Histoire de la guerre (XIXe-XXe siècles)

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...

Histoire de la Médecine

Sir Thomas Browne: Selected Writings, ed. by GEOFFREY KEYNES, London, Faber & Faber, 1968, pp. 416, illus., 50s. Sir Thomas Browne and Sir Geoffrey Keynes have this in common, that both were and are devoted to medicine and literature. However, Sir Geoffrey would seem to have the edge on Sir Thomas in that he is distinguished in both, whereas Sir Thomas's medical contributions were of no great i...

Histoire de la notion de vie

but it has also involved a narrowing of the perspective. Few subjects more certainly demand an international perspective than war. To mention only a couple of facts that support this remark, let me remind the reader that: (1) as the aggressive interpretation of Darwinism was often presented as a typical German craze, something more should have been said on Germany at least; (2) there were natio...

Selective bibliography of Belgian historical demography, 1981-2001 (19th and early 20th centuries).

001 DORBAN (M.), “La démographie”, in C. BRUNEEL (ed.), Des révolutions à Waterloo. Bibliographie sélective d’histoire de la Belgique (1789-1815). Bruxelles, 1989, pp. 171-179. 002 DUMOULIN (M.) and HANOTTE (J.), “La Belgique et l’étranger, 1830-1962. Bibliographie des travaux parus entre 1969 et 1985”, in M. DUMOULIN and E. STOLS (eds.), La Belgique et l’étranger aux XIXe et XXe siècles, Bruxe...

Le développement de la science à Genève aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles. Le cas d'une communauté scientifique