Jacques Léonard, La médecine entre les pouvoirs et les savoirs. Histoire intellectuelle et politique de la médecine française au 19e siècle. Editions Aubier Montaigne, Paris 1981.

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...

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...

Atlas de la Révolution française, 7: Médecine et santé

forms one chapter of Building types (1976), lamented the lack of studies in this field. "There are", he wrote, "few 'types' as fruitful as the Hospital, if one wants to see how functional thought, i.e. medical convictions and discoveries, is reflected in plans and elevations; the pavilion type instead of the cruciform plan and the big blocks of today owing to antisepsis." Dr Taylor is one of th...

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

Intelligence artificielle, ontologies et connaissances en médecine Les limites de la mécanisation de la pensée

This theoretical article aims to draw up an inventory of the latest advances in medical knowledge engineering in the specific area of ontologies and knowledge based systems design. Echoing the debates that animated the landscape of Artificial Intelligence (AI) from the 1970s under the impetus of Dreyfus HL, it aims to show that most of the difficulties currently faced by medical knowledge engin...