DIDION, Joan, L’année de la pensée magique, 2007, Paris, Grasset, 281 p.

Formes de pensée dans la collection hippocratique

was sane when he was committed to an Austrian asylum, and he died from wounds inflicted there. Benedek argues that Semmelweis was suffering from progressive syphilitic paralysis and that he was insane when committed. Syphilis was, of course, an occupational hazard for nineteenth-century obstetricians; a high percentage of patients in maternity clinics were syphilitic and no one knew how to avoi...

Intelligence artificielle, ontologies et connaissances en médecine Les limites de la mécanisation de la pensée

This theoretical article aims to draw up an inventory of the latest advances in medical knowledge engineering in the specific area of ontologies and knowledge based systems design. Echoing the debates that animated the landscape of Artificial Intelligence (AI) from the 1970s under the impetus of Dreyfus HL, it aims to show that most of the difficulties currently faced by medical knowledge engin...

La Théorie des Passions à la Lumière de la Pensée Médicale du XVIIe Siècle

Medical Illustrations in Medieval Manuscripts, by LOREN MACKINNEY, London, Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1965, pp. xvii, 263, 104 plates, 105s. It is a pity that Loren MacKinney did not live to see the publication of this beautifully produced book, which represents to some extent the culminating point of his thirty years' search for medical illustrations in medieval manuscripts. He had i...

Commentaires de la Faculté de Médecine de l' Université de Paris (1516–1560)

the University of Paris have survived, bound in twenty-four rather disparate volumes. The first six are small folios, the remainder large. The last, covering the period from 1776 to 1786, was the first to be published in 1903. In 1891, however, it had been decided to publish the whole series from the beginning and the first of these appeared in 1915 with an introduction and notes by Dr. Ernest ...

Etude sur la digestion pancratique de la caseine pour la production de la toxine tetanique