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Early Modern Medicine and Natural Philosophy

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Editors:
  1. Peter Distelzweig

    1. Department of Philosophy, University of St. Thomas Department of Philosophy, St. Paul, USA

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  2. Benjamin Goldberg

    1. Department of Humanities and Cultural, University of South Florida Department of Humanities and Cultural, Tampa, USA

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  3. Evan R. Ragland

    1. Department of History, University of Notre Dame Department of History, Notre Dame, USA

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  • 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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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Benjamin Goldberg, Evan R. Ragland, Peter Distelzweig
    Pages 1-15

  6. Medicalizing Philosophy?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 323-323
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    2. Early Modern Medical Eudaimonism

      • Justin E. H. Smith
      Pages 325-341

    3. Tres medici, duo athei? The Physician as Atheist and the Medicalization of the Soul

      • Charles T. Wolfe
      Pages 343-366
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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.

 

 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, University of St. Thomas Department of Philosophy, St. Paul, USA

    Peter Distelzweig

  • Department of Humanities and Cultural, University of South Florida Department of Humanities and Cultural, Tampa, USA

    Benjamin Goldberg

  • Department of History, University of Notre Dame Department of History, Notre Dame, USA

    Evan R. Ragland

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