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Understanding brain through diseases

Intro Genetic and neurological disorders vs. technologies What have we learned from all the mutations identified in neurological patients? ↓ download pdf S&F_n. 11_2014 Understanding the causes underlying diseases affecting brain function, mental disabilities and other disorders is a very…
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Meccanica è vita. Da Calvino alla robotica evolutiva

Levi e Calvino rispondono alle provocazioni di Ross Mente e materia: una conversione possibile? Robotica umanista ↓ download pdf S&F_n. 11_2014 Often the scientific innovations are better explained by literature than scientific essay. In the stories of writers they acquire…
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Vox populi, vox medici

Intro L’infection de la médecine Instinct, langage et vérité Prestige et discrédit des proverbes 5. Le vulgaire, le médecin et l’invisible ↓ download pdf S&F_n. 13_2015 Physicians in early nineteenth century France are repeatedly alarmed about the contemptible persistence of…
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Le médecin des sauvages: le jongleur

Introduction Histoire sémantique Le regard sur l’Autre Histoire des images  L’exportation d’un conflit  Epilogue ↓ download pdf S&F_n. 13_2015 The term «jongleur» is currently employed in Quebequois French with reference to the shaman-healer of the Amerindians. The authors explore the…
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