Expanded mechanism and/or structural vitalism : further thoughts on the animal economy Ghent University
The opposition between mechanism and vitalism is an old and venerable one. It seems to be particularly active in the hands of historians of biology, particularly late nineteenth and early twentieth-century biology (Hein 1972; Allen 2005). Broadly speaking, histories of biology and medicine endlessly and ceaselessly oppose mechanism and vitalism, usually focusing on the most dogmatic pronouncements of both such perspectives (iatromechanistic ...