«Le Magasin du xixe siècle»

Broussais et le matérialisme. Médecine et philosophie au XIXe siècle

The book is, however, far more than a psychological study of the tuberculous. It is a meticulously conceived work about tuberculosis in France, with intriguing sidelights on the differing experiences of other European countries. Whereas in Spain and Italy, and elsewhere in Southern Europe, the disease was considered contagious and its victims treated as lepers, ideas were more ambiguous in Fran...

la ville industrielle et le roman du xixe siècle

l’apparition de la révolution industrielle et de la technicité dans le roman français survient vers le milieu du xixe siècle, en pleine émergence de ce courant qui influence la vie et le travail de la population. le processus d’industrialisation débute par l’exode massif des paysans vers les villes industrielles nouvelles. tandis que la bourgeoisie profite pleinement de l’essor industriel, le p...

Le milieu médical en France du XIIe au XVe siècle

'Scientists and Charlatans' (pp. 257-331), Gillispie goes on to show doctors endeavouring to define more clearly the contours of their profession by attacking what they saw as medical quacks. Entertaining full-dress treatments of the medical careers of Mesmer and Marat illuminate the general theme. Gillispie's general thesis is not, it is true, novel in regard to medical science. However, the b...

Instruire, guérir, servir. Formation, recherche et pratique médicales en France et en Allemagne pendant la deuxième moitié du XIXe siècle

the Michaelis-Jena Ratcliffe Prize for Folklore in 1993. Some interesting generalizations emerge: the difference commonly understood between the medicinal activity of roots as opposed to shoots or leaves; the multiple uses of a single plant; the disdain for polypharmacy. In passing, Hatfield argues that the doctrine of signatures was unlikely to be much used by country dwellers in the form prop...

la place d'etienne-marc quatremère dans l'iranologie française du xixe siècle