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    Making Sense of Sound: Auscultation and Lung Sound Codification in Nineteenth-Century French and German Medicine.Jens Lachmund - 1999 - Science, Technology, and Human Values 24 (4):419-450.
    With the introduction of the technique of auscultation in nineteenth-century medicine, the auditory became a most important means of producing diagnostic knowledge. The correct classification and interpretation of the sounds revealed by auscultation, however, remained an issue of negotiation and often controversy throughout the mid-nineteenth century. This article examines the codification of lung sounds within two cultural and geographic contexts: first, the original approach as it was developed by Laennec and his followers in Paris that came to be dominant in (...)
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  2. The Social Construction of Illness. Illness and Medical Knowledge in Past and Present.Jens Lachmund, Gunnar Stollberg & Mirko D. Grmek - 1995 - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 17 (2):338.
     
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    Strange Birds: Ornithology and the Advent of the Collared Dove in Post-World War II Germany.Jens Lachmund - 2015 - Science in Context 28 (2):259-284.
    ArgumentIn this paper I study the engagement of German ornithologists with the Collared Dove, a bird species of Asian origin that spread massively throughout Central Europe in the 1940s and 1950s. Never before had the spread of a single species attracted so much attention from European ornithologists. Ornithologists were not only fascinated by the exotic origin of the bird, but even more so by the unprecedented rapidity of its expansion. As it is argued in the paper, the advent of the (...)
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    (1 other version)Mikael Hård;, Thomas J. Misa . Urban Machinery: Inside Modern European Cities. viii + 351 pp., figs., table, bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 2008. $45. [REVIEW]Jens Lachmund - 2009 - Isis 100 (1):139-140.
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    Oliver Hochadel; Agustí Nieto-Galan . Barcelona: An Urban History of Science and Modernity, 1888–1929. xxii + 258 pp., figs., index. London/New York: Routledge, 2016. £95. [REVIEW]Jens Lachmund - 2017 - Isis 108 (4):938-939.
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