History of Medicine

Contribution à l'histoire du "patient" contemporain. L'autonomie en santé : du self-care au biohacking

by Klein Alexandre

Histoire, médecine et santé, 1, à paraitre juin 2012.

Atavistic Marks and Risky Practices: The Tattoo in Medico-Legal Debate, 1850-1950

by Gemma Angel

in J. Reinarz & K. Siena (eds.) A Medical History of Skin: Scratching The Surface (FORTHCOMING 2013).

The Tattoo Collectors: Inscribing Criminality in Nineteenth Century France

by Gemma Angel

Published in 'Bildwelten des Wissens', (Spring 2012) Vol. 9.1 (http://www.kulturtechnik.hu-berlin.de/bildwelten/Band9-1)

Touch in the skin's culture of the modern medicine: the birth of biosubjective care

by Klein Alexandre

Touch is original cause of therapeutic relation. But, at present, touch in medicine is circled in alternative and... more Touch is original cause of therapeutic relation. But, at present, touch in medicine is circled in alternative and “smooth” medicine. Touch is an entered point for an analysis of social influence in medicine because “touch is our most social sense” (Tiffany field, Touch, MIT Press, 2001, p. 19).
Touch therapies are becoming increasingly popular but outside conventional medicine. Social asking of touch appears in modern medicine which do not know take care of it.
Through touch’s place in medicine, we can study actual paradigm, based on mechanism and instrumentalism, and also discover his needs of a holistic approach. Touch opens way of a subject medicine as a tale of skin. By discovering or integrating touch therapies, modern medicine can include the subject’s space. At the border of body, skin gives to us an access way of subject’s care. Finally, it is a theory of other that we can establish by touch: the other person is a touch relation and an affective relation.
Moreover, the alternatives medicine develop a new conception of therapeutic touch ; born in Europe, then exported in America in early 20e century, they return in Europe with a new generation
and a new conception of touch : the biosubjective touch.

‘A Respectful Challenge to the Nineteenth-Century’s View of Itself: An Argument for the Early Modern Medicalization of Old Age’, The Cultural Politics of Ageing in the Nineteenth Century Conference, University of Regensburg, Germany, 24-26 November 2011.

by Lynn Botelho

Taking Samples for the Nation: Historicizing the Biological Sample in the South Korean Anti-Parasite Campaigns, 1969-1995

by John P. DiMoia

under review at EASTS
accepted, but not sure about its status, changes due March 2012 under review at EASTS
accepted, but not sure about its status, changes due March 2012

Rats, Worms, and History

by John P. DiMoia

only a title at this stage only a title at this stage

"Counting People" / Demography in South Korea, (1945-early 1980s)

by John P. DiMoia

forthcoming in edited volume out of Germany (C. Unger, H. Hartmann, eds.)--first version submitted; edits submitted in early May 2012.

review of Ong & Chen's "Asian Biotech"

by John P. DiMoia

published in TCS (Sage), Theory, Culture and Society published in TCS (Sage), Theory, Culture and Society

Making Death Modern: the Autopsy, Burial, and the South Korean Hospital, 1955-1962

by John P. DiMoia

forthcoming in edited volume (U Hawaii Press), 2012? 2013?
editors, Michael Pettid (Binghamton) and Charlotte... more forthcoming in edited volume (U Hawaii Press), 2012? 2013?
editors, Michael Pettid (Binghamton) and Charlotte Horlyck (SOAS)

Vides modernes d'Arnau de Vilanova

by Sebastià Giralt

Faventia, 28/1-2 (2006), pp. 137-145.

Approach to some biographies of Arnau de Vilanova written in early Modern Age as a way to know his survival and the... more Approach to some biographies of Arnau de Vilanova written in early Modern Age as a way to know his survival and the reception of the medical and alchemical corpus attributed to him.

Giovanni dell'Aquila

by Alessandro Ottaviani

in: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, vol. 55 (2001)

Paracelsus and the development of medical chemistry out of alchemy

by Martin Huncovsky

Written as a part of course assignment.

The Civil Hospitals of Lisbon: the launch of the first urban health coordinating body in Portugal (1913-1927)

by David Pereira

Abstract Proposal for Paper at

40 Years Society for the Social History of Medicine – Annual Conference... more Abstract Proposal for Paper at

40 Years Society for the Social History of Medicine – Annual Conference 2010

Knowledge, Ethics and Representations of Medicine and Health: Historical
Perspectives

8-11 July 2010, Durham and Newcastle, UK

Organised by the Northern Centre for the History of Medicine

Sponsored by the Wellcome Trust, London, and the Society for the Social History of
Medicine


The Civil Hospitals of Lisbon: the launch of the first urban health coordinating body in Portugal (1913-1927)

To define the origins of the social politics concerning the health in Portugal, the Civil Hospitals of Lisbon (Hospitais Civis de Lisboa) acquired a real importance in the first reforms taken among the health in the country. Starting to implement several measures after the political change which came with the declaration of the Republic in 1910, the governments interfered with the regulation and organization of the health units of the country’s capital. With this, the State defined for the first time a coordinating body which, as a matter of fact, continued some of the structure that pre-existed in the Monarchy with the direction of the São José Royal Hospital and Outbuildings (Hospital Real de São José e Anexos) assured by the hospital matron (enfermeiro-mor) with a informal connexion with the directors of its several units. The structure maintained this scheme for almost three years – with the loss of the title Royal for obvious reasons – when the government decided to create an autonomous management for the medical assistance, administration and accountancy in the new Civil Hospitals of Lisbon, giving the responsibility of the direction in terms of medical, hygiene and pharmacy procedures to a Medical Commission (September 9, 1913), soon changed into a Directive Commission (November 27, 1914) with the directors of the health units. Its major competences were the definition of the internal regulations conserving its autonomy, the transfer of the amounts of the State budget and the vote of the annual budgets and the approval of annual amounts for the Hospitals` management. It was the first major health directive body in Portugal which was a privileged spot of the definitions of the health politics in that period.

Scientific Technologies of National Identity as Colonial Legacies

by Rosa Medina-Domenech

La epístola contra la nigromancia de Arnau de Vilanova

by Sebastià Giralt

La coronica. A journal of medieval Spanish language, literature and cultural studies, 36.1 (2007), pp. 173-87

Durante siglos el nombre del médico y reformador espiritual Arnau de Vilanova (c. 1240-1311) ha sido vinculado a las... more Durante siglos el nombre del médico y reformador espiritual Arnau de Vilanova (c. 1240-1311) ha sido vinculado a las más variadas artes ocultas hasta convertirse en una figura arquetípica de maestro ocultista, a la vez que le eran atribuidas espuriamente numerosas obras pertenecientes a esas disciplinas. En realidad el interés real de Arnau por lo oculto no traspasó los oscilantes límites trazados por la élite intelectual de su tiempo . Lo cierto es que Arnau fue uno de los autores que encabezaron el proceso de racionalizar e incorporar a la medicina galenista bajomedieval procedimientos terapéuticos provenientes de la magia natural y de la astrología. No resulta contradictorio, sino perfectamente complementario, el que uno de sus primeros escritos conservados consista en un ataque sistemático a las bases intelectuales de la nigromancia. Se trata del De reprobacione nigromantice ficcionis, una breve pero densa epístola, más conocida en el pasado con el impropio título De improbatione maleficiorum, que ya había atraído el interés de varios historiadores de la magia y de la medicina, pero que hasta ahora no ha sido objeto de una edición crítica. El presente artículo pretende dar a conocer lo relativo a la composición y el contenido de este opúsculo de Arnau de Vilanova, que contribuye no sólo a esclarecer la posición de su autor frente a las artes ocultas, sino también a conocer mejor el pensamiento del siglo XIII en torno a la
magia destinada a los espíritus o demonios.

El Regimen quartane atribuït a Arnau de Vilanova

by Sebastià Giralt

Faventia, 27/1 (2005), pp. 97-112.

Presentation and critical edition of the Regimen quartane, a brief writing attributed to Arnau de Vilanova that gives... more Presentation and critical edition of the Regimen quartane, a brief writing attributed to Arnau de Vilanova that gives a medical treatment against the quartan fever.

Medicina i astrologia en el corpus arnaldià

by Sebastià Giralt

Dynamis, 26 (2006), pp. 15-38.

Es revisa el paper de l’astrologia en l’obra mèdica d’Arnau de Vilanova amb una atenció especial envers els problemes... more Es revisa el paper de l’astrologia en l’obra mèdica d’Arnau de Vilanova amb una atenció especial envers els problemes d’autoria que plantegen els escrits astrològics del corpus arnaldià i envers la hipotètica delimitació cronològica d’aquest recurs.

Arnaldus Astrologus? La astrología en la medicina de Arnau de Vilanova

by Sebastià Giralt

Medicina e historia, 2003-2, pp. 1-15.

La tradition médicale d'Arnaud de Villeneuve, du manuscrit à l'imprimé. Traduit de l'espagnol par Nicolas Weill-Parot

by Sebastià Giralt

Médiévales, 52 (2007), pp. 75-88.

Les éditions générales d’Arnaud de Villeneuve publiées au xvie siècle donnent l’occasion d’une réflexion autour de ses... more Les éditions générales d’Arnaud de Villeneuve publiées au xvie siècle donnent l’occasion d’une réflexion autour de ses relations avec la tradition manuscrite. Apparemment, le travail de son éditeur scientifique, Tommaso Murchi, visa à compiler, essentiellement à partir de quelques manuscrits, toute l’œuvre ayant trait à la médecine qu’il pensait être écrite par Arnaud, mais avec un biais vers les arts occultes qui le conduisit à inclure quelques rares écrits alchimiques. De toute façon, les textes rassemblés ne proviennent pas tous de manuscrits, et au moins trois parmi les plus longs proviennent d’incunables. D’autre part, l’intervention éditoriale dans les textes se révèle inégale et peu systématique, ce qui rend nécessaire une évaluation particulière de leur utilité lorsque l’on entreprend l’édition critique de chacune des œuvres arnaldiennes. En définitive, les éditions arnaldiennes permettent de voir que le passage du manuscrit à l’imprimé n’a pas signifié une rupture immédiate, mais plutôt une évolution qui a affecté le travail autour du texte et les intérêts intellectuels qui lui étaient liés.

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The Medical Tradition of Arnau de Vilanova from Manuscript to Printed Book. The general editions of Arnau de Vilanova published in the 16th century give us the opportunity to reflect about their relationship with the manuscript tradition. Apparently the work of their editor, Tommaso Murchi, was oriented to compiling, basically from some codices, the whole work of medical subject that he presumed to be written by Arnau, but with a bias towards the occult arts that led him to include a few alchemical writings. Anyway not all the texts collected in the general editions come from manuscripts but at least three of the longest stem from incunabula. On the other hand the editorial intervention in the texts was unequal and little systematic. Therefore a particular appraisal about their utility is needed as the critical edition of each Arnaldian work is undertaken. At last in the Arnaldian editions it is possible to see that the passage from the manuscript to the print did not mean an immediate breach but rather an evolution that affected the work about the text and the intellectual interests related to it.