478. This Gland Is Your Gland: Cartesian Science
From comets to blood transfusions, embryology, and the debate over the pineal gland: Descartes’ impact on science, especially medicine.
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Themes:
• R. Andrault and M. Laerke (eds), Steno and the Philosophers (Leiden: 2018).
• D. Antoine-Mahut and S. Gaukroger (eds), Descartes’ Treatise on Man and its Reception (Cham: 2016).
• V. Aucante, La Philosophie Médicale de Descartes (Paris: 2006)
• F. Baldassari (ed.), Descartes and Medicine: Problems, Responses, and Survival of a Cartesian Discipline (Turnhout: 2023).
• L. Brockliss and C. Jones, The Medical World of Early Modern France (Oxford: 1997).
• G. Caps, Les “médecins cartésiens”: Héritage de diffusion de la representation mécanists du corps humain (1646–1696) (Hildesheim: 2010).
• D. Cellamare and M. Mantovani (eds), Descartes in the Classroom: Teaching Cartesian Philosophy in the Modern Age (Leiden: 2023).
• M. Dobre and T. Nyden (eds), Cartesian Empiricisms (Dordrecht: 2013).
• T. Schmaltz, Early Modern Cartesianisms: Dutch and French Constructions (Oxford: 2017).
• F. Trevisani, Descartes in Germania: La ricezione del cartesianesimo nella Facoltà filosofi ca e medica di Duisburg (1652–1703) (Milan: 1992).
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