Early Modern Medicine and Natural Philosophy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences, 14
Release date:	December 2015
Editors:	Peter Distelzweig • Benjamin Goldberg • Evan R. Ragland
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	372
Edition:	1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-9401773522
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General
LSN:	9401773521
Barcode:	9789401773522

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