Search Results for: Eighteenth Century Vitalism

This book offers an important account of the relationship between science and culture in the eighteenth century. It examines the 'vitalist' turn in physiology a

This study is a cultural history of Montpellier vitalism, regarded by many historians as the leading school of medicine in the French Enlightenment. Offering a

Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel demonstrates that archives continually speak to the period's rising funeral and mourning culture, as well as

This book explores the importance of bodily fluids to the development of medical knowledge in the eighteenth century. While the historiography has focused on th

Vitalism is understood as impacting the history of the life sciences, medicine and philosophy, representing an epistemological challenge to the dominance of mec