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昨日ここに書いたコイレ・センターの医学史に関するセミナーの詳しい内容がメーリングリストで回ってきた。
(レンヌ大学が管理しているTHEUTHという科学史のメーリングリスト）
Séminaire: "Histoire de la médecine et des savoirs scientifiques sur le corps"
Jean-François BRAUNSTEIN (Université Paris 1) et Rafael MANDRESSI (Centre Alexandre-Koyré, CNRS)
2e et 4e mardis du mois de 19 h à 21 h (salle 1, 105 bd Raspail)PROGRAMME
13/11/2007 : Rafael MANDRESSI : Histoires et historiographies de la médecine : enjeux et objets.
27/11/2007 : Jean-Noël MISSA (Université Libre de Bruxelles) : La psychiatrie biologique: histoire d'une discipline empirique.
11/12/2007 : Jean François BRAUNSTEIN : Philosophie et historiographie de la médecine : approches, objets, méthodes.
22/01/2008 : Georges VIGARELLO (EHESS) : Histoire des pratiques de santé.
12/02/2008 : Vincent BARRAS (Université de Lausanne) : Maladies en lettres : l’expérience de l’écriture de la maladie.
26/02/2008 : Jean-Pierre PETER (EHESS) : Connaissance et oblitération de la douleur dans l'histoire de la médecine.
11/03/2008 : Jean-Paul GAUDILLIÈRE (Inserm et EHESS) : Entre sciences, médecine et industrie : à propos de quelques trajectoires de médicaments au 20e siècle.
25/03/2008 : George WEISZ (McGill University, Montréal): Standardiser un syndrome médical : à propos de l’histoire du syndrome prémenstruel en France, Grande Bretagne et aux États-Unis.
08/04/2008: Andrew MENDELSOHN (Imperial College, Londres): The Role of Forensics in the Rise of Modern Medical Thought.
13/05/2008 : Jacqueline VONS (CESR, Tours) : Nommer le corps : la nomenclature anatomique d'André Vésale.
27/05/2008 : Patrice BOURDELAIS (EHESS) : Évaluation d’une action de santé publique : la lutte contre la tuberculose en France dans l’entre-deux guerres.
10/06/2008 : Jean-François BRAUNSTEIN & Rafael MANDRESSI : Médecine, santé, histoire et philosophie : perspectives pour un champ de recherche.
４月８日に予定されている法医学の話にとりわけ興味を惹かれる。ちょうど11月１日から４日までワシントンＤＣで開かれていたHistory of Science Society 2007 Annual Meetingでも同内容の発表がなされたらしく、そっちのサイトにレジュメがあった。
http://www.hssonline.org/07_VA_meeting_info/MeetingAbstracts2007M_R.html
Andrew Mendelsohn (Imperial College London)
The Role of Forensics in the Rise of Modern Medical Thought
Most stories of modern medicine – and arguably of expertise generally – are stories of differentiation: discipline formation, specialization, separation of research careers from practitioner ones, separation of roles once combined in single individuals into distinct occupations or professions such as, to take the case in point, forensic medicine. This paper presents, instead, a history of expertise converging with and reshaping science. Knowing and investigating the pathological anatomy of dead bodies and explaining those deaths by discriminating among rather than concatenating causes: these two goals and activities were central to forensic or legal medical expertise at least since its inception in the 16th and 17th centuries. But they were not central to Western medicine at large until the 19th century. Drawing on archival material, I offer two main theses. First, the new science of pathology created under the leadership of Rudolf Virchow in Germany in the 1840s-60s was as much a new way of knowing – a system of dissection, observation, and representation – as it was a new (cellular) theory, and forensic aims and procedures of courts of law provided a model for its practices and its epistemology. Second, the causal explanatory aspect of forensics helped induce some who were trained in the new pathology to move toward reestablishing medicine on an etiological rather than pathological basis and provided a model for explaining disease by single causes, a hitherto rare mode of disease explanation which now became compelling.
