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Stethascope


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This video shows Dr Coreen McGuire (lecturer in 20th Century British History, Durham University) being interviewed by Mainga Bhima (a Medical Student at the University of Bristol). The object under discussion is the 'stethascope' - an instrument used to listen to the body.

This object links with Unit 9 ('History of Medicine 1600 - 1900') and is an example of a simple, but very important, historical innovation, which has become emblematic of medicine, and which had a profound impact on the way that physicians could 'know' the body. In providing a way to listen to the internal sounds a body makes, physicians had access to new diagnostic tools. At the same time, as an instrument that focused on the 'body' it directed the physician's attention away from the 'patient', and so marks a move away from the centrality of the patient narrative towards the biomedical model of medicine that we know today.
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