Blood, Sweat and Tears
The Changing Concepts of Physiology from Antiquity into Early Modern Europe
- Editors Manfred Horstmanshoff; Helen King; Claus Zittel
- Subjects: Classical Studies
- Publication Year : 2012
- DOI: 10.1163/9789004229204
- E - ISBN : 9789004229204
- Imprint: Brill
- Collections: European History and Culture E-Books Online, Collection 2012
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Drawing on the methods of a wide range of academic disciplines, this volume shifts the focus of the history of the body, exploring the many different ways in which its physiology and its fluids were understood in pre-modern European thought.
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Preliminary Material
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Introduction
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Physiologia from Galen to Jacob Bording
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Physiological Analogies and Metaphors In Explanations of the Earth and the Cosmos
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The Reception of the Hippocratic Treatise On Glands
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Between Atoms and Humours. Lucretius’ Didactic Poetry as a Model of Integrated and Bifocal Physiology
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Losing Ground. The Disappearance of Attraction from the Kidneys
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The Art of the Distillation of ‘Spirits’ as a Technological Model for Human Physiology. The Cases of Marsilio Ficino, Joseph Duchesne and Francis Bacon
- pp. 139–170 (32)
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The Body is a Battlefield. Conflict and Control in Seventeenth-Century Physiology and Political Thought
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Herman Boerhaave’s Neurology and the Unchanging Nature of Physiology
- pp. 195–216 (22)
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The Anatomy and Physiology of Mind. David Hume’s Vitalistic Account
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More than a Fading Flame. The Physiology of Old Age between Speculative Analogy and Experimental Method
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Suffering Bodies, Sensible Artists. Vitalist Medicine and the Visualising of Corporeal Life in Diderot
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Blood, Clotting and the Four Humours
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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
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The Nature of the Soul and the Passage of Blood through the Lungs. Galen, Ibn al-Nafīs, Servetus, İtaki, ‘Aṭṭār
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Sperm and Blood, Form and Food. Late Medieval Medical Notions of Male and Female in the Embryology of Membra
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The Music of the Pulse in Marsilio Ficino’s Timaeus Commentary
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‘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
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White Blood and Red Milk. Analogical Reasoning in Medical Practice and Experimental Physiology (1560–1730)
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The “Body without Skin” in the Homeric Poems
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Sweat. Learned Concepts and Popular Perceptions, 1500–1800
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Of the Fisherman’s Net and Skin Pores. Reframing Conceptions of the Skin in Medicine 1572–1714
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Vision and Vision Disorders. Galen’s Physiology of Sight
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Early Modern Medical Thinking on Vision and the Camera Obscura. V.F. Plempius’ Ophthalmographia
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The Tertium Comparationis of the Elementa Physiologiae. – Johann Gottfried von Herder’s Conception of “Tears” as Mediators between the Sublime and the Actual Bodily Physiology
- pp. 595–626 (32)
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From Doubt to Certainty. Aspects of the Conceptualisation and Interpretation of Galen’s Natural Pneuma
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Metabolisms of the Soul. The Physiology of Bernardino Telesio in Oliva Sabuco’s Nueva Filosofía de la Naturaleza del Hombre (1587)
- pp. 661–683 (23)
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“Full of Rapture”. Maternal Vocality and Melancholy in Webster’s Duchess of Malfi
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The Sleeping Musician. Aristotle’s Vegetative Soul and Ralph Cudworth’s Plastic Nature
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Index Locorum
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Index Generalis
- pp. 760–772 (13)
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