To See with a Better Eye : : A Life of R. T. H. Laennec /

To See with a Better Eye : : A Life of R. T. H. Laennec / / Jacalyn Duffin.

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 fou...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Duffin, Jacalyn,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1998
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 376
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Physical Description:1 online resource (474 p.) :; 46 halftones 12 line illus. 23 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • 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 At the College de France: The Second Unpublished Book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 Traité de Fauscultation
  • 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
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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