The Mechanization of the Heart:

Harvey & Descartes

Thomas Fuchs (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2001
University of Rochester Press (Verlag)
978-1-58046-077-4 (ISBN)

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Discusses the similarities and differences of the views of the two 17th century scholars William Harvey and Rene Descartes on the heart and circulation of the blood. This work traces the reception of the two views in the medical literature of the time and the influence both views had. It also examines Harvey's approach to circulatory physiology.

In Mechanization of the Heart: Harvey and Descartes Thomas Fuchs discusses the similarities and differences of the views of the two seventeenth-century scholars William Harvey and Rene Descartes on the beart and circulationof the blood; Fuch traces the reception of the two views in the medical literature of the time and the influence both views had.

Thomas Fuchs teaches psychiatry at the Rupert-Karls-Universitat, Heidelberg. Marjorie Grene is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of California at Davis, and Adjunct Professor and Honorary Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Virginia Tech University.

Harvey and Descartes
The Galenic Paradigm and Its Crisis
William Harvey: The Vital Aspect of Circulation
The Mechanical Aspect of the Circulation: Descartes and His Followers
Vitalism and Mechanism between 1700 and 1850
A Look Ahead

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.11.2001
Reihe/Serie	Rochester Studies in Medical History
Übersetzer	Marjorie Grene
Verlagsort	Rochester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	1 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Physiologie
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	1-58046-077-1 / 1580460771
ISBN-13	978-1-58046-077-4 / 9781580460774
Zustand	Neuware