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1 online resource (167 pages .) |
Contents |
Machine generated contents note: I. DISPUTE BETWEEN METAPHYSICS AND EMPIRICISM -- Debate about methodus medendi during the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century in England: Modern Philosophical Readings of Classical Medical Empiricism in Bacon, Nedham, Willis and Boyle / Claire Crignon -- Status of Leibniz' Medical Experiments: A Provisional Empiricism? / Anne-Lise Rey -- Whytt and the Idea of Power: Physiological Evidence as a Challenge to the Eighteenth-Century Criticism of the Notion of Power / Claire Etchegaray -- II. ARTS OF EMPIRICAL RESEARCH -- Learning to Read Nature: Francis Bacon's Notion of Experiential Literacy (Experientia Literata) / Guido Giglioni -- Of Snails and Horsetails: Anatomical Empiricism in the Early Modern Period / Domenico Bertoloni Meli -- III. RELEVANCE OF CASE STUDIES -- Experiment, Observation, Self-observation. Empiricism and the ̀€Reasonable Physicians' of the Early Enlightenment / Carsten Zelle -- Writing Cases and Casuistic Reasoning in Karl Philipp Moritz' Journal of Empirical Psychology / Yvonne Wubben |
Summary |
Empiricism has many different faces. As the contributions to this volume demonstrate, in the 17th and 18th century demonstrate medical and philosophical empiricism is less about an ""essence"" and more a series of specifically modern ""acts"" or ""gestures."" |
Notes |
"Originally published as volume XVIII, nos. 4-5 (2013) of Brill's Journal early science and medicine"--Title page verso |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
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Medicine -- Philosophy.
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Philosophical anthropology -- History
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Human body (Philosophy)
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Medicine -- History -- 17th century.
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Medicine -- History -- 18th century.
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Philosophy, Medical
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History, 17th Century
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History, 18th Century
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference.
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MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Atlases.
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MEDICAL -- Essays.
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MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice.
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MEDICAL -- Holistic Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Osteopathy.
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Human body (Philosophy)
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Medicine
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Medicine -- Philosophy
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Philosophical anthropology
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Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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Author |
Crignon, Claire, editor
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Zelle, Carsten, 1953- editor
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Allocca, Nunzio, editor
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ISBN |
9004268138 |
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9789004268135 |
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