This article analyzes anorexia nervosa through the hypothesis that at its core lies a profound alteration in the perception of time. More specifically, it develops the idea that time has evaporated for the anorexic subject (who lives outside of time). This distortion leads to compulsive behaviors - such as feeling compelled to act urgently or avoiding empty spaces - which are an organized response to the inability to contextualize emotions within a temporal framework. Ultimately, the fundamental loss of the sense of time produces, in the person in remission, the feeling of having wasted their time.

The figure of Jean-Baptiste Pussin defies the categories of the history of professions. Neither fully assignable to a specific status nor reducible to a fixed role, he eludes the usual frameworks upon which disciplinary narratives are constructed. By adopting a function-based approach, it becomes possible to shed light on what categories of status or profession leave in the shadows: a set of situated, relational, and organizational practices at the heart of the emergence of psychiatric care.

An understanding of history allows nurses to comprehend how they have shaped the community to which they belong. The profession's trajectory throughout the 20th century illustrates the gradual establishment of a strong professional identity, one that has gained lasting recognition among the general public. This evolution was underpinned by an increasingly autonomous approach to knowledge, despite various and sometimes significant obstacles, culminating in the emergence and recognition of nursing as an academic discipline in the second decade of the 21st century.

At the start of the Covid-19 crisis in France, nurses were hailed as heroes. Yet this enthusiasm quickly waned, and healthcare workers were once again overlooked. This is not the first time they have been treated as heroes, only to be forgotten. In fact, it is a historical pattern in France. Why is that? This article explores this question, shedding light on some of the factors that cause the nursing profession to be cyclically celebrated, only to be neglected afterwards.

The 70[th] anniversary of the Journal Soins as well as the 30[th] of the textbook La Pensée infirmière, and the end of the author's term as director of the Nursing History Research Unit, this article takes a critical look at the place accorded to the history of nursing in nursing education. Through a feminist and political analysis, it highlights that historical knowledge is either overlooked or reduced to the figure of Florence Nightingale. By recalling the power once held by hospital nuns, it advocates for the full integration of this rich historical heritage into nursing education curricula.

The nursing profession continues to be shaped by persistent stereotypes: that it is historically a female-dominated field, that it has exclusively religious origins, that it is subordinate to medicine, and that it lacks its own body of knowledge. This article aims to demonstrate that these apparent truths do not hold up to historical analysis. Drawing on recent work in the history of care, as well as research on antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the nineteenth century, it establishes that these perceptions are the product of discontinuous historiographical constructions and processes of social normalization. The history of nurses, when approached from the perspective of care practices themselves, thus serves as a powerful tool for deconstructing contemporary stereotypes.

The history of nursing is a cornerstone of the discipline's affirmation and development. Against a backdrop of growing workplace dissatisfaction, it allows us to reconnect with the profession's values, highlight its prominent figures, and recall the struggles that have fostered nurses' autonomy and recognition. Despite challenges related to sources and institutional support, this history remains an essential tool for strengthening both the identity and autonomy of the profession.

Nurses rely daily on patients' histories through anamnesis, one of the foundational acts of nursing care, yet often maintain a more uncertain relationship with their own professional history. This article explores this paradox and examines the functions of nursing history in a context of professional transformation. Beyond its memorial dimension, nursing history emerges as a critical, pedagogical, and disciplinary resource that contributes to professional coherence, knowledge transmission, and the development of nursing science.

This study explores the ethical tensions experienced by self-employed registered nurses in their daily practice. Based on a focus group conducted within a territorial professional health community, it highlights tensions relating to autonomy, responsibility, administrative constraints, interprofessional coordination and recognition of skills. These issues may affect quality of working life and call for stronger support for multiprofessional practices.

Perceptions of ageing, which are often negative and focused on dependency, are open to scrutiny and can be challenged. The concept of healthy ageing, promoted by the World Health Organisation, emphasises the maintenance of functional abilities as well as prevention. The patient is viewed as an active participant in their own ageing process, in line with an approach based on empowerment. From this perspective, interprofessional support-particularly that provided by advanced practice nurses-plays a central role in the management of frailty. A specialisation in gerontology would therefore help to better address the challenges of ageing.