Forms of Empirical Observation and Argumentative Structures in Julien Offray de la Mettrie’s Observations de médecine pratique (1743)
2017; Schwabe AG; Volume: 74; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1163/22977953-07401002
ISSN2297-7953
Autores Tópico(s)Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis
ResumoIn this paper I examine one of Julien Offray de La Mettrie’s most interesting, but also most neglected, medical works, Observations de médecine pratique (1743). I attempt both to assess its place in the wider context of eighteenth-century medical Empiricism and Neo-Hippocratism and also to understand to what extent La Mettrie’s call for a medical practice based on observation can be considered as an expression of the long-term intellectual and epistemological process that culminated in the birth of clinical medicine.
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