Histoire du christianisme, tome 13 : Crises et Renouveau ( de 1958 à nos jours)

Démesures. Une histoire du drone des 1960 à nos jours

La musique, cette forme rythmique par excellence, peut-elle remettre le rythme en question ? Peut-elle même être pensée... sans le rythme ? Christophe Levaux s’intéresse à une page oubliée de l'histoire musicale, à savoir le drone. Ce style musical non-métrique a été initié par LaMonte Young, qui voulait produire un son de drone (bourdon) ininterrompu, une note sans fin, sans rythme ! Tout d'ab...

Stanis Perez, Histoire des médecins: Artisans et artistes de la santé de l'Antiquité à nos jours (Paris: Perrin, 2015), €24,50, pp. 469, paperback, ISBN: 978-2262039448.

Stanis Perez, Histoire des médecins: Artisans et artistes de la santé de l'Antiquitéà nos jours For a long time, medical history was written by physicians, many of whom cast their fellow practitioners in largely hagiographical terms. In the twentieth century, historians, sociologists and philosophers also began to study medicine's past and the result was an important historiographic turn toward...

Histoire de la médecine aux armées, tome 1: De l'antiquité à la révolution

to gain control, men had to "reconceptualize the phenomenon of birth and bring to it a different meaning from the one it had in the hands of the midwives." (p. 21) Oh dear, how did they do that? By declaring the body to be a machine, rather than the natural organism the midwives considered it to be, and then constantly fiddling with the machine in order to improve its performance. Forty dreadfu...

Contribution à l'étude de quelques parasites du sang du mouton et de la chèvre en Iran et dans les pays voisins

L'Enseignement de la Médecine en France des Origines à nos Jours

So much has been written about the Great Unknown, so many people have visited Abbotsford, so many have, in the past, read the Waverley Novels, that one wonders that anyone could find it worth while to pen yet another account of the life of that painful genius, Sir Walter Scott, and it was with some trepidation that your reviewer opened this book, certain that so small a volume would be trite, o...