Title: Science incarnate : historical embodiments of natural knowledge /
Authors: Lawrence, Christopher, 1947-; Shapin, Steven.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press,
Year: 1998
Subjects: Science Social aspects; Science Philosophy; Mind and body; Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical
Contents: Introduction: the body of knowledge / Steven Shapin and Christopher Lawrence -- The philosopher and the chicken: on the dietetics of disembodied knowledge / Steven Shapin -- A mechanical microcosm: bodily passions, good manners, and Cartesian mechanism / Peter Dear -- Regeneration: the body of natural philosophers in Restoration England / Simon Schaffer -- Isaac Newton: Lucatello Professor of Mathematics / Rob Iliffe -- Medical minds, surgical bodies: corporeality and the doctors / Christopher Lawrence -- A calculus of suffering: Ada Lovelace and the bodily constraints on women's knowledge in early Victorian England / Alison Winter -- I could have retched all night: Charles Darwin and his body / Janet Browne -- Exercising the student body: mathematics and athleticism in Victorian Cambridge / Andrew Warwick.