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This research questions the prevention and health promotion practices developed for young people, in France, and re-examines the nature of competences enlisted in the classical model of empowerment in health education. Moving away from the epidemiological postulate of evidence based medicine (EBM), it explores another approach of these educational practices. The research uses the perspective of narrative mediation; it tries also to identify issues about a better knowledge of oneself, making more comprehensive the issues of young students' health.

Keywords: Éducation, santé, autonomisation, savoirs expérientiels, narration, attention, Health education, empowerment, experiential knowledge, narrative-based medicine, care

The industrial suburb of Hoboken near Anvers (northern Belgium) is the locality of the largest non-ferrous metal factory in the area. A group of doctors have decided to clearly situate their medical practice within the framework of the class struggle. They seek to develop a medical practice that serves the interests of workers. In this interview they describe their skirmishes with the Medical Association and explain their own organization, its objectives and activities concerning industrial health, pollution problems and clinical treatment of working-class families. The socio-political commitment of this group of doctors fundamentally characterizes their work.

The "Health Shops" in France are not medical dispensaries but rather centers of information, reflexion and discussion for those concerned about health. They seek to provide critical information and to answer questions on the advantages and disadvantages of different medical techniques.The ultimate objective of these centers is to contest the medicalization of health care. The "Health Shops" work with unions, health commitees in factories and various consumer, parent and women's groups.

La conquête espagnole du Mexique de 1521 a eu de nombreuses répercussions. Le Colegio de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco fut construit par des franciscains dans le but d’instruire les fils de l’élite indigène. C’est d’ailleurs entre les murs de ce Colegio qu’un des legs de la vice-royauté de Nouvelle-Espagne du XVIe siècle fut créé. En effet, un manuscrit sur la médecine aztèque, soit le Libellus de Medicinalibus Indorum Herbis, est réalisé par Martin de la Cruz et Juan Badiano sous la supervision du franciscain Jacobo de Grado et à la demande du fils de l’ancien Vice-roi, Francisco de Mendoza. À travers un désir de partage et de conservation de leur culture par les deux auteurs, un désir d’obtenir du financement pour le Colegio, de légitimer …

Objectif : Aucune échelle de mesure n'est utilisée en médecine familiale pour mesurer le fardeau clinique que représente la présence simultanée de plusieurs problèmes médicaux chez un même patient (multimorbidité). Le but de cette étude était de valider un outil qui permette une évaluation fiable de la multimorbidité. Les objectifs spécifiques étaient de vérifier les fidélités inter juges et intrajuge du Cumulative Illness Rating Scale (CIRS) complété par des infirmières en révisant le dossier médical (CIRS-INF/D) et de comparer la fidélité inter-juges du CIRS-INF/D à celle du CIRS complété par des infirmières lors d'une entrevue clinique (CIRS-INF/C) dans un contexte de médecine familiale ambulatoire ainsi que de documenter la validité concomitante de ces deux formes de CIRS complétées par des infirmières. Conclusion . Cette étude …

AbstractThis article studies the evolution of the sanitary engineers in Montreal, from their emergence in the nineteenth century until the middle of the twentieth century. Poorly researched by historians of medicine and, more generally, by specialists in urban history, these experts, however, led in the development of infrastructures related to public health. In spite of their important role, it is difficult to track down the history of their group, since they were not officially represented by organizations and their training, within schools of engineering or medical colleges, not fully independent. By describing the career of some sanitary engineers and by analyzing the development of the training in sanitary engineering, the authors intend to shed light on a group of experts relatively ignored in urban history.

When Andreas Vesalius published the Seven Books on the Fabric of the Human Body in 1543, it was with satisfaction that he created a scandal in the field of medicine and, more generally, among cultivated European readers. Assuming a voice of authority in medicine at the age of twenty-eight, he developed his account of dissection as a series of personal observations and denunciations of poor anatomists, beginning with his masters. But not only was this irreverence public, it also created a public, represented on the frontispiece of the work: it established the book as a tribunal of science. The first victim to be tried was Jacques Dubois, professor in Paris' Faculty of Medicine; his response, published in 1551, fuelled a lengthy posthumous debate, feeding the controversy upon which Vesalius's posterity is founded.