Book
French
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Abstract
Unexplained until the 1940’s, the haemolytic disease of the new-born becomes visible in the medical landscape in the beginning of the 20th century. Though it can take many forms (grave jaundice, grave anaemia or general dropsy), this pathology is recognized as a single unit in the 1920’s. This paper intends to show how French doctors embrace, at the beginning of the 1930, the new knowledge developed in Europe and America during the first decades of the century. It enlightens the main role played in this process by the paediatric school in Lyon and underlines the ambiguities of the medical care, caught between difficulties of diagnostic and lack of efficient therapies.