Author: Nicolás Fernández-Medina
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773554076
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377

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The concept of vital force – the immanent energy that promotes the processes of life in the body and in nature – has proved a source of endless fascination and controversy. Indeed, the question of what vitalizes the body has haunted humanity since antiquity, and became even more pressing during the Scientific Revolution and beyond. Examining the complexities and theories about vital force in Spanish modernity, Nicolás Fernández-Medina's Life Embodied offers a novel and provocative assessment of the question of bodily life in Spain. Starting with Juan de Cabriada's landmark Carta filosófica, médico-chymica of 1687 and ending with Ramón Gómez de la Serna's avant-gardism of the 1910s, Fernández-Medina incorporates discussions of anatomy, philosophy, science, critical theory, history of medicine, and literary studies to argue that concepts of vital force served as powerful vehicles to interrogate the possibilities and limits of corporeality. Paying close attention to how the body's capabilities were conceived and strategically woven into critiques of modernity, Fernández-Medina engages the work of Miguel Boix y Moliner, Martín Martínez, Diego de Torres Villarroel, Sebastián Guerrero Herreros, Ignacio María Ruiz de Luzuriaga, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, Pedro Mata y Fontanet, Ángela Grassi, Julián Sanz del Río, Miguel de Unamuno, and Pío Baroja, among others. Drawing on extensive research and analysis, Life Embodied breaks new ground as the first book to address the question of vital force in Spanish modernity.

Author: Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)
Publisher:
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Category : Medical libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1084

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Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1084

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"Collection of incunabula and early medical prints in the library of the Surgeon-general's office, U.S. Army": Ser. 3, v. 10, p. 1415-1436.

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Languages : en
Pages : 1086

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Languages : en
Pages : 1082

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Author: Casimiro Torre de Castro
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781016292122
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 0

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author: Manuel M. Corrochano y Casanova
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Languages : es
Pages : 32

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Author: Julio Rabanillo y Robles
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Languages : es
Pages : 44

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Author: Clemente Fernández Elías
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Languages : es
Pages : 28

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Author: Joaquín Botana Miguez
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Languages : es
Pages : 12

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