John Sanderson, Alexis de Tocqueville et Jules Janin

Social Mobility and Stability of Democracy: Re-evaluating De Tocqueville∗

An influential thesis often associated with De Tocqueville views social mobility as a bulwark of democracy: when members of a social group expect to join the ranks of other social groups in the near future, they should have less reason to exclude these other groups from the political process. In this paper, we investigate this hypothesis using a dynamic model of political economy. As well as fo...

Sir John Scott Burdon-Sanderson (1828-1905): a pioneer in electrophysiology.

IN THE CONTEXT of history scientists often share the fate of artists, for the final judgment of their work is subject to the whims of later generations. Even a great scientist may fade into obscurity as later investigators incorporate his ideas into their own and forget their origin. Such a fate seems to have befallen John Scott Burdon-Sanderson. Working in the last two decades of the nineteent...

Etude preliminaire de l'association de vaccins antiaphteux et antibrucellique

Description de Hyalomma dromedarii (Koch 1844) Morphologie de la larve et de la nymphe

Making medicine scientific: John Burdon Sanderson and the culture of Victorian science

of pain-killing drugs. In the 1870s, the debate was primarily philosophical rather than medical. Nevertheless, the discussion drew on technological advances such as chloroform; ideas about a person's comparative worth; the fashion for social Darwinism; and palliative care. Similarly in the early 1900s, Kemp links proposals for euthanasia to the contemporary vogue for eugenics-though he is alway...