Colette Zytnicki, L’Algérie, terre de tourisme. Histoire d’un loisir colonial

Histoire de l'alcoolisme

The five papers collected in this small volume were first presented to the Seminar on the Foundations of the Sciences at the University of Strasbourg in 1978, to mark the centenary of the death of Claude Bernard. The focus of the seminar was not, however, the work of Bernard but the development of medicine, and its relationship with science and technology, in the hundred years since 1878. Thus ...

Histoire de la Médecine

Sir Thomas Browne: Selected Writings, ed. by GEOFFREY KEYNES, London, Faber & Faber, 1968, pp. 416, illus., 50s. Sir Thomas Browne and Sir Geoffrey Keynes have this in common, that both were and are devoted to medicine and literature. However, Sir Geoffrey would seem to have the edge on Sir Thomas in that he is distinguished in both, whereas Sir Thomas's medical contributions were of no great i...

Histoire de la notion de vie

but it has also involved a narrowing of the perspective. Few subjects more certainly demand an international perspective than war. To mention only a couple of facts that support this remark, let me remind the reader that: (1) as the aggressive interpretation of Darwinism was often presented as a typical German craze, something more should have been said on Germany at least; (2) there were natio...

Mémoire des Sciences de la Terre

Histoire de la médecine: leçons méthodologiques

idiom. Following this, Otis devotes the bulk of her study to tracing the elaboration of the organic memory theory in the novels of Emile Zola, Pio Baroja, Thomas Mann, Miguel de Unamuno, Emilia Pardo Bazan and Thomas Hardy (it is welcome to see writers in Spanish represented). These case studies are intended to demonstrate the widespread cultural diffusion of the organic memory theory, and the ...