René Théophile Hyacinthe Laennec (1781-1826) is best known for his invention of the stethoscope, one of medicines most powerful symbols. Histories, novels, and films have cloaked his life in hagiography and legend. Jacalyn Duffins fascinatin...
René Théophile Hyacinthe Laennec (1781-1826) is best known for his invention of the stethoscope, one of medicines most powerful symbols. Histories, novels, and films have cloaked his life in hagiography and legend. Jacalyn Duffins fascinatin...
A unique and readable microhistory of an ordinary physician and his community during a period of revolutionary medical change. Duffin bases her insights on a detailed computer-assisted analysis of 40 years of extant daybooks of James Langstaff (1825-1889)...