The Medical Revolution of the Seventeenth Century (Paperback)

Introduction; 1. Medicine, religion and the puritan revolution Peter Elmer; 2. Harvey in Holland: circulation and the Calvinists Roger French; 3. The matter of souls: medical theory and theology in seventeenth-century England John Henry; 4. Mental illness, magical medicine and the Devil in northern England, 1650?1700 David Harley; 5. Passions and the ghost in the machine: or what not to ask about science in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Germany Johanna Geyer-Kordesch; 6. Thomas Sydenham: epidemics, experiment and the `Good Old Cause' Andrew Cunningham; 7. The medico-religious universe of an early eighteenth-century Parisian doctor: the case of Philippe Hecquet L. W. B Brockliss; 8. Isaac Newton, George Cheyne and the Principia Medicinae Anita Guerrini; 9. Physicians and the new philosophy: Henry Stubbe and the virtuosi-physicians Harold J. Cook; 10. The early Royal Society and the spread of medical knowledge Roy Porter; 11. Medical practice in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England: continuity and union Andrew Wear.