Duffin To See with a Better Eye

A Life of R. T. H. Laennec
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6467-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 474 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

René Théophile Hyacinthe Laennec (1781-1826) is best known for his invention of the stethoscope, one of medicine's most powerful symbols. Histories, novels, and films have cloaked his life in hagiography and legend. Jacalyn Duffin's fascinating new biography relies on a vastly expanded foundation of primary source material, including thousands of pages of handwritten patient records, lecture notes, unpublished essays, and letters. She situates Laennec, the scientist and teacher, within the broader social and intellectual currents of post-Revolutionary France. Her work uncovers a complex character who participated actively in the dramatic changes of his time.

Laennec's famous Treatise on Mediate Auscultation was his only published book, but two lesser known works were left in manuscript: an early treatise on pathological anatomy and a later set of lectures on disease. The three parts of Duffin's biography correspond to these books. First, she examines Laennec's student research on the emerging science of pathological anatomy, the background for his major achievement. Second, she uses his clinical records to trace the discovery and development of "mediate auscultation" (listening through an instrument, or mediator, to sounds within the human body). The stethoscope allowed clinicians to "see" the organic alterations inside their living patients' bodies. Finally, she explores the impact of auscultation on diagnostic practice and on concepts of disease. Analyzed here for the first time in their entirety, Laennec's Collége de France lectures reveal his criticism of over-enthusiastic extrapolations of his own method at the expense of the patient's story.

Originally published in 1998.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Duffin, Jacalyn

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

LIST OF TABLES

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

PART ONE: PATHOLOGY: ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, AND THE BODY POLITIC

CHAPTER ONE Youth and Revolution

CHAPTER TWO Student in the Paris School

CHAPTER THREE Research and Academic Aspirations

CHAPTER FOUR Clinical Practice, Clinical Physiology

CHAPTER FIVE The Restoration: Politics, Hospitals, and Patients

PART TWO: AUSCULTATION

CHAPTER SIX The Discovery

CHAPTER SEVEN The Treatise on Mediate

Auscultation: The Lungs

CHAPTER EIGHT The Treatise on Mediate

Auscultation: The Heart and Clinical Reasoning

PART THREE: DISEASE

CHAPTER NINE Reception and Impact of

Auscultation: Reviews, Diagnoses, and Broussais

CHAPTER TEN Return to Paris: Elite Practice

and Professor in the Clinic

CHAPTER ELEVEN At the College de France: The Second Unpublished Book

CHAPTER TWELVE Between the Quick and the

Dead: Pathology, Physiology, and Clinical

Medicine

APPENDIX A A Note on Sources: Scientific

Papers and Correspondence

APPENDIX B Laennec's Finances

APPENDIX C Patients in the Two Editions of the

Traite de Pauscultation

APPENDIX D Laennec's Network: A Glossary of

Frequently Cited Names

APPENDIX E The Family of R. T. H. Laennec

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF R. T. H. LAENNEC: PUBLICATIONS, REVIEWS, AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX