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The Body as Object and Instrument of Knowledge

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    Chapter 1 Embodied Empiricism
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    Chapter 2 Victories for Empiricism, Failures for Theory: Medicine and Science in the Seventeenth Century
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    Chapter 3 Practical Experience in Anatomy
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    Chapter 4 Early Modern Empiricism and the Discourse of the Senses
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    Chapter 5 Alkahest and Fire: Debating Matter, Chymistry, and Natural History at the Early Parisian Academy of Sciences
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    Chapter 6 John Locke and Helmontian Medicine
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    Chapter 7 Empiricism Without the Senses: How the Instrument Replaced the Eye
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    Chapter 8 Mastering the Appetites of Matter. Francis Bacon’s Sylva Sylvarum
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    Chapter 9 ‘A Corporall Philosophy’: Language and ‘Body-Making’ in the Work of John Bulwer (1606–1656)
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    Chapter 10 Memory and Empirical Information: Samuel Hartlib, John Beale and Robert Boyle
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    Chapter 11 Lamarck on Feelings: From Worms to Humans
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    Chapter 12 Carelessness and Inattention: Mind-Wandering and the Physiology of Fantasy from Locke to Hume
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    Chapter 13 Instrumental or Immersed Experience: Pleasure, Pain and Object Perception in Locke
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    Chapter 14 Empiricism and Its Roots in the Ancient Medical Tradition
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    Chapter 15 Embodied Stimuli: Bonnet’s Statue of a Sensitive Agent
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    Chapter 16 Empiricist Heresies in Early Modern Medical Thought
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Chapter title
Empiricist Heresies in Early Modern Medical Thought
Chapter number 16
Book title
The Body as Object and Instrument of Knowledge
Published by
Springer Netherlands, February 2016
DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-3686-5_16
Book ISBNs
978-9-04-813685-8, 978-9-04-813686-5
Authors

Charles T. Wolfe

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Country Count As %
Unknown 7 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 29%
Researcher 2 29%
Student > Bachelor 1 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 14%
Unknown 1 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Philosophy 1 14%
Arts and Humanities 1 14%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 14%
Psychology 1 14%
Social Sciences 1 14%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 2 29%