Colloque. Hommage à François Jacob

François Jacob (1920–2013)

“Plus que jamais, la recherche me paraissait s’identifier à la nature humaine. En exprimer l’appétit, le désir de vivre. C’était bien le meilleur moyen trouvé par l’homme de braver le chaos de l’univers. De dominer la mort.” (More than ever, scientific research seemed to me to be intrinsic to human nature. It expressed the hunger, the desire to live. It has, in fact, been the best means found b...

19 April 2013 − − François Jacob . 17 June 1920

Hommage to reactive psychosis.

When looking back in the history of psychiatry, the concept of reactivity had very variable impact on ethiological considerations. If classification of mental disorders is taken as a proxy, it seems that this impact is presently at the lowest that it has been in the last hundred years. The author gives a short historical overview of concept of reactive psychosis, followed by a description of th...

Médecins érudits de Coray à Sigerist. Actes du colloque de Saint-Julien-en-Beaujolais (juin 1994)

The historiography of the history of medicine is still in its infancy, and these essays can thus all be commended for the new information they bring to bear on the lives if their subjects. They form a varied collection. Laennec, Sudhoff and Sigerist are familiar names to modem medical historians; Sprengel, de Renzi, Daremberg, and Haeser wrote major works, once standard and not entirely superse...

Le corps à la renaissance. Actes du XXXe Colloque de Tours 1987

"Biblical geology"-which could hardly be the object of experimental investigation. Yet Marie Boas Hall takes into consideration only the actual performance of real experiments and explicitly declines to take into account "the presentation of random empirical facts, fancies or thoughts" (p. 5). She begins with a discussion of the original aims of the founders, and, subsequently, of the several s...