Mechanism, Experiment, Disease

Domenico Bertoloni Meli is a professor of history and philosophy of science at Indiana University and author of Thinking with Objects: The Transformation of Mechanics in the Seventeenth Century, also published by Johns Hopkins.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Anatomy, Medicine, and the New Philosophy
1. Anatomical Research in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century
2. Malpighi's Role on the Anatomical Stage
3. Medical Locations: The Sites of Malpighi's Work
4. Mechanism and Mechanics
5. Experiment and Collaboration
6. Disease and Anatomy
7. Structure and Organization
Part I: The Rise of Mechanistic and Microscopic Anatomy: Malpighi's Formation and Association with Borelli
1. The New Anatomy, the Lungs, and Respiration
1.1. Changing Anatomical Horizons
1.2. Malpighi's Bologna Apprenticeship: Anatomical Venues and Vivisection
1.3. Malpighi's Pisa Apprenticeship: Microscopy and the New Philosophy
1.4. Malpighi's Epistolae on the Lungs
1.5. The Purpose of Respiration: Thruston, Lower, and Hooke
2. Epidemic Fevers and the Challenge to Galenism
2.1. Galenic Traditions and New Medical Thinking
2.2. Borelli and the Sicilian Epidemics of 1647–48
2.3. Borelli, Malpighi, and the Pisa Epidemics of 1661
2.4. The 1665 Controversy between the Neoterics and the Galenists
2.5. Malpighi's Risposta to Galenistarum triumphus
3. The Anatomy of the Brain and of the Sensory Organs
3.1. Atomism and the Anatomy of the Senses
3.2. Brain Research in the 1660s: Willis, Steno, and Malpighi
3.3. Malpighi's Anatomical Findings on Taste and Touch
3.4. Fracassati's Far-Reaching Investigations
3.5. Bellini and Rossetti: Atomistic Anatomy of Taste and Touch
Part II: Secretion and the Mechanical Organization of the Body: Glands as the Centerpiece of Malpighi's Investigations
4. The Glandular Structure of the Viscera
4.1. The Revival of Glands
4.2. Changing Perceptions on Glands: Glisson, Wharton, and Steno
4.3. Malpighi's Treatise on the Liver
4.4. The Brain and the Cerebral Cortex
4.5. The Kidneys: Bellini and Malpighi
4.6. The Spleen and Its Problems
5. Fat, Blood, and the Body's Organization
5.1. The Necessity of Matter and the Animal's Benefit
5.2. Descartes on Fat, Blood, and Nutrition
5.3. Malpighi on Fat and Its Philosophical Implications
5.4. Blood Transfusions
5.5. Malpighi on Heart Polyps and the Nature of Blood
6. The Structure of Glands and the Problem of Secretion
6.1. Different Perspectives on Glands
6.2. Intestinal Glands and Their Implications
6.3. The Mode of Operation of Glands
6.4. Glands in the Theatre: Bellini, Sbaraglia, and Malpighi
6.5. Nuck's New Taxonomy of Glands
Part III: Between Anatomy and Natural History: Malpighi andthe Royal Society
7. The Challenge of Insects
7.1. Changing Perceptions on Insects
7.2. Redi: Experiments and Generation
7.3. Malpighi: Historia and Anatomy
7.4. Swammerdam: Metamorphosis and Classification
7.5. Swammerdam and Malpighi: Microstructure and Iconography
8. Generation and the Formation of the Chick in the Egg
8.1. Generation and Its Problems
8.2. Harvey: Epigenesis and the Role of the Faculties
8.3. The Organs of Generation and the Problem of Fecundation
8.4. Swammerdam and the Amsterdam Circle on Preformation
8.5. Malpighi and the Formation of the Chick in the Egg
9. The Anatomy of Plants
9.1. Plants between Anatomy and Natural History
9.2. Malpighi's Anatomy of Plants: Structure, Iconography, and Experiment
9.3. Trionfetti, Malpighi, Cestoni, and the Vegetation of Plants
9.4. Grew and Camerarius: Iconography, "OEconomy," and SexualReproduction
Part IV: Anatomy, Pathology, and Therapy: Malpighi's Posthumous Writings
10. The Fortunes of Malpighi's Mechanistic Anatomy
10.1. Mechanistic Anatomy and Malpighi's Vita
10.2. Writing about the Self
10.3. Levels of Mechanical Explanation in Borelli and Malpighi
10.4. Paolo Mini and the Soul-Body Problem
10.5. Ruysch's Challenge and Boerhaave
11. From the New Anatomy to Pathology and Therapy
11.1. A Bologna Controversy and Its Wider Implications
11.2. Sbaraglia's Challenge to Malpighi's Research
11.3. Malpighi: The Medical Signifi cance of the New Anatomy
11.4. Sbaraglia's Empiricism and Methodological Concerns
11.5. Young Morgagni's Covert Intervention
12. Medical Consultations
12.1. Between Theory and Practice, Carnival and Lent
12.2. Publishing Malpighi's Consultations
12.3. Structure and Contents of Malpighi's Consultations
12.4. Curing with the Pen: Francesco Redi
12.5. A Broader Look at Medical Consultations: Vallisneri and Morgagni
Epilogue
List of Abbreviations
Notes
References
Index