Terrall, Mary (Editor)
Deutsch, Helen (Editor)
"Eighteenth-century questions about the properties essential to life often explored the boundary between the physical world of the body and the immaterial world of the mind and soul. Locating materialism within the larger history of ideas, Vital Matters examines how and why eighteenth-century scientists, philosophers, writers, and artists questioned nature and its animating principles. In this volume, interdisciplinary essays by premier scholars in literary studies, art history, and the history of science and medicine analyse a wide range of subjects, including ghosts and funerary practices, dissection and digestion, automata, and monstrous births. Featuring new approaches to literary texts such as Lawrence Sterne's Tristram Shandy and paintings such as Girodet's Eternal Sleep, as well as new research on cases from the history of medicine and the history of science, Vital Matters reconsiders Enlightenment oppositions between body and mind, brain and soul, life and death, and the physical and the abstract"--Pub. desc.
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Essay Review Costa, Erica da (2013) The Mystery of Matter. Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies (pp. 103-109).
Chapter Kramnick, Jonathan (2012) Living with Lucretius. In: Vital Matters: Eighteenth-Century Views of Conception, Life, and Death (p. 13).
Chapter Deutsch, Helen (2012) Dismantl'd Souls: The Verse Epistle, Embodied Subjectivity, and Poetic Animation. In: Vital Matters: Eighteenth-Century Views of Conception, Life, and Death (p. 39).
Chapter Stephanson, Raymond (2012) Tristram Shandy and the Art of Conception. In: Vital Matters: Eighteenth-Century Views of Conception, Life, and Death (p. 93).
Chapter Thompson, Helen (2012) The “Fair Savage”: Empiricism and Essence in Sarah Fielding's The History of Ophelia. In: Vital Matters: Eighteenth-Century Views of Conception, Life, and Death (p. 174).
Chapter Chaplin, Simon (2012) The Divine Touch, or Touching Divines: John Hunter, David Hume, and the Bishop of Durham's Rectum. In: Vital Matters: Eighteenth-Century Views of Conception, Life, and Death (p. 222).
Chapter Guerrini, Anita (2012) The Value of a Dead Body. In: Vital Matters: Eighteenth-Century Views of Conception, Life, and Death (p. 246).
Chapter Deutsch, Helen; Terrall, Mary (2012) Introduction. In: Vital Matters: Eighteenth-Century Views of Conception, Life, and Death (p. 3).
Chapter Chua, Kevin (2012) Girodet and the Eternal Sleep. In: Vital Matters: Eighteenth-Century Views of Conception, Life, and Death (p. 57).
Chapter Terrall, Mary (2012) Material Impressions: Conception, Sensibility, and Inheritance. In: Vital Matters: Eighteenth-Century Views of Conception, Life, and Death (p. 109).
Chapter Harol, Corrinne (2012) Misconceiving the Heir: Mind and Matter in the Warming Pan Propaganda. In: Vital Matters: Eighteenth-Century Views of Conception, Life, and Death (p. 130).
Chapter Kang, Minsoo (2012) From the Man-Machine to the Automaton-Man: The Enlightenment Origins of the Mechanistic Imagery of Humanity. In: Vital Matters: Eighteenth-Century Views of Conception, Life, and Death (p. 148).
Chapter Williams, Elizabeth A. (2012) Food and Feeling: “Digestive Force” and the Nature of Morbidity in Vitalist Medicine. In: Vital Matters: Eighteenth-Century Views of Conception, Life, and Death (p. 203).
Chapter Clymer, Lorna (2012) Noticing Death: Funeral Invitations and Obituaries in Early Modern Britain. In: Vital Matters: Eighteenth-Century Views of Conception, Life, and Death (p. 265).
Book
Woods, Robert;
(2009)
Death before Birth: Fetal Health and Mortality in Historical Perspective
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Chapter
Munkhoff, Richelle;
(2010)
Reckoning Death: Women Searchers and the Bills of Mortality in Early Modern London
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Article
Cara Kiernan Fallon;
(2019)
Husbands' Hearts and Women's Health: Gender, Age, and Heart Disease in Twentieth-Century America
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Article
Langford, Christopher;
(2002)
The Age Pattern of Mortality in the 1918--19 Influenza Pandemic: An Attempted Explanation Based on Data for England and Wales
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Article
Salazar Agulló, Modesta;
Martínez Marco, Emilio A.;
Bernabeu-Mestre, Josep;
(2007)
La salud materno-infantil durante el franquismo: notas bibliométricas sobre el programa “Al servicio de España y del niño español”
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Book
Claire L. Wendland;
(2022)
Partial Stories: Maternal Death from Six Angles
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Article
Razzell, Peter;
Spence, Christine;
(2007)
The History of Infant, Child and Adult Mortality in London, 1550--1850
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Article
Razzell, Peter;
Spence, Christine;
(2006)
The Hazards of Wealth: Adult Mortality in Pre-Twentieth-Century England
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Article
Barker-Benfield, G. J.;
(2012)
Stillbirth and Sensibility: The Case of Abigail and John Adams
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Article
Jenner, Mark;
(2005)
Death, Decomposition and Dechristianisation? Public Health and Church Burial in Eighteenth-Century England
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Thesis
Warren, Adam;
(2004)
Piety and Danger: Popular Ritual, Epidemics, and Medical Reforms in Lima,Peru, 1750--1860
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Book
Rusnock, Andrea A.;
(2002)
Vital Accounts: Quantifying Health and Population in Eighteenth-Century England and France
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Article
Newton, Gill;
(2011)
Infant Mortality Variations, Feeding Practices and Social Status in London between 1550 and 1750
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Chapter
Rusnock, Andrea;
(2005)
Quantifying Infant Mortality in England and France, 1750-1800
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Article
Bennett, Michael;
(2010)
Note-Taking and Data-Sharing: Edward Jenner and the Global Vaccination Network
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Chapter
Marks, Harry M.;
(2005)
When the State Counts Lives: Eighteenth-Century Quarrels over Inoculation
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Book
Levene, Alysa;
(2007)
Childcare, Health, and Mortality at the London Foundling Hospital, 1741-1800: “Left to the Mercy of the World”
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Book
Francesca Arena;
(2020)
Trouble dans la maternité: Pour une histoire des folies puerpérales, XVIIIe-XXe siècles
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Article
Hanley, James;
(2002)
Edwin Chadwick and the Poverty of Statistics
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Article
Andrej Tóth;
Inka Kratochvílová;
Jakub Drábek;
Lukáš Novotný;
Věra Hellerová;
Martin Červený;
Valérie Tóthová;
(2022)
On the Issue of the Spanish Flu in the First Czechoslovak Republic
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