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Darrera modificació: 2013-10-18
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Horstmanshoff, Manfred - King, Helen - Zittel, Claus (eds.), Blood, Sweat and Tears: The Changing Concepts of Physiology from Antiquity into Early Modern Europe, Leiden, E. J. Brill (Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture, 25), 2012, xxvi + 772 pp.
- Resum
- The history of anatomy has been the subject of much recent scholarship. This volume shifts the focus to the many different ways in which the function of the body and its fluids were understood in pre-modern European thought. Contributors demonstrate how different academic disciplines can contribute to our understanding of ‘physiology', and investigate the value of this category to pre-modern medicine. The book contains individual essays on the wider issues raised by ‘physiology', and detailed case studies that explore particular aspects and individuals. It will be useful to those working on medicine and the body in pre-modern cultures, in disciplines including classics, history of medicine and science, philosophy, and literature.
Contents:
* Introduction / Helen King
-- PART ONE. HISTORY OF PHYSIOLOGY IN CONTEXT: CONCEPTS, METAPHORS, ANALOGIES
* Physiologia from Galen to Jacob Bording / Vivian Nutton
* Physiological Analogies and Metaphors: In Explanations of the Earth and the Cosmos / Liba Taub
* The Reception of the Hippocratic Treatise On Glands / Elizabeth Craik
* Between Atoms and Humours: Lucretius' Didactic Poetry as a Model of Integrated and Bifocal Physiology / Fabio Tutrone
* Losing Ground: The Disappearance of Attraction from the Kidneys / Michael R. McVaugh
* The Art of the Distillation of ‘Spirits' as a Technological Model for Human Physiology: The Cases of Marsilio Ficino, Joseph Duchesne and Francis Bacon / Sergius Kodera
* The Body is a Battlefield: Conflict and Control in Seventeenth-Century Physiology and Political Thought / Sabine Kalff
* Herman Boerhaave's Neurology and the Unchanging Nature of Physiology / Rina Knoeff
* The Anatomy and Physiology of Mind. David Hume's Vitalistic Account / Tamás Demeter
* More than a Fading Flame: The Physiology of Old Age between Speculative Analogy and Experimental Method / Daniel Schäfer
* Suffering Bodies, Sensible Artists: Vitalist Medicine and the Visualising of Corporeal Life in Diderot / Tomas Macsotay
-- PART TWO. BLOOD
* Blood, Clotting and the Four Humours / Hans L. Haak
* 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 / Barbara Baert, Liesbet Kusters & Emma Sidgwick
* The Nature of the Soul and the Passage of Blood through the Lungs: Galen, Ibn al-Nafīs, Servetus, İtaki, ‘Aṭṭār / Rainer Brömer
* Sperm and Blood, Form and Food: Late Medieval Medical Notions of Male and Female in the Embryology of Membra / Karine van 't Land
* The Music of the Pulse in Marsilio Ficino's Timaeus Commentary / Jacomien Prins
* ‘For the Life of a Creature is in the Blood' (Leviticus 17:11): Some Considerations on Blood as the Source of Life in Sixteenth-Century Religion and Medicine and their Interconnections / Catrien Santing
* White Blood and Red Milk: Analogical Reasoning in Medical Practice and Experimental Physiology (1560-1730) / Barbara Orland
-- PART THREE. SWEAT AND SKIN
* The “Body without Skin” in the Homeric Poems / Valeria Gavrylenko
* Sweat: Learned Concepts and Popular Perceptions, 1500-1800 / Michael Stolberg
* Of the Fisherman's Net and Skin Pores: Reframing Conceptions of the Skin in Medicine 1572-1714 / Mieneke M. G. te Hennepe
-- PART FOUR. TEARS AND SIGHT
* Vision and Vision Disorders: Galen's Physiology of Sight / Véronique Boudon-Millot
* Early Modern Medical Thinking on Vision and the Camera Obscura: V.F. Plempius' Ophthalmographia / Katrien Vanagt
* The Tertium Comparationis of the Elementa Physiologiae: Johann Gottfried von Herder's Coception of “Tears' as Mediators between the Sublime and the Actual Bodily Physiology / Frank W. Stahnisch
-- PART FIVE. BODY AND SOUL
* From Doubt to Certainty: Aspects of the Conceptualisation and Interpretation of Galen's Natural Pneuma / Julius Rocca
* Metabolisms of the Soul: The Physiology of Bernardino Telesio in Oliva Sabuco's Nueva Filosofía de la Naturaleza del Hombre (1587) / Marlen Bidwell-Steiner
* “Full of Rapture”: Maternal Vocality and Melancholy in Webster's Duchess of Malfi / Marion A. Wells
* The Sleeping Musician: Aristotle's Vegetative Soul and Ralph Cudworth's Plastic Nature / Diana Stanciu
- Matèries
- Medicina - Cirurgia i anatomia
Història de la medicina
- Notes
- Fitxa de l'editor: http://www.brill.nl/blood-sweat-and-tears-changing- ...
La introducció disponible a http://oro.open.ac.uk/31042/
Recensions:
* Frédéric Le Blay, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, BMCR 2013.09.55. URL: http://www.bmcreview.org/2013/09/20130955.html
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