Fiber, Medicine, and Culture in the British Enlightenment

Hisao Ishizuka is Professor in the Department of English at Senshu University, Japan. He is widely published in journals including Medical History, History of Science and Literature and Medicine.

Part 1: Prelude to the Fiber Body in the Latter Half of the Seventeenth Century, c.1650-1700.- Chapter 1: Visualizing the Fiber-Woven Body: Emergence of the Fiber Body.- Part 2: The Fiber Body in Eighteenth-Century MedicineChapter 2: “Fiber Body” in the Era of Iatromechanism, c.1700-1740s.- Chapter 3: Elasticity of Animal Fiber: Motion, Tone and Life of the Fiber Body.- Chapter 4: Continuity and Change: “Fiber Body” in the Era of Iatro-Vitalism, c.1750–1800.- Interlude: Fiber Psychology.- Part 3: Fiber and Culture.- Chapter 5: The Fiber Body and the Baroque: The Anatomy of Membranes and Folds.- Chapter 6: The Fiber Body and the Culture of Sensibility: From Nervous Man to Fiber Man.