INTRODUCTION

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS ix
3. ILLUSTRATIONS xi
4. TABLES xiii
5. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xv
6. INTRODUCTION 1
7. PART ONE: PATHOLOGY: ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, AND THE BODY POLITIC
8. CHAPTER ONE Youth and Revolution 11
9. CHAPTER TWO. Student in the Paris School 24
10. CHAPTER THREE. Research and Academic Aspirations 54
11. CHAPTER FOUR. Clinical Practice, Clinical Physiology 77
12. CHAPTER FIVE. The Restoration: Politics, Hospitals, and Patients 102
13. PART TWO: AUSCULTATION
14. CHAPTER SIX. The Discovery 121
15. CHAPTER SEVEN. The Treatise on Mediate Auscultation: The Lungs 151
16. CHAPTER EIGHT. The Treatise on Mediate Auscultation: The Heart and Clinical Reasoning 174
17. PART THREE: DISEASE
18. CHAPTER NINE. Reception and Impact of Auscultation: Reviews, Diagnoses, and Broussais 209
19. CHAPTER TEN. Return to Paris: Elite Practice and Professor in the Clinic 240
20. CHAPTER ELEVEN. At the College de France: The Second Unpublished Book 259
21. CHAPTER TWELVE. Between the Quick and the Dead: Pathology, Physiology, and Clinical Medicine 286
22. APPENDIX A. A Note on Sources: Scientific Papers and Correspondence 305
23. APPENDIX B. Laennec's Finances 311
24. APPENDIX C. Patients in the Two Editions of the Traité de Fauscultation 314
25. APPENDIX D. Laennec's Network: A Glossary of Frequently Cited Names 324
26. APPENDIX E. The Family of R. T. H. Laennec 328
27. LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 329
28. NOTES 333
29. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF R. T H. LAENNEC 397
30. BIBLIOGRAPHY 407
31. INDEX 437
32. ABOUT THE AUTHOR 454