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Med Sci (Paris)
Volume 30, Number 3, Mars 2014
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Page(s) | 311 - 318 | |
Section | Repères | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/medsci/20143003020 | |
Published online | 31 March 2014 |
La relation médecin-patient dans les consultations épistolaires (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles)
Experiences and knowledge exchanged in medical consultations by post (16th-18th centuries)
Collège international de philosophie, 1, rue Descartes, 75005 Paris, France
http://www.ciph.org
Les consultations épistolaires qui constituent un pan important de la littérature médicale, particulièrement entre les XVIe et XVIIIe siècles, apportent une série de témoignages irremplaçables de la manière dont les médecins suivaient leurs patients à distance, en lien avec des médecins qui, eux, se trouvaient au chevet de leur malade ou leur rendaient régulièrement visite. Ces témoignages sont d’ordre scientifique, puisqu’ils montrent comment diagnostiquent, pronostiquent et prescrivent des médecins illustres comme Fernel, Chirac ou, plus tard, Barthez et Tissot, ou moins connus comme Le Thieullier par exemple. Ils sont d’ordre littéraire, car chaque médecin possède un style, et l’écriture de telles lettres suit souvent des codes. Ils sont d’ordre anthropologique, dans la mesure où une conception de l’homme, malade, patient, avec ses caractères, ses expériences, son vécu, est restituée sous la forme de récits.
Abstract
Consultations by post make up together a significant part of the medical literature, especially between the 16th and 18th centuries and bring irreplaceable testimonies on how physicians could follow up their patients from far away, in relation with local practitioners who were at their patients’ bedside or who could visit them on a regular basis. These testimonies are of a scientific nature since they show how illustrious physicians diagnosed, predicted and prescribed, such as Fernel, Chirac and later on Barthez and Tissot, or less famous practitioners such as Le Thieullier, for instance. They are of a literary nature since every physician has his own writing style, and the lay out of their letters often respects codes. They are of an anthropological nature in the sense that a conception of man, ill, with his character, his own life, is rendered under the form of narratives.
© 2014 médecine/sciences – Inserm
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