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The Early Modern Birthing Room and Interprofessional Collaboration

    Studies into maternal perceptions of the experience of modern childbirth indicate that “[p]oor interprofessional collaboration [is] detrimental to the quality, safety, and experience of maternity care.”[1] Labouring women suffer when communication between...

Comment Mersenne s’est assagi

  Abstract: In June 1634, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637) wrote to Mersenne, urging him to respect the norms that should prevail in the formation and maintenance of a scientific community. These norms reflect...

Deux exemples d’expérimentations mortelles

Abstract: The anatomical dissection of dead bodies can be considered as some kind of experimentation. Among the parameters that the experimenter can vary—to support a theory, highlight certain facts, or carry out precise measurements—are...

Of Making Cloth: Some Epistemological Lessons

          On November 27, 1661, William Petty presented a “history of clothing” at a meeting of the Royal Society as part of a collective endeavour to collect information about various...