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Biological and Medical Sciences
This volume begins with an essential and unpublished text of the late Mirko D. Grmek (1924-2000) on rising diseases. A set of 34 papers deals with the most diverse aspects of biological and medical sciences : biology in the classical age, natural history and world exploration, pathologies, medicine, hygiene, physiology, biochemistry and biotechnologies.
Current Catalog
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Ladies in the Laboratory II
A fascinating analysis of the work of notable women by national group, giving thorough data comparing the contributions of women in choice fields. Among the women presented are more than a few colorful personalities representative of the entire social scale, from a royal princess to the daughter of a Paris slum shopkeeper. Researchers in the field of women's history and science history will find this indexed volume a valuable resource.
Quality and Quantity
This book, first published in 2001, is an account of eugenicists' efforts to improve the inherited biological quality of the French population.
Le développement de la paléontologie contemporaine
Fondée sur des bases épistémologiques solides, cette analyse présente l'émergence et les transformations des idées concernant la nature et l'origine des fossiles, depuis la Renaissance jusqu'à la récente théorie synergique de l'évolution.
The One-Sex Body on Trial: The Classical and Early Modern Evidence
By far the most influential work on the history of the body, across a wide range of academic disciplines, remains that of Thomas Laqueur. This book puts on trial the one-sex/two-sex model of Laqueur's Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud through a detailed exploration of the ways in which two classical stories of sexual difference were told, retold and remade from the mid-sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Agnodike, the 'first midwife' who disguises herself as a man and then exposes herself to her potential patients, and Phaethousa, who grows a beard after her husband leaves her, are stories from the ancient world that resonated in the early modern period in particular. Tra...
Arbre seul
Poète, philosophe et biologiste, docteur ès-sciences, DENIS BUICAN, ancien universitaire roumain, est devenu un écrivain français depuis l'automne 1969, quand il a choisi de vivre en France. Arbre seul, profondément enraciné dans la terre du pays de son enfance, ne tarit pas les sources de sa sève créatrice — transplantée en France — mais, au contraire, tout en poursuivant son activité d'historien et philosophe des sciences, il publie dès sa première année de séjour à Paris quelques-uns de ses vers (Les Lettres Nouvelles, septembre/octobre 1970) et, en 1973, ses poèmes alors inédits — maintenant présentés dans ce volume — sont distingués par le prix Cino del Duca.
Past Imperfect
Swept up in the vortex of communism, French postwar intellectuals developed a blind spot to Stalinist tyranny. Albert Camus, who had been an authentic moral voice of the Resistance, pretended not to know about the crimes and terrors of the Soviet Union. Jean-Paul Sartre perverted logic to make an apologia for the Soviet invasion of Hungary. Simone de Beauvoir called for social change to be brought about in a single convulsion, or else not at all. Foolish French thinkers, suffering self-imposed moral anesthesia, defended the credibility of the show trials in Stalinized Eastern Europe. In a devastating study, Judt, a professor of European studies at New York University, argues that the belief system of postwar intellectuals, propped up by faith in communism, reflected fatal weaknesses in French culture such as the fragility of the liberal tradition and the penchant for grand theory. He also strips away the postwar myth that the small, fighting French Resistance was assisted by the mass of the nation.
