Jean-Marc Eyssalet, Évelyne Malnic

Chinese Medicine

Alain Ehrenberg

The Mechanics of Passions: The New Contemporary Individualism

The book’s very stimulating thesis: the twenty-first century will be the century of the brain and the neurosciences, which are already playing the role that psychoanalysis played in the twentieth century.

Pierre Duroux, Michel de Boucaud, Marie-Dominique Leborgne

Living with Asthma

Jean-Philippe Derenne

Covid-19

All that we know about the plasticity of this virus, which is constantly mutating and changing, which makes it completely unpredictable. Even in countries where the crisis was believed to be over (China, Iceland, Slovakia, etc.), new cases are emerging.

William C. Dement, Christopher Vaughan

How to have a good night's sleep

For more than forty years, William Dement has been researching the subject of sleep and of sleep-related problems. According to Dement, if we don’t sleep well, we cannot be healthy; but it’s impossible to sleep well if we don’t know what disturbs our sleep patterns, or what we stand to gain from an adequate night’s rest. We are careful about our diets and we make sure we get enough exercise. Yet we often forget that it is equally important to sleep well. Sleep is often sacrificed to the demands of our daily lives. Doctors still tend to minimise the physical, emotional and psychological risks that result from a failure to give sleep its due. This fundamental work by a world-renowned specialist enables us to find out how we should sleep, in order to feel better and keep healthy. William C. Dement is a world authority in the field of sleep and in the treatment of sleep disturbances. In the 1970s, he founded one of the earliest centres specialising in the study of sleep at Stanford University, in California. He continues to teach at Stanford. Christopher Vaughan is the author of How Life Begins : The Science of Life in the Womb.

Patrice Debré, Jean-Paul Gonzalez

The Life and Death of Epidemics

A fascinating history of epidemics and the struggle to overcome them, from earliest times to the present

Patrice Debré

Research in Times of Epidemics From AIDS to Covid

The views of a doctor, who analyzes the AIDS crisis as the catalyst for a new health democracy, in relation to the recent debates on the management of public health policies.

Jean Dausset

A Nod in the Direction of Life The Great HLA Adventure

Jean Dausset’s finding that white blood cells play an active role in immunization won him the Nobel Prize for Medicine and opened a new area of biological investigation, both in pure and in applied research. The HLA system harbours a unique peptide which may be regarded as the essence of the self in opposition to everything else much as the pineal gland was regarded as the seat of the soul by Descartes. The distinction between the self and the non-self is an essential one in immunology where an individual’s defensive system must fight off foreign bodies while at the same time defending his or her own system. In his book, Jean Dausset recounts the story of his discovery and introduces the reader to other fascinating aspects of his life and work.