La Mettrie : medicine, philosophy, and enlightenment / Kathleen Wellman
1992, 1st edition. Durham : Duke University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #425833
ISBN: 0822312042
Physical description; xiv, 342 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-336) and index. Contents; Partial contents 1. A source of medical enlightenment: the conflict between the doctors and the surgeons -- 2. La Mettrie's medical satires: the formation of a philosophe -- 3. Boehaave: the medical heritage -- 4. La Mettrie's practice of medicine -- 5. La Mettrie and Boerhaave: medical theory reappraised -- 6. Materialism and Lockeanism: the medicalization of metaphysics -- 7. La Mettrie's new philosophy applied: the medicalization of nature -- 8. Moral theory in medical terms -- 9. From philosopher to philosophe: the role of the "Medecin-Philosophe." Conclusion: The legacy of a medical enlightenment. Subjects; La Mettrie, Julien Offray de 1709-1751. La Mettrie, Julien Offray de. 18th century. Physicians France ; Biography. Philosophers France ; Biography. Philosophers France History. Philosophers. Physicians.
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