Overview
- Offers a complete picture of the relations between philosophy and medicine in the early modern period
- Demonstrates the significance of medical thought for general philosophy in the early modern period
- Demonstrates the importance of the theoretical and methodological dialogue between philosophy and medicine for understanding of the history of the early modern period ?
Part of the book series: History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences (HPTL, volume 14)
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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 their history.
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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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Philosophy, Medicine and Method in the Renaissance
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Life and Mechanism
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Matter and Life, Corpuscles and Chymistry
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Medicalizing Philosophy?
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Early Modern Medicine and Natural Philosophy
Editors: Peter Distelzweig, Benjamin Goldberg, Evan R. Ragland
Series Title: History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7353-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7352-2Published: 18 December 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1334-2Published: 27 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-7353-9Published: 11 December 2015
Series ISSN: 2211-1948
Series E-ISSN: 2211-1956
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 372
Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Medicine, History of Philosophy, Modern Philosophy, History of Medicine