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The Quantification of Life and Health from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century - Intersections of Medicine and Philosophy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023) Loot Price: R4,219
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The Quantification of Life and Health from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century - Intersections of Medicine and Philosophy...

The Quantification of Life and Health from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century - Intersections of Medicine and Philosophy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)

Simone Guidi, Joaquim Braga

Series: Palgrave Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine

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This edited volume explores the intersection of medicine and philosophy throughout history, calling attention to the role of quantification in understanding the medical body. Retracing current trends and debates to examine the quantification of the body throughout the early modern, modern and early contemporary age, the authors contextualise important issues of both medical and philosophical significance, with chapters focusing on the quantification of temperaments and fluids, complexions, functions of the living body, embryology, and the impact of quantified reasoning on the concepts of health and illness. With insights spanning from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth century, this book provides a wide-ranging overview of attempts to ‘quantify’ the human body at various points. Arguing that medicine and philosophy have been constantly in dialogue with each other, the authors discuss how this provided a strategic opportunity both for medical thought and philosophy to refine and further develop. Given today’s fascination with the quantification of the body, represented by the growing profusion of self-tracking devices logging one’s sleep, diet or mood, this collection offers an important and timely contribution to an emerging and interdisciplinary field of study.

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Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin: Switzerland
Series: Palgrave Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine
Release date: September 2023
First published: 2023
Editors: Simone Guidi • Joaquim Braga
Dimensions: 210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 188
Edition: 1st ed. 2023
ISBN-13: 978-3-03-115724-0
Categories: Books > Social sciences > General
Books > Humanities > History > General
Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine
Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General
Books > History > General
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General
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LSN: 3-03-115724-9
Barcode: 9783031157240

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