Patrick Singy

P atrick S ingy
PERSONAL INFORMATION
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176 Fieldstone Drive
Niskayuna, NY 12304
[email protected]
www.patricksingy.com
AREAS OF INTEREST
History of Early Modern and Modern Medicine; History of Sexuality; History and
Philosophy of Psychology and Psychiatry; Historiography of Science
EDUCATION
Ph.D.
Licence
Maturité
University of Chicago, Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies
of Science, December 2004 (with honors)
University of Geneva, Switzerland, Psychology, 1997
Collège Voltaire, Geneva, Switzerland, Science, 1992
EMPLOYMENT
Adjunct Professor
Scholar-in-Residence
Union College (NY), 2012-present
Center for Bioethics, Union Graduate College (NY), 20102011
Postdoctoral Fellow
Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Department of
History, Columbia University, 2007-2010
Adjunct Assistant Professor Department of History, Union College (NY), 2006-2007
Postdoctoral Fellow
Program in Science in Human Culture, Department of
History, Northwestern University, 2004-2006
Course Instructor
Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science,
University of Chicago, 2002
DISSERTATION
“Experiencing Medicine: An Epistemological History of Medical Practice and Sex in
French-Speaking Europe, 1700-1850”
Dissertation Committee: Arnold I. Davidson (first reader), Jan Goldstein, Robert J.
Richards
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PUBLICATIONS
For more detail on each publication, please visit www.patricksingy.com
Books
The DSM-5 in Perspective: Philosophical Reflections on the Psychiatric Babel. Co-edited
with Steeves Demazeux. Springer. 2015
L’Usage du sexe. Lettres au Dr Tissot, auteur de L’Onanisme (1760). BHMS Editions.
2014
Articles and Essay Reviews
“Nous autres, victoriens: Punctuation, Power, and Politics in Foucault’s History of
Sexuality.” In Cultural History. Vol. 5 (forthcoming 2016)
“Hebephilia: A Postmortem Dissection.” In Archives of Sexual Behavior. Vol. 44 (2015).
1109-1116
“Danger and Difference: The Stakes of Hebephilia.” In The DSM-5 in Perspective:
Philosophical Reflections on the Psychiatric Babel. Edited by Steeves Demazeux
and Patrick Singy. Springer. 2015. 113-124
“Sexuality and Liberalism.” In The Care of Life: Transdisciplinary Perspectives in
Bioethics and Biopolitics. Edited by Miguel de Beistegui, Giuseppe Bianco, and
Marjorie Gracieuse. Rowan and Littlefield International Limited. 2015. 227-239
“Power, Knowledge and Laughter: Forensic Psychiatry and the Misuse of the DSM.” In
Classification, Disease and Evidence. New Essays in the Philosophy of Medicine.
Edited by P. Huneman, G. Lambert, M. Silberstein. Springer. 2014. 131-146
“Medicine and the Senses: The Perception of Essences.” In Cultural History of the
Senses. Vol. 4: The Enlightenment. Edited by Anne C. Vila. Berg Publishers. 2014.
133-153
“Structuralism.” In Foucault Lexicon. Edited by Leonard Lawlor and John Nale.
Cambridge University Press. 2014. 490-495
“Xavier Bichat.” In Foucault Lexicon. Edited by Leonard Lawlor and John Nale.
Cambridge University Press. 2014. 563-566
“Suggestion For the Inclusion of a New Disorder in the Forthcoming Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-5.” [Also in French in the same journal:
“Proposition pour l’insertion d’un nouveau trouble dans le Manuel diagnostique et
statistique des troubles mentaux-5 (DSM-5)”]. Psychiatrie, Sciences humaines,
Neurosciences. Vol. 11, no. 2 (2013). 7-12
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“How to Be a Pervert: A Modest Philosophical Critique of the Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual of Mental Disorders.” Revista de Estudios Sociales de Uniandes. Vol. 43
(2012). 139-150
“Perverse Perversion: How to Do the History of a Concept” (with Kevin Lamb). GLQ.
Vol. 17 (2011). 405-422
“The Popularization of Medicine in the Eighteenth Century: Writing, Reading and
Rewriting Samuel Auguste Tissot’s Avis au peuple sur sa santé.” Journal of
Modern History. Vol. 82 (2010). 769-800
“What’s Wrong With Sex?” Archives of Sexual Behavior. Vol. 39 (2010). 1231-33
“Objectivity?” Iris. European Journal of Philosophy and Public Debate. Vol. 1 (2009).
281-84
“Expérience et observation dans les sciences de la vie au XVIIIème siècle” (with
Philippe Huneman). Bulletin d’histoire et d’épistémologie des sciences de la vie.
Vol. 15 (2008). 121-25
“Huber’s Eyes: The Art of Scientific Observation before the Emergence of Positivism.”
Representations. Vol. 95 (2006). 54-75. Also published in French: “Les yeux
d’Huber: l’art de l’observation scientifique avant l’émergence du positivisme.”
Bulletin d’histoire et d’épistémologie des sciences de la vie. Vol. 15 (2008). 147-72
“L’ontologie, un problème historico-philosophique.” Agenda de la pensée contemporaine.
Vol. 5 (2006). 97-108
“Il caso ‘Sade’.” Rivista Sperimentale di Freniatria. Vol. CXXX (2006). 83-102
“La masturbation a-t-elle une histoire?” Critique. Vol. 708 (2006). 439-47
“Le sujet, l’objet, et la logique du réel dans Naissance de la clinique.” In Cahiers
parisiens/Parisian Notebooks. Paris: The University of Chicago Center in Paris.
Vol. 1 (2005). 377-402
“Gli ‘stili di ragionamento’ di Arnold Davidson.” Iride. Filosofia e discussione pubblica.
Vol. 45 (2005). 437-42
“The History of Masturbation: An Essay Review.” Journal of the History of Medicine and
Allied Sciences. Vol. 59 (2004). 112-21
“Friction of the Genitals and Secularization of Morality.” Journal of the History of
Sexuality. Vol. 12 (2003). 345-64
“Le pouvoir de la science dans L’Onanisme de Tissot.” Gesnerus: Swiss Journal of the
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History of Medicine and Sciences. Vol. 57 (2000). 27-41
“Tissot and L’Onanisme: a Shadow in the Enlightenment.” Spring. Vol. 65 (1999). 33-53
Reviews
Elodie Giroux, Après Canguilhem. Définir la santé et la maladie. In Gesnerus: Swiss
Journal of the History of Medicine and Sciences. Vol. 68 (2011). 121-22
Laurence Guignard, Juger la folie. La folie criminelle devant les Assises au XIXe siècle. In
Gesnerus: Swiss Journal of the History of Medicine and Sciences. Vol. 67 (2010).
275-76
Richard C. Sha. Perverse Romanticism: Aesthetics and Sexuality in Britain, 1750-1832. In
Journal of Modern History. Vol. 82 (2010). 685-87
Niklaus Largier. In Praise of the Whip: A Cultural History of Arousal. In Journal of
Modern History. Vol. 81 (2009). 377-79
Sean M. Quinlan. The Great Nation in Decline: Sex, Modernity and Health Crises in
Revolutionary France c.1750-1850. In Gesnerus: Swiss Journal of the History of
Medicine and Sciences. Vol. 65 (2008). 290-91
Articles and Short Pieces in Newspapers
“Du DSM-IV au DSM-5: Le jour d’après.” (With Steeves Demazeux). Slate.fr, May 29,
2013. www.slate.fr/tribune/72919/dsm-iv-dsm-5-psychiatrie
“La psychiatrie française dans le miroir du DSM.” (With Steeves Demazeux). Libération,
May 28, 2013. 21
Contribution to “Sunday Dialogue: Defining Mental Illness.” New York Times, March 24,
2013. SR2
Edited and Translated Work
Co-editor (with Philippe Huneman), Bulletin d’histoire et d’épistémologie des sciences de
la vie. Vol. 15, no. 2 (2008)
Translator (English to French): James Donat, “Les extraits de Tissot choisis par Wesley:
Un Imprimatur méthodiste.” In La Médecine des Lumières: Tout autour de Tissot.
Edited by Vincent Barras and Micheline Louis-Courvoisier. Georg Editeur. 2001.
261-81
Work in progress
Responsibility, Rights, Risks: A History of Sexuality [Monograph]
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CONFERENCES/ LECTURES
“Sexuality and Liberalism”
• Workshop Desire and Pleasure, Research Network in Contemporary Issues in
Bioethics and Biopolitics, Venice (Italy), September 2013 (invited speaker)
“Danger and Difference: The Stakes of Hebephilia”
• Conference Classifying Sex: Debating DSM-5, Center for Research in the Arts,
Social Sciences and Humanities, Cambridge (UK), July 2013 (invited speaker)
• Institute for Research on Women & Gender, University of Michigan, January 2015
(invited speaker)
“Validité et implantation: L’hébéphilie comme problème historico-philosophique”
• Colloquium La Perversion, Institut d’histoire et de philosophie des sciences et des
techniques, Paris (France), June 2012 (invited speaker)
“The History of Sexuality”
• Lecture given at NYU-Paris Campus for Jerome Wakefield’s course, “Sex and
Death in Paris,” Paris (France), June 2012 (invited speaker)
“L’ascenseur historiographique”
• Colloquium Histoire des sciences, histoire du livre, histoire intellectuelle: Au
Carrefour de trois historiographies, Université Paris 8-Saint Denis, Paris (France),
March 2012 (invited speaker)
“Power, Knowledge and Laughter: Forensic Psychiatry and the Misuse of the DSM”
• The Ken Altshuler MD Grand Rounds in Psychiatry, The University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, October 2011 (invited speaker)
“How to Be a Pervert: Guidelines from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
Disorder”
• Colloquium Power, Life, Subjectivation, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá
(Colombia), April 2011 (invited speaker)
“Creating an Epidemic of Perverts: the DSM-5’s New Approach to Paraphilias”
• Center for Bioethics and Clinical Leadership, Union Graduate College,
Schenectady, NY, March 2011
“Sexuality”
• Political Lexicon Conference, The New School, New York, NY, December 2010
(invited speaker)
“A Tergo: Taking History from Behind”
• Colloque Michel Foucault, European Network in Contemporary French
Philosophy, University of Pisa (Italy), April 2010 (invited speaker)
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“A History of Violence: Sadism and the Emergence of Sexuality”
• Columbia University, New York, NY, November 2009
• Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá (Colombia), April 2011 (invited speaker)
• Union Graduate College, Schenectady, NY, May 2011
“‘Une certaine manière de traiter ce qu’on appelle le temps’: Historical and Existential
Ruptures in the Early Foucault”
• International Colloquium, 20th- and 21st-Century French and Francophone Studies,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, March 2009
“Sadism at the Limits: Crime, Violence, and the Historical Boundaries of Sexuality”
• American Historical Association, New York, NY, January 2009
“The Popularization of Medicine in the Eighteenth Century: Writing, Reading, and
Rewriting Samuel Auguste Tissot’s Avis au peuple sur sa santé”
• Columbia University, New York, NY, November 2008
• Book History Colloquium, Columbia University, New York, NY, April 2009
(invited speaker)
• Institut Universitaire d’Histoire de la Médecine, Lausanne (Switzerland), June 2009
(invited speaker)
• Queens College, Queens, NY, December 2009 (invited speaker)
“What Is Historical Epistemology?”
• International Conference on Historical Epistemology, Columbia University, New
York, NY, October 2008
“Understanding Not Understanding: Remarks on Michel Foucault’s Historico-Critical
Attitude”
• Columbia Journal of Literary Criticism lecture series, Columbia University, New
York, NY, April 2008 (invited speaker)
“Seeing and Looking: Medical Observation and the Epistemological Status of Details,
1750-1850”
• Columbia University, New York, NY, October 2007
“Writing History with a Saw: Reflections on the Concept of Rupture in the Historiography
of Science”
• Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (Germany), July 2007
(invited speaker)
“Seeing through the Eyes of Others: Bodies and Words in Eighteenth-century Medicine”
• Twelfth International Enlightenment Congress, Montpellier (France), July 2007
“Morbid Details: Perception and the Emergence of Modern Medicine”
• Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, November 2006 (invited speaker)
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Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (Germany), December 2006
(invited speaker)
“Huber’s Eyes: Historicizing the Eighteenth-Century Observer”
• The International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS)
Meeting, Paris (France), June 2006
“Between Literature and Science: The Marquis de Sade as Psychiatric Case”
• Haverford College, Haverford, PA, March 2006 (invited speaker)
“The Case of ‘Sade’: Constructing the Sadistic Individual in the Nineteenth Century”
• The Klopsteg seminar series in Science in Human Culture, Northwestern
University, Evanston, IL, February 2006
• Union College, Schenectady, NY, January 2007
“Perception and Percussion: Rethinking the Emergence of Modern Medicine”
• The Klopsteg seminar series in Science in Human Culture, Northwestern
University, Evanston, IL, January 2005
• History of Science Society Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, November 2005
“Seeing Bodies: Michel Foucault and the History of the Medical Gaze”
• Union College, Schenectady, NY, May 2005 (invited speaker)
“Using Women and Abusing Oneself: Experiencing Sex in the Eighteenth Century”
• Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, April 2005
Invited respondent for Symposium, “Scientific Projections: Science and the Moving
Image”
• Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, March 2005
“Le sujet, l’objet, et la logique du réel dans Naissance de la clinique”
• Colloque International Foucault: Nouveaux Déploiements, Paris (France), June
2004 (invited speaker)
“‘The Will Present in Vision’: M.F.R. Buisson’s Concept of the Gaze and Its
Significance for Medical Practice”
• American Association for the History of Medicine, Madison, WI, April 2004
“Seeing the Invisible, Sensing the Elusive: Medical Practice and the Art of Observation,
1750-1850”
• Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, February 2004 (invited speaker)
“Usage des femmes et abus de soi: discours et expérience au dix-huitième siècle”
• Conference Maladies en lettres/Krankheit in Briefen, Université de Lausanne,
Lausanne (Switzerland), June 2003
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“Seeing the Invisible, Sensing the Elusive: Structures of Perception in Medical Practice,
1750-1850”
• The Social Life of Body and Mind, Human Sciences Workshop Graduate Meeting,
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, May 2003
“Le principe de dispersion des éléments dans Naissance de la clinique”
• Journée d’étude Michel Foucault, Université Paris XII, Paris (France), March 2003
(invited speaker)
“Tissot’s Avis au peuple sur sa santé: A Medical Book for Nobles, the People, and
Horses”
• History of Science Society Meeting, Milwaukee, WI, November 2002
“‘L’usage des femmes’: Experience of the Flesh and Experience of Sex in the Eighteenth
Century”
• Modern France Workshop, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, May 2002
“‘Here Is the Story of My Disease’: Eighteenth-Century Sufferers and their Relationship to
the Physician Samuel Auguste Tissot”
• Lecture Series “Art, History and Medicine,” International Museum of Surgical
Science, Chicago, IL, May 2002 (invited speaker)
“‘Friction of the Genitals’ and Secularization of Morality: A New Perspective on the
History of Masturbation”
• History and Philosophy of Science Workshop, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL,
February 2002
“A Historical Study of the Power of Rationality: The Case of Tissot’s L’Onanisme”
• History of the Human Sciences Workshop, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL,
March 2000
TEACHING EXPER IENCE
Union College
Course Instructor (writing seminar). “History of Medicine.” History Department, Winter
2016.
Course Instructor (lecture course). “Ancient Medicine.” Classics Department, Spring 2014;
Fall 2015
Course Instructor (sophomore research seminar). “The Emergence of Sexuality.” Fall
2012; Winter 2014; Spring 2014 (2 sections); Fall 2014
Course Instructor (interdisciplinary first-year writing seminar). “The Rules of Madness.”
Winter 2014; Fall 2014; Fall 2015
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Course Instructor (interdisciplinary first-year writing seminar). “The Normal and the
Pathological.” Fall 2012; Winter 2013
Course Instructor (interdisciplinary first-year writing seminar). “Time, Identity and the
Self in Society.” Winter 2007
Course Instructor (lecture course). “History of Psychology.” Winter 2007
Course Instructor (interdisciplinary first-year writing seminar). “History and Philosophy
of Psychiatric Disease.” Fall 2006
Course Instructor (lecture course). “History of Sexuality.” Fall 2006
Columbia University
Course Instructor (lecture course, ∼100 students). “History of Sexuality.” Spring 2008;
Spring 2010
Course Instructor (seminar). “Contemporary Civilization.” Spring 2009
Course Instructor (seminar). “Contemporary Civilization.” Fall 2007
Director of Undergraduate Senior Research Project. Daniel Altabef, “Private Sex –
Public Performance: The Triangulation of Sexual Citizenship in the United
States.” 2007-2008 (winner of Columbia’s 2008 Queer Studies Award)
Northwestern University
Course Instructor (graduate reading course). “Historiography of Science.” Spring 2006
Course Instructor (seminar). “History of Psychiatric Disease.” Spring 2006
Course Instructor (lecture course). “History of Sexuality.” Winter 2005; Spring 2006
Course Instructor (seminar). “The Emergence of Modern Medicine.” Spring 2005
The University of Chicago
Director of Undergraduate Honors Thesis. Tessa Scripps, “‘Beauty’s Triumph’: A
Philosophical Inquiry of the Debate Over the Inoculation of Smallpox during
the XVIIIth Century.” 2003-2004
Course Instructor (seminar). “The History of Private Health, From Antiquity to the
Enlightenment.” Winter 2002
Teaching Assistant. “Introduction to Medical Ethics.” Winter and Spring 2001
Teaching Assistant. “Science, Culture and Society in Western Civilization.” 1999-2001
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University of Geneva, Switzerland
Teaching Assistant. “Méthodes multivariées et traitement informatique.” 1995-1997
FELLOWSHIPS
Mellon Dissertation-Year Fellowship, 2002-2003
François Furet Travel Grant, Summer 2002
Stuart Tave Teaching Fellowship, 2002
Fishbein Fellowship, 1998-2001
Graduate Tuition Fellowship, 1998-2001
ACADEM IC SERVICE
Main Organizer, International Conference on Historical Epistemology, Columbia
University, October 10-11, 2008
Member, Luncheon Lecture Series Organizing Committee, Society of Fellows in the
Humanities, Columbia University, 2007-2010
Lecture Series Organizer, Program in Science in Human Culture, Northwestern University,
2004-2006
Reading Group Organizer, Program in Science in Human Culture, Northwestern
University, 2004-2006
Chair of Graduate Seminar, Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science,
University of Chicago, Autumn 2003. Topic: Michel Foucault’s The Birth of the
Clinic
Manuscript evaluator, Journal of the History of Sexuality
LANGUAGES
English, French (native language), German (reading knowledge), Latin (working
knowledge)