Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Medicine, religion and the puritan revolution
- 2 Harvey in Holland: circulation and the Calvinists
- 3 The matter of souls: medical theory and theology in seventeenth-century England
- 4 Mental illness, magical medicine and the Devil in northern England, 1650–1700
- 5 Passions and the ghost in the machine: or what not to ask about science in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Germany
- 6 Thomas Sydenham: epidemics, experiment and the ‘Good Old Cause’
- 7 The medico-religious universe of an early eighteenth-century Parisian doctor: the case of Philippe Hecquet
- 8 Isaac Newton, George Cheyne and the Principia Medicinae
- 9 Physicians and the new philosophy: Henry Stubbe and the virtuosi-physicians
- 10 The early Royal Society and the spread of medical knowledge
- 11 Medical practice in late seventeenth-and early eighteenth-century England: continuity and union
- Index
List of contributors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Medicine, religion and the puritan revolution
- 2 Harvey in Holland: circulation and the Calvinists
- 3 The matter of souls: medical theory and theology in seventeenth-century England
- 4 Mental illness, magical medicine and the Devil in northern England, 1650–1700
- 5 Passions and the ghost in the machine: or what not to ask about science in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Germany
- 6 Thomas Sydenham: epidemics, experiment and the ‘Good Old Cause’
- 7 The medico-religious universe of an early eighteenth-century Parisian doctor: the case of Philippe Hecquet
- 8 Isaac Newton, George Cheyne and the Principia Medicinae
- 9 Physicians and the new philosophy: Henry Stubbe and the virtuosi-physicians
- 10 The early Royal Society and the spread of medical knowledge
- 11 Medical practice in late seventeenth-and early eighteenth-century England: continuity and union
- Index
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1989