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La présente étude est née de l'observation d'une récurrence, celle du thème de la médecine dans la littérature du XVIIIe siècle, et tout particulièrement dans la production romanesque. Si ce champ de recherches a été défriché par des travaux ponctuels qui ont en quelque sorte ouvert la voie, il n'a pas, à ce jour, fait l'objet d'une exploration systématique comme celle que cette étude se propose de tenter. L'entreprise conduit naturellement à une réflexion méthodologique. Explorer la médecine d'une époque par le biais de la littérature aurait pu, il y a encore quelques décennies, passer pour de la provocation. Se confinant dans les limites d'un narcissisme étroit, la critique littéraire, sauf à se livrer à des investigations thématiques dans un esprit purement descriptif et mimétique, se refusait obstinément à solliciter l'apport constructif de l'Histoire des Idées. La vogue croissante de l'historiographie au cours des dernières années rend le dessein beaucoup moins subversif. Distincte de l'histoire traditionnelle et moins restrictive, cette discipline a pour but d'opérer une synthèse entre les différentes branches de l'histoire philosophique, religieuse, histoire des sciences et des mentalités. Par le tableau synoptique qu'elle se propose, l'historiographie met l'accent sur la relativité de l'interprétation historique.

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Vital Signs offers both a compelling reinterpretation of the nineteenth-century novel and a methodological challenge to literary historians. Rejecting theories that equate realism with representation, Lawrence Rothfield argues that literary history forms a subset of the history of discourses and their attendant practices. He shows how clinical medicine provided Balzac, Flaubert, Eliot, and others with narrative strategies, epistemological assumptions, and models of professional authority. He also traces the linkages between medicine's eventual decline in scientific and social status and realism's displacement by naturalism, detective fiction, and modernism.

Realism in literature. --- Physicians in literature. --- Medical fiction --- Comparative literature --- Literature and medicine --- French fiction --- Medicine in literature. --- English fiction --- Neorealism (Literature) --- Magic realism (Literature) --- Mimesis in literature --- Medical care in literature --- Medicine and literature --- Medicine --- History and criticism. --- French and English. --- English and French. --- History --- Medicine in literature --- Physicians in literature --- Realism in literature --- 82.091 --- 82-31 "18" --- 82.091 Vergelijkende literatuurstudie --- Vergelijkende literatuurstudie --- 82-31 "18" Roman--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899 --- Roman--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899 --- English and French --- French and English --- History and criticism --- English language --- French language --- Thematology --- anno 1800-1899

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Like many fields of science, the future of medicine is frequently predicted by the science fiction writers of today, very much as many of today’s medical advances were presaged by science fiction stories of the past. In this book, physician and science fiction author Brad Aiken conveys his own speculations about our medical future through nine highly entertaining and thought-provoking short stories. Touching upon a great variety of themes, including but not limited to telemedicine and remote surgery, vaccination strategies against unknown deathly pathogens, nanomedicine to cure diseases and retard ageing, bionics, cloning and euthanasia, we get a glimpse of what might be awaiting humanity.  Yet, in these stories it is always the protagonists, humans after all, who remain at the center stage, not the new technologies. This provides the fictional material with a unique blend of science fiction and social fantasy. It also warns us to be wary of the pitfalls of too much reliance on dehumanizing technology and to make sure it remains our helper, not our master.  Last but not least, an extensive scientific essay investigates the interplay between science fiction and both past and current advances in medical sciences and technology, making the link to the fictional material in the book as well as to the relevant scientific literature. Brad Aiken is the Medical Director for Rehabilitation at Baptist Hospital in Miami, Florida. He has published several scientific articles, and has presented to both professional and non-professional groups on a variety of topics. Dr. Aiken has received numerous science awards, including the Navy Science Award, as well as awards from the Army, the Air Force and NASA.  He began writing science fiction while in college at Boston University, and published his first book, Starscape: The Silver Bullet, in 2000.  His latest book, Zone of the Tenth Degree, was published in August 2012. His short stories have appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Padwolf Presents, and the vampire anthology New Blood.

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