What is the attitude and what are the positions adopted by the Catholic Church in Belgium vis-à-vis the family between the middle of the nineteenth century and World War I? The question is important for several reasons. Between 1750 and 1950, the family underwent impressive changes (Ariès, 1960; Burguière, 1986). The Church occupied an exceptional, and contested, place within the conjugal and f...

Until recently, as the authors point out, the history of medicine had doctors as its heroes. Today, when the concern of most researchers is with the social, professional, and institutional aspects of the history of medicine and more broadly with health and healers of all descriptions, modem scholarship has become "increasingly critical of, or even hostile towards, the profession". No one denies...

long-term historical context is vital for their understanding. Of course, it would be asking a lot of any text of this nature to be fully comprehensive. However it would perhaps have been worth paying a bit more attention to regional differences in health and medicine in the period concerned. Britain is not a homogeneous entity, in health or any other terms, as much recent historical work has p...