Flesh in the Age of ReasonPenguin UK, 2005/01/27 - 592 ページ 'As an introduction to early modern thinking and the impact of past ideas on present lives, this book can find few equals and no superiors. Porter is a witty, humane writer with an extraordinary vocabulary and a sparkling sense of fun. Whether he is quoting from obscure medical texts or analysing scabrous diaries, dishing the dirt on long-dead bigwigs or evoking sympathy for human suffering, his grasp is masterly and his erudition appealing. I wish I could read it again for the first time: you can.' Times Educational Supplement, Book of the Week |
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... a 'textbook' coverage; rather I present a gallery of contrasting yet interlocking studies meant to be engaging and stimulating rather than encyclopaedic. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Much of the research for this book was undertaken.
... by early science and medicine, this book will proceed, through a series of studies of people and problems, to explore the various innovations, trends and tangents produced by post-Restoration thinking. In coverage it.
... studies did not seem to yield more effective cures. A parallel bid to read the body in terms of the new science came from iatrochemistry. Whereas iatrophysics perceived the human frame through mechanics, iatrochemistry thought that ...
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SCIENCE RESCUES THE SPIRIT | |
JOHN LOCKE REWRITES THE SOUL | |
THE POLITE SELF IN THE POLITE BODY | |
NIGHTMARE SELVES 10 JOHNSON AND INCORPORATED MINDS 11 EDWARD GIBBON FAME AND MORTALITY | |