The Mechanization of the Heart:
Harvey & Descartes
Published on 1. October 2001
Book
Hardback
280 pages
978-1-58046-077-4 (ISBN)
Description
In Mechanization of the Heart: Harvey and Descartes Thomas Fuchs discusses the similarities and differences of the views of the two seventeenth-century scholars William Harvey and Rene Descartes on the beart and circulationof the blood; Fuch traces the reception of the two views in the medical literature of the time and the influence both views had.
Reviews / Votes
Fuchs has written an excellent study on Harvey and Descartes in the tradition of the history of ideas, combining it with some methodological suggestions from Ludwig Fleck's notions of 'thought-styles. * CANADIAN BULLETIN OF MEDICAL HISTORY *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Rochester
United States
Publishing group
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
666 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-58046-077-4 (9781580460774)
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Persons
Thomas Fuchs teaches psychiatry at the Rupert-Karls-Universitat, Heidelberg. Marjorie Grene is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of California at Davis, and Adjunct Professor and Honorary Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Virginia Tech University.
Content
Harvey and Descartes
The Galenic Paradigm and Its Crisis
William Harvey: The Vital Aspect of Circulation
The Mechanical Aspect of the Circulation: Descartes and His Followers
Vitalism and Mechanism between 1700 and 1850
A Look Ahead
The Galenic Paradigm and Its Crisis
William Harvey: The Vital Aspect of Circulation
The Mechanical Aspect of the Circulation: Descartes and His Followers
Vitalism and Mechanism between 1700 and 1850
A Look Ahead