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The Quantification of Life and Health from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century Intersections of Medicine and Philosophy

Joaquim Braga is a Researcher and Teacher in the Department of Philosophy of the University of Coimbra, Portugal. He is a member of the Research Unit, Institute for Philosophical Studies.Joaquim's research covers the aesthetics of the body, philosophy of technology, philosophy of culture, moder...

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Other Authors: Guidi, Simone (Editor), Braga, Joaquim (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2023, 2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023
Series:Palgrave Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine
Subjects:
History Of Early Modern Europe
Philosophy, Modern
Medicine And The Humanities
Medicine / History
Philosophy / History
Early Modern Philosophy
History Of Medicine
History Of Philosophy
Medical Humanities
History Of Science
Science / History
Europe / History / 1492-
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Introduction, Simone Guidi and Joaquim Braga
  • Chapter 2: The More the Years the Less the Food: Alvise Cornaro on The Sober Life (1558), Laura Madella.-Chapter 3: The Quantification of Talents: Education, Galenic Humoralism, and Classification of Wits in Early Modern Culture, Luana Salvarani
  • Chapter 4: Quali-Quantitative Measurement in Francis Bacon’s Medicine. Towards a New Branch of Mixed Mathematics, Silvia Manzo
  • Chapter 5: Sanctorius’s Weighing Chair: Measurement, Metabolism, and Mind, Jan Purnis
  • Chapter 6: The Rise of Quantitative Biology in the Cartesian Age: the Theories of Preformation, Mariangela Priarolo
  • Chapter 7: “Nature is more subtle than any mathematician”: Giorgio Baglivi on Fluids in the Human Body, Luca Tonetti
  • Chapter 8: “The Human Body Should Be Investigated in All Its Details to The Most Precise Degree…”. Leibniz on Quantification in Medicine, Osvaldo Ottaviani
  • Chapter 9: Data vs Mathesis: Contrasting Epistemologies in some Mechanizations and Quantifications of Medicine, Simone Guidi
  • Chapter 10: The Pulse Watch and the Physician’s Senses: John Floyer on the Quantification of the Body, Marco Storni
  • Chapter 11: Against the Quantification of the Living: Hegel’s Critique of Romantic Naturphilosophie in the Phenomenology of Spirit, Gaetano Basileo
  • Chapter 12: Measuring the Mind: The French Debate on Fechner’s Psychophysics in the Late 19th Century, Denise Vincenti

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