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The Status of Leibniz' Medical Experiments: A Provisional Empiricism? (2013)

Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Volume: 18, no. 4-5
Issue: 4 - 5
Pages: 360-380

Publication Date: 2013
Edition Details: Part of a special issue on empiricism and the relationship between medicine and philosophy in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Language: English

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Experimental medicine Experiments and experimentation Empiricism Empiric medicine Philosophy of medicine Methodology of science; scientific method Primary literature (historical sources) 17th century Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von

This paper examines the status of medical experiments using the Leibnizian conception of knowledge. The aim is to consider whether experimentation is a perceptive foretaste or a real condition for the advancement of knowledge. To this end I argue, first, that acting on bodies could be a way to understand them and, second, I establish a place for medical experiments in the field of learning. In these ways, I identify a provisional empiricism in Leibniz' medical texts.

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Article Crignon, Claire; Zelle, Carsten; Allocca, Nunzio (2013) Introduction. Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period (pp. 329-338). unapi

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