Empire et lèpre au Bengale colonial

Empire and Leprosy in Colonial Bengal

Apalak Das


Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge India; 1st edition (March 12, 2024)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 252 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1032513904


Leprosy, widely mentioned in different religious texts and ancient scriptures, is the oldest scourge of humankind. Cases of leprosy continue to be found across the world as the most crucial health problem, especially in India and Brazil. There are a few maladies that eventually turn into social disquiets, and leprosy is undoubtedly one of them. This book traces the dynamics of the interface between colonial policy on leprosy and religion, science and society in Bengal from the mid-nineteenth to the first half of the twentieth centuries. It explores how the idea of ‘degeneration’ and the ‘desolates’ shaped the colonial legality of segregating ‘lepers’ in Indian society. The author also delves into the treatments of leprosy that were often transfigured from ‘original’ English texts, written by American or British medical professionals, into Bengali.

Rich in archival resources, this book is an essential read for scholars and researchers of history, Indian history, public health, social history, medical humanities, medical history and colonial history.

Les nouvelles approches en histoire du handicap

Disability History: New Perspectives and Interdisciplinary Approaches

Call for papers

 

November 6, 2024 – November 8, 2024
In-person symposium
Münster (Germany)

In recent years, the exploration of disability has increasingly gained importance within historical research. Disability history has particularly emphasized the social and cultural dimensions of disabilities, advocating for the recognition of disability as a central historical category alongside others such as gender or class. This perspective highlights how societal norms, values, and institutions shape the experiences and identities of people with disabilities. It questions traditional narratives in which the experiences of disabled people have been marginalized or overlooked, and advocates for an inclusive and nuanced historical analysis of the non-normative mind and body.

The dynamics and development of this field of research in recent years, its interdisciplinary reach, and its potential to broaden our historical understanding of human diversity are among its most important characteristics.[1] At the same time, there are still many unexplored topics, unused sources, and promising approaches that have the potential to enrich historiography with new perspectives. The upcoming symposium intends to address these very topics of disability history.

We welcome submissions that delve into the historical aspects of social negotiation processes surrounding disability. We welcome both regional and national case studies as well as transnational perspectives. Furthermore, we are particularly interested in the interactions between various disciplinary approaches and the intersections of disability history with visual history, microhistory, the history of knowledge, medical history, and the history of education.

Among others, we are interested in the following questions: 

• How was disability conceptualized outside of Western societies?
• What alternative perspectives can be found that challenge Euro-American concepts of normality and ablebodiedness?
• How did conceptions of disability circulate among different social actors? What factors and events enabled or hampered exchanges and transfers?
• What forms of cooperation and antagonisms between groups, organizations, and associations can be found on a national and international level?
• What strategies of empowerment can be found in the context of institutional settings?
• What role do self-testimonies of people with disabilities play in reconstructing those life-worlds?
• How did visual arts and media contribute to the conception of disability, and how can they be interrogated as mirrors of societal norms and perceptions?

The conference language is both German and English, with abstracts provided in both languages.

We welcome scholars from all levels of academia and encourage contributions spanning the full spectrum of academic disciplines. Travel and accommodation costs will be covered by the organizers, and catering and a conference dinner will be provided. However, expenses must be advanced and will be reimbursed. Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions. Also, please indicate any necessary support requirements (e.g., sign language interpreter) in your application so we can arrange for early booking. Please send us an abstract of the planned contribution of approximately 250 words along with a short biography to the following email addresses by April 30, 2024:

Radu.Dinu@ju.se; Jens.Gruendler@lwl.org; Jonathan.Schlunck@idehist.uu.se



[1] Blackie, D., & Moncrieff , A. (2022). State of the Field: Disability History. History (London), 107 (377), 789–811. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13315

L'épidémie de zika au Brésil

Viruses and Reproductive Injustice: Zika in Brazil
 

Ilana Löwy

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Johns Hopkins University Press (January 30, 2024)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 294 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1421447919



Brazil's Zika outbreak revealed extreme health disparities and reproductive injustice across racial and socioeconomic lines.

Brazil's 2015 Zika outbreak led to severe illnesses for many and the birth of several thousands of children with severe brain damage. Even though mosquito-borne diseases such as the Zika virus affect people across society, these children were born almost exclusively to poor, and usually non-white, women. In Viruses and Reproductive Injustice, Ilana Löwy explores the complicated health disparities and reproductive injustice that led to these cases of congenital Zika syndrome.

Löwy examines the history of the outbreak in Brazil and connects it to broader questions concerning reproductive rights, the medical science behind understanding new pathogens, and the role of international health organizations in battling—or ignoring—public health crises. The explanation behind the strongly skewed distribution of cases among social classes was far from straightforward or obvious during the Zika outbreak. Löwy argues that the disproportionate effect of Zika on births among the poor is primarily a function of dramatic disparities in access to contraception and prenatal care, as well as Brazil's anti-abortion laws: only wealthier women have access to safe abortions. This is a book about the changing meaning of an infectious disease outbreak and a haunting demonstration that an epidemic is both a biological and a political event produced by the complicated entanglement of humans, viruses, and mosquitoes.

Prix de thèse de la SFHST

Prix de thèse de la SFHST

Appel à candidatures


Comme chaque année, fidèle à sa mission d’encouragement et de promotion des études relatives à l’histoire des sciences et des techniques, la Société française d'histoire des sciences et des techniques récompense des travaux de recherche dans ces domaines. En 2024, le Prix de thèse de la SFHST sera décerné à la meilleure thèse soutenue en histoire des sciences et des techniques, entre le 1er janvier et le 31 décembre 2023 et rédigée en langue française. Il sera doté d’un montant de 1 000 €.


Les candidats désireux de concourir doivent envoyer au plus tard le 31 mai 2024 un mail à prixdethese.sfhst@gmail.com pour faire part de leur intention.

Ils recevront alors un lien internet afin de déposer électroniquement leur dossier qui devra contenir :

• une version électronique de leur thèse ;

• leur rapport de thèse ;

• un CV ;

• le formulaire de candidature dûment complété, disponible en pièce jointe.



Le Prix de la thèse de la SFHST 2024 sera remis lors des Journées Jeunes Chercheurs de la SFHST, qui se dérouleront en novembre 2024.

Pour plus d'informations, vous pouvez consulter le site de la Société.

Les femmes des infirmeries de guerre d'Anna Freud

The Women of Anna Freud's War Nurseries: Their Life and Work

Christiane Ludwig-Koerner

 


Routledge
Published : February 2024
Cover : Paperback
Pages : 232
ISBN 13 : 9781032517544




In this volume, Christiane Ludwig-Körner describes the lives and work of the staff members of the War Nurseries set up and run by Anna Freud and Dorothy Burlingham during the Second World War.

The Women of Anna Freud’s War Nurseries looks in turn at each of the women who helped run the homes in Hampstead: Alice Goldberger, Sophie and Gertrud Dann, Manna Friedmann, Anneliese Schnurmann, Ilse Hellman and Hansi Kennedy. As young women, they narrowly escaped the Holocaust and dedicated themselves to children who had suffered the same fate. Few arrived with any knowledge of psychoanalytic theories or methods; this volume charts their education from Freud and Burlingham, which eventually lead to both Freud’s independent psychoanalytic child therapy training and the young women’s embarkment on careers as professional analysts. Using case studies throughout, Ludwig-Körner illustrates the intense relationships often experienced between children in care and their analysts/carers, and uses the children of the War Nurseries as examples for how contemporary psychoanalysts can work with children today.

This book is essential reading for psychoanalysts, especially those working with children, as well as scholars and professionals interested in the history of child analysts and childhood trauma.

Le travail invisible dans les soins infirmiers

Le travail invisible dans les soins infirmiers : histoires d'hier et d'aujourd'hui


Conférence d'Éliane Dalex, infirmière spécialiste en oncologie, HUG, et Marie Leyder, historienne en études genre, iEH2, UNIGE

Lundi 11 mars 2024, 12h15-13h30, Salle HUG 7A-8-758


(Bâtiment Prévost, 8ème étage, Aile Jura), Genève
















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Poste de recherche sur la médecine socialiste

Research Associate (m/f/d) with expected fulltime employment

Call for applications


KennzifferDR/026/24Kategorie(n) Wissenschaftliches Personal Anzahl der Stellen1Einsatzort

Faculty of Arts and Humanities – Department of HistoryBewerbung bis17.04.24Text

Job description: scientific services for research within the ERC Starting Grant "Socialist Medicine: An Alternative Global Health History" original archival research with a thematic focus on either: socialist ideologies that informed the development of healthcare systems in state socialist countries, Western welfare states and/or newly independent states, exploring the various concepts that contributed to such systems and the practices employed histories of medical technologies in socialist contexts, especially pharmaceutical and biotechnological research, production and distribution from a scientific, economic and political perspective existing and perceived material and financial shortages and shortcomings in socialist countries, and technological and scientific expertise ideas of development, aid, solidarity, collaboration and exchange in shaping global health structures examining the ways local initiatives fed debates at national and international levels to analyse the interaction of political ideology and public health practices particular focus on the political and professional networks between Western welfare states and/or among states in the socialist world in shaping health systems contributing to project aims such as academic event organization, public dissemination of research results, publications


Requirements: 

• completed academic degree and doctoral degree (PhD) (desired) in History or related fields
• experience in archival research in various geographic locations
• working language skills in two or more languages
• peer-reviewed publications (or submitted/accepted manuscripts)
• interest in interdisciplinary research with public health, medical anthropology and sociology
• ability to work independently and collaboratively in research teams
• excellent English communication skills

SOCMED (2021-2026), funded by an ERC Starting Grant brings the socialist world into the history of global health.

lt identifies health cultures produced by socialism (in all its variety) and explores the impact of socialist internationalism in co-producing global health in the 20th century. The project pioneers a new history that will not only transform our knowledge of historical processes, but will further our understanding of ideas, practices and processes that current global health structures have been built on.

You can find more information about the ERC project here: https://socialistmedicine.com

For further information or questions, please contact Prof. Dora Vargha dora.vargha@hu-berlin.de.Bewerbung an

Please send your application in English (including cover letter, research proposal, full CV and relevant certificates) quoting the reference number DR/026/24 to Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Department of History, Prof. Dora Vargha, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin or in electronic form as a single PDF file to dora.vargha@hu-berlin.de.

The Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin is seeking to increase the proportion of women in research and teaching, and specifically encourages qualified female scholars to apply. Severely disabled applicants with equivalent qualifications will be given preferential consideration. People with an immigration history are specifically encouraged to apply. Since we will not return your documents, please submit copies in the application only.

Data protection information on the processing of your personal data within the framework of the advertisement and selection procedure can be found on our Website: https://hu.berlin/DSGVO.

Please visit our website www.hu-berlin.de/stellenangebote, which gives you access to the legally binding German version.

Une histoire sociale de l'insuffisance rénale et de ses traitements

The Body's Keepers: A Social History of Kidney Failure and Its Treatments
 

Paul L. Kimmel M.D.


Publisher ‏ : ‎ Mayo Clinic Press (February 13, 2024)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 448 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8887700304



A remarkable account of the kidney and the scientific, medical, and health evolution tied to our understanding of it.

The kidney is an extraordinary organ – in many ways the regulator, the metronome, the keeper of the human body’s delicate equilibrium. On a given day, minute by minute, it purifies the body of toxins it encounters from diet, climate, activity, and injury. It allows us to be and to move in the world. And yet most of us know so very little about these extraordinary vessels nestled in our bodies – and indeed millions of us only really learn about them when they stop working. Nearly a million Americans every year have end stage kidney disease, about 37 million have some form of chronic kidney disease. And it is an incredibly common universe of challenge and ailment that, until relatively recently, would simply kill those afflicted with it.

Renowned nephrologist Dr. Paul Kimmel takes us on an eye-opening journey through the history of kidney disease, dialysis, and transplantation. Drawing on both his extensive research and decades of experience in the field, he explains the development of treatments, technologies, and medical practices that have advanced the care of patients with kidney disease. Kimmel illuminates the impact of medical advances on the lives of those suffering from this debilitating disease and offers a clear understanding of the challenges that remain.

The Body’s Keepers also reveals the inequities and injustices at the heart of America's healthcare system. Filled with case studies, personal histories, and first-hand accounts, the book reveals the shocking truth about the exploitation of vulnerable populations in the pursuit of profit. Kimmel examines how disparities in access to care have led to life-threatening consequences for many Americans. He also looks at the ways in which the medical industry has profited from the suffering of others, and how the path to health equity is still far from being realized. With unflinching honesty and a passionate commitment to social justice, his book is an essential read for anyone looking to understand the complexities of modern healthcare.