Fables a l'Usage des Medecins de Leurs Patients et des bien portants

Title

en_US Fables a l'Usage des Medecins de Leurs Patients et des bien portants

Description

en_US Language note: French

en_US Bernard Duburque

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T20:12:07Z

en_US 1998-08

en_US 1996

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:12:07Z

Date Issued

en_US 1996

Abstract

en_US The last part of that title for those whose French is as weak as mine means something like and of those in good health. As the back cover mentions, these twenty-three fables treat of all sorts of things from health to mustard to evolution to miracles. For those, the cover goes on, who find here a touch of skepticism, it might be good to remember Hippocrates: The art of wisdom and the art of medicine are very close; all that the first gives, the second puts into practice. The first fable is Reflexions sur les Causes de Toutes Choses (7-8). It does a fine job of showing how the same accident gets analysed differently by different persons. Everyone thinks his solution is right and everyone downplays the causality that others think central. The ambulance that is saving someone's life is also adding to the agglomeration of interruptions of our sleep that is killing us (9)! A little man gets a cold (10-12). The virus who is enjoying inhabiting this fellow does not want to go back out into the cruel world! The fable goes on, I believe, into all the complexities of what modern medicine does next to the little man's body -- all of it unintentionally giving the virus more chance to stay alive in the man. The author even offers a comment. The symptoms that make us suffer are often the body's counter-measures against the invasion. To fight these symptoms on the pretext of making ourselves more comfortable sabotages our bodies' means of combatting the disease.

Identifier

en_US 7882 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/83133

Publisher

en_US Nouvelles Editions Debresse

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PQ2664.U38F3 1996 See all items with this value

en_US Bernard Duburque See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole