EXHIBITION 'Pain and the Physician.16th-18th centuries'
A surgeon applying medicine to a wound in the shoulder of a man in pain oil painting by Gerrit Lundens, 1649, Wellcome Collection
The NOTCOM ERC Project and the Maison Française are delighted to welcome the exhibition ''Pain and the Physician.16th-18th centuries' from 14 October 2024 to 14 March 2025 (Mo - Fr, 9 am - 5 pm).
The private view of the exhibition at 6pm on 18 November 2024 is now sold out.
Pain management is often viewed as a modern novelty, a practice that barely existed in the past.
However, pain was already a major concern in the 16th - 18th centuries. Although the medical arts of the time were in part powerless against it, doctors nonetheless mention it frequently in their writings and always seek to relieve it.
Focusing on the 16th - 18th centuries allows us to shift and reorient our view of pain. This detour into the past can help us gain fresh insight into current issues and practices.
This exhibition on early conceptions of pain is the result of multidisciplinary research combining the history of medicine, philosophy and literature. Through 12 thematic chapters, excerpts from works to read and to listen to, and interviews with neurologists, it brings the past face to face with the present and allows us to question our current understanding of pain.
NOTCOM is a five-year research project in the history of philosophy of science funded by an ERC Advanced Grant in 2023-2027. It is dedicated to the epistemology, methods, and communication strategies of collective science in the seventeenth century.
CREDITS
Scientific direction and coordination: Raphaële Andrault and Ariane Bayle, with the help of Florence Gaume and Livia Rapatel (BU Santé, Université Lyon 1 Claude-Bernard), and Anne-Sophie Gabillas (Maison Française d'Oxford/NOTCOM)
Graphics direction : Raphaël Benitez and Damien Favier.
Multimedia direction: department PAVM | DNUM of the University Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (Alexandre Bocquier, René Clerc, Charles de Filippo, Victor Hamelin et Philippe Topalian) ; Raphaël Bénitez.
Scientific collaboration: Elisa Andretta, Dominique Brancher, Nicolas Danziger, Luis Garcia-Larrea, Nicolas Lechopier, Pascal Luccioni, Patrick Mertens, Isabelle Moreau, Michèle Rosellini.
Artistic collaboration: audio recordings of texts by Géraldine Berger and Thomas Rortais (French version only); musical interpretation of Marin Marais by Les Nouveaux Caractères (Sébastien d’Hérin, Étienne Floutier and Caroline Mutel).
English translation: texts by Sarah Novak; videos by Romane Marcon and Marie Rabecq.
With the support of LabEx COMOD.
