Les Carnets asilaires de James Frame

Les Carnets asilaires
James Frame. Une figure oubliée de la psychothérapie institutionnelle écossaise.


Sous la direction de David F. Allen



Éditions Nouvelles du champ lacanien
2024

Lire les ouvrages de James Frame c’est avoir accès au témoignage direct d’un patient interné dans un asile victorien, témoignage qui reste très rare et n’en est que plus précieux, tant pour une meilleure compréhension de la folie que pour un aperçu des modalités de prise en charge de celles et ceux que l’on classait alors dans le vaste groupe des aliénés.

L’auteur convoque le souvenir de ses amis, leurs délires, le transfert sur son thérapeute ainsi que son soutien à la théorie de la psychothérapie institutionnelle, sans oublier sa vive conscience de sa propre folie qui est relatée, ici, avec une fraîcheur saisissante. « Il y a beaucoup de gens, écrit Frame, très fous qui n’ont jamais et qui n’auront jamais de raison d’être entre les murs d’un asile d’aliénés. Ainsi l’étudiant dans ce département des sciences ne sera jamais à court de sujets pour son étude, et peut-être ferait-il bien de commencer par un examen attentif de sa personne, et, ce faisant, il pourrait peut-être découvrir un quelconque point vulnérable bien connu de ses amis et ennemis, et bien visible par presque tout le monde excepté par lui-même. »

Cheiron Meeting

Cheiron 2024 Meeting

Call for papers

The 56th Annual Meeting of Cheiron – The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences – will be held at Cummings Center for the History of Psychology at The University of Akron, Ohio from Thursday, June 13th through Sunday, June 16th, 2024.

Call for Papers

CHEIRON invites submissions of papers, thematic symposia, panels, roundtables, workshops and posters that deal with an aspect of the history of the human, behavioral or social sciences or related historiographical and methodological issues.

Submissions must be received no later than February 12th, 2024, 5 pm EST.

Notification of acceptance will be sent by the end of March 2024.

Attendance at the conference will be required for the presentation of papers. However, we will “stream” sessions using a virtual format so that “Virtual attendees,” as members of the audience, will be able to engage in discussions during sessions.

To see submission guidelines, please go to our web site: https://cheironsoc.org/

To submit proposals and abstracts, please use the following online form: https://forms.gle/FcbMZ7TkZckVqdDt9

Information concerning the conference (registration fees, lodging both on and off campus, travel stipends) will appear shortly.

Genre, espace et autorité médicale dans l'islam médiéval

The Proximity of Masculinity: Gender, Space, and Medical Authority in Medieval Islam.


A talk by Shireen Hamza (Northwestern University)


WEDNSDAY January 24, 2:30pm, 3647 Peel Street SSOM Seminar Room 101



Social Studies of Medicine, the Department of Anthropology and the Institute of Islamic Studies present:






Masculinities shape intimacy, and vice versa. Across the medieval Islamic world, authors of medical texts could draw knowledge from multiple epistemic traditions. Often, their choices were shaped by which authorities they felt closest to and sought to emulate in their lives as well as their medical practice. Focusing on the regions surrounding the western Indian Ocean, I show how physicians and ulema were just as interested in how medical authorities lived as they were in what they knew. Their interest in these ancient and contemporary medical men helped them shape their own notion of an appropriate medical masculinity.

Shireen Hamza is a historian and artist, and an educator with the Prison & Neighborhood Arts/Education Project (PNAP). She continues her research on the history of medicine in the medieval Islamic world through a postdoctoral fellowship at Northwestern University.

Dr. Hamza is also leading a discussion seminar on masculinity in the premodern Islamic World on TUESDAY, January 23rd, 9:00-11:30amm write to setrag.manoukian@mcgill.ca for the pre-circulated reading.

Les techniques médiévales de la connaissance

Medieval Technologies of Knowledge/Medieval Knowledge through Technology

Call for Session Proposals 

 

2025 AHA Annual Meeting, New York City



The Medieval Academy of America (MAA) cordially invites proposals for sessions at the forthcoming annual meeting of the American Historical Association in New York City, January 3-5, 2025.

This year, the Medieval Academy aims to co-sponsor sessions that gravitate around the timely theme of "Medieval Technologies of Knowledge/Medieval Knowledge through Technology." This theme is envisioned to be broad and inclusive, sparking interest among MAA members and a wider audience. We are particularly interested in panels that explore various facets of this theme, such as:

• Technologies of Knowledge in the Middle Ages: Investigating lesser-known or emerging technological advancements of the medieval period. Understanding the role and conception of technologies in medieval societies. Delving into the methods and tools used for knowledge dissemination and storage in medieval times.

• Understanding the Middle Ages Using AI and Other Technologies: Understanding the Middle Ages using current technological advancements. Exploring innovative ideas and perspectives that challenge traditional understandings of the era. Evaluating how new technologies will impact the future of the field.


We are open to various forms of session programming and encourage members to think beyond traditional paper panels. Proposals for roundtables, lightning talks, workshops, digital labs, working sessions, and other innovative and inclusive formats of knowledge-sharing are highly welcomed.

We particularly encourage session proposals from scholars across diverse identity positions and academic ranks and affiliations, including graduate students and independent scholars. Proposals that focus on sources, geographies, and populations under-represented in traditional medieval studies are also highly encouraged.


The committee is available for feedback on draft session proposals. Please contact us at ahacommittee@themedievalacademy.org. Additionally, MAA members can receive feedback on proposals during the review process.


How to Submit a Session Proposal

Session proposal submissions for MAA and AHA co-sponsorship involve a two-stage process:

1) Members of the Medieval Academy submit session proposals to the MAA’s AHA Program Committee via the online submission form by 11:59 p.m., February 1, 2024.

2) Upon approval by the MAA’s AHA Committee, session organizers will be notified by February 11 and will then be responsible for submitting the proposal to the AHA before the deadline of 11:59 p.m., February 15, 2024, indicating that the session has the sponsorship of the Medieval Academy of America.


For more details, please refer to FAQ: Organizing MAA/AHA Sessions

Pratiques médicales et de guérison dans l’Égypte ancienne

Medicine and Healing Practices in Ancient Egypt
 

Rosalie David & Roger Forshaw

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Liverpool University Press (January 12, 2024)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1837644292 

 

Medicine and Healing Practices in Ancient Egypt provides a new perspective on healthcare and healing treatments in Egypt from the Predynastic to the Roman periods. Rather than concentrating exclusively on diseases and medical conditions as evidenced in ancient sources, it provides a 'people-focused' perspective, asking what it was like to be ill or disabled in this society? Who were the healers? To what extent did disease occurrence and treatment reflect individual social status?

As well as geographical, environmental and dietary factors, which undoubtedly affected general health, some groups were prone to specific hazards. These are discussed in detail, including soldiers' experience of trauma, wounds and exposure to epidemics; and conditions - blindness, sand pneumoconiosis, trauma and limb amputations - resulting from working conditions at building and other sites.

Methods of diagnosis and treatment were derived from special concepts about disease and medical ethics. These are explored, as well as the individual contributions and professional interactions of various groups of healers and carers. Medical training and practice occurred in various locations, including temples and battlefields; these are described, as well as the treatments and equipment that were available.

Ancient writers generally praised the Egyptian healers' knowledge, expertise, and professional relationship with their patients. A brief comparison is drawn between this approach and those prevailing elsewhere in Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome. Finally, Egypt's legacy, transmitted through Greek, Roman and Arabic sources, is confirmed as the source of some principles and practices still found in modern 'Western' medicine.

Combining information from the latest studies on human remains and the authors' biomedical research, this book brings the subject up to date, enabling a wide readership to access often scattered information in a fascinating synthesis.

Recherche, Traduction, Enseignement

Research, Translation, Teaching


Call for Abstracts

Circulating Knowledge – 20 Years On Conference/Symposium


August 7-10, 2024.

University of King’s College

Kjipuktuk - Halifax

Mi’kma’ki – Nova Scotia, CANADA


www.cosmolocal.org

In August 2004, the Circulation of Knowledge conference—jointly organized in Halifax, Nova Scotia by the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science, the British Society for History of Science, and the History of Science Society—set out challenges to the then-dominant centre-periphery models of the origins and dissemination of scientific knowledge. Jim Secord’s keynote address, “Knowledge in Transit”, outlined the issues at stake.

Scholarship on the circulation of knowledge has since exploded and it is time not only to take stock, but to open new research avenues in globalised History/Philosophy of Science and Science and Technology Studies. Circulating Knowledge – 20 Years On proposes to revisit the circulation of knowledge, 20 years after this pioneering conference, through a series of plenary presentations, individual talks, roundtables, and special events. The goal of the conference is to foster international collaborative exchange along the axes of research, translation, and pedagogy.

The event is co-sponsored by the History of Science Society, the British Society for the History of Science, the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, and the Division for the History of Science and Technology (International Union for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology.).

Circulating Knowledge – 20 Years On will feature talks by Jim Secord (BSHS), Fa-Ti Fan (HSS), Arun Bala (Singapore), Sarah Qidwai (Regensburg), Lesley Cormack (UBC), Huynhee Park (NYU), Sundar Sarukkai (India), Geoff Bil (Delaware), Elise Burton (Toronto), and more.

We invite the submission of abstracts for potential 30-min. presentations, or special sessions, exploring recent shifts in HPS and STS on 1) the reconceptualization of the global circulation of knowledges, 2) on the roles translation plays in both the circulation and creation of new knowledge, or 3) on pedagogical issues specific to the teaching of a global history of the knowledge of the natural world.

To increase accessibility and reduce our carbon footprint, the conference will be hybrid, offering participants the chance to present either online or in person at the University of King’s College, located in beautiful Kjipuktuk/Halifax in Mi’kma’ki/Nova Scotia.

Associated Virtual Exhibit:

Contributors are further encouraged to suggest a significant artifact that could be included in the virtual exhibit that will showcase the themes of the conference in a digital format. This artifact could be a manuscript, a scientific instrument, an artwork, a work of translation, a historical document, or any tangible item that enriches your exploration of the Circulation of Knowledge.

Submission guidelines

Abstract should be submitted as a Word (.doc) or pdf file to the submission email address:

circ20@dal.ca

and must include: One file containing:Title of the paper
Abstract of the paper (approximately 250 words; fully anonymized, i.e., without any information that would allow referees to identify the author.)
Include the following information:Contact information for all co-authors.
Whether the presenters opt for on-site or online participation.
Suggested artifact for the virtual exhibit, where possible (optional)

Submission deadline: Friday January 26, 2024.

Scholars in early stages of their career, including graduate students, are welcome and are invited to participate in the conference mentorship activities, which will offer them the opportunity to discuss their work with established scholars.

Subject to budget, travel grants to support low-income presenters may be available (presenters will be notified before the meeting of the amount they will receive but funds will only be distributed after the meeting and only upon presentation of original receipts).

For further questions and inquiries, please contact gmcouat@dal.ca
Or consult the conference website:
www.cosmolocal.org

Program Committee:
Gordon McOuat, Andrew Fenton, Sarah Qidwai, Dani Inkpen

Local Organizing Committee:
Melanie Frappier, Dani Inkpen, and Gordon McOuat.

Repenser la naissance dans le sud du Bronx

Mothers, Midwives and Reimagining Birthing in the South Bronx: Breathe, Now Push
 

Jennifer Dohrn

 
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2023 edition (November 9, 2023)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 211 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3031437762

Women came through the doors at a community-based birthing center in the South Bronx seeking prenatal care. They had heard about the center from a neighbor, a parents' group at their children’s school, or the local mosque or church. What they found when they arrived was a brightly-colored waiting area that resembled a living room, children immersed in games in a corner, and staff that reflected the mosaic of cultures living in the surrounding apartments. They also met midwives who asked about their lives, their children, their families and traditions. If pregnancies developed complications, back-up obstetricians were there to give higher levels of care, with the women returning to the midwifery center afterwards. The results were healthy mothers and healthy babies. For over twenty years the center became a haven for women’s health care and a national exemplar. It is a tragic and unjust paradox that the United States, the highest income country in the world and the country with the largest budget for perinatal care, has rising rates of maternal mortality that disproportionately affect women of color. Yet an inner-city maternity center with midwifery care found solutions to the challenge of making birth safe for low-income populations, especially women of color. This oral history presents the stories of twelve women who participated in this care. As they tell it, the experience changed their lives and their understanding of what safe, quality maternal care can achieve. Jennifer Dohrn examines the systems that perpetuate disparities in care, from global to local, and describes essential components needed for change, using oral histories as evidence for the way forward towards maternal health as a human right.

Patrimoine et vestiges humains

Heritage and human remains. The challenges of historical and biomedical research in medical collections and biobanks
 

Workshop

January 26, 2024 at the Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, Geneva (CH).


The workshop is open to anyone interested but registration is required. To register, please send an email by 15 January 2024 at noon to Tricia Close-Koenig tkoenig@unistra.fr and Déborah Dubald ddubald@unistra.fr, stating your name, institution and your interest in taking part.

This workshop is part of the final conference of The Neverending Infectious Diseases Interdisciplinary Research Project (FNS-SNF/ Sinergia 2020-2024): Results and prospects, organised 24-26 January/janvier 2024 at the Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland


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Argument

In the context of the Neverending infectious diseases project, we have been confronted with the challenges of using a historical medical collection for biomedical research. Historical collections have a rich potential for current and future research, but their use is far from straightforward. This is a relatively unexplored topic and as such, this workshop proposes to take concrete situations into account in order to consider the status of historical medical collections and consider them from medical, historical and social science perspectives.

Human biological samples are human remains, and as such, a particular type of object (or preparation) with particular status (a status often dependent on their location). This workshop will focus on the case of historical medical collections, or tissue collections collected in medical practice. These collections might be identified as (but not limited to) part of a medical museum and thereby as a heritage collection, part of a biological archive for healthcare, or part of a biobank for medical research. Outside the medical community, it may be difficult to answer the question of the acceptability of preserving tissue samples (as human remains) and integrating them into collections. In the context of the Neverending infectious diseases project, we have been confronted with the challenges of using a historical medical collection for biomedical research. Historical collections have a rich potential for current and future research, but their use is far from straightforward. This is a relatively unexplored topic and as such, this workshop proposes to take concrete situations into account in order to consider the status of historical medical collections and consider them from medical, historical and social science perspectives.

Medical collections and medical museums are places of heritage and preserve human remains as such. However, the notion of heritage, as a common good to be passed on from one generation to the next, can be contemptuous when speaking of human remains, medical or otherwise. Heritage has been criticised for conveying a universalist viewpoint, where in fact human remains are deeply situated objects. This is particularly true of the controversies surrounding restitutions. Archaeology and ethnography have both discussed (and criticised) the circumstances of why, when, how human remains can be collected, preserved and displayed. These perspectives are notable when evaluating historical collections (especially those containing objects collected over previous decades or centuries). There is a clear contrast between these perspectives and that of the anatomy (or medical) profession for whom human tissues removed from the body are considered similar to raw material or biowaste.

We aim to identify the key issues or challenges in formulating a model to mobilise historical and/or neglected biological sample collections for current (or future) medical research. This might address, for example, why, when, how human remains collected in a medical context can be preserved and used, as well as questions of circumstances of the sample collection and consent (ie for diagnosis or research or postmortem), or questions of registries, catalogues and patient data (without which contents of the collection are unidentifiable, but herein lies the paradox of currently anonymising biological samples in medical research).

In this workshop, we will bring together different professions, including biomedical researchers to discuss what historical collections can do that contemporary biobanks cannot and social scientists and medical historians to present the stakes of working with historical human remains. We further aim to have presentations of examples of medical collections or biobanks that have gone through the shift from neglected to registered collections or biobanks. These examples will highlight particular issues faced, in terms of legislation, material contexts or restraints, current use and other specificities or challenges.

By historicising collections, this workshop therefore proposes to develop methodological avenues for contextualising, adding value and working with such collections and any collections of human tissues.

This workshop is part of the final conference of The Neverending Infectious Diseases Interdisciplinary Research Project (FNS-SNF/ Sinergia 2020-2024): Results and prospects, organised 24-26 January/janvier 2024 at the Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland 

Programme

9:00-9:10 - Welcome

9:10-9:30 - Introductory paper The challenges of a neglected collection: The Strasbourg Pathological Anatomy collection Tricia Close-Koenig & Déborah Dubald, University of Strasbourg
Morning session

Moderator: Eva Åhrén, Director, Medical History and Heritage, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm

9:30-10:00 - Paper 1 The Geneva Brain Bank: Evolution from a neuropathology research laboratory to a modern brain bank Christophe Lamy, Geneva Brain Bank, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Genève and Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève

10:00-10:40 - Paper 2 Researching UCL pathology collections: Development of policies and procedures through lessons learned Emilia Kingham, Conservator, UCL Science and Pathology Collections, London & Liz Blanks (née Eastlake), Curator, UCL Science and Pathology Collections, London"

10:40-11:00 - Coffee break

11:00-11:30 - Paper 3 The evolution of biobanking in Iceland: From small collections to big promises Henry Alexander Henrysson, Research Specialist, The Centre for Ethics, University of Iceland

11:30-11:50 - Commentary by Manon Parry, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam

12:00-13:30 - Lunch break
Afternoon session

Moderator: Ricardo Roque, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon

13:30-14:10 - Paper 4 What if those slides are less than 100 years old? Navigating the UK Human Tissue Act Stephanie Seville, Heritage Officer, Museum of Medicine and Health, University of Manchester & Carsten Timmermann, Director, Centre for the History of Science, Technology & Medicine, University of Manchester

14:10-14:40 - Paper 5 Sample, source and interdisciplinary connections in a bottle Karin Tybjerg, Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen

14:45-15:00 - Coffee break

15:00-15:20 - Commentary Bruno Strasser, University of Geneva

15:20-16:45 - General discussion moderated by Tricia Close-Koenig & Déborah Dubald

17:00 - End
Registration

The workshop is open to anyone interested but registration is required.

To register, please send an email by 15 January 2024 at noon 2024 to Tricia Close-Koenig tkoenig@unistra.fr and Déborah Dubald ddubald@unistra.fr, stating your name, institution and your interest in taking part.