Monash University Faculty of Medicine, 124/461 Saint Kida Rd., Melbourne, Victoria, 3004, Australia.
Monash University Faculty of Medicine, 10 Barnato Grove, Armadale, Victoria, 3143, Australia.
J Bioeth Inq. 2023 Jun;20(2):295-313. doi: 10.1007/s11673-023-10244-9. Epub 2023 Apr 4.
Gerrit Lindeboom's biography, Herman Boerhaave: The Man and His Work, presents a heroic account of Herman Boerhaave's life and his many contributions to medicine and medical education. He is portrayed as an outstanding eighteenth century educator who introduced into Leiden's Medical School a novel method of clinical teaching that was to be widely adopted and today remains at the centre of medical student instruction. Lindeboom's historiography induced a resurgence of interest in Boerhaave, a renewal of the myth concerning Boerhaave's innovative teaching and the publication of many acclamatory articles and false epithets, and several critical analyses. Such varying responses prompted this critical examination of the extant Boerhaavian literature, an appraisal of Lindeboom's objectivity and an assessment of his representations of Boerhaave's clinical teaching. In doing so, the moral nature of his historiography and that of those who were to sustain his assertions will be established, and the myth that surrounds the novelty and excellence of Boerhaave's clinical teaching will be evident.
格里特·林德博姆的传记《赫尔曼·布尔哈夫：人和他的工作》生动地描述了赫尔曼·布尔哈夫的一生及其对医学和医学教育的诸多贡献。他被描绘成一位杰出的 18 世纪教育家，他将一种新颖的临床教学方法引入莱顿医学院，这种方法后来被广泛采用，至今仍是医学生教学的核心。林德博姆的史学著作激发了人们对布尔哈夫的浓厚兴趣，重新唤起了人们对布尔哈夫创新教学的神话，以及许多赞誉文章和虚假的颂词的发表，以及一些批判性分析。这些不同的反应促使人们对现有的布尔哈夫文献进行批判性研究，对林德博姆的客观性进行评估，并对他对布尔哈夫临床教学的描述进行评估。通过这样做，可以确定他的史学著作和那些支持他观点的人的道德性质，以及围绕布尔哈夫临床教学新颖性和卓越性的神话也将显而易见。
