Jean-Claude Farcy, L’histoire de la justice française de la Révolution à nos jours

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...

Adaptation de Virus de la Pest Equine à la culture des cellules

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...

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...

Médecine de la Belle Époque à nos jours dans le Lyonnais

working classes, they soon escaped from the control of headmasters and philanthropists. But did this mean that sport had ceased to be a means of "social control", and had developed as an autonomous working-class phenomenon? The interesting point which is raised by McCrone is how women fitted into this characteristic late nineteenth-century development: was sport for women a step towards feminis...