C Packham: 2 books
Eighteenth-Century Vitalism
Bodies, Culture, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
This book offers an important account of the relationship between science and culture in the eighteenth century. It examines the 'vitalist' turn in physiology and natural philosophy, and its presence and effect in the burgeoning of philosophical and scientific inquiry of the Scottish Enlightenment, and the radical politics and culture of the 1790s.
Systems of Life
Biopolitics, Economics, and Literature on the Cusp of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Offers a wide-ranging revaluation of the emergence of biopolitics in Europe from the mid-18th to the mid-19th century