Théophile Alajouanine is remembered in medicine for work that altered practice rather than merely argument.
The record lists Théophile Alajouanine as French neurologist.
Théophile Alajouanine was born at Verneix in 1890. His recorded nationality is France.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, laboratory medicine, vaccines and public health began to change mortality at population scale.
Most medical progress is invisible: it shows up as an illness that no longer kills anyone.
Recognition followed: Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour.
That the work was done from France matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Théophile Alajouanine died in 1980, aged 90. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour
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