Descartes and medicine: problems, responses and survival of a Cartesian discipline

"This volume provides a more exhaustive interpretation of René Descartes? medical views and its reception in the seventeenth century. Filling the gap in the recent scholarship, the contributions in the volume follow four axes: exegetical, textual, philosophical, and contextual. Authors in this...

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Weitere Verfasser: Baldassarri, Fabrizio (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Italian
Veröffentlicht: Turnhout, Belgium Brepols [2023]
Schriftenreihe:The age of Descartes volume 9
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Zusammenfassung:"This volume provides a more exhaustive interpretation of René Descartes? medical views and its reception in the seventeenth century. Filling the gap in the recent scholarship, the contributions in the volume follow four axes: exegetical, textual, philosophical, and contextual. Authors in this book deal with Descartes? physiology, anatomy, and therapy by reconstructing Cartesian texts, detailing possible medical and philosophical sources, discussing medical collaborations and oppositions, and exploring obscurities and failures in Descartes' medicine. In laying bare the more promising issues of Cartesian programme and discussing the reception and opposition in the seventeenth century, the volume also uncovers the limitations within his interpretation, ultimately revealing a more nuanced application of his methodology to a field of natural philosophy. While medical studies play a not secondary role in Descartes' entire work, the volume aims to discuss in detail the importance of medicine as a suitable field to understand Cartesian philosophy from a significant perspective in seventeenth-century Europe."
Beschreibung:484 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9782503594613

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