Histoire et emplois de l’alinéa ouvrant en diachronie (xiiie-xviie siècles)

Pharmacie et médicament en Méditerranée occidentale (XIIIe–XVIe siècles)

is drawn precisely. This is the very model of scrupulous scholarship. Murray groups his suicide accounts according to the sources from which they are drawn. He systematically works his way through chronologies, judicial records and religious sources, subdividing each category as he goes. First, he examines chronicles of public figures and private individuals, town chronicles and chronicles of r...

Le cadre de vie des médecins Parisiens aux XVIe et XVIIe 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...

Maladie et maladies: histoire et conceptualisation. Mélanges en l'honneur de Mirko Grmek

In addition there are three papers which are directly concerned with the history of medicine in the period. Jole Shackelford gives a succinct but superb account of the fortunes of Paracelsianism in Denmark as a result of the work of Petrus Severinus, Johannes Pratensis and Tycho Brahe and their support by Frederick II. Harold J. Cook's paper succeeds in showing the ways in which "changes in the...

La Folie au Moyen Age, XIe–XIIIe siècles

was a significant force in the creation of the school's identity. Brodel created a style which is remarkably bold realistically, yet which, as he recognized, simplified the field to permit the viewer to see only what was intended. The authors of this handsomely produced volume describe Brodel's life in great detail on the basis of a large number of family letters. It is in fact more of a person...