Danielle Laberge, Marginaux et marginalité, les États-Unis aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles

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...

Du désespoir au salut: les tuberculeux aux 19e et 20e siècles

he regarded as his College, and took great delight in the ceremonial aspects ofthe presidency. He designed the coat of arms, and the President's gown in which his portrait was painted by J. B. Souter in 1932. There, robed and stern, he stares down, daring anyone to cross swords with him. When his term as President came to an end he refused to hand over the gown to his successor. He kept it and ...

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...

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...