Un guide colonial. Le Guide du Voyageur au Congo belge et au Ruanda-Urundi

Paul Alsberg (1883-1965) et le transfert adaptatif du biologique au technique : un pr\'ecurseur de la"cultural niche construction"?

We propose, in this paper, both a presentation and a discussion of Paul Alsberg’s thesis on the supposed specificity principle of human evolution. The author maintains a difference of nature between Man and Animal relying on an opposition between “body-adaptation” – that of the Animal – and “extrabodily-adaptation” – that of Man in which the means of adaptation are switched outside of the organ...

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...

Séro-neutralisation de sous-types A de virus aphteux sur un système cellulaire. Etablissement des relations liant le titre du sérum au titre du virus

Spécification d'un environnement logiciel d'assistance au travail collaboratif dans le secteur de l'architecture et du B.T.P

Our work aims to specify and develop a groupware for the professionals in the building trade. Our motivation isthe following one: the easyness and cheapness of creating virtual communities thanks to internet technology.Today, actors in the building industry show their wishes to take advantage of this recent opportunity, toimprove global quality of design and construction process...

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...