Antoine Spire, Mano Siri

Cancer: The Patient is a Human Being

n this book, we wish to tackle all the problems raised by the terrible quantitative and qualitative development of cancer in France...

Marie-Christine Hardy-Baylé, Christine Bronnec

What are the Limits of Psychiatry ?

On the one hand, an ever increasing demand, on the other, widespread agreement that the profession in is the grip of a crisis. The result is that the supply is badly equipped to deal with the demand. What are the origins of this crisis ? Does it run as deep as the very foundations and identity of psychiatry itself ? In particular, what can be done to transform this natural diversity into a real strength ? Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Marie-Christine Hardy-Baylé works at the André-Mignot hospital, and is a professor of medicine at the University of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. She heads the Association for the Promotion of Public Health of Yvelines Sud. A hospital director, Christine Bronnec, is in charge of the ANEAS project to evaluate psychiatric needs, and is co-president of the Association for the Promotion of Public Health of Yvelines Sud.

Marc Schwob

Memory, how to preserv it and develop it

Yves Pouliquen, Jean-Jacques Saragoussi

Glasses or Laser?

New ways of correcting failing eyesight have been developed as a consequence of our increased lifespan...

Patrick Berche

Should We Still Be Afraid of the Flu?

The fascinating history of influenza, from the Middle Ages to the recent reappearance of a virus that had been vanquished

Pierre Joly

The Medication of the Future

This is a critical assessment of the pharmacological revolution of the past forty years, written by an insider and active participant...

Bernard Kouchner, Patrick Aeberhard, Jean-Pierre Daulouède, Bertrand Lebeau Leibovici, William Lowenstein

Toxicos Drug addiction: Thirty Years that Changed Everything – But Tomorrow?]

Against the institutional inertia and the comfort of habits of thought, the invigorating and instructive account by five uncommon brothers in arms, driven by the same will to care for those who in the past were despised.

Petr Skrabanek

The End of Humanitarian Medicine

Medicine is at a crossroads. Traditionally, practitioners helped patients who came to them looking for support, for something to alleviate their suffering. However, the progress which has been accomplished in the last few decades has changed everything. Doctors now claim to be fighting death itself, they believe medicine to have almost limitless powers, and they try to prevent illness by changing behaviour. From this point onwards, our entire existence becomes overmedicalized. In the name of health at any price, doctors now dictate, prescribe and legislate whilst forgetting the essential meaning of their job : to help and to care. A violent criticism of contemporary medicine.