Hervé Guillemain, Diriger les consciences. Guérir les âmes. Une histoire comparée des pratiques thérapeutiques et religieuses (1830-1939), Paris, La Découverte, 2006, 347 p. ISBN : 2707148504. 26 euros.

Une chimie qui guérit: histoire de la découverte des sulfamides

LESLIE T. MORTON and ROBERT J. MOORE, A bibliography of medical and biomedical biography, Aldershot, Hants, Scolar Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. ix, 208, £37.50. This book was originally conceived as a third edition of John Thornton's slim paperback A select bibliography of medical biography (1961, 1970) but has been so much enlarged and improved that it is rightly presented as a new work. Like its pre...

La dose tolérée et toxique de la saponine chez les chèvres et les moutons

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...

Une approche par les « capabilités » de la santé des populations et de l’élaboration des politiques publiques

Background. – The objective of this study is to outline a capabilities approach to the social determinants of population health and to compare its explanatory power and implications for public policy-making with psychosocial approaches. Methods. – A model linking the structures of economic and social relations to health outcomes is developed and logistic methods used to confirm its base validit...

La lutte contre les argaside, gale psoroptique et phtiriase des moutons par l'administration des insecticides par la vole buccale