Elizabeth A. Williams
Ashgate
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382
2003
This study is a cultural history of Montpellier vitalism regarded by many historians as the leading school of medicine in the French Enlightenment. Offering a holistic understanding of physical-moral relation in place of Descartes' mind-body dualism Montpellier vitalism supplied essential discursive foundations of the medical enlightenment.
Ashgate
Hardback
382
2003
This study is a cultural history of Montpellier vitalism regarded by many historians as the leading school of medicine in the French Enlightenment. Offering a holistic understanding of physical-moral relation in place of Descartes' mind-body dualism Montpellier vitalism supplied essential discursive foundations of the medical enlightenment.