Author: Bénédicte Vergez-Chaignon
Publisher: Editions Complexe
ISBN: 9782870276426
Category : Medicine
Languages : fr
Pages : 356

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Author: Harry W. Paul
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351931032
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 323

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Dr Henri de Rothschild was a fifth generation Rothschild and perhaps the most famous of the Paris Rothschilds of the fin-de-siècle period. A 'sleeping partner' of the bank and the non-drinking owner of Mouton-Rothschild, Henri spent much of his life building medical institutions and promoting scientific medicine, including the promotion of Ehrlich's Salvarsan to cure syphilis and the use of radium to cure cancer. His hospital in a working class area of northern Paris boasted the latest in medical advances. Henri was particularly influential in developing the new science of infant feeding, while his broader concerns with infant health led to his playing a prominent role in the development of the specialty of pediatrics. This biography of Henri de Rothschild focuses on his medical achievements and that of his close family in France. Henri, his wife Mathilde and his mother Thérèse all had busy medical careers during World War I. The book also gives an account of both women's experiences of the war. Along with his explicitly scientific medical concerns, Henri was also a prolific playwright and, under the pseudonym André Pascal, wrote several plays about doctors. This book situates the plays, and particularly the themes of charlatanism, women doctors and medical ethics, in their contemporary context of the social and medical life of Paris. A fascinating and vividly written study of a somewhat neglected figure in the history of the illustrious Rothschild family, this book will make a valuable addition to the libraries of scholars in the history of medicine and those studying child health and welfare, the portrayal of doctors in literature, and more broadly the social and cultural life of early-twentieth century Paris.

Author: Alexandre Lacassagne (médecin).)
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Languages : fr
Pages : 0

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Author: Andrés Horacio Reggiani
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781845451721
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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The temptations of a new genetically informed eugenics and of a revived faith-based, world-wide political stance, this study of the interaction of science, religion, politics and the culture of celebrity in twentieth-century Europe and America offers a fascinating and important contribution to the history of this movement. The author looks at the career of French-born physician and Nobel Prize winner, Alexis Carrel (1873-1944), as a way of understanding the popularization of eugenics through religious faith, scientific expertise, cultural despair and right-wing politics in the 1930s and 1940s. Carrel was among the most prestigious experimental surgeons of his time who also held deeply illiberal views. In Man, the Unknown (1935), he endorsed fascism and called for the elimination of the "unfit." The book became a huge international success, largely thanks to its promotion by Readers' Digest as well as by the author's friendship with Charles Lindbergh. In 1941, he went into the service of the French pro-German regime of Vichy, which appointed him to head an institution of eugenics research. His influence was remarkable, affecting radical Islamic groups as well Le Pen's Front National that celebrated him as the "founder of ecology."

Author: Carl Havelange
Publisher:
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Category : Medical
Languages : fr
Pages : 522

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Du XVIIIe au XXe siècle : plus de deux cents ans au cours desquels le monde s’est transformé, au cours desquels les générations qui nous précédèrent ont, sans toujours en avoir conscience, troqué les formes anciennes de la vie en société contre ce qu’il est convenu d’appeler la modernité. Plus de deux cents ans au cours desquels, pour la première fois dans l’histoire de l’humanité, le temps s’est accéléré et a accouché d’une société nouvelle dont les forces et les contradictions, les réussites et les échecs, déterminent aujourd’hui notre présence collective au monde. Nos actes les plus anodins, nos pensées les plus quotidiennes portent la trace et le poids de cette histoire. Au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, trente années de prospérité ont pu donner au monde occidental l’illusion éphémère d’une société radicalement autre, à jamais délivrée des contraintes du passé. Maintenant, plus de quinze ans après le déclenchement d’une crise au long terme qui révèle la fragilité et les incohérences de notre monde, nul n’est assez naïf pour croire encore au règne sans partage de la raison, du progrès, de l’égalité des chances, du bonheur. L’omniprésence de la guerre, la réapparition — en Occident — d’une pauvreté que l’on croyait presque disparue, l’enlisement du Tiers Monde, la violence toujours nous conduisent à plus d’humilité. Progrès, peut-être : mais celui-ci n’est au fond qu’une manière de saisir le temps, fragile comme l’instinct qui conduit chacun d’entre nous de l’heure de sa naissance à celle de sa mort. Raison, sans doute : mais celle-ci n’est qu’une abstraction transformée sans cesse au hasard des réalités dans lesquelles elle s’incarne. On commence à comprendre combien chaque chose est faite à la fois de son contraire et combien la compréhension du présent nous renvoie aux images du passé. Ces dogmes du Progrès et de la Raison — mythes fondateurs du monde contemporain — ne portaient-ils pas déjà, lorsqu’ils furent formulés au XVIIIe siècle, les mêmes enthousiasmes et les mêmes contradictions qu’aujourd’hui ?

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Category : Médecine
Languages : en
Pages : 66

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Author: George Weisz
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195179692
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 390

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Examines one of the most significant and characteristic features of modern medicine - specialization - in historical and comparative context. This title traces the origins of modern medical specialization to 1830s Paris and examines its spread to Germany, Britain, and the US.

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Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738184464
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Author: Paul Brouardel
Publisher:
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Languages : fr
Pages : 252

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Author: Julie Fette
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801463998
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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In the 1930s, the French Third Republic banned naturalized citizens from careers in law and medicine for up to ten years after they had obtained French nationality. In 1940, the Vichy regime permanently expelled all lawyers and doctors born of foreign fathers and imposed a 2 percent quota on Jews in both professions. On the basis of extensive archival research, Julie Fette shows in Exclusions that doctors and lawyers themselves, despite their claims to embody republican virtues, persuaded the French state to enact this exclusionary legislation. At the crossroads of knowledge and power, lawyers and doctors had long been dominant forces in French society: they ran hospitals and courts, doubled as university professors, held posts in parliament and government, and administered justice and public health for the nation. Their social and political influence was crucial in spreading xenophobic attitudes and rendering them more socially acceptable in France. Fette traces the origins of this professional protectionism to the late nineteenth century, when the democratization of higher education sparked efforts by doctors and lawyers to close ranks against women and the lower classes in addition to foreigners. The legislatively imposed delays on the right to practice law and medicine remained in force until the 1970s, and only in 1997 did French lawyers and doctors formally recognize their complicity in the anti-Semitic policies of the Vichy regime. Fette's book is a powerful contribution to the argument that French public opinion favored exclusionary measures in the last years of the Third Republic and during the Holocaust.