Erreur sur la personne ? La médecine au quotidien

[Réflexion sur la médecine familiale].

Dernièrement, j’ai assisté à une séance dans le cadre du 24e Cours annuel de médecine en régions rurales et éloignées présenté par la Société de la Médecine Rurale du Canada, à Charlevoix (Québec), où le Dr Louis Francescutti a éloquemment présenté une plénière sur la prestation de soins palliatifs de haute qualité aux patients. Lors de la séance, il a lancé aux participants le défi de réfléchi...

La médecine hospitalière française au XVIIIe siècle

The way ahead is shown by the last essay in the book, Karl Figlio's meaty piece of social history, 'How does illness mediate social relations? Workmen's compensation and medico-legal practice, 1890-1940'. The title is spot-on, and highlights the paper's concerns and approaches. Taking the eye malfunction, nystagmus, Figlio shows that late nineteenth-century medical interest in its exact specifi...

La première révolution biologique: réflexions sur la physiologie et la médecine du XVIIe siècle

of cranial and facial bones, and Berengario's treatise does not discuss the latter. Dr Lind tells us that Berengario is probably a dialectal corruption of his true name, Barrigazi, as entered on his will and testament, although Berengario is spelt "Beregario" throughout the last 80 pages of his translation, presumably a printer's error. Carpi is a small town near Bologna. If treatises on 'Wound...

La médecine à Lausanne du XVIe au XXe siècle

sequence of two parallel threads would have been much better. This quirk inevitably holds back, until after the EMI scanner, all the work of those who had CT in use clinically, albeit with radionuclides, before the prototype X-ray EMI scanner began to be used. It is thoroughly disappointing to see the UK work played down as "also rans", for example the work in Aberdeen is given only half a page...

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