Vital Forces and Vital Laws in Eighteenth-Century French Physiology

"Vital Forces and Vital Laws in Eighteenth-Century French Physiology"

The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century

This fine volume of essays on the nobility in the later eighteenth century is a most welcome addition to the existing literature. It comprises eleven essays by American historians whose research engages with the concept of nobility. The collection issues from a conference in 2004 and reflects the cultural turn in historiography that has such sway, particularly in America. There is a stimulating...

The iris in eighteenth-century physiology

the organization of nursing in different types of hospital is studied. Margaret Connor Versluysen points out that to study nursing history without the "amateur" medical work carried out by women is misleading. She discusses the response to and limitations of Ehrenreich and English's Witches, midwives and nurses, and stresses the importance of power differences between the sexes in analysing the...

Elan vital chez Bergson

La Philosphie de Bergson vise la vie spirituelle, le spiritualisme, la joie, l’appétit et le changement perpétuel de la réalité. En conséquence las trios notions de la durée, de la mémoire et de l’élan vital constituent la réalité de la vie dans son cheminement et dans son progrès. L’ensemble de ces notions fondamentales décèle la contenu de la vie, et dégage la réalité de ses rigidités de l’au...

Vital signs: Vital for surviving in-hospital cardiac arrest?