A Cultural History of Medical Vitalism in Enlightenment Montpellier.

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Williams, Elizabeth A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2003.
Colección:History of medicine in context.
Temas:
Medicine > France > Montpellier > History.
Vitalism.
Vitalism
Médecine > France > Montpellier > Histoire.
Vitalisme.
Medicine
France > Montpellier
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Translation
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1 A Medical Town: Montpellier in the Eighteenth Century
  • At the "elbow" of the south
  • University and town
  • The gardens
  • Promoting and disseminating knowledge
  • In the hospitals of Montpellier
  • Practice and practitioners
  • The waters
  • 2 A University in the Enlightenment: The University of Medicine of Montpellier
  • Institutional hierarchy
  • Professors and students
  • Student life
  • The teachers of Bordeu
  • 3 Boissier de Sauvages and the Emergence of Vitalism in Montpellier
  • Against Descartes: Sauvages's early career
  • Predictable and unpredictable remedies
  • Sauvages's nosology
  • Pathology and physiology
  • Forces, faculties, and the action of the soul
  • Classifying disease
  • 4 The Ascent to Paris: Montpellier Physicians in the Capital of Enlightenment
  • "This vile country"
  • "Homines du Midi" in Paris
  • The lure of surgery
  • Students again
  • The Montpellier Encyclopedists
  • Montpelliérains and Paris medical journalism
  • Vitalism in the salon
  • Montpellier and the court
  • 5 Vitalism and the Encyclopedist Movement
  • Celebrating Béarn
  • A family collaboration in Paris
  • Vital force in the body
  • Vitalism in the Encyclopédie
  • Medicine and chemistry
  • Barthez as Encyclopedist
  • Vitalists and materialists
  • 6 Time of Troubles: The University-Court Connection in the late Ancien Régime
  • Untenable practices
  • At war with the town doctors
  • The clinic thwarted
  • Internecine struggle
  • A world away: Borden at court
  • 7 Semiotics, Smallpox, Sex: From the Practical to the Philosophical in Vitalist Medicine
  • Semiotics and the search for certainty
  • "A frightful and treacherous malady"
  • "Practical medicine" in the Encyclopédie.
  • Vital variability: the case of women
  • 8 Barthez and the "Science of Man"
  • Infinity of ills, infinity of cures
  • The vital principle
  • Forces of the animal economy
  • "Modifications" of the vital principle: temperament and age
  • Barthez and the "vitalist sect"
  • 9 Vitalism in the Late Enlightenment
  • The reception of Barthez's synthesis
  • Montpellier and the Société rovale de médecine
  • Vitalism and Mesmerism
  • Conclusion: The End of the Enlightenment and the Eclipse of Montpellier
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index.

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