La monarchie française et l’éducation des filles (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles)

l’esthétique du mal : la méchanceté dans la littérature française des xviie et xviiie siècles

l’esprit mondain, très à la mode aux xviie et xviiie siècles, est caractérisé par le « bon ton » des brillantes sociétés. de l’observation critique et envieuse, qui anime la vie sociale de l’époque et dont le but est de montrer le ridicule de l’autre, et par conséquent, son infériorité, on passe au persiflage et au plaisir de faire le mal. les deux plus grandes personnifications de cet esprit m...

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...

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...

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