Stories
- Article
Paris Morgue and a public spectacle of death
Known as the “only free theatre in Paris”, La Morgue was a popular place for the public to view cadavers on display.
- Article
Drawing the human animal
We might try to deny our animal instincts, but this series of extraordinary 17th-century drawings suggests they are only too apparent.
- Book extract
The shape of thought
Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s description of the moment in 1887 when he saw a brain cell for the first time never fails to move neuroscientist Richard Wingate to tears. Here he captures that enduring sense of wonder.
- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
Catalogue
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La nécessité de Claude Bernard : actes du colloque de Saint-Julien-en-Beaujolais des 8, 9 & 10 décembre 1989 / organisé par le Musée Claude Bernard & le CERIEP (Centre de recherche de l'Institut d'études politiques - Université Lumière-Lyon 2) ; sous la direction de Jacques Michel.
Date: [2001], ©2001- Books
L'obstacle épistémologique en physiologie / Michel-Marie Foulley.
Foulley, Michel-Marie.Date: 1979- Books
Pasteur, professeur et doyen de la Faculté des sciences de Lille : 1854-1857 / Denise Wrotnowska.
Wrotnowska, Denise.Date: 1975- Books
Histoire des accidents du travail / edité par l'Université de Nantes, Faculté de droit et des sciences politiques.
Date: [1977]- Books
Souvenirs des hôpitaux et de la Faculté de Paris de 1895 à 1905 / [Paul Delaunay].
Delaunay, Paul, 1878-1958Date: 1981