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Elements of Descartes' medical Scientia : books, medical schools, and collaborations
P. 247-270
- In this chapter, I explore the sources and collaborators that assisted Descartes to shape his knowledge of medicine, a branch of his tree of philosophy. I highlight three aspects: (1.) a direct collaboration with Dutch scholars such as Plemp, Vorstius, and Regius, who helped Descartes acquire anatomical skills, or develop anatomical observations; (2.) the contacts with scholars and physicians working in Leiden; and (3.) the references to, and possible uses of, medical books. What permeates all these three areas is the underlying presence of the Medical School of Padua, where the large majority of these scholars had their training, and the connection he had with the Medical Faculty of Leiden. In sum, Descartes' medical knowledge emerged from a combination of personal reflections, anatomical observations, collaborations, and the contacts with institutions that grounded medicine as a modern scientia. [Publisher's text]
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Nello stesso volume
- Foreword
- Notes on contributors
- Scientiae in the history of medicine : an introduction
- The University of Padua Medical School from the origins to the Early Modern Time : a historical overview
- The anatomy theater : towards a performative history
- Sixteenth-century university gardens in a medical and botanical context
- The origin and development of medical museum heritage in Padua
- The science and ethics concerning the legacy of human remains and historical collections : the Gordon Museum of Pathology in London
- Between text and practice : the anatomical injections of Berengario da Carpi
- Sources and resources of court medicine in Mid-Sixteenth Rome : erudition as an epistemological and ethical claim
- The experience of the physician Girolamo Donzellini in the 1575 Venetian plague : between Scientia and heterodoxy
- Pestilence in Renaissance Platonic medicine : from astral causation to pharmacology and treatment
- Elements of Descartes' medical Scientia : books, medical schools, and collaborations
- Testing drugs in Giorgio Baglivi's dissertation on Vesicants
- Tracing Senguerd's footprints : sciences and tarantism at Leiden Universtiy (1667-1715)
- Classifications from an epistemological point of view with particular attention to the classifications of diseases
- List of abstracts
