance précédente à l’Académie de Médecine

4. Présentation et élection des candidats,

5. Informations générales, présentation d’ouvrages

6. Communications

Jacques ROUESSE Le cancer du sein au XVIIIème siècle : des questions encore sans réponses

Jacqueline VONS Une expertise médicale qui sauva une vie : Jacques Duval (1555-1615) et le gynanthrope de Rouen

Jean-Pierre LUAUTE Les derniers jours de la vie de Louis-Victor Marcé à partir d'une correspondance inédite de Jules Pelouze

Patrick MORNET Gaston Contremoulins (1869-1950)

Prochaine réunion : samedi 19 janvier 2013 à l’ancienne Faculté de médecine de Paris.