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Xavier Bichat's Medical Thought in the Historical Context of French Vitalism (2012)

Hwang, Suyoung (Author)

Korean Journal of Medical History
Volume: 21
Pages: 141--170
Publication date: 2012
Language: Korean

Publication Date: 2012
Edition Details: [Translated title.] In Korean.

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Vitalism Medicine Physiology 18th century France Bichat, Marie François Xavier

The French vitalism is different from vitalism in general. It is a position of some physiologists who worked from the end of the 18th century to the early days of the 19th century, defending the peculiarity of life phenomena in contrast to the Cartesian theory of the animal-machine. Its main representatives are Paul-Joseph Barthez and Theophile de Bordeu, who belonged to the vitalist school of Montpellier. They argue, in contrast to mechanism, that life involves a special principle and cannot be explained in terms of physical and chemical properties alone. Marie Francois Xavier Bichat (1771-1802), inheriting this position, endeavored to establish physiology as a science which cannot be reduced to the physical sciences.

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