Vitalism

Author : Matthew Wood
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781556433405
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vitalism written by Matthew Wood and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2000-03-16 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vitalism, the recognition that the physical body is animated by a vital life force, is the foundation of most natural healing therapies. The forefathers of alternative medicine discovered methods of healing the body by stimulating this life force. In Vitalism: The History of Herbalism, Homeopathy, and Flower Essences, Matthew Wood describes the theories, lives, and work of nine great physicians who laid the groundwork for natural medicine.

Author : Gertrud Hvidberg-Hansen
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN 13 : 8763531348
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spirit of Vitalism written by Gertrud Hvidberg-Hansen and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated book outlines the strong Vitalistic movement in Denmark during the period 1890-1940. This movement emerged as a response to the rationalism and one-sided intellectualism of a rigid, bourgeois, or decadent culture of the 19th century. It constituted a number of cultural currents that were manifested in philosophy, art, and everyday life, with an emphasis on the energy of youth, the dynamic personality, and the potential of the body. Viewed in the wider perspective, the aim of Vitalism's cult of the body was a revitalization that was to benefit not only the individual human being, but the whole of culture. Although the Vitalistic themes emanated from modern life, they also drew artistic sustenance from Nordic mythology and Greek antiquity, which served as the most important ideals in the modern pursuit of both physical and spiritual beauty. Additionally, the book highlights the prevalence of the interest in health and exercise and an increased attentiveness to hyg

Author : Inga Pollmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789462983656
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cinematic Vitalism written by Inga Pollmann and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws new connections between twentieth-century German and French film theory and practice and vitalist conceptions of life from biology and philosophy.

Author : Matthew Wood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781556431272
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Magical Staff written by Matthew Wood and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sebastian Normandin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400724454
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vitalism and the Scientific Image in Post-Enlightenment Life Science, 1800-2010 written by Sebastian Normandin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-15 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vitalism is understood as impacting the history of the life sciences, medicine and philosophy, representing an epistemological challenge to the dominance of mechanism over the last 200 years, and partly revived with organicism in early theoretical biology. The contributions in this volume portray the history of vitalism from the end of the Enlightenment to the modern day, suggesting some reassessment of what it means both historically and conceptually. As such it includes a wide range of material, employing both historical and philosophical methodologies, and it is divided fairly evenly between 19th and 20th century historical treatments and more contemporary analysis. This volume presents a significant contribution to the current literature in the history and philosophy of science and the history of medicine.

Author : Mariam Fraser
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1473971845
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inventive Life written by Mariam Fraser and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2006-01-19 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates how and why vitalism - the idea that life cannot be explained by the principles of mechanism - matters now. Vitalism resists closure and reductionism in the life sciences whilst simultaneously addressing the object of life itself. The aim of this collection is to consider the questions that vitalism makes it possible to ask: questions about the role and status of life across the sciences, social sciences and humanities and questions about contingency, indeterminacy, relationality and change. All have special importance now, as the concepts of complexity, artificial life and artificial intelligence, information theory and cybernetics become increasingly significant in more and more fields of activity.

Author : Elizabeth A. Williams
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351962566
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Cultural History of Medical Vitalism in Enlightenment Montpellier written by Elizabeth A. Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the key themes of the Enlightenment was the search for universal laws and truths that would help illuminate the workings of the universe. It is in such attitudes that we trace the origins of modern science and medicine. However, not all eighteenth century scientists and physicians believed that such universal laws could be found, particularly in relation to the differences between living and inanimate matter. From the 1740s physicians working in the University of Medicine of Montpellier began to contest Descartes's dualist concept of the body-machine that was being championed by leading Parisian medical 'mechanists'. In place of the body-machine perspective that sought laws universally valid for all phenomena, the vitalists postulated a distinction being living and other matter, offering a holistic understanding of the physical-moral relation in place of mind-body dualism. Their medicine was not based on mathematics and the unity of the sciences, but on observation of the individual patient and the harmonious activities of the 'body-economy'. Vitalists believed that Illness was a result of disharmony in this 'body-economy' which could only be remedied on an individual level depending on the patient's own 'natural' limitations. The limitations were established by a myriad of factors such as sex, class, age, temperament, region, and race, which negated the use of a single universal treatment for a particular ailment. Ultimately Montpelier medicine was eclipsed by that of Paris, a development linked to the dynamics of the Enlightenment as a movement bent on cultural centralisation, acquiring a reputation as a kind of anti-science of the exotic and the mad. Given the long-standing Paris-centrism of French cultural history, Montpellier vitalism has never been accorded the attention it deserves by historians. This study repairs that neglect.

Author : C. Packham
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230368395
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eighteenth-Century Vitalism written by C. Packham and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Omri Moses
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804791236
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out of Character written by Omri Moses and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-07 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Characters" are those fictive beings in novels whose coherent patterns of behavior make them credible as people. "Character" is also used to refer to the capacity—or incapacity—of individuals to sustain core principles. When characters are inconsistent, they risk coming across as dangerous or immoral, not to mention unconvincing. But what is behind our culture's esteem for unwavering consistency? Out of Character examines literary characters who defy our culture's models of personal integrity. It argues that modernist writers Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and T. S. Eliot drew inspiration from vitalism as a way of reinventing the means of depicting people in fiction and poetry. Rather than regarding a rigid character as something that inoculates us against the shifting tides of circumstance, these writers insist on the ethical necessity of forming improvisational, dynamic social relationships. Charting the literary impact of William James, Charles Darwin, Friedrich Nietzsche, and, in particular, Henri Bergson, this book contends that vitalist understandings of psychology, affect, and perception led to new situational and relational definitions of selfhood. As Moses demonstrates, the modernists stirred by these vital life lessons give us a sense of what psychic life looks like at its most intricate, complex, and unpredictable.

Author : John Marks
Publisher : Pluto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780745308746
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gilles Deleuze written by John Marks and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 1998-05-20 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the work of Gilles Deleuze