Egyptian Voyages: Gustave Flaubert, Maxime Du Camp, and Fouad Elkoury

Gustave Caillebotte, French impressionism, and mere exposure.

Gustave Caillebotte was a painter, a collector of some of his colleagues' most renowned works, and a major force in the creation of the late 19th century French Impressionist canon. Six studies are presented as a naturalistic investigation of the effects of mere exposure to images in his collection and to those matched to them. The probabilities of cultural exposure to the 132 stimulus images w...

Gustave Alexandre Liétard, orientalist and physician.

IN 1972 the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine acquired an important collection of letters, reprints, and manuscripts belonging to Dr. Lietard of Plombieres. This collection gives an interesting insight to the thinking of medical historians interested in traditional oriental medicine during the closing decades of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century, and giv...

Peyton Rous and his voyages of discovery.

Report on PhD thesis of Maxime Sermesant

Cardiac imaging has improved dramatically in the last few years. Ultrasound has increased in frame rate and resolution, and 3D imaging has been introduced. Cardiac MR has become a proven research tool and is sufficiently robust and reliable to be entering routine clinical use, and cardiac CT is beginning to show great potential. This progress in image acquisition provides ever increasing amount...

A histeria em Freud e Flaubert

Hysteria in Freud and Flaubert. This article reviews Freud’s course in his texts about hysteria and others related to it, and, following the suggestion of the inventor of psychoanalysis, intends to consider the character of a literary classic, Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary”, aiming to point out the structural aspects of hysteria from the course of both, the character already mentioned, and the cons...