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2 unusual facts about Jackie Duffin


Jackie Duffin

Sorbonne, History and Philosophy of Science (PhD)
1985 DiplĂ´me de l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, IV Section, Paris
1983 D.E.A.Paris-I-Sorbonne, France
1979 F.R.C.P.(C) Internal medicine
1979 F.R.C.P.(C) Hematology
1979 C.S.P.Q. HĂ©matologie
1974 M.D. University of Toronto

Stethoscope

The medical historian Jacalyn Duffin has argued that the invention of the stethoscope marked a major step in the redefinition of disease from being a bundle of symptoms, to the current sense of a disease as a problem with an anatomical system even if there are no noticeable symptoms.



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