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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Domenico Bertoloni Meli (Indiana University)Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.40cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.748kg ISBN: 9780801899034ISBN 10: 0801899036 Pages: 456 Publication Date: 27 June 2011 Recommended Age: From 17 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents"Acknowledgments Introduction: Anatomy, Medicine, and the New Philosophy 1. Anatomical Research in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century 2. Malpighi's Role on the Anatomical Stage 3. Medical Locations: The Sites of Malpighi's Work 4. Mechanism and Mechanics 5. Experiment and Collaboration 6. Disease and Anatomy 7. Structure and Organization Part I: The Rise of Mechanistic and Microscopic Anatomy: Malpighi's Formation and Association with Borelli 1. The New Anatomy, the Lungs, and Respiration 1.1. Changing Anatomical Horizons 1.2. Malpighi's Bologna Apprenticeship: Anatomical Venues and Vivisection 1.3. Malpighi's Pisa Apprenticeship: Microscopy and the New Philosophy 1.4. Malpighi's Epistolae on the Lungs 1.5. The Purpose of Respiration: Thruston, Lower, and Hooke 2. Epidemic Fevers and the Challenge to Galenism 2.1. Galenic Traditions and New Medical Thinking 2.2. Borelli and the Sicilian Epidemics of 1647–48 2.3. Borelli, Malpighi, and the Pisa Epidemics of 1661 2.4. The 1665 Controversy between the Neoterics and the Galenists 2.5. Malpighi's Risposta to Galenistarum triumphus 3. The Anatomy of the Brain and of the Sensory Organs 3.1. Atomism and the Anatomy of the Senses 3.2. Brain Research in the 1660s: Willis, Steno, and Malpighi 3.3. Malpighi's Anatomical Findings on Taste and Touch 3.4. Fracassati's Far-Reaching Investigations 3.5. Bellini and Rossetti: Atomistic Anatomy of Taste and Touch Part II: Secretion and the Mechanical Organization of the Body: Glands as the Centerpiece of Malpighi's Investigations 4. The Glandular Structure of the Viscera 4.1. The Revival of Glands 4.2. Changing Perceptions on Glands: Glisson, Wharton, and Steno 4.3. Malpighi's Treatise on the Liver 4.4. The Brain and the Cerebral Cortex 4.5. The Kidneys: Bellini and Malpighi 4.6. The Spleen and Its Problems 5. Fat, Blood, and the Body's Organization 5.1. The Necessity of Matter and the Animal's Benefit 5.2. Descartes on Fat, Blood, and Nutrition 5.3. Malpighi on Fat and Its Philosophical Implications 5.4. Blood Transfusions 5.5. Malpighi on Heart Polyps and the Nature of Blood 6. The Structure of Glands and the Problem of Secretion 6.1. Different Perspectives on Glands 6.2. Intestinal Glands and Their Implications 6.3. The Mode of Operation of Glands 6.4. Glands in the Theatre: Bellini, Sbaraglia, and Malpighi 6.5. Nuck's New Taxonomy of Glands Part III: Between Anatomy and Natural History: Malpighi andthe Royal Society 7. The Challenge of Insects 7.1. Changing Perceptions on Insects 7.2. Redi: Experiments and Generation 7.3. Malpighi: Historia and Anatomy 7.4. Swammerdam: Metamorphosis and Classification 7.5. Swammerdam and Malpighi: Microstructure and Iconography 8. Generation and the Formation of the Chick in the Egg 8.1. Generation and Its Problems 8.2. Harvey: Epigenesis and the Role of the Faculties 8.3. The Organs of Generation and the Problem of Fecundation 8.4. Swammerdam and the Amsterdam Circle on Preformation 8.5. Malpighi and the Formation of the Chick in the Egg 9. The Anatomy of Plants 9.1. Plants between Anatomy and Natural History 9.2. Malpighi's Anatomy of Plants: Structure, Iconography, and Experiment 9.3. Trionfetti, Malpighi, Cestoni, and the Vegetation of Plants 9.4. Grew and Camerarius: Iconography, ""OEconomy,"" and SexualReproduction Part IV: Anatomy, Pathology, and Therapy: Malpighi's Posthumous Writings 10. The Fortunes of Malpighi's Mechanistic Anatomy 10.1. Mechanistic Anatomy and Malpighi's Vita 10.2. Writing about the Self 10.3. Levels of Mechanical Explanation in Borelli and Malpighi 10.4. Paolo Mini and the Soul-Body Problem 10.5. Ruysch's Challenge and Boerhaave 11. From the New Anatomy to Pathology and Therapy 11.1. A Bologna Controversy and Its Wider Implications 11.2. Sbaraglia's Challenge to Malpighi's Research 11.3. Malpighi: The Medical Signifi cance of the New Anatomy 11.4. Sbaraglia's Empiricism and Methodological Concerns 11.5. Young Morgagni's Covert Intervention 12. Medical Consultations 12.1. Between Theory and Practice, Carnival and Lent 12.2. Publishing Malpighi's Consultations 12.3. Structure and Contents of Malpighi's Consultations 12.4. Curing with the Pen: Francesco Redi 12.5. A Broader Look at Medical Consultations: Vallisneri and Morgagni Epilogue List of Abbreviations Notes References Index"ReviewsThe strength of Meli's work lies in his attention to detail in highly complex Latin works, and in his sensitivity to unpublished work, correspondence, diaries, and above all, to the technologies of illustration. -- William Poole Times Higher Education 2011 Distinguished as this work was, in Mechanism, Experiment, Disease Domenico Bertoloni Meli maintains there is a great deal more to Marcello Malpighi. In this new book-part biography, part intellectual history of anatomy (the philosophy and mechanics of the body), and part history of medicine in the 17th century-Bertoloni Meli tells readers why. What he does wonderfully is to locate Malpighi as a practicing physician during Italy's scientific revolution. Bertoloni Meli conveys the excitement of the new science, voices the tumult that ensued as opposing schools of thought clashed, and reminds readers that priority disputes are nothing new. JAMA 2012 Bertoloni Meli makes great use of Malpighi's wonderful epistolary consultations to remind readers that boundaries between research and practice have been drawn too sharply by historians. His use of overlooked medical correspondence increases the presence of Malpighi, the medical practitioner, working from bench to bedside four centuries before translational research hit the headlines. -- Helen Bynum JAMA 2012 The strength of Meli's work lies in his attention to detail in highly complex Latin works, and in his sensitivity to unpublished work, correspondence, diaries, and above all, to the technologies of illustration. -- William Poole Times Higher Education 2011 Author InformationDomenico Bertoloni Meli is a professor of history and philosophy of science at Indiana University and author of Thinking with Objects: The Transformation of Mechanics in the Seventeenth Century, also published by Johns Hopkins. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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