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10A History Of Nerve Functions: From Animal Spirits To Molecular Mechanisms (review)Isis 96 261-262. 2005.
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16Emma C. Spary. Feeding France: New Sciences of Food, 1760–1815. xi + 428 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. $99 (review)Isis 106 (4): 933-934. 2015.
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13Claude Blanckaert. De la race à l'évolution: Paul Broca et l'anthropologie française . 616 pp., table, bibl., index. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2009. $56.55 (review)Isis 102 (1): 176-178. 2011.
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30Neuroses of the StomachIsis 98 (1): 54-79. 2007.In the period 1800–1870, French physicians approached psychic illness (Philippe Pinel’s “neurosis”) within competing “cerebralist” and “visceralist” frameworks. Cerebralism, which dominated the specialty of mental medicine, sought the origins of psychic illness in lesions of the brain and central nervous system. “Visceralism,” upheld by generalists, clung to the view of the ancients that psychic disorder was seated in the abdominal viscera. The distinction enjoyed credibility thanks to widesprea…Read more
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25Of Two Lives One? Jean-Charles-Marguerite-Guillaume Grimaud and the Question of Holism in Vitalist MedicineScience in Context 21 (4): 593-613. 2008.ArgumentMontpellier vitalists upheld a medical perspective akin to modern “holism” in positing the functional unity of creatures imbued with life. While early vitalists focused on the human organism, Jean-Charles-Marguerite-Guillaume Grimaud investigated digestion, growth, and other physiological processes that human beings shared with simpler organisms. Eschewing modern investigative methods, Grimaud promoted a medically-grounded “metaphysics.” His influential doctrine of the “two lives” broke …Read more
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36Sciences of appetite in the Enlightenment, 1750–1800Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 43 (2): 392-404. 2012.
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