Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XXVI, 772 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9789004229204
Series Statement:
#25#!1695256344! volume 25
Content:
Drawing on the methods of a wide range of academic disciplines, this volume shifts the focus of the history of the body, exploring the many different ways in which its physiology and its fluids were understood in pre-modern European thought.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Editors -- Notes on the Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part One History of Physiology in Context: Concepts, Metaphors, Analogies -- Physiologia from Galen to Jacob Bording -- Physiological Analogies and Metaphors in Explanations of the Earth and the Cosmos -- The Reception of the Hippocratic Treatise On Glands -- Between Atoms and Humours. Lucretius' Didactic Poetry as a Model of Integrated and Bifocal Physiology -- Losing Ground. The Disappearance of Attraction from the Kidneys -- The Art of the Distillation of 'Spirits' as a Technological Model for Human Physiology. The Cases of Marsilio Ficino, Joseph Duchesne and Francis Bacon -- The Body is a Battlefield. Conflict and Control in Seventeenth-Century Physiology and Political Thought -- Herman Boerhaave's Neurology and the Unchanging Nature of Physiology -- The Anatomy and Physiology of Mind. David Hume's Vitalistic Account -- More than a Fading Flame. The Physiology of Old Age between Speculative Analogy and Experimental Method -- Suffering Bodies, Sensible Artists. Vitalist Medicine and the Visualising of Corporeal Life in Diderot -- Part Two Blood -- Blood, Clotting and the Four Humours -- An Issue of Blood. The Healing of the Woman with the Haemorrhage (Mark 5.24b-34 -- Luke 8.42b-48 -- Matthew 9.19-22) in Early Medieval Visual Culture -- The Nature of the Soul and the Passage of Blood through the Lungs. Galen, Ibn al-Nafīs, Servetus, İtakİ, 'Attār -- Sperm and Blood, Form and Food. Late Medieval Medical Notions of Male and Female in the Embryology of Membra -- The Music of the Pulse in Marsilio Ficino's Timaeus Commentary.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004229181
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Blood, sweat and tears Leiden [u.a.] : Brill, 2012 ISBN 9789004229181
Language:
English
Subjects:
Sociology
Keywords:
Europa
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Medizin
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Physiologie
;
Geschichte
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Konferenzschrift
DOI:
10.1163/9789004229204
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Author information:
Zittel, Claus 1965-
Author information:
Horstmanshoff, Herman F. J. 1944-
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