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Machines of the Body in the Seventeenth Century (2016)

Bertoloni Meli, Domenico (Author)

Pages: 91-116
Publication date: 2016
Language: English

URI: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-017-7353-9_5

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Vivisection Medicine Anatomy Experiments and experimentation Machines Pathology Death 17th century

This essay discusses the role of new mechanical devices put forward in the seventeenth century in anatomy and pathology, showing how several of those devices were promptly deployed in anatomical investigations. I also discuss the role of dead bodies as boundary objects between living bodies and machines, highlighting their problematic status in experimentation and vivisection.

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Book Benjamin Goldberg; Peter Distelzweig; Evan R. Ragland (2015) Early Modern Medicine and Natural Philosophy. unapi

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