Celebrating 200 years of the stethoscope : how doctors learnt to see with their ears / School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds.

  • University of Leeds. Faculty of Medicine and Health
Date:
2017
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About this work

Also known as

Celebrating two hundred years of the stethoscope

Publication/Creation

Leeds, UK : Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, 2017.

Physical description

39 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits ; 21 cm

Notes

Title from cover.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (page 38).

Contents

How doctors learnt to see with their ears -- The invention of the stethoscope -- Discovering the Leeds Laennec -- The Leeds Museum of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine -- Using technology to recreate the Laennec stethoscope -- Stethoscope stories -- Timeline of the invention and development of the stethoscope - When Laennec's biographer came to Leeds... in conversation with Jacalyn Duffin -- The Future of the Stethoscope: Public Debate -- A theatrical interpretation of the invention of the stethoscope -- The Leeds Medical School in the era of Laennec -- Thackrah and Thackray - two famous Leeds medical names -- Ultrasound teaching at Leeds -- The future of the stethoscope.

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