Séminaires de l'Université de Cambridge

History of Medicine Seminars

Lent Term 2020

Department of History and Philosophy of Science
University of Cambridge




** Generation to Reproduction **
Organised by Nick Hopwood

14 January Laura Kelly (University of Strathclyde)
The contraceptive pill in Ireland: activism, women's agency and doctors' authority in the 1960s and 1970s

11 February Elena Serrano (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
A good match: gender and the physiology of love in 18th-century Spain


** History of Modern Medicine and Biology **
Organised by Jenny Bangham, Mary Brazelton and Nick Hopwood

21 January Hilary Smith (University of Denver and Needham Research Institute)
The Chinese calorie: nutrition science in early 20th-century China

4 February Sarah Marks (Birkbeck, University of London)
'You have to incorporate the client's belief system ... even when it is the opposite of your own': CBT and psychotherapy in Ghana since 1974

25 February Jenny Bangham (HPS, Cambridge)
Serological surveillance: transfusion, genetics and rare blood in postwar Britain


** Early Science and Medicine **
Organised by Dániel Margócsy

18 February Eric Jorink (Huygens Institute / Leiden University)
TBA

3 March Anne Goldgar (King's College London)
Affect and empiricism in the early modern Arctic

10 March Anna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln)
The first Egyptian society


Seminars are held in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RH.
Tea and biscuits are available from 4:40pm; seminars run from 5:00 to 6:30pm. All welcome!


Cambridge Wellcome Lecture by Sarah Richardson: https://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/medicine/events/fifteenth-wellcome-lecture

Full seminar programme: https://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/news-events/seminars-reading-groups

Emmanuel Persillier-Lachapelle

Emmanuel Persillier-Lachapelle. Un précurseur de la santé publique (1845-1918)

Benoît Gaumer et Georges Desrosiers

Presses de l'Université Laval 

Discipline: Histoire 

Parution: 9 décembre 2019

160 pages

Le nom d’Emmanuel Persillier-Lachapelle est bien connu des Québécoises et des Québécois engagés dans le domaine de la santé publique. Un prix portant son nom est décerné chaque année par le ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec à ceux ou celles, personne ou organisation, qui travaillent dans ce domaine, dont il fut l’un des précurseurs à la fin du xix e siècle et au début du xx e . Homme d’action au savoir-faire éclectique, il a occupé de nombreux postes de responsabilité dans ce qui est devenu le système de santé et des services sociaux du Québec. Premier président et fondateur du Conseil d’hygiène de la province de Québec, ancêtre de ce dernier, il a été en même temps cofondateur et administrateur de l’Hôpital Notre-Dame à Montréal. 

Diplômé de l’École de médecine et de chirurgie de Montréal, c’est dans celle-ci qu’il entreprit d’abord sa carrière de professeur de médecine, avant de passer à l’annexe de la Faculté de médecine de l’Université Laval à Montréal, devenant le doyen lorsque les deux écoles ont été réunies. Très engagé dans l’organisation de la profession médicale, il a longtemps occupé le poste de président du Collège des médecins et chirurgiens de la province de Québec. Libéral en politique, bien qu’en réserve de celle-ci, il a été l’un des quatre commissaires de la Ville de Montréal lors de la mise en tutelle de cette dernière par le gouvernement provincial.

Né à Sault-au-Récollet en 1845, sa principale œuvre demeura cependant la création du Conseil d’hygiène de la province de Québec, occupant le poste de président jusqu’à sa mort en 1918. « Habile administrateur, philanthrope éprouvé, économiste distingué, diplomate consommé, d’un jugement absolument sûr, d’une intégrité à toute épreuve », il a mérité ainsi ces éloges de ses pairs francophones et anglophones de l’époque, demeurant un modèle pour les nouveaux experts de la santé publique au xxi esiècle.

Les espaces du soin et de la recherche médicale

Social Studies of Medicine Postdoctoral Fellowship: “Spaces for Medical Research and Care”

Call for applications

The Department of Social Studies of Medicine (SSoM) invites applications for a postdoctoral fellowship on “Spaces for Medical Research and Care”. This broad theme may include spatial studies of laboratories, medical schools, research institutes, hospital wards, clinics, nursing homes, or any space where medical research and care is performed. The substantive research areas of SSoM faculty members that relate to this theme include cancer, surgery, tuberculosis, sexuality, global health, and aging. An application on cancer, for example, might consider the changing spaces for cancer research and therapies over time, such as clinics, specialized hospitals, surgeries, and even houses or hotels. Of particular interest are approaches that will investigate the co-production of innovative architectural designs and novel clinical assemblages (e.g., chemotherapy or, more recently, precision medicine), or explore the “topical contextures” (Lynch 1991) integrating an ecology of local spaces with experimental practices. 

Founded in 1966, SSoM is a dynamic, interdisciplinary research and teaching unit in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University. SSoM faculty and postdocs study a wide array of topics, and represent the fields of history, architectural history, anthropology, the sociology of medicine, and science and technology studies. 

The SSoM fellow will be appointed for one year, with the possibility of a 2nd year renewal. The fellow is expected to be on campus during the tenure of the appointment, and will be provided with a work space in the department. There is a possibility of teaching medical students, under separate contract, but the appointment’s chief objective is to facilitate research. Approximately half of the fellow’s time will be spent developing her or his own research agenda and the other half will be spent working on projects with a designated SSoM supervisor. 

Qualifications: A PhD in the humanities, social sciences, science and technology studies, history, bioethics, women’s studies, or a related field is required before the start date and the applicant must be no more than three years beyond receiving the degree by the start of the appointment. The appointment may begin as early as 1 May 2020. 

Review of applications will begin on 15 January 2020 and will continue until the position is filled or the search is closed; early submission is encouraged. 

Applications must include: 1) a cover letter that includes a description of current research, future plans for research, and interest in the position; 2) a curriculum vitae; 3) one sample of scholarly writing (a published article or unpublished paper or chapter); and 4) the names of 

three referees to provide letters upon request. Applicants who do not have a completed PhD at the time of application must include a letter from the Department Chair specifying the date of the dissertation defense. Please submit your application to ssom@mcgill.ca 

Please note: Candidate eligibility to hold a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship expires 5 years after the date on which their PhD was awarded, regardless of when they are hired. Refer to the following link for further information on eligibility criteria: http://www.mcgill.ca/gps/postdocs/fellows/registration/eligibility. 

** Any offer to non-Canadian citizens/non-permanent residents is contingent on the candidate obtaining a work permit, see: http://www.mcgill.ca/gps/postdocs/international/workpermit

Discours et représentations du handicap

Discours et représentations du handicap. Perspectives culturelles

Céline Roussel et Soline Vennetier (dir.)

Classiques Garnier
Nombre de pages: 374
Année d’édition: 2019
Collection: Rencontres, n° 424
Série: Littérature générale et comparée, n° 34

Cet ouvrage, à l’intersection entre Disability Studies et recherche française, se saisit du handicap comme prisme d’analyse des productions culturelles à travers l’étude littéraire, artistique et historique des représentations et des discours sur le corps et l’individu déficient en société.

In/capacité dans les médias, la loi et l'histoire

Embodied and socially constructed?: Dis/ability in media, law, and history

Call for Papers

We invite proposals for papers to be included in a symposium and an edited book entitled, Embodied and socially constructed?: Dis/ability in media, law, and history. The symposium will be held at Suffolk University, Boston, from July 29-31, 2020. We anticipate the anthology will publish at the beginning of 2021.

Whereas the older medical model of dis/ability saw people as physically, mentally, or otherwise lacking in ways that could be calculated as deficits, dis/abilities scholars now more broadly explore the variety of human bodies and their interactions with the social world. The strong version of the social construction approach would say that bodily attributes are basically irrelevant, as their meanings will be determined entirely by ideologies.[1] A strong version of embodiment theory, while not ignoring ideology, grounds its analysis almost entirely in the bodily senses and corporeality.[2] Despite their shared rejection of the medical model, proponents of constructivist and embodiment theories have frequently disagreed on how to understand the relationship between bodies and society.

The fields of Media Studies, Critical Legal Studies, and History have been at the vanguard in exploring the intersectionality[3] of race, gender, class, etc., but, with notable exceptions, have not significantly theorized dis/ability. For example, media studies scholars highlight subjectivity and affects, but have not considered how both are embodied experiences; legal scholars currently focus on whether dis/ability laws can or should be used to help solve problems related to supposedly distinct identities, such as race; while history has focused on dis/ability but without engaging meaningfully with Critical Disability Studies. This symposium and book will bring together interdisciplinary and intersectional scholarship on the simultaneous social construction and embodiment of dis/abilities. We will thus ask how Media Studies, Critical Legal Studies, and History can interrogate dis/abilities at the nexus of corporeality and meaning-making. Using the term “dis/ability” highlights the spectrum of disabilities and abilities and rejects the assumption that abilities are the norm.[4] Moreover, it acknowledges what a person can do rather than what one cannot. Lastly, it sees dis/abilities as processes rather than permanent states.

We will accept novel arguments from one or more of the fields of Media Studies, Critical Legal Studies, and History that approach dis/ability within the framework of the debate between embodiment and social constructivist perspectives. Authors are especially encouraged to consider the intersectionality of dis/abilities with both other identities and other structures of power. Some questions that papers might ask include the following:

• How, when, and where do people realize they have dis/abilities?
• How do dis/abilities function as lenses of experiences?
• How does (or does not) dis/ability shape identity/selfhood?
• How do social/civic institutions shape experiences of dis/ability?
• To what extent do dis/abilities compare and contrast with race, gender, class, and so on, as categories or vantage points of analysis?
• How is the representation and treatment of people with neurodiversity similar or dissimilar to that of persons with non-normative physical abilities? 
• How do cultural anxieties produced by the visibly disabled, people having imperceptible dis/abilities, and dis/ability as a concept compare and contrast with one another? 
• What are the costs and/or benefits for people with dis/abilities of drawing attention to non-normative bodily and mental attributes in their campaigns for equitable treatment?
• Does considering pain to be both a physical experience and a site of meaning-making make it a particularly useful point of departure for the analysis of dis/ability?

Regardless of an author’s topic, the editors will review all proposals and make selections based on quality and relevance to the project's underlying themes. Both veterans of DisCrit theory and emerging scholars are encouraged to submit proposals. Authors of accepted proposals will be expected to participate in the “Embodied and socially constructed?: Dis/ability in media, law, and history” symposium. Symposium participants will provide a high-quality draft paper at the symposium, which will be read in advance by other attendees and thus not formally presented; provide constructive feedback on others’ papers during the symposium; and finalize polished book chapters shortly thereafter. Participants in the symposium are rebuttably presumed to be accepted into the published book.

Interested contributors should note the following deadlines:

• Friday, January 17th, 2020: Send a 250-750-word abstract with a working title, biography or CV, and contact information to mlee@suffolk.edu, placing “Symposium” in the header;
• Friday, February 28th 2020: The editors will notify contributors of their acceptance into the symposium;
• Wednesday, July 8th, 2020: Final deadline to submit a 5,000-7,500-word paper for peer review among symposium participants;
• Thursday, July 9th-Tuesday, 28th, 2020: Read three to five drafts of other participants’ papers and prepare oral feedback;
• Wednesday, July 29th-Friday, July 31st, 2020: Symposium in Boston: Make a brief (5 minutes) presentation at the symposium then receive feedback from other participants and also discuss others' drafts;
• Monday, August 3, 2020: Editors will confirm that papers have been accepted for publication;
• Monday, August 24th, 2020: Submit final 5,000-7,500-word book chapter for editing and publication.
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• Send inquiries and proposal submissions to Micky Lee, mlee@suffolk.edu.

The symposium organizers/book editors:

Frank Rudy Cooper

William S. Boyd Professor of Law and Director, Program on Race, Gender, & Policing

University of Nevada, Las Vegas William S. Boyd School of Law

Micky Lee

Associate Professor and Director of Asian Studies Program

Communication, Journalism, and Media Department

Suffolk University, Boston

Pat Reeve

Chair and Associate Professor

History Department

Suffolk University, Boston

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

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

Amphithéâtre anatomique des Cordeliers

15 rue de l’École de Médecine, 75006

SAMEDI 18 JANVIER 2020 À 14 h 30


Communications sur le thème « Histoire des transplantations »
sous la direction de Jacques Battin

Iradj GANDBAKHCH La transplantation cardiaque

Barnard LAUNOIS La transplantation hépatique

Pierre COCHAT La transplantation rénale

Bernard DEVAUCHELLE La transplantation du visage

Les femmes soignantes dans l'Italie renaissante

Forgotten Healers. Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy

Sharon T. Strocchia

Harvard University Press
Publication Date: 12/17/2019
ISBN 9780674241749


In Renaissance Italy women played a more central role in providing health care than historians have thus far acknowledged. Women from all walks of life—from household caregivers and nurses to nuns working as apothecaries—drove the Italian medical economy. In convent pharmacies, pox hospitals, girls’ shelters, and homes, women were practitioners and purveyors of knowledge about health and healing, making significant contributions to early modern medicine.

Sharon Strocchia offers a wealth of new evidence about how illness was diagnosed and treated, whether by noblewomen living at court or poor nurses living in hospitals. She finds that women expanded on their roles as health care providers by participating in empirical work and the development of scientific knowledge. Nuns, in particular, were among the most prominent manufacturers and vendors of pharmaceutical products. Their experiments with materials and techniques added greatly to the era’s understanding of medical care. Thanks to their excellence in medicine urban Italian women had greater access to commerce than perhaps any other women in Europe.

Forgotten Healers provides a more accurate picture of the pursuit of health in Renaissance Italy. More broadly, by emphasizing that the frontlines of medical care are often found in the household and other spaces thought of as female, Strocchia encourages us to rethink the history of medicine.

Le futur en médecine antique

The Concept of "Future" in Ancient Medicine

Symposium

on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the international and interdisciplinary Working Group
„Ancient Medicine“


Date: Friday and Saturday, 19-20 June 2020

Place: Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Organizer: Norbert W. Paul, Tanja Pommerening



Call for Papers

Deadline: 31 January 2020

Perspective of the future plays an essential role from early healing practice to the modern; what we call biomedicine. It is precisely through the practice of prognosis that the future enters medicine as an epistemologically and practically uncertain dimension. Divinatory texts in the Near East, oracle texts in Greco-Roman Antiquity, prognoses in Egyptian medicine, Hippocratic treatises on prognosis, or the writings of Galen, offer a multitude of ways for explaining illness, healing and death that are oriented towards the future. Movements of demarcation, that separated medical prognosis from divination, are found for example in the Corpus Hippocraticum and in the writings of Galen. In all cases, it becomes clear that a supposedly safe practice of medicine and healing is initially based primarily on the past, on experience, empiricism, and evidence and places these in relation to the present within the context of the diagnosis. The exact recognition of what is the case and medical problem solving, acting and justifying are always dependent on the reinsurance of the past.

Deeply rooted in the healing and medicine of the present, is the practice in the past. Equally, it is directed towards the future; in the narrower sense towards future health and participation, up to and including global health. While empirical knowledge and diagnostics justify medical decisions and actions, prognosis and prevention dictate the goals for the future in the sense of preventing the worst.

It is in this historically, historic-epistemologically and medical-theoretically rich context that the 40th conference of the Ancient Medicine Interdisciplinary Working Group, which is jointly supported by the DFG Research Training Groups "Early Concepts of Man and Nature: Universality, Specificity and Tradition" and "Life Sciences - Life Writing: Borderline Experiences of Human Life between Biomedical Explanation and Lifeworld Experience", will take place. Which individual levels of action of practitioners and patients are oriented towards the future? What overarching ideas about the shaped future can be discerned from historical sources? What allusions can be found in texts from the Near East, Egypt, in Plato’s Politeia, in the Greek-Roman and Arabic works of medicine, or the relevant works of the Renaissance, such as Morus, Bacon, Campanella – or even concepts of the more recent and most recent history of medicine that refer to long lines of tradition? With such and other perspectives, temporality in medicine and healing arts is to be made the subject of interdisciplinary exchange.

Due to the anniversary, there will be a keynote lecture by Prof. Dr. Florian Steger (Ulm) on Friday evening. After a small reception there will be the opportunity for a joint dinner.

We expect proposals of papers in German and English limited to 20 minutes, as well as panels with a series of papers, lasting 90 minutes.

Beside the specified theme, it is also possible to include other papers (limited to 20 minutes) from the domain of the pre-modern medicine.

Please submit your proposals of papers or panels to Nadine Gräßler (graessle@uni-mainz.de) before 31 January 2020 including an abstract (c. 300 words), which clearly describes the questions and outcomes of your study.

You will find further information on: https://www.iak-alte-medizin.uni-mainz.de/ orhttps://ancient-medicine.uni-mainz.de/.