A collection of essays concerned with issues of identity - what was the identity of topics, disciplines, arguments, diseases in the past, and whether they are identical with (more usually, how they are not identical with) topics, disciplines, arguments or diseases in the present.
The central proposition of this book is that the great anatomists of the Renaissance, from Vesalius to Fabricius... Læs mere
The eighteenth-century practitioners of anatomy saw their own period as 'the perfection of anatomy'. This book looks at the... Læs mere
Students notoriously vote with their feet, seeking out the best and most innovative teachers of their subject. This book... Læs mere
This book presents a new interpretation of how and why the discovery of the circulation of the blood in animals was made.
The Enlightenment period is considered to be a period when religion was obliged to give way to rationality. However, there are indications in scholarship... Læs mere