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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewReviews ‘Through its nine splendid contributions (which can be found summarised at the end, alongside a very useful thematic index), the book traces the way in which some key figures of the so-called Scientific Revolution- specifically those related to the anatomical and medical sciences- were transformed into icons of scientific progress. […] Along these lines, the book should not only be of interest to the historian of medicine or science, but also to the general historian, the philosopher of history, and to all those concerned with the practicalities required to give the living conditions of certain individuals the fictional characters of a universal history of glory. […] This is more than a book on eighteenth-century ideas of progress. By focusing on new sources, like obituaries and eulogies, the book also explores the coming into existence of a new historical narrative that goes far beyong the realm of science and medicine’.
Medical HistoryTable of ContentsFrédéric Charbonneau, Introduction
Hélène Cazes, Réédition et retour au progrès: les
Œuvres d’André Vésale (Leyde, Boerhaave et Albinus, 1725), acte de naissance et de renaissance de l’anatomie
Claire Crignon, William Harvey: nouveau Démocrite? Les récits de la découverte de la circulation sanguine au XVIIe siècle
Frédéric Tinguely, Une épistémologie libertine de la découverte: la chance en progrès chez Cyrano de Bergerac
Josiane Boulad-Ayoub, La figure de Descartes au XVIIIe siècle
Joël Castonguay-Bélanger, Une icône en procès: à propos de quelques résistances tardives à Newton
Frédéric Charbonneau, L’apothéose médicale, de Fontenelle à Vicq d’Azyr
Catriona Seth, Esculape-Tronchin: le médecin à la mode
Swann Paradis, Buffon et les descriptions animalières: réhabiliter une icône du progrès?
Alexandre Wenger, Théophile de Bordeu (1722-1776): histoire et fiction du grand homme
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