Paul Charles Dubois is remembered in medicine for work that altered practice rather than merely argument.
The record lists Paul Charles Dubois as Swiss psychiatrist (1848–1918).
Paul Charles Dubois was born at La Chaux-de-Fonds in 1848. His recorded nationality is Switzerland. He trained at University of Bern.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
His posts were held at University of Bern.
The recorded fields of work are neurology.
Most medical progress is invisible: it shows up as an illness that no longer kills anyone.
That the work was done from Switzerland matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Paul Charles Dubois died in 1918, aged 70. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at University of Bern
- Fields: neurology
