This book offers an important account of the relationship between science and culture in the eighteenth century. It examines the 'vitalist' turn in physiology a

This study is a cultural history of Montpellier vitalism, regarded by many historians as the leading school of medicine in the French Enlightenment. Offering a

This book offers an important account of the relationship between science and culture in the eighteenth century. It examines the 'vitalist' turn in physiology a

This Open Access book combines philosophical and historical analysis of various forms of alternatives to mechanism and mechanistic explanation, focusing on the

This far-reaching study redraws the intellectual map of the Enlightenment and boldly reassesses the legacy of that highly influential period for us today. Peter