Libros de Duffin Jacalyn

Una Historia De La Medicina Escandalosamente Breve

To See With A Better Eye

• 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...

To See With A Better Eye

• 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...

Lovers And Livers

• In addition to whatever else they may be, says Duffin (history of medicine, Queen's U.) diseases are ideas influenced by the tastes and preoccupations of society, and the history of disease is an exercise in intellectual history intimately related...

Langstaff

• 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)...