Marie-Laure Bernadac. Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois (1563-1636): royal midwife of France.

Louise Bourgeois was the first practicing midwife to write of her experience of childbirth and of women's problems. She did much to enhance the respect in which her craft was held. For 26 years she was midwife to the royal court.

Midwifery and medicine in early modern France: Louise Bourgeois

Flanders and served that most Catholic of rulers, Charles V, is not mentioned, although Colombo is given counter-reformation Catholic beliefs because he served the Pope, and Fabricius' religious views are deduced from his friendship with Sarpi and his membership of the Venetian intellectual elite. To his credit, Cunningham is honest in his admission of the theory's weaknesses. He allows that Co...

The Devils of Cultural Conflict in Louise Erdrich’s “Saint Marie”

ABSTRACT In this paper, I examine Louise Erdrich’s short story “Saint Marie (1934)” excerpted from her novel Love Medicine. The narrative, told from the perspective of Marie Lazarre, a young woman of mixed Chippewa Native American and “white” Anglo-American heritage, details the events of her time at the Sacred Heart Convent under the strict tutelage of Sister Leopolda where Marie undergoes sev...

Lluis MIR , Marie - Louise OUSTRIN , Pierre LECOINTE and Michel

Griseofulvin, an antifungic metabolite produced by several species of Penicillium [ 1 ] , is widely used in human and animal therapy [2]. Its mechanism of action remained puzzling for along time [3]. Recently it has been shown that griseofulvin inhibits the polymerization of purified brain tubulin [4,5]. Although this property may account for its in vivo effects, this result does not allow to r...

Florence Robert - Gangneux and Marie - Laure Dardé for Toxoplasmosis Epidemiology of and Diagnostic Strategies