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Vitalisms from Haller to the Cell Theory; proceedings of the Zaragoza symposium XIXth International Congress of History of Science 22-29 August 1993. Edited by Guido Cimino Francois Duchesneau.
1997réf. RH1559Firenze:: Leo S. Olschki 1997. 1997. Series: Biblioteca di Physis 5. Articles in English and French. 8vo. 357 pp. Index. Printed wrappers. Scarce. Very good. This volume of conference proceedings contains the following contributions: Guido Cimino "Introduction: La problematique du vitalisme"; Roselyne Rey "Lignes de force et tendances actuelles des etudes sur le vitalisme"; Richard Toellner "Principles and Forces of Life in Haller"; Maria Teresa Monti "Les dynamismes du corps et les forces du vivant dans la physiologie de Haller"; Giulio Barsanti "Les phenomenes 'etranges' et 'paradoxaux' aux origines de la premiere revolution biologique 1740-1810"; Federico Di Trocchio "The Vital Principle in Therapy: Barthez and the Theory of Fluxions"; Francois Azouvi "Le vitalisme de Maine de Biran"; Brigitte Lohff "The Concept of Vital Forces as a Research Program from mid-XVIIIth Century to Johannes Muller"; Frederick Gregory "The Newtonian Vitalism of J. F. Fries"; Dietrich von Engelhardt "Vitalism between Science and Philosophy in Germany around 1800"; Roselyne Rey "Bichat au carrefour des vitalismes"; Jacalyn Duffin "Cadavers and Patients: Laennec's Vital Principle and the Historical Diagnosis of Vitalism"; Francois Duchesneau "Vitalism and Anti-vitalism in Schwann's Program for the Cell Theory"; Guido Cimino "Proprietes ou forces nerveuses dans l'oeuvre de Flourens"; Frederic L. Holmes "Claude Bernard and the Vitalism of His Time"; and Francois Duchesneau "Territoires et frontieres du vitalisme 1750-1850." Reviewed: Journal of the History of Biology 33 2000. Leo S. Olschki, 1997. unknown
