Anne-Claude AMBROISE-RENDU et Christian DELPORTE [dir.], L’indignation. Histoire d’une émotion politique et morale. XIXe-XX

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Broussais et le matérialisme. Médecine et philosophie au XIXe siècle

The book is, however, far more than a psychological study of the tuberculous. It is a meticulously conceived work about tuberculosis in France, with intriguing sidelights on the differing experiences of other European countries. Whereas in Spain and Italy, and elsewhere in Southern Europe, the disease was considered contagious and its victims treated as lepers, ideas were more ambiguous in Fran...

Les figures de la guérison (XVIIIe–XIXe siècles): une histoire sociale et culturelle des professions médicales au pays de Liège

GALEN, On the therapeutic method, books I and II, transl. with an introduction and commentary by R. J. Hankinson, Clarendon Later Ancient Philosophers, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1991, pp. xxxix, 269, £37.50 (0-19-824494-0). Hankinson's English translation of the first two books of On the therapeutic method presents for the first time in a modern language Galen's own introduction to his most comp...

Nightlight Christian Adoptions, et al. v. Thompson, et al. (2001)

Nightlight Christian Adoptions [3] et al. v. Thompson et al. was a lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on 8 March 2001. The suit was filed because Nightlight Christian Adoptions [3], a frozen embryo [4] adoption agency, felt that the Guidelines for Research Using Human Pluripotent Stem Cells [5] published by the National Institutes for Health were unla...

La honte. Quand émotion et raisonnement sont liés

RÉSUMÉ. Certaines émotions qualifiées « de base » dans la littérature sont presque du domaine du réflexe. D’autres sont déclenchées via des mécanismes de pattern matching sur certains états mentaux (épistémiques et motivationnels le plus souvent) en fonction de la congruence ou non de ces états. D’autres enfin, sont issues de mécanismes cognitifs plus complexes (et à ce titre nous les appelons ...