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Author:   Gideon Manning
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2020
Volume:   57
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9783030393779

ISBN 10:   3030393771
Pages:   197
Publication Date:   07 April 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Editor’s Introduction Gideon Manning Chapter 2 Lisa Jardine: A Life in the Margins Anthony GraftonChapter 3Dosing the Ailing Subject: Reconnecting Early Modern Health and Thought Lisa Jardine Chapter 4 Francis Bacon’s Body and his Experiments on the Prolongation of Life James Everest Chapter 5 Material Thoughts: Robert Hooke’s Theory of Memory Felicity Henderson Chapter 6 Making Sense of Pain: Valentine Greatrakes, Henry Stubbe and Anne Conway Sarah Hutton Chapter 7 Animal Bodies and Human Minds: The Anatomy of the Brain and the Analogy of Nature Anita Guerrini Chapter 8 Lockean Self-Diagnosis Peter R. Anstey Chapter 9 Joseph Glanvill on Imagination, Method and the Art of Thinking Sorana Corneanu Chapter 10 Treating Yourself: Self-Diagnosis Amongst Natural Philosophers and Physicians and the Early Medical Case Study Anna Marie Roos

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"""It will be of interest to historians of the body, experimentation, England empiricism, drug analysis, and neuroscience. ... This is a high-profile and ambitious collection of essays that meets the expectations its objectives generate."" (Alain Touwaide, Doody's Book Reviews, July 31, 2020)"

It will be of interest to historians of the body, experimentation, England empiricism, drug analysis, and neuroscience. ... This is a high-profile and ambitious collection of essays that meets the expectations its objectives generate. (Alain Touwaide, Doody's Book Reviews, July 31, 2020)

Author Information

Gideon Manning is Research Associate Professor at Claremont Graduate University, having previously taught at the University of Pittsburgh and served on the faculties of the College of William and Mary and the California Institute of Technology.  His recent publications include “Health in the Early Modern Philosophical Tradition” (2018), and “Descartes and Medicine” (2019), and he is one of the editors of Professors, Physicians, and Practices in the History of Medicine: Essays in Honor of Nancy Siraisi (2017). At present, he is engaged in a number of projects trying to productively bring together the history of medicine, science and philosophy.  

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