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- Title
Forms of Empirical Observation and Argumentative Structures in Julien Offray de la Mettrie's Observations de médecine pratique (1743).
- Authors
Lo Presti, Roberto
- Abstract
In this paper I examine one of Julien Offray de La Mettrie's most interesting, but also most neglected, medical works, Observations de médecine pratique (1743). I attempt both to assess its place in the wider context of eighteenth- century medical Empiricism and Neo-Hippocratism and also to understand to what extent La Mettrie's call for a medical practice based on observation can be considered as an expression of the long-term intellectual and epistemological process that culminated in the birth of clinical medicine.
- Subjects
DE la Mettrie, Julien Offray, 1709-1751; 18TH century medical history; EMPIRICISM; EIGHTEENTH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Gesnerus, 2017, Vol 74, Issue 1, p53
- ISSN
0016-9161
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1163/22977953-07401002