The Quantification of Life and Health from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century : Intersections of Medicine and Philosophy / / edited by Simone Guidi and Joaquim Braga

• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2023]; ©2023
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (326 pages)
• Disciplina: 128.6
• Soggetto topico: Human body (Philosophy); Medicine - History; Medicine - Philosophy
• Persona (resp. second.): GuidiSimone <1984->; BragaJoaquim
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- 1 The Meanings of Quantification -- 2 The Metaphysics of Quantity and Measurement -- 3 The More, the Less, the Whole, the Body -- 4 The Quanti-Mathe-Mechanization of Nature and the Human Body as a Laboratory -- 5 The Fall of Mechanization and the New Life of Quantity -- 6 Overlapping Paths -- The More the Years the Less the Food: Alvise Cornaro on The Sober Life (1558) -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Cornaro and the Moral Question of Quantity -- 3 Quantity (of Food) Matters -- 4 Some Lies and 'The Cumulative Advantages of Added Years' -- 5 Leonhard Lessius SJ, Exporting Cornaro and His Proportions -- 6 Dissolution as Conclusion -- The Quantification of Talents: Education, Galenic Humoralism, and Classification of Wits in Early Modern Culture -- 1 Early Modern Educational Thought, Between Politics and Morals -- 2 The Qualitative Body in the Pseudo-Plutarchean De liberis educandis -- 3 "Queriendo reducir a arte esta nueva manera de filosofar": Juan Huarte's Work and the Beginnings of a Quantitative Approach to Educational Selection -- 4 Concluding Remarks: The Ingenium from Soul Faculty to Organic Function -- Quali-quantitative Measurement in Francis Bacon's Medicine. Toward a New Branch of Mixed Mathematics -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Ontology of Measurement -- 3 Mixed Mathematics, Physics, and Medicine -- 4 The Quali-quantitative Approach to Measurement -- 5 Quali-Quantitative Measures in Medicine: Some Examples -- 5.1 General Quantitative Registers -- 5.2 Mensura Quanti -- 5.3 Mensura Temporis -- 5.4 Mensura Spatii -- 5.5 Mensura Fortitudinis, Mensura Peristaseos -- 6 Conclusion -- Sanctorius's Weighing Chair: Measurement, Metabolism, and Mind -- 1 Insensible Perspiration -- 2 Exercise of the Mind -- 3 Quantified Selfhood -- 4 Conclusion. ; The Rise of Quantitative Biology in the Cartesian Age: The Theories of Preformation -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Malebranche's Theory of Preformation -- 3 Régis' (Limited) Theory of Preformation -- 4 Conclusion -- 'Nature is More Subtle Than Any Mathematician': Giorgio Baglivi on Fluids in the Human Body -- 1 The Intricate Nature of Disease -- 2 An Overview of De praxi medica, bk. I, Chs. 10-11 -- 3 Analogical Reasoning and Quantification in Physiology -- 4 Blood, Saliva and Bile Matters: 'Anatomising' Body Fluids -- 5 Conclusion -- "The Human Body Should Be Investigated in All Its Details to the Most Precise Degree…". Leibniz on the Quantification of Body in Medicine -- 1 Leibniz's Directiones (1671). A Primer in Quantification? -- 2 Collecting Data -- 3 Anatomy -- 4 Medical Statistics -- 5 Instruments of Measure -- 6 The Interior of Nature and the Limits of Mechanization -- Appendix: Leibniz "De re medica augenda" -- Data vs. Mathesis. Contrasting Epistemologies in Some Mechanizations and Quantifications of Medicine -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Struggling for Certainty -- 2.1 Pitcairne and Keill -- 2.2 Axiomatic Reasoning and Medicine: Gaukes and Hoffmann -- 3 Quantifying Physiology: Contrasting Approaches -- 3.1 The Newtonians: From Ratios to Measurements -- 3.2 The Rationalists: Statics and Quantification -- 4 Conclusion -- The Pulse Watch and the Physician's Senses: John Floyer on the Quantification of the Body -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Pulse Watch and the Mechanist View -- 3 Floyer on the Limits of the Mechanist View -- 4 The Necessity of the Pulse Watch -- 5 Conclusion -- Against the Quantification of the Living: Hegel's Critique of Romantic Naturphilosophie in the Phenomenology of Spirit -- 1 Hegel's Conception of the Living Organism -- 2 Observing Reason and the Phenomenological Genesis of Romantic Naturphilosophie. ; 3 The Controversy Concerning Romantic Naturphilosophie -- 3.1 The Inner-Outer Relationship in Romantic Naturphilosophie -- 3.2 Hegel's Criticism of Phrenology -- 3.3 Hegel's Criticism of the Schelling-Inspired Naturphilosophie -- 4 Conclusion -- Measuring the Mind: The French Debate on Fechner's Psychophysics in the Late Nineteenth Century -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Fechner's Psychophysics and Its Introduction into France -- 3 Mathematical Issues of Fechner's Law -- 4 Bergson and Fechner: Quality or Quantity? -- 5 Conclusion -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Quantification of Life and Health from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century
• ISBN: 3-031-15725-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910763589403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Palgrave studies in medieval and early modern medicine.