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The History of Medicine and the Scientific Revolution (2011)

Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Volume: 102
Pages: 102--108

Publication Date: 2011
Edition Details: Part of a special issue, “Between and Beyond “Histories of Science” and “Histories of Medicine””
Language: English

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The new philosophy of the seventeenth century has continued to be explained mainly on its own terms: as a major philosophical turn. Twentieth-century modernism gave pride of place to big ideas and reinforced the tendency to explain the rise of science in light of new ideas. Such orientations subordinated medicine (and technology) to sciences that appeared to be more theoretical. In attempts to persuade historians of science of the importance of medicine, then, many authors took an approach arguing that the major changes in the history of medicine during the so-called scientific revolution arose from philosophical commitments. Yet because medicine is also intimately connected to other aspects of life, its histories proved to be recalcitrant to such reductions and so continue to offer many possibilities for those who seek fresh means to address histories of body and mind united rather than divided.

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Article Pickstone, John V.; Worboys, Michael (2011) Introduction. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 97). unapi

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