La Révolution française, 1789-1799. Une histoire socio-politique

une histoire dynamique de la littérature française

c'est vrai qu'une histoire dynamique de la littérature française nous manquait depuis longtemps, et que récemment ce vide a été comblé par une contribution collective, tenant même sa place dans l'historiographie de la littérature française. mais, il faut dire que du côté de nos francisants, nous aussi, nous avons des considérations à faire, comme si on voulait mettre en parallèle le francisme e...

Sciences, Médecine, Pharmacie de la Révolution à l'Empire (1789–1815)

Sciences, Medecine, Pharmacie de la Revolution d l'Empire (1789-1815), by PIERRE HUARD, with the collaboration of M. D. Grmek, Paris, Roger Dacosta, 1970, pp. 379, 154 plates (17 coloured), 130 NF. The French Revolution and the Napoleonic period that immediately followed it is the great watershed of modern history. To it may be traced not only many of the sweeping political and social changes o...

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...

The French Revolution, 1789-1799

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...