Histoire des sciences médicales
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HeLa cells line was established in 1951 from cervical cancer cells taken from a young AfroAmerican patient, Henrietta Lacks, used without the permission of the family. Finally, in 2013, an agreement was established between the family and NIH: for any study, authorization is needed, first referred to a working group comprising scientists, ethicists and two members of the family.
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Historical Article
[The unicorn and the unicorn horn among apothecaries and physicians].
In the 4th century A. D. the first unicorn was shown as a little horse with a twisted horn and was completely different from the Oriental one described by Marco Polo. The new unicorn appeared during the 4th century A. ⋯ In the 15th & 17th centuries the unicorn was found again in famous tapestries like La Dame B la Licorne as it meant courage, speed and purity. Since the 6th century the powder of unicorn horn was used as a medicine or a drug against poisoning. Depictions of unicorn can be found in chemist's signs, engravings or paintings until the 19th century.
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Historical Article
[Development of the stethoscope from Laennec to Cammann].
A history of Stethoscope from Laennec to Camman through Piorry, Nauche, Louis, Landouzy (father), Commins, Williams, Stokes, Billing and Depaul.
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Historical Article
[The disfigured men represented by the great painters (O. Dix - G. Grosz - R. Freida.) Disfiguration in the history of art].
Sophie Delaporte's book, Philippe Paillard's, Chantal Roussels's novels and Dupeyron's movie underline the difficulties of repairing physical and moral sufferings of the "disfigured men" wounded during the Great War. Beside medical and technical didactic aimed drawings the exhibition of wasted, mutilated or out of repair faces remains little known. In France, Germany or Great Britain there are many artists who took part in war. ⋯ The sight of ruined faces inspired such horror that the artists depicted it only exceptionally and with discretion, before 1914. Without doubt it is the fear of touching the privacy of the face which is a part of the human identity. There are no "disfigured men" in the countless religious paintings of torture, neither in the Disasters of Warfrom painters or engravers like Goya or Jacques Callot.
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The lecture is an allusion to Sournia's work and his book "Mythologies de la médecine moderne". (P. U. F 1969). The author evokes the origins of medical terms such as psyche, hermaphrodite, nymphomania, aphrodisiac, marcissism, hypnotism, etc.