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Empiricism and the “Reasonable Physicians” of the Early Enlightenment (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: 453-470

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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Empiricism Physicians; doctors Empiric medicine Data analysis Data collection; methods Psychology Enlightenment 18th century Germany

This article aims to analyze the mechanisms of empirical data collection in medicine and psychology in the early Enlightenment by means of experiment, observation and self-observation, while associating them with their discursive forms of representation; namely, the case narrative. The combination of empirical and discursive anthropo-techniques leads to explanations on the anthropoietics of the Enlightenment; i.e., the question of how the habitus of man was shaped around 1750. Texts of four German `reasonable physicians' will be considered: Friedrich Hoffmann (1660--1742), Johann Gottlieb Krüger (1715--1759), Andreas Elias Büchner (1701--1769) and Johann August Unzer (1727--1799).

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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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