1. [Sauveur-Henri-Victor Bouvier (1799-1877): orthopaedist, surgeon and promoter of physical education].
- Author
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Monet J and Quin G
- Subjects
- France, Gymnastics education, Gymnastics standards, History, 19th Century, Kinesiology, Applied education, Kinesiology, Applied standards, Orthopedics education, Orthopedics standards, Gymnastics history, Kinesiology, Applied history, Orthopedics history
- Abstract
This article establishes the biography of a little known physician of the 19th century., whose commitment with orthopaedics and formulation of medical gymnastics was important: the surgeon-orthopaedist Sauveur-Henri-Victor Bouvier. Several constitutive processes of the medical field of the 19th century are analysed: specialization (around orthopaedics), professionalization and development of various therapeutic and hygienic methods (among them medical gymnastics). Bouvier's biography is particularly instructive and sheds new light on these different processes, as well as on the institutionalization of orthopaedics from the 1820's up to the 1870's, at the intersection between medical and educative fields, between hospital, medical faculty and teaching of gymnastics.
- Published
- 2013