Crime et famines. Europe, Afrique, Asie, XIXe et XXe siècles

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...

Le développement de la science à Genève aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles. Le cas d'une communauté scientifique

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...

Les Hôpitaux et l'assistance à Liège (Xe–XVe siècles): aspects institutionnels et sociaux

Omissions are minor. English readers might miss a reference to Charles Singer, 'A review of medical literature of the Dark Ages', Proc. R. Soc. Med., 1917, 10: 107-60, which contains, (p. 133), a Prognostica vera e libro Galieni, which should be added to the list on p. 103, cf. also Med. Hist., 1970, 14: 96-8. The text on falconry medicine, certainly written before 950, which was published by B...

Pharmacie et médicament en Méditerranée occidentale (XIIIe–XVIe siècles)

is drawn precisely. This is the very model of scrupulous scholarship. Murray groups his suicide accounts according to the sources from which they are drawn. He systematically works his way through chronologies, judicial records and religious sources, subdividing each category as he goes. First, he examines chronicles of public figures and private individuals, town chronicles and chronicles of r...