Overview
Provides a full account of the concept of fiber and fiber theory in eighteenth-century British medicine.
Offers an innovative look at the ways the body was no longer seen as an amalgam of the four humors but was believed to be woven of the solid fibers.
Challenges the widely held assumption that the eighteenth century was the age of the nerve and instead offers an alternative model of fiber.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Prelude to the Fiber Body in the Latter Half of the Seventeenth Century, c.1650–1700
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The Fiber Body in Eighteenth-Century Medicine
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fiber, Medicine, and Culture in the British Enlightenment
Authors: Hisao Ishizuka
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-93268-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-58092-4Published: 18 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-93270-2Published: 01 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-93268-9Published: 17 November 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 276
Topics: Cultural and Media Studies, general, History of Medicine, History of Biology, History of Psychology