糖心Volg

Jasmine Lovey

Master of Arts / History UNIFR

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 jasmine.lovey@unifr.ch
 

- History of the Swiss nineteenth century

- History of Health and Childhood

- History of single mothers

PhD Student SNSF
Medicine Section

PER 17 bu. 135
Ch. du Mus茅e 18
1700 Fribourg
PER 17, 135

Biography

After a Bachelor's and Master's degree in History and Latin Language at the 糖心Volg, Jasmine Lovey is a PhD student in medical Humanities. Her work focuses on the history of medical practices on children during the nineteenth century in french-speaking Switzerland. Her PhD thesis is part of the SNSF project of Dr. Dr. Felix Rietmann: Raising a Well-Grown Child: Media and Material Cultures of Child Health in the Early Nineteenth Century.

Provisional title of the dissertation : Prévenir et soigner. Entre promotions et résistances aux soins médicaux des enfants au XIXe siècle en Suisse romande

Research and publications

  • Publications
    5 publications

    , in Thierry Delessert, Chiara Boraschi, Nelly Valsangiacomo (dir.), Pauvres, immorales et contraintes. Les adversit茅s des m猫res c茅libataires en Suisse, Gen猫ve/Zurich : Seismo, collection Question de genre
    Jasmine Lovey (2024) | Book chapter

    , in Innovative Instruments for Community Development in Communication and Education
    Jasmine Lovey (2021) | Book chapter

  • Research projects

    Raising a Well-Grown Child: Media and Material Cultures of Child Health in the Early Nineteenth Century
    Status: Completed

    Start 01.06.2021
    End 31.05.2025
    Funding SNSF 
    The project investigates material and media cultures of child health in German-speaking Europe and French-speaking Switzerland from the late 18th to the 19th centuries 鈥� a period of major changes in medicine, society, and childhood. The project focuses on three distinct levels of analysis. The first level examines representations of health and illness in childhood in the first German 'popular' periodicals such as the Pfennig-Magazin (1833-1855), the Illustrirte Zeitung (1843-1869), and Der Deutsch Jugendfreund (1846-1857). In a first publication, it could show that conversations in these periodicals engaged in media-specific ways with notions of health and illness in childhood partly setting a cultural counterpoint to medical ideas. The second level investigates the material culture of child health, notably the development and use of 鈥榟ealth technologies鈥� such as the birthing bed, the cradle, and the corset. It shows that this evolving material culture of child health provides an intriguing site for rethinking our historical accounts of the rise of public health and modern medicine. The third level (notably, the PhD-thesis by Jasmine Lovey) explores the social history of pediatrics and public health in French-speaking Switzerland focusing on the history of smallpox vaccination. Overall, the project advances new perspectives in the history of child health and medicine through a study of material culture and cultural and medical practices. Additionally, the exploration of early periodicals and literary representations contributes to an interdisciplinary exchange between literary studies, media history and the history of medicine.

Teaching and courses

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