Editore: Princeton University Press 15 F, 1998
ISBN 10: 0691037086 ISBN 13: 9780691037080
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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. To See with a Better Eye: A Life of R. T. H. Laennec (Princeton Legacy Library) This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .
Editore: Princeton University Press 99/b /15 F, 1998
ISBN 10: 0691037086 ISBN 13: 9780691037080
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Editore: Princeton University Press, 1998
ISBN 10: 0691037086 ISBN 13: 9780691037080
Da: Better World Books: West, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
Condizione: Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
Editore: Princeton University Press, U.S.A., 1998
ISBN 10: 0691037086 ISBN 13: 9780691037080
Da: A Turn of the Page Books, Fishers, IN, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 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foundation of primary source material, including thousands of pages of handwritten patient records, lecture notes, unpublished essays, and letters.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.
Editore: Princeton University Press, c.1998,, 1998
ISBN 10: 0691037086 ISBN 13: 9780691037080
Da: Harry Alter, Sylva, NC, U.S.A.
hardcover, Condizione: Very Good, Princeton University Press, c.1998, 1st., 8vo., cloth, 453pp., VG/VG $.
Editore: Princeton: Princeton Univ. Pr. c. 1998., 1998
ISBN 10: 0691037086 ISBN 13: 9780691037080
Da: de Wit Books, HUTCHINSON, KS, U.S.A.
Fine, unmarked Hardback; illus.; DJ-Fine. xvii + 453 pp.
Editore: Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1998
ISBN 10: 0691037086 ISBN 13: 9780691037080
Da: Any Amount of Books, London, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
Large 8vo. pp: xiv, 453. Original publisher's black boards with gilt lettering at spine in original publisher's white, brown and grey dust jacket. Illustrated in black and white. ISBN: 0691037086 Dust jacket shows signs of shelfwear and is curleded around the edges. Otherwise solid and internally clean copy. Very good in good dust jacket.