Anthony Feneuil, Bergson. Mystique et philosophie

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...

The Socratic Bergson

Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie

However, English nurses going to America and confused by the American educational and organizational system will find this not only a useful source book, but a comfort in the fact that although we are "two great nations separated by the same language", our problems in educating and providing a nursing service capable of meeting changing health needs are much the same. Not least of these is prov...

Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie

another book on that inexhaustible mine of information, the Salerno Regimen of Health. But never mind; there's a bit for everybody here. The palaeographer will enjoy pitting his skills against those of the editor in transcribing the text. The philologist can compare the Latin with its medieval German translation. The literary historian will benefit from Kurze's discussion of the verse forms use...

Between science and mystique

This article, the result of a research project presented as a Master’s degree dissertation in the graduate program of “Teaching of Health Education” at UNIFESP, seeks to highlight the pertinence of analyzing epilepsy and especially, the paradoxical experience of the epileptic individual through literary narrative. Using as its object the novel, The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, it seeks to disc...