Luc Perino

Books

• Les nouveaux paradoxes de la médecine, 2012
• A quoi sert vraiment un médecin?, 2011
• Une brève histoire du médicament, 2009. An essay about drugs and their history, ranging from the remote times of Homo Sapiens, when they resorted to magic and the divine to the new scientific market dominated by the invading and intrusive drug industry which influences the medical thinking and everyone's behavior.
• Darwin viendra-t-il, 2008. The setting is Oxford on Saturday 30 June 1860, a few months after the astonishing publication of Charles Darwin's « On the Origin of Species ». The British Science Association has set up a debate between the representatives of the Anglican Church and the Science Academy, both hostile to the natural selection theory promoted by Darwin. The author takes advantage of this debate to draw a gallery of portraits of Victorian scientists, religious and public figures.
• Humeurs médicales, 2006
• La sagesse du médecin, 2004. The practice of a medical doctor can be seen as an iniatory journey and a way to discover oneself and the world. Each case leaves the physician pondering over life and Perino shows through many examples how simple questions has led him to thinking far from what he had been taught at the Medical school.
• Carnets de santé, 2004
• Le Bobologue, 2001. A neologism which could be translated as « Physician of scratches, sores and pains ». Today the healing roles of a physician are multiple : psychiatrist, confessor, healer of many sores and wounds. In the end, the author is inclined to think that after 10.000 years a clinical physician is for his patients a shaman or a wizard.