Genre, grossesse et pouvoir au 18e siècle

Gender, Pregnancy and Power in Eighteenth-Century Literature: The Maternal Imagination 

Jenifer Buckley

Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
Hardcover: 292 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2017 edition (July 30, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-3319538341

This book reveals the cultural significance of the pregnant woman by examining major eighteenth-century debates concerning separate spheres, man-midwifery, performance, marriage, the body, education, and creative imagination. Exploring medical, economic, moral, and literary ramifications, this book engages critically with the notion that a pregnant woman could alter the development of her foetus with the power of her thoughts and feelings. Eighteenth-century authors sought urgently to define, understand and control the concept of maternal imagination as they responded to and provoked fundamental questions about female intellect and the relationship between mind and body. Interrogating the multiple models of maternal imagination both separately and as a holistic set of socio-cultural components, the author uncovers the discourse of maternal imagination across eighteenth-century drama, popular print, medical texts, poetry and novels. This overdue rehabilitation of the pregnant woman in literature is essential reading for scholars of the eighteenth century, gender and literary history.

Les blessures médicales ou métaphoriques

Medical and Metaphorical Wounds from the Middle Ages to the First World War

Call for Papers

Two-day workshop January 26 and 27, 2018 at the Science Museum, London

Wounds and their meaning have differed over time: from stigmata to the psychological wounding of soldiers in the First World War, the conception and function of wounds as religious symbols, medical signs or metaphorical devices has depended on social and historical contexts. Over this two-day workshop we hope to further a discussion on the varied understandings of wounds and wounding across history by bringing museum professionals and academics from different periods and disciplines together.
This workshop will mark the closing of the Wounded: Conflict, Casualties and Care at the Science Museum, on wound care and surgical developments in the First World War. The format will be a series of panels, discussions and (guided) exclusive access to the Science Museums extensive medical collections not currently on display. There will be a guided tour of the Wounded exhibition as well as a guided tour of Blythe House, one of the Science Museum object stores where large parts of the Wellcome Medical History Collection permanent loan to the Science Museum is housed. The proceedings from this workshop are to be published in a Special Issue of the Science Museum Group Journal. Registration is free and lunch will be provided on both days. We will endeavor to cover travel costs for student and unwaged delegates. There will be a conference dinner at delegates own expense.
We welcome abstracts on topics related to wounds and wounding from any period from the Middle Ages to the First World War.
Topics may include but are not limited to:

• Developments in wound care (surgical innovation during war, academic, scholastic, or educational changes)
• Conception of wounds and wounding in medical text and literature
• Descriptions and representations of wounds in medical text and literature
• Physical and mental wounds
• Representations of wounds and wounding in images and literature
• Wounds as metaphor or simile
• Wounds in religious practice, theory and representation
• Wounds to the body politic and social wounds
• The use of wounds and wounding in political or ideological discourse

Deadline for submission of abstracts is 31st of October, 2017.
Please submit a short abstract (max 300 words) and a short biography (max 150 words) to sara.stradal@sciencemuseum.ac.uk
Any questions and queries, please do not hesitate to contact: sara.stradal@sciencemuseum.ac.uk

Séminaire du CHoSTM

King’s College London CHoSTM Seminar  

Programme, 2017-2018

All seminars will be held in room S8.08 in the Strand Building at King’s College London, from 16:00-17:30.  All are welcome.

For more information about the Centre for the History of Science, Technology & Medicine at KCL, please see:  http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/history/research/chostm/index.aspx 

2017

27 September:  Kathryn Schoefert (KCL)  

One Brain? Comparing human and non-human animal brains in the mid-20th century

11 October:  Scott Vrecko (KCL)  

Title TBC                  

                                              

25 October:  Robin Scheffler (MIT)  

A Contagious Cause: The Search for Cancer Viruses and the Growth of American Biomedicine

8 November:  Chiara Thumiger (Warwick)  

Quasi Phreneticus: Metaphorical and technical interactions in the history of the ancient disease concept phrenitis

                       

22 November:  Daniel Margoscy (Cambridge)  

The Natural History of Satyrs: Mythology and Science from Conrad Gesner to Charles Darwin

6 December:  Amanda Rees (York)  

Othering the Brother: class, race, species and Neandert(h)als in 20th century popular fiction                 

                       

                                   

                                                          

2018

17 January:  Samiksha Sehrawat (Newcastle)  

Title TBC                                                                 

31 January:  Tiago Mata (UCL)  

Economic literacy and popular histories of economics since 1945

                                                          

14 February:  Kathleen Vongsathorn (Warwick)  

“We are the little doctors”: Midwives, Perceptions of Expertise, and Shifting Engagement with Hospitals in Uganda, 1918-1979   

                                                          

28 February: Francesca Bray (Edinburgh)  

Moving crops and the scales of history        

                                                          

14 March:  Chris Renwick (York)  

Population Science and Democracy in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain

                       

28 March:  Richard Oosterhoff (Cambridge)  

Making Common Sense: The Untutored Mind in Early Modern Europe                                                                                                                                                                        

2 May:  Jana Funke (Exeter)   

Transvestites, Sexo-Aesthetic Inverts and Eonists: Emerging Understandings of Trans Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Science and Literature

           

16 May:  Mikael Hård (Darmstadt)   

How to Write a Global History of Technology?                  

                                   

30 May:  Tamar Novick (MPIWG)  

Urine & Gold: A History of Threats and Wonders             

Les soins à Pétain

J’ai soigné Pétain

Albert MASSONIE

Préface de Fabrice D'ALMEIDA et Philippe Charlier

Tallandier
Parution : 14 septembre 2017
Nombre de pages : 336
ISBN : 9791021028234

En 1949, le docteur Albert Massonie se voit confier la mission de soigner le maréchal Pétain. À 93 ans, ce patient est très particulier. Enfermé au fort de Pierre-Levée sur l’île d’Yeu depuis sa condamnation à mort en août 1945, commuée par le général de Gaulle en peine de prison à perpétuité, Philippe Pétain s’enfonce dans la sénilité.

Ancien résistant, Albert Massonie tient consciencieusement son journal comme un carnet de santé où il consigne, avec le détachement du médecin, les crises de démence, les idées, les sautes d’humeur, l’incontinence et les paroles confuses de l’ex-chef d’État, mais aussi les visites de Mme Pétain qui l’entretient de sa gloire passée.

Soixante-dix ans après, ce document, jamais publié, est exceptionnel à tout point de vue. Récit d’une déchéance physique, témoignage inédit sur les dernières années de Pétain, réflexion sur la détention des personnes âgées, interrogation sur le secret médical, ce journal, passé au crible par deux historiens, est unique en son genre.

Histoire de la médecine pendant la Première Guerre mondiale

Medical History of WWI

Call for Papers

Proposals Deadline: 10 November 2017

Over 22-25 March 2018, the Army Medical Department Center of History and Heritage and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences will be co-sponsoring a conference on the medical history of WWI.

It will be hosted at the U.S. Army Medical Department Center and School in San Antonio, Texas.

Presentations on all facets of medicine and healthcare related to the war are welcome, to include: historical understandings of military medicine as practiced by all participants and in all geographic regions; consideration of the repercussions of the war on the practice of medicine; medicine in various campaigns; effects on the home fronts; postwar medical issues; mental health issues; the pandemic influenza; and related topics.

Presentations should be 30 minutes long, and two-paper panels are welcome.

As with the 2012 conference, we anticipate publication of selected papers.

Contact: Dr Sanders Marble, Army Medical Department Center of History and Heritage, william.s.marble.civ@mail.mil

Chaire en histoire des sciences

Thomas M. Siebel Chair in the History of Science

Call for applications

Thomas M. Siebel Chair in the History of Science: The Department of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites nominations and applications for a tenured position at the rank of full professor as Thomas M. Siebel Chair in the History of Science. Subfield and geographic area open. Successful candidate will be an accomplished scholar with a distinguished record of publications, an active research agenda, and enthusiasm for teaching. PhD in History or related field required. Target starting date is August 16, 2018. Salary is competitive.

To apply, create your candidate profile through https://jobs.illinois.edu and upload your application materials: Letter of application, CV, research statement, teaching materials, and contact information for three professional references. Letters of recommendation may be requested from referees electronically at a later date. To ensure full consideration, all required application materials must be submitted by November 10, 2017.

The University of Illinois conducts criminal background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer.

For questions and to submit nominations, please contact: Professor Jerry Dávila at jdavila@illinois.edu

For information about Illinois, visit our webpage at www.history.illinois.edu

The University of Illinois is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. Minorities, women, veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. For more information, visit

http://go.illinois.edu/EEO. To learn more about the University’s commitment to diversity, please visit http://www.inclusiveillinois.illinois.edu

Les femmes contre l'avortement

Women against Abortion: Inside the Largest Moral Reform Movement of the Twentieth Century 

Karissa Haugeberg

Series: Women in American History
Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: University of Illinois Press (April 3, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-0252082467

Women from remarkably diverse religious, social, and political backgrounds made up the rank-and-file of anti-abortion activism. Empowered by--yet in many cases scared of--the changes wrought by feminism, they founded grassroots groups, developed now-familiar strategies and tactics, and gave voice to the movement's moral and political dimensions. Drawing on oral histories and interviews with prominent figures, Karissa Haugeberg examines American women 's fight against abortion. Beginning in the 1960s, she looks at Marjory Mecklenburg's attempt to shift the attention of anti-abortion leaders from the rights of fetuses to the needs of pregnant women. Moving forward she traces the grassroots work of Catholic women, including Juli Loesch and Joan Andrews, and their encounters with the influx of evangelicals into the movement. She also looks at the activism of evangelical Protestant Shelley Shannon, a prominent pro-life extremist of the 1990s. Throughout, Haugeberg explores important questions such as the ways people fused religious conviction with partisan politics, activists' rationalizations for lethal violence, and how women claimed space within an unshakably patriarchal movement.

La transmission des savoirs

La transmission des savoirs

Appel à communications

Congrès du Cths

Le congrès se déroulera du 23 au 27 avril 2018 à Paris

Le congrès des sociétés historiques et scientifiques se réunit chaque année dans une ville universitaire francophone. Interdisciplinaire, il a pour mission de favoriser les échanges entre la recherche associative, les études doctorales et la recherche universitaire. Il rassemble plus de 700 participants et entend chaque année plus de 400 communications. Les actes sont publiés par les éditions du Cths.

À l’exemple de celles qui les ont précédées, nos sociétés modernes, démocratiques, considèrent la transmission des savoirs comme un enjeu majeur pour leur survie. En fait, il n’existe pas de vie sociale durable sans cette transmission. Tantôt empiriques et traditionnels, tantôt construits (savoirs scientifiques, techniques, culturels et artistiques), ces savoirs incluent aussi les diverses formes de savoir-faire et de savoir-vivre (en famille, en société ou au travail). Des origines du peuplement humain de l’Europe et du monde à aujourd’hui, il reste beaucoup à découvrir (ou à redécouvrir) sur les acteurs, les facteurs, les vecteurs et les moyens de la transmission de ces savoirs. Les acteurs, ce sont d’abord la famille nucléaire ou élargie, et, de façon plus large, tous ceux qui vous initient aux règles de l’institution et de la société. Les institutions concernées peuvent être de formation (écoles et universités) ou de recherche (universités encore et organismes de recherche). 

Il convient de prendre en compte aussi les multiples formes d’apprentissage, ce dernier n’excluant pas l’autodidaxie. La transmission des savoirs s’effectue d’abord par l’écrit. De ce point de vue, la révolution du livre et de l’imprimerie, constitue un tournant majeur. Si, à côté du livre, les périodiques ont apporté une contribution décisive, la transmission peut s’effectuer par le son (théâtre, musique). L’image offre aussi un vecteur majeur. Il y a toute une histoire du film et de la télévision à conduire sous l’angle de la transmission des savoirs. De même que le cinéma ou la télévision, l’internet, puis, aujourd’hui, les réseaux sociaux sont à la fois, « la meilleure et la pire des choses ». Il s’agit, à toute époque et en tout lieu, de s’interroger sur l’enseignement et ses méthodes, sur les rapports du maître et de l’élève, sur la formation professionnelle et ses méthodes. Cette transmission requiert aussi la vulgarisation, à laquelle contribuent la presse grand public ou spécialisée, la radio et la télévision.

À côté de ces nouveaux moyens de transmission des savoirs, la tradition orale a joué un rôle essentiel depuis les origines des sociétés humaines. La transmission des savoirs et des savoir-faire s’exprime tout autant par les gestes, impliquant une formation sur le tas, comme le montrent les effets des migrations interrégionales ou internationales. Savoirs et savoir-faire se transmettant à des publics. Cette transmission dépend cependant de paramètres tels que l’âge, le genre, la nationalité, la religion, les groupes sociaux et tous les réseaux d’appartenance. Vue sous l’angle des usages, la transmission des savoirs requiert une formation initiale, acquise par la famille, l’école ou l’apprentissage, mais aussi continue. Se révèle ainsi l’importance du capital humain, fait à la fois de connaissances et de compétences. En matière de transmission des savoirs s’ouvre ainsi un champ immense, celui des relations entre réalités et représentations du temps, en tout temps et en tous lieux.

Pour proposer une communication, la date limite est le 1er novembre 2017

Télécharger l'appel à communications complet http://cths.fr/_files/co/paris_2018_appel.pdf