The material body: medicine and materialism of the early modernity to the radical Enlightenment Ghent University
The Body Material is an investigation of the status of the body in materialist thought, from
early modernity until the late Enlightenment (17th-18th centuries). At first sight, this may
seem like familiar territory: the Scientific Revolution produced an idea of mechanistic analysis
which was gradually applied to the body by thinkers including Descartes, at the intersection
of philosophy and medicine. ...