Conclusion du colloque

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...

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Conclusion

Within half a century hospitals for children had become established features of the British medical landscape. By 1900, the formerly entrenched notion that sick children would not prosper away from home had given way to the other extreme. Now, it would seem, children required to be isolated in institutions entirely dedicated to their care. As Roger Cooter has indicated, there was a 'gradual dis...

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