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To See with a Better Eye - A Life of R. T. H. Laennec (Hardcover)
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To See with a Better Eye - A Life of R. T. H. Laennec (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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Rene Theophile 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lecture notes, unpublished essays, and letters.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 College 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. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press
since its founding in 1905.
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