Kamel Filali, L’Algérie mystique. Des marabouts fondateurs aux khwân insurgés, XVe-XIXe siècles

Le développement de la science à Genève aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles. Le cas d'une communauté scientifique

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...

Les Hôpitaux et l'assistance à Liège (Xe–XVe siècles): aspects institutionnels et sociaux

Omissions are minor. English readers might miss a reference to Charles Singer, 'A review of medical literature of the Dark Ages', Proc. R. Soc. Med., 1917, 10: 107-60, which contains, (p. 133), a Prognostica vera e libro Galieni, which should be added to the list on p. 103, cf. also Med. Hist., 1970, 14: 96-8. The text on falconry medicine, certainly written before 950, which was published by B...

Des miasmes aux virus

relationships, whether in the operating theatre or among hospital administrative staff, are often explicit and rarely absent; while even the most innocuous illustrations of waiting rooms, hospital wards, and roof gardens reveal the therapeutic gap that separated the rich from the poor. Nor can the broader context be easily ignored: developments in medical technology, operating techniques, and d...