Alain Boureau, L’errance des normes. Élements d’éthique scolastique. Paris, Les Belles Lettres (La Raison scolastique IV ), 2016. 295 pp. , ISBN 978-2-251-38133-6.

Stanis Perez, Histoire des médecins: Artisans et artistes de la santé de l'Antiquité à nos jours (Paris: Perrin, 2015), €24,50, pp. 469, paperback, ISBN: 978-2262039448.

Stanis Perez, Histoire des médecins: Artisans et artistes de la santé de l'Antiquitéà nos jours For a long time, medical history was written by physicians, many of whom cast their fellow practitioners in largely hagiographical terms. In the twentieth century, historians, sociologists and philosophers also began to study medicine's past and the result was an important historiographic turn toward...

Joël Coste, Les Ecrits de la souffrance: la consultation médicale en France, 1550-1825 (Ceyzérieu: Champ Vallon, 2014), pp. 272, €25, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-87673-973-4.

This book by Joël Coste tries to fill a gap in the medical historiography of Early Modern France. Indeed, studies specific to medical correspondence are extremely rare; it is what makes the book all the more invaluable. A specialist of the consilia, the epistolary consultations which date from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century, Professor Coste has produced a new, quality volume which wi...

Histories of Discoveries of Continuations: Belles-Lettres with Equivocal Tenses

The early sixties saw conventional labels \got rid of", and then reintroduced in a nuclear variant that was hoped to be so awesome that they would never be used again except for exceptions. But guilt-free remote control of dangerous instruments was already undermining the entente. This note is a very personal view of, and from, the rst half of that decade, with very close horizons. But there is...

Argument Has No Function Iowa State University

Résumé: Douglas Walton a eu raison d’attirer notre attention sur les aspects pragmatiques des arguments. Toutefois, il a insisté qu’on devrait interpréter et évaluer des arguments en prenant compte de leurs fonctions. Je suis en désaccord avec ceci: on ne peut pas déterminer les fonctions des arguments dans le sens dont Walton a besoin, et même si on le pouvait, on ne pourrait pas fonder les no...

La lutte contre les argaside, gale psoroptique et phtiriase des moutons par l'administration des insecticides par la vole buccale