Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol belongs to the medical record as a figure whose work changed what could be treated.
The record lists Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol as French psychiatrist (1772-1840).
Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol was born at Toulouse in 1772. His recorded nationality is France. He trained at University of Toulouse (1896-1968) and Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier.
Hospitals became teaching institutions in this period, and clinical observation began to be recorded systematically.
His posts were held at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital and Charenton asylum.
The recorded fields of work are psychiatry.
Medicine advances against a moving target, and its successes are counted in lives rather than papers.
That the work was done from France matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol died in 1840, aged 68. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital and Charenton asylum
- Fields: psychiatry
