The Medical Revolution of the Seventeenth Century

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511897078

This book considers the underlying forces which helped to produce a revolution in seventeenth-century medicine. It shows how in the period between 1630 and 1730 medicine came to represent something more than a marginal activity unrelated to social and intellectual phenomena and also how it was influenced and formed by the same developments in religion, politics, science and commerce which shaped the general history of the seventeenth century. In an attempt to divert the historiography of the subject away from Newton, natural philosophy and the 'scientific revolution', the essays in this volume not only place medicine into a 'context' of political, religious and social change but also explore the dynamics which fashioned the nature of medicine in the age of revolution. Not surprisingly, religion emerges as perhaps the greatest external force for change, colouring most aspects of national and local life and interacting with the growth in the extent of medical knowledge and practice.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv
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List of contributors
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction
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1 - Medicine, religion and the puritan revolution
pp 10-45
- By Peter Elmer, University of Evansville
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2 - Harvey in Holland: circulation and the Calvinists
pp 46-86
- By Roger French, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge
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3 - The matter of souls: medical theory and theology in seventeenth-century England
pp 87-113
- By John Henry, Science Studies Unit, Edinburgh
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4 - Mental illness, magical medicine and the Devil in northern England, 1650–1700
pp 114-144
- By David Harley, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford
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5 - Passions and the ghost in the machine: or what not to ask about science in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Germany
pp 145-163
- By Johanna Geyer-Kordesch, Institut für Theorie und Geschichte der Medizin, Münster
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6 - Thomas Sydenham: epidemics, experiment and the ‘Good Old Cause’
pp 164-190
- By Andrew Cunningham, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge
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7 - The medico-religious universe of an early eighteenth-century Parisian doctor: the case of Philippe Hecquet
pp 191-221
- By L.W.B. Brockliss, Magdalen College, Oxford
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8 - Isaac Newton, George Cheyne and the Principia Medicinae
pp 222-245
- By Anita Guerrini, University of Minnesota
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9 - Physicians and the new philosophy: Henry Stubbe and the virtuosi-physicians
pp 246-271
- By Harold J. Cook, University of Wisconsin Medical School
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10 - The early Royal Society and the spread of medical knowledge
pp 272-293
- By Roy Porter, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London
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11 - Medical practice in late seventeenth-and early eighteenth-century England: continuity and union
pp 294-320
- By Andrew Wear, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London
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Index
pp 321-328
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Contents

Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of contributors
pp vii-vii

Acknowledgements
pp viii-viii

Introduction
pp 1-9

1 - Medicine, religion and the puritan revolution
pp 10-45

2 - Harvey in Holland: circulation and the Calvinists
pp 46-86

3 - The matter of souls: medical theory and theology in seventeenth-century England
pp 87-113

4 - Mental illness, magical medicine and the Devil in northern England, 1650–1700
pp 114-144

5 - Passions and the ghost in the machine: or what not to ask about science in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Germany
pp 145-163

6 - Thomas Sydenham: epidemics, experiment and the ‘Good Old Cause’
pp 164-190

7 - The medico-religious universe of an early eighteenth-century Parisian doctor: the case of Philippe Hecquet
pp 191-221

8 - Isaac Newton, George Cheyne and the Principia Medicinae
pp 222-245

9 - Physicians and the new philosophy: Henry Stubbe and the virtuosi-physicians
pp 246-271

10 - The early Royal Society and the spread of medical knowledge
pp 272-293

11 - Medical practice in late seventeenth-and early eighteenth-century England: continuity and union
pp 294-320

Index
pp 321-328

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