Early Modern Medicine and Natural Philosophy

1. Introduction; Benjamin Goldberg, Evan Ragland, and Peter Distelzweig

Part I Philosophy, Medicine and Method in the Renaissance

2. Lodovico Settala's Aristotelian Problemata Commentary and Late-Renaissance Hippocratic Medicine; Craig Martin

3. Renaissance Surgeons: Anatomy, Manual Skill and the Visual Arts; Cynthia Klestinec

4. Why All This Jelly? Jacopo Zabarella and Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente on the Usefulness of the Vitreous Humor; Tawrin Baker

Part II Life and Mechanism

5. Machines of the Body in the 17th Century; Domenico Bertoloni Meli

6. "Mechanics" and Mechanism in William Harvey's Anatomy: Varieties and Limits; Peter Distelzweig

7. Descartes on the Theory of Life and Methodology in the Life Sciences; Karen Detlefsen

8. Mechanism, the Senses, and Reason: Franciscus Sylvius and Leiden Debates over Anatomical Knowledge after Harvey and Descartes; Evan Ragland

9. Louis de la Forge and the Development of Cartesian Medical Philosophy; Patricia Easton and Melissa Gholamnejad

Part III  Matter and Life, Corpuscles and Chymistry

10. Transplantation and Corpuscular Identity in Paracelsian Vital Philosophy; Jole Shackelford

11. Mysteries of Living Corpuscles: Atomism and the Origin of Life in Sennert, Gassendi and Kircher; Hiro Hirai

12. Mechanism and Chemical Medicine in 17th-century England: Boyle's Investigation of Ferments and Fermentation; Antonio Clericuzio

13. Boyle, Malpighi, and the Problem of Plastic Powers; Ashley J. Inglehart

Part IV Medicalizing Philosophy?

14. Early Modern Medical Eudaimonism; Justin E. H. Smith

15. Tres medici, duo athei? The Physician as Atheist and the Medicalization of the Soul; Charles T. Wolfe