Adolphe Pinard
Adolphe Pinard (4 February 1844 – 1 March 1934) was a French obstetrician who was a native of Méry-sur-Seine. He practiced medicine in Paris, where he was an *istant to Étienne Stéphane Tarnier (1828–1897) and a professor of obstetrics, as well as a member of parliament for the Paris region.
Contents
- 1 Career
- 2 Death and legacy
- 3 Writings
- 4 References
- 5 External links
Career
Pinard was a pioneer of modern perinatal care and the "puericulture movement" — the teaching of infant care to expectant mothers in French obstetrics. He made a number of contributions in his work involving pre-natal and maternal health, and was an advocate of providing social care for pregnant women from deprived environments. He established abdominal obstetric palpation methods, and his name is *ociated with "Pinard's manoeuvre", a technique used in breech extraction.
In 1895 he invented a special stethoscope for listening to fetal activity. The device is sometimes reverently referred to as a "Pinard horn", or fetoscope (although fetoscope now refers to a fetal endoscope). Pinard horns are a safe and non-invasive tool used to listen to the fetal heart tones, and are still in use worldwide today, primarily by Midwives.
Pinard was a founder member of the French Eugenics Society in 1913 and served as its president. Eugenic ideas were incorporated into his idea of 'puériculture'. He also served as a parliamentary deputy for the Radical party between 1919 and 1928. As a deputy he argued for pro-natalist policies, but he was also sympathetic to and an influence on French feminism. In 1926 he introduced a law requiring future spouses to provide a pre-nuptial certificate of good health (attesting the absence of contagious diseases) before the marriage could be officially registered.
Death and legacy
Pinard died on 1 March 1934 in Méry-sur-Seine. Today the Maternité Adolphe-Pinard in Nancy and the Boulevard Adolphe Pinard in Paris are named after him. This boulevard is a boundary between Paris and the city of Malakoff.
Writings
- Traité du palper abdominal, au point de vue obstétrical, et de la version par manœuvres externes, H. Lauwereyns, 1878 - Treatise on abdominal palpation, etc.
- Traitement de l'infection puerpérale (in collaboration with Victor Wallich), G. Steinheil, 1896 - Treatment of puerperal infection.
- Clinique obstétricale, Steinheil, 1899 - Obstetrical clinic.
- La puériculture du premier âge:: nourriture, vêtement, hygiène, Colin, 1904 - Childcare in infancy: nourishment, clothing, hygiene.
- L'enseignement de la puériculture (in collaboration with Henri Méry), Impr. nationale, 1912 - Instruction in puericulture.
References
www.emilypinard.com
External links
- Neonatology on the Web The History of Neonatology