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‘Proper Motions, Actions and Uses’: Physiological Knowledge as the Only Means to Rational Politics in Restoration England

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2012

Steve Ridge
Steve Ridge
Affiliation:
Steve Ridge, PhD student, The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, UK. Email: steve.ridge@gmail.com
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This article is drawn from a doctoral thesis called ‘Governing Public Bodies: Reconsidering the Relationship Between Statecraft and Healthcare in England, 1650–1730’, which considers two things: how certain categories of person, certain subjectivities, have been assembled through government in the name of health; and how the health of the individual has been understood to relate to that of the collective.

Keywords

Walter CharletonPhysiologyRestorationPolitics
Type
Articles
Information
Medical History , Volume 55 , Issue 3 , July 2011 , pp. 339 - 342
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 2011. Published by Cambridge University Press

References

1 Walter Charleton, Natural History of Nutrition (London: R. Daniel & J. Redman, 1659), the Epistle Dedicatory. The book was also published the same year in Latin, as Oeconomia Animalis.

2 Walter Charleton, The Darknes of Atheism Dispelled by the Light of Nature: A Physico-theologicall Treatise (London: W. Lee, 1652).

3 Walter Charleton, Natural History of the Passions (London: J. Magnes, 1674). Thomas Willis, De anima brutorum quae hominis vitalis ac sensitiva est, exercitationes duae (Oxford: Richard Davis, 1672). Willis’s treatise was translated by Samuel Pordage as Two Discourses Concerning the Soul of Brutes Which is That of the Vital and Sensitive of Man (London: Thomas Dring, Charles Harper and John Leigh, 1683).

4 Willis, Two Discourses, ibid., 42.