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. Ed(S): Goldberg, Benjamin; Distelzweig, Peter; Ragland, Evan R. - Early Modern Medicine and Natural Philosophy - 9789401773522 - V9789401773522
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Early Modern Medicine and Natural Philosophy

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Description for Early Modern Medicine and Natural Philosophy Hardback. Editor(s): Goldberg, Benjamin; Distelzweig, Peter; Ragland, Evan R. Series: History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences. Num Pages: 382 pages, 21 black & white illustrations, 1 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 736.

This volume presents an innovative look at early modern medicine and natural philosophy as historically interrelated developments. The individual chapters chart this interrelation in a variety of contexts, from the Humanists who drew on Hippocrates, Galen, and Aristotle to answer philosophical and medical questions, to medical debates on the limits and power of mechanism, and on to eighteenth-century controversies over medical materialism and 'atheism.'

The work presented here broadens our understanding of both philosophy and medicine in this period by illustrating the ways these disciplines were in deep theoretical and methodological dialogue and by demonstrating the importance of this dialogue for understanding ... Read more

Taken together, these papers argue that to overlook the medical context of natural philosophy and the philosophical context of medicine is to overlook fundamentally important aspects of these intellectual endeavors.

 

 

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
382
Condition
New
Series
History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
Number of Pages
372
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789401773522
SKU
V9789401773522
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