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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: Subtle and Mysterious Machine
    sub title: The Medical World of Walter Charleston (1619–1707)
  name:
    name part: Gaukroger, S.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Booth, Emily.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2005
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VIII, 300 p. online resource.
  abstract: Walter Charleton (1619-1707) has been widely depicted as a natural philosopher whose intellectual career mirrored the intellectual ferment of the ‘scientific revolution’. Instead of viewing him as a barometer of intellectual change, I examine the previously unexplored question of his identity as a physician. Examining three of his vernacular medical texts, this volume considers Charleton’s thoughts on anatomy, physiology and the methods by which he sought to understand the invisible processes of the body. Although involved in many empirical investigations within the Royal Society, he did not give epistemic primacy to experimental findings, nor did he deliberately identify himself with the empirical methods associated with the ‘new science’. Instead Charleton presented himself as a scholarly eclectic, following a classical model of the self. Physicians needed to endorse both ancient and modern authorities, in order to attract and retain patients. I argue that Charleton’s circumstances as a practising physician resulted in the construction of an identity at variance with that widely associated with natural philosophers. The insights he can offer us into the world of seventeenth century physicians are highly significant and utterly fascinating.
  table of contents: Rewriting Walter Charleton: Physick and Natural Philosophy -- ’The Alembic of Our Pen’: Charleton’s Identity as a Physician -- ’The Animal Oeconomy’: Natural History (1659) in the Context of English Physiology -- ’The Republick of Letters’: Charleton’s Identity in the Royal Society & College of Physicians -- Enquiries Into Human Nature (1680): Charleton’s Anatomy and Physiology After the Royal Society -- Three Anatomic Lectures (1683): Ways of Knowing and the Anatomical Body -- Conclusions.
  note: by S. Gaukroger ; edited by Emily Booth.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Epistemology
  subject:
    topic: Medicine
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Medicine
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy, general
  subject:
    topic: History of Science
  subject:
    topic: Epistemology
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Medicine
  subject:
    topic: History of Medicine
  classification: B1-5802
  classification: 100
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 18
  identifier: 9781402033780
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3378-8
  record info:
    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204154616.0
    record identifier: 978-1-4020-3378-0