479. Gideon Manning on Cartesian Medicine

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An interview exploring Descartes' interest in medicine, how his medical ideas relate to his dualism, and his influence on medical science.

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Further Reading

• G. Manning, “Descartes, Other Minds and Impossible Human Bodies,” Philosophers’ Imprint 12 (2012), 1-24.

• G. Manning, “When the Mind Became Un-Natural: de la Forge and Psychology in the Cartesian Aftermath” in P. J. J. M. Bakker and Cees Leijenhorst, eds., Psychology and the Other Disciplines (Leiden: 2012), 131-53.

• G. Manning, “Descartes and the Bologna Affair,” British Journal for the History of Science (2013), 1-13.

• G. Manning, “Descartes’ Metaphysical Biology,” HOPOS 5 (2015), 209-39.

• G. Manning, “Descartes and Medicine,” in The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism (Oxford: 2019).

• G. Manning, “Descartes’s Cartesian Medicine: Past, Present, Future,” in F. Baldassari (ed.), Descartes and Medicine: Problems, Responses, and Survival of a Cartesian Discipline (Turnhout: 2023), 43-58.

• G. Manning, “Woman, Medicine, and the Life Sciences,” in L. Shapiro and K. Detlefson (eds), The Routledge Handbook for Woman and Early Modern European Philosophy (New York: 2023), 187-99. 

• G. Manning, “Descartes’s Cardiovascular Science of the Brain,” in D. Kambouchner et al. (eds), The Cartesian Brain: Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives (New York: 2024), 137-66. 

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