Révolution de gauche, révolution de droite : lectures et appropriations d’une notion

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...

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...

Sur le calcul à la flexion des coques de révolution soumises à des champs de forces et de températures axisymétriques

la révolution française et le théâtre de propagande : exemple de sapho (1794) de constance pipelet

les figures mythiques ou légendaires s’adaptent à chaque époque et en chaque lieu. cet article tente de montrer comment constance pipelet, future princesse de salm (1767-1845), une des filles des lumières et admiratrice des idéaux de la révolution française, se sert du récit de la vie de sapho, grande poétesse de l’antiquité, pour proposer une sapho qui est aussi amoureuse, éplorée et trahie qu...

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...