Archéologie de l'hygiène publique dans l'Italie romaine

The Archaeology of Sanitation in Roman Italy: Toilets, Sewers, and Water Systems

Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow

Series: Studies in the History of Greece and Rome
Hardcover: 312 pages
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press (April 6, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1469621282
ISBN-13: 978-1469621289

The Romans developed sophisticated methods for managing hygiene, including aqueducts for moving water from one place to another, sewers for removing used water from baths and runoff from walkways and roads, and public and private latrines. Through the archeological record, graffiti, sanitation-related paintings, and literature, Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow explores this little-known world of bathrooms and sewers, offering unique insights into Roman sanitation, engineering, urban planning and development, hygiene, and public health. Focusing on the cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Ostia, and Rome, Koloski-Ostrow's work challenges common perceptions of Romans' social customs, beliefs about health, tolerance for filth in their cities, and attitudes toward privacy. In charting the complex history of sanitary customs from the late republic to the early empire, Koloski-Ostrow reveals the origins of waste removal technologies and their implications for urban health, past and present.

Prochaine séance de la Société Française d'Histoire de la Médecine

Prochaine séance de la Société Française d'Histoire de la Médecine

SAMEDI 18 Avril 2015 à 14h30

Salle du Conseil de l’ancienne Faculté
12 Rue de l’École de Médecine
1er étage, 75006 Paris (métro Odéon)

· Informations générales

· Remise des Prix de Thèse de la SFHM, par le Dr Pierre THILLAUD, Président du
Jury, et intervention des lauréats

· Communications :
Jean-Christophe BEL La vie quotidienne des patients à l'Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon au XIXe siècle
Jacques CHEVALLIER Une quarantaine de peste au lazaret du Frioul en 1901
Marc E. GENTILI Ludwig Wittgenstein(1889-1951) et le « Wound shock »
Daniel BONNOT Les dictionnaires à usage médical

Prochaine rencontre : Journées de la SFHM à Liège (Belgique) du 22 au 24 mai 2015
Date limite des inscriptions : 20 avril 2015

Wilhelm Reich

Wilhelm Reich, Biologist

James E. Strick


Hardcover: 480 pages
Publisher: Harvard University Press (April 6, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0674736095
ISBN-13: 978-0674736092

Psychoanalyst, political theorist, pioneer of body therapies, prophet of the sexual revolution—all fitting titles, but Wilhelm Reich has never been recognized as a serious laboratory scientist, despite his experimentation with bioelectricity and unicellular organisms. Wilhelm Reich, Biologist is an eye-opening reappraisal of one of twentieth-century science’s most controversial figures—perhaps the only writer whose scientific works were burned by both the Nazis and the U.S. government. Refuting allegations of “pseudoscience” that have long dogged Reich’s research, James Strick argues that Reich’s lab experiments in the mid-1930s represented the cutting edge of light microscopy and time-lapse micro-cinematography and deserve to be taken seriously as legitimate scientific contributions.

Trained in medicine and a student of Sigmund Freud, Reich took to the laboratory to determine if Freud’s concept of libido was quantitatively measurable. His electrophysiological experiments led to his “discovery” of microscopic vesicles (he called them “bions”), which Reich hypothesized were instrumental in originating life from nonliving matter. Studying Reich’s laboratory notes from recently opened archives, Strick presents a detailed account of the bion experiments, tracing how Reich eventually concluded he had discovered an unknown type of biological radiation he called “orgone.” The bion experiments were foundational to Reich’s theory of cancer and later investigations of orgone energy.

Reich’s experimental findings and interpretations were considered discredited, but not because of shoddy lab technique, as has often been claimed. Scientific opposition to Reich’s experiments, Strick contends, grew out of resistance to his unorthodox sexual theories and his Marxist political leanings.

Revisiter Freud

Revisiter Freud

Séance exceptionnelle 

Séminaires du Centre Koyré : Histoire des sciences humaines et sociales - Psychologie, psychiatrie et psychanalyse : histoires croisées

Vendredi 10 avril de 14h à 17h 50
Centre Koyré, 27, rue Damesme (5e ét.) 75013 Paris (Métro Tolbiac)

(Responsables : Jacqueline Carroy, Jean-Christophe Coffin, Wolf Feuerhahn, Rafael Mandressi, Andreas Mayer, Annick Ohayon, Régine Plas, Nathalie Richard)

Programme :



14h-15h
Interventions de Sylvain Missonier et Roger Perron, directeurs de Freud, Paris, Cahiers de l’Herne, 2015.

Intervention de Sarah Contou-Terquem, directrice du Dictionnaire Sigmund Freud. L’homme et l’œuvre, Paris, Robert Laffont, Coll. « Bouquins », 2015, à paraître.

15h-15h 50 Discussion


16h-17h Réflexions sur l’historiographie de la psychanalyse :

Annick Ohayon : « Qui peut faire l'histoire de la psychanalyse, et de quelle histoire s'agit-il ? »

Andreas Mayer : « Pour en finir avec le biographisme : Freud et les enjeux de la vulgarisation. »

Jacqueline Carroy : « Freud en contexte. L’exemple de la France. »

17h-17h 50 Discussion

Soigner avec de l'eau

Healing with water: English spas and the water cure, 1840-1960

Jane M. Adams (Editor)

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Manchester University Press; 1 edition (April 1, 2015)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0719095697
• ISBN-13: 978-0719095696

Healing with water provides a medical and social history of English spas and hydropathic centres from 1840 to 1960.
It investigates health practices and healing cultures at specialist inland resorts showing that water was used in varied therapeutic approaches by both orthodox and unorthodox practitioners. It explores ideas about water's healing potential and the importance placed on a healthy regimen, and examines how treatment became associated with new institutions and a specialist workforce. Water cures attracted sustained support from patients suffering from a variety of complaints, some of which were associated by contemporaries with the effects of industrialisation and modernisation. The importance of broader public and private cultures of health is considered, in particular how health and social reform movements influenced views of patients and practitioners. The relationship between the medical application of water and its use for leisure and hygienic purposes is also investigated. The study brings new perspectives to the historiography of resort development, which has previously focused on the seaside and leisure, by exploring how health and healing influenced society and economy in specialist watering places - aspects that were actively marketed to the public. A range of medical and non-medical actors were influential in shaping facilities and environment at resorts, including local authorities, charities and private businesses. The study assesses why the NHS provided spa treatment in 1948 but funding was later withdrawn, and compares this with trends in France and Germany.
This book will appeal to medical, social and cultural historians in Britain, North America and Australasia.

Les plantes médicinales à l'époque pré-moderne

Materia medica on the move. Collecting, trading, studying, and using medicinal plants in the early modern period

Conference

Venue: Museum Boerhaave / Naturalis Biodiversity Centre, Leiden, the Netherlands

Wednesday, April 15th, 2015
Venue: Museum Boerhaave

19:15-19:45 Registration / Coffee & tea

19:45-19:50 Welcome: Prof. Dirk van Delft, director Museum Boerhaave

19:50-20:00 Opening: Prof. Toine Pieters, Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science and the Humanities, Utrecht / project leader TIME CAPSULE

20:00-21:00 Public lecture: Dr. Florike Egmond (Leiden University)
Exotic medicinal plants in early modern European visual culture

21:00-22:30 Drinks and tour

Thursday, April 16th, 2015
Venue: Auditorium, Naturalis Biodiversity Centre

08:45-09:30 Registration / Coffee & tea

09:30-09:35 Opening: Prof. Toine Pieters, Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science and the Humanities, Utrecht / project leader TIME CAPSULE

09:35-09:45 Warming up: Dr. Esther van Gelder (Huygens ING, the Hague)
Clusius community 2.0: crowdsourcing an online edition of the Clusius correspondence

09:45-11:00 Parallel sessions
Auditorium:1a: Boxes, drawers, cabinets: collecting pharmaceutical samples
Chair: prof. Eric Jorink (Huygens ING, the Hague)

Marlise Rijks (Ghent University) Exotic nature on display: the collections of Antwerp apothecaries

Dr. Raymond van der Ham (Naturalis Biodiversity Centre, Leiden) Dutch materia medica collections

Victoria Pickering (Queen Mary University of London) “I suppose it an entire materia medica of the Country”: medicinal plants in Sir Hans Sloane’s “Vegetable Substances”

Regentenkamer: 1b: “We must cultivate our own garden”: growing and studying living plants
Chair: dr. Esther van Gelder (Huygens ING, the Hague)

Dr. Gerda van Uffelen (Hortus Botanicus Leiden) The not so medicinal Hortus Botanicus Leiden

Mgr. Alicja Borys (Marasyk University, Brno) The exotic plants in Silesian gardens in the 16th century

Dr. Rachel Koroloff (Harvard University) “Into the field for herbs, roots and flowers”: medicinal plant collection in Muscovy at the turn of the 17th century

11:00-11:45 Key note lecture: Dr. Tinde van Andel (Naturalis Biodiversity Centre, Leiden)
Plants of the Motherland: how enslaved Africans reinvented their household medicine in the New World

11:45-12:00 Coffee break

12:00-13:15 Parallel sessions:
Auditorium:2a: Medical theory, pharmaceutical practice: discussing the vices and virtues of plants
Chair: dr. Saskia Klerk (Charité – Universitätsmedizin, Berlin)

Katrina Maydom (University of Cambridge) Trade and the interpretation of colonial exotica in England, c. 1700

Dr. He Bian (Princeton University) Exotic plants and materia medica literature in early modern China

Dr. Alexandra Cook (University of Hong Kong) What made for a good medicine in early-modern Europe? The cases of tea and ginseng

Regentenkamer: 2b: Fieldwork in the Far, Far Away: Dutch botanical endeavours in South East Asia
Chair: prof. Maria Leuker (University of Cologne)

Dr. Anjana Singh (University of Groningen) Botanical knowledge in early modern Malabar and the Netherlands: a review of Van Reede’s Hortus Malabaricus (1678-1703)

Mieke Beumer (Artis Library, University of Amsterdam) Late 17th century botanical research in northern Ceylon

Jeroen Bos, MA (Naturalis Biodiversity Centre, Leiden) Agent of a (green) empire: the ethnobotanical notes of military engineer Carl Friedrich Reimer

13:15-14:15 Lunch

14:15-15:00 Key note lecture : Prof. Sabine Anagnostou (Philipps-Universität, Marburg)
Medicinal plants in the context of the globalization since early modern time: origins, forming, transfer and potential of pharmacobotanical knowledge

15:00-16:15 Parallel sessions
Auditorium:3a: Exchanging knowledge: the case of early modern Central Europe
Chair: dr. Florike Egmond (Leiden University)

Dr. Dominic Olariu (Philipps-Universität, Marburg) Manuscript herbals

Davina Benkert (University of Basel) Exotic plants in European letters: the case of Basel, c. 1600

Dr. phil. Tilmann Walter (University of Würzburg) The knowledge regarding non-European plants among German physicians: case studies from the Würzburg database

Regentenkamer:3b: The charm of the unfamiliar: New World drugs in Old World settings
Chair: prof. Sabine Anagnostou (Philipps-Universität, Marburg)

Dr. Samir Boumediene (University of Cambridge) American remedies in 16c Seville: the exotic as commodity and curiosity

Wouter Klein (Utrecht University) Bringing the bark: the introduction of Peruvian bark on the medical market of the Low Countries (c. 1640-1720)

Dr. Clare Griffin (University of Cambridge) The wealth of someone else’s colonies: American drugs in 17th century Russia

16:15-17:30 Drinks and mini-exhibition

17:30-20:00 Diner

Friday, April 17th, 2015
Venue: Naturalis Biodiversity Centre, Leiden

09:15-09:30 Coffee & tea

09:30-09:45 Warming up:Peter van den Hooff (Utrecht University)
“I’ve seen it’s great effect here”: laymen overseas exchanging pharmacobotanical knowledge with their loved ones back home

09:45-10:30 Key note lecture: Prof. Harold Cook (Brown University) The Atlantic drug trade and the new sciences

10:30-10:45 Coffee & tea

10:45-11:45 Parallel sessions:
Auditorium: 4a: “Those who cannot learn from history…”: practices of the past, interpretations of the present
Chair: dr. Marta Lourenço (University Museum, Lisbon)

Dr. Hjalmar Fors & dr. Nils-Otto Ahnfelt (Uppsala University) Reconstructing early modern pharmacy: global trade networks, substances and practices

Mireia Alcantara Rodriguez (Naturalis Biodiversity Centre, Leiden) Useful plants from Marcgrav & Piso’s Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (1648): are they still used in Brazil today?

Regentenkamer:4b: Early modern superfoods? Transition from the medical to the culinary in global perspective
Chair: TBA

Dr. Christine Fertig (University of Münster) Rhubarb, cinchona, devil’s dung: mind and body in stories of globalisation and consumption

Prof. Stefan Halikowski Smith (Swansea University) In the shadow of a pepper-centric historiography: understanding the global diffusion of capsicums in the 16th and 17th centuries

11:45-12:15 Panel discussion
Moderator: dr. Marta Lourenço (University Museum, Lisbon)

12:15 Closing remarks


Contact information
Questions? Remarks? Please contact the organisation:
Peter van den Hooff
p.c.vandenhooff@uu.nl
+316 3848 0758

Santé vétérinaire en Inde

Beastly encounters of the Raj: Livelihoods, livestock and veterinary health in India, 1790-1920 

Saurabh Mishra

Series: Studies in Imperialism MUP
Hardcover: 208 pages
Publisher: Manchester University Press; 1 edition (April 1, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-0719089725


This is the first full-length monograph to examine the history of colonial medicine in India from the perspective of veterinary health. The history of human health in the subcontinent has received a fair amount of attention in the last few decades, but nearly all existing texts have completely ignored the question of animal health. This book will not only fill this gap, but also provide fresh perspectives and insights that will challenge existing arguments regarding the nature of colonial medicine and public health in India.

At the same time, the book aims to provide a social history of cattle in India. Keeping the question of livestock at the centre, it explores a range of themes such as famines, agrarian relations, urbanisation, middle class attitudes, and caste formations. Such a wide-ranging approach allows it to highlight a number of issues that have remained unaddressed till now. The most striking aspect of the volume is the manner in which it connects veterinary health with the lives of the peasant household, and extends it to delineate fascinating aspects of Indian social history.

Beastly encounters of the Raj will be of interest to experts and students in the history of medicine, science and technology, imperial history, and South Asian history.

Doctorat sur l'histoire des maladies cardiaques

Wellcome Trust History of Medicine PhD Studentship

Call for applications

Background

The Centre for History in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine invites applications for a doctoral studentship. The studentship is funded by the Wellcome Trust, as part of Dr Alex Mold’s Medical Humanities New Investigator Award on the place of the public in post-war British public health. Funding is available for a three year studentship, starting in September 2015. Supervision will be provided by Dr Alex Mold. The project will explore the place of the public in public health through an analysis of the recent history of heart disease.

Project Details: Heart Disease, Public Health and the Public, 1948-2010

This PhD studentship will examine the ways in which the public were constructed in the response to a major chronic illness and cause of morbidity and mortality in post-war Britain: coronary heart disease. Heart disease will act as a ‘tracer condition’ with which to explore the place of the public within the changing nature of public health, as attention shifted from infectious to chronic disease as the leading cause of morbidity and mortality. Through an examination of archival sources, published work and public health campaign material, this project will develop a deeper analysis of the impact of epidemiological research on public health, and particularly what this did to the conception of the public in relation to chronic illnesses like heart disease.

Research Environment

LSHTM is an international centre of excellence in global public health, one of Europe’s leading postgraduate medical institutions and Britain’s nation school of public health. The successful student will be part of the Centre for History in Public Health, which has a unique position in LSHTM, where historians rub shoulders with epidemiologists and public health/ health service researchers from all parts of the world. The Centre promotes research and teaching in the history of public health in the twentieth and twenty first centuries. This studentship is one of four projects within Alex Mold’s New Investigator Award on the place of the public in post-war British public health. Further information about the award is available on the project website.

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants should hold a Masters qualification from a UK institution or an overseas equivalent in either the history of medicine, twentieth century British history, or a cognate area.

Funding

The Studentship is available to full-time students only and will cover tuition fees at Home/EU level and provide an annual stipend for three years. The stipend in 2015/16 will be £22,278. Please be aware that non-EU applicants will be liable for paying the difference between Home/EU and overseas PhD fees.

How to Apply

Prospective applicants should contact Alex Mold, preferably by email, to discuss their application before applying.

To apply for the Studentship, please complete an LSHTM PHP research study online application, indicating your interest in this studentship in the Funding section of the application (free text box). 

Please also include:

• A 1,000 statement outlining why you wish to apply for this PhD studentship. The statement should explain why you would be interested in undertaking this PhD and what experience and skills you would bring to the position. The statement should also include details about previous research experience and training and anything else that you feel is relevant.
• A sample of written work, e.g. a chapter of your Masters’ dissertation

Incomplete applications will not be considered for this studentship.

The closing date for applications is 24 April 2015.

Short-listed candidates will be interviewed. Interviews will be held the week commencing 25 May 2015.