La revue du praticien Claude Quétel le 20-08-10 Sous le règne de Louis XIV, avec la création de l’Hôpital général, les fous furent-ils réellement les victimes d’une politique d’exclusion systématique visant à les soustraire définitivement de la société ? Une vision romantique de la folie, longtemps en vogue, mais que dément une analyse minutieuse des…
BBC News More than 50 years ago Enoch Powell, the then health minister, announced the closure of the great old Victorian and Edwardian asylums – refuge for some, incarceration and controversial treatment for others.
En 1917, les vainqueurs de la révolution sont confrontés à une société russe pauvre et essentiellement agricole. Pour assurer l’industrialisation du pays, il est nécessaire de mettre l’individu au service du collectif. Les travaux de Pavlov sont mis à profit pour conditionner les ouvriers dans les usines, mais aussi rééduquer les «éléments non prolétariens» dans…
Stewart Bell, National Post Aside from the United States, Canada is the last remaining developed nation that still grants citizenship to everyone born in the country, regardless of the circumstances. As a result, giving birth in Canada has become, to some, a back door into the West. Foreign-language websites now offer to house pregnant mothers close…
Secret Service agent Mike Adams used the identity of a grifter named Justin Todd Moss to sell criminals fake IDs and build a case against them. The story behind the Secret Service’s long con: Wired From late 2007 until March 2011, if you were an identity thief or credit card fraud artist in need…
The story of a beautiful rare tree—and the man who took a chainsaw to it. “There was only one giant golden spruce in the world, and, until a man named Grant Hadwin took a chainsaw to it, in 1997, it had stood for more than three hundred years in a steadily shrinking patch of old-growth…
An essay by White House reporter Helen Thomas, who died Saturday at 92, on how the press failed to do its job in the run-up to the Iraq war. She recalls one exchange with former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan: “‘Did we invade those countries?’ “At that point McClellan called on another reporter. “Those were…
«Plus de 5000 manifestants se sont rassemblés dimanche au croisement des rues Clark et Sainte-Catherine à Montréal.» Journal de Montréal «Des centaines de personnes ont marché dans les rues de Montréal, dimanche.» La Presse «Plus de mille personnes ont répondu à l’appel lancé par le Rassemblement des citoyens engagés pour un Québec ouvert. » Radio-Canada français «Hundreds marched through the…
Big Sugar explores the dark history and modern power of the world’s reigning sugar cartels. Using dramatic reenactments, it reveals how sugar was at the heart of slavery in the West Indies in the 18th century, while showing how present-day consumers are slaves to a sugar-based diet. Going undercover, Big Sugar witnesses the appalling working…