Medicina e scienza dell'uomo: Paul-Joseph Barthez e la Scuola di Montpellier Medicine and Science of Man: Paul-Joseph Barthez and the Montpellier School

• Main Author: Raffaele Carbone (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: Italian
• Published: FedOA - Federico II University Press 2017
• Series: Scuola delle Scienze Umane e Sociali. Quaderni
• Subjects: Barthez; vitalism; science de l'homme; medical anthropology; physique/moral; Lacaze; Montpellier school; Bordeu
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This book focuses on the new anthropology elaborated by the physicians-philosophers of Montpellier in the second half of the 18th century, in particular, Paul-Joseph Barthez (1734-1806). In the wake of scepticism and empiricism, Barthez plans a science of man which rests upon physiological foundatio...