The Single Eye: Re-Evaluating Ancien Régime Science

Title Famine and market in Ancien Régime France

The charitable imperative: hospitals and nursing in ancien régime and Revolutionary France

sometimes meagre, this is because the descriptions were probably sent to the consultant and were not written by him. Consultants compensated for this by attempting to explain every phenomenon connected with the illness and, when unable to give complete descriptions of diseases, by relying on doctrine and experience. It is the tempering of established doctrine with contemporary developments and ...

Local hospitals in ancien régime France: rationalization, resistance, renewal, 1530–1789

An excellent example of this pluralistic view can be seen in 'Abd al-Lat-if al-Baghd5di (d. 629/1231), who was a commentator on Aristotelian metaphysics and various medical texts, writer on mathematics and the natural sciences, historian, author of a book on diabetes, and one of the physicians of Saladin; but he was also a savant of the Islamic religious sciences and author of a "Medicine of th...

Opinion: Conducting science in the public eye

Doing science is usually hidden behinds the wall of the lab and universities, and thus immune from immediate public scrutiny. The current COVID-19 pandemic has dragged the scientific process and its fruits in the public eye. In this short piece, I attempt to discuss the effect of conducting science in the public eye on the public’s perception of science and scientists.

Men in nursing: re-evaluating masculinities, re-evaluating gender.

This paper critically interrogates and re-evaluates the notion that it is somehow difficult being a man in nursing and suggests some ways forward which will allow us to gain a more politically astute purchase on gender, nursing and the socio-political context in which the profession operates. Men appear to be well served by a career in nursing. Despite their lesser numbers they are likely to ea...