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• 01 mai 2020

  Lyon

  Call for papers - Prehistory and Antiquity

  Denunciation or dissimulation? Medical error in Antiquity and the Middle Ages

  Greece, Rome, Egypt, Near-East

  Mediator, Depakine, Thalidomides, contaminated blood, breast implants... health scandals over the past fifty years have regularly focused general attention on the problem of medical risk. They have raised many questions, abundantly relayed by the different media, showing us how crucial and complex the question of medical error is: where did the error come from? But before becoming a scandal, medical error has also been an inherent risk in the practice of medicine, since its very beginning. A mistake in diagnosis, prognosis or therapy, no matter how small, can have disastrous consequences for the doctor and the patient if not detected and corrected. Far from the huge media coverage of current health scandals, what is the status of medical error in ancient medicines and what are its issues?

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• 23 nov 2012

  24 nov 2012

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - History

  Describe, imagine and construct space: Egyptian toponymy from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

  Ce colloque s'inscrit dans le cadre du programme de recherche « Systèmes toponymiques en Égypte de l’Antiquité au Moyen Âge », développé par l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale du Caire en partenariat avec Paris IV Sorbonne et comprendra deux sessions de conférences autour des thématiques suivantes : « Légendes onomastiques et imaginaire de l'espace », « Toponymie et description du paysage », ainsi qu'une table-ronde réunissant les participants au programme et un atelier de formation à destination des étudiants de master et doctorat. 

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