L’imagerie populaire à Lyon au 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 médecine à Lausanne du XVIe au XXe siècle

sequence of two parallel threads would have been much better. This quirk inevitably holds back, until after the EMI scanner, all the work of those who had CT in use clinically, albeit with radionuclides, before the prototype X-ray EMI scanner began to be used. It is thoroughly disappointing to see the UK work played down as "also rans", for example the work in Aberdeen is given only half a page...

alphonse daudet, des poèmes à la prose poétique une trajectoire emblématique du xixe siècle

" My Arse for Akou ". A Wartime Ritual of Women on the Nineteenth-Century Gold Coast

Résumé A. Jones — Un rituel de guerre féminin sur la Côte de l'Or au XIXe siècle. Cet article traite d'un rituel qui était pratiqué en temps de guerre par les femmes de la région correspondant au sud du Ghana et à l'est de la Côte-dTvoire actuels. Ce rituel revêt de nombreux aspects tels que la dance, les discours de louange et d'exécration, les prières, différentes sortes de symbolisme, des co...

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...