Gideon Manning is Research Associate Professor at Claremont Graduate University, having previously taught at the University of Pittsburgh and served on the faculties of the College of William and Mary and the California Institute of Technology.  His recent publications include “Health in the Early Modern Philosophical Tradition” (2018), and “Descartes and Medicine” (2019), and he is one of the editors of Professors, Physicians, and Practices in the History of Medicine: Essays in Honor of Nancy Siraisi (2017). At present, he is engaged in a number of projects trying to productively bring together the history of medicine, science and philosophy.

• Chapter 1 Editor’s Introduction.- Chapter 2 Lisa Jardine: A Life in the Margins.- Chapter 3 Dosing the Ailing Subject: Reconnecting Early Modern Health and Thought.- Chapter 4 Francis Bacon’s Body and his Experiments on the Prolongation of Life.- Chapter 5 Material Thoughts: Robert Hooke’s Theory of Memory.- Chapter 6 Making Sense of Pain: Valentine Greatrakes, Henry Stubbe and Anne Conway.- Chapter 7 Animal Bodies and Human Minds: The Anatomy of the Brain and the Analogy of Nature.- Chapter 8 Lockean Self-Diagnosis.- Chapter 9 Joseph Glanvill on Imagination, Method and the Art of Thinking.- Chapter 10 Treating Yourself: Self-Diagnosis Amongst Natural Philosophers and Physicians and the Early Medical Case Study.

Gideon Manning is Research Associate Professor at Claremont Graduate University, having previously taught at the University of Pittsburgh and served on the faculties of the College of William and Mary and the California Institute of Technology.  His recent publications include “Health in the Early Modern Philosophical Tradition” (2018), and “Descartes and Medicine” (2019), and he is one of the editors of Professors, Physicians, and Practices in the History of Medicine: Essays in Honor of Nancy Siraisi (2017). At present, he is engaged in a number of projects trying to productively bring together the history of medicine, science and philosophy.

• Chapter 1 Editor’s Introduction.- Chapter 2 Lisa Jardine: A Life in the Margins.- Chapter 3 Dosing the Ailing Subject: Reconnecting Early Modern Health and Thought.- Chapter 4 Francis Bacon’s Body and his Experiments on the Prolongation of Life.- Chapter 5 Material Thoughts: Robert Hooke’s Theory of Memory.- Chapter 6 Making Sense of Pain: Valentine Greatrakes, Henry Stubbe and Anne Conway.- Chapter 7 Animal Bodies and Human Minds: The Anatomy of the Brain and the Analogy of Nature.- Chapter 8 Lockean Self-Diagnosis.- Chapter 9 Joseph Glanvill on Imagination, Method and the Art of Thinking.- Chapter 10 Treating Yourself: Self-Diagnosis Amongst Natural Philosophers and Physicians and the Early Medical Case Study.

Gideon Manning is Research Associate Professor at Claremont Graduate University, having previously taught at the University of Pittsburgh and served on the faculties of the College of William and Mary and the California Institute of Technology.  His recent publications include “Health in the Early Modern Philosophical Tradition” (2018), and “Descartes and Medicine” (2019), and he is one of the editors of Professors, Physicians, and Practices in the History of Medicine: Essays in Honor of Nancy Siraisi (2017). At present, he is engaged in a number of projects trying to productively bring together the history of medicine, science and philosophy.

• Chapter 1 Editor’s Introduction.- Chapter 2 Lisa Jardine: A Life in the Margins.- Chapter 3 Dosing the Ailing Subject: Reconnecting Early Modern Health and Thought.- Chapter 4 Francis Bacon’s Body and his Experiments on the Prolongation of Life.- Chapter 5 Material Thoughts: Robert Hooke’s Theory of Memory.- Chapter 6 Making Sense of Pain: Valentine Greatrakes, Henry Stubbe and Anne Conway.- Chapter 7 Animal Bodies and Human Minds: The Anatomy of the Brain and the Analogy of Nature.- Chapter 8 Lockean Self-Diagnosis.- Chapter 9 Joseph Glanvill on Imagination, Method and the Art of Thinking.- Chapter 10 Treating Yourself: Self-Diagnosis Amongst Natural Philosophers and Physicians and the Early Medical Case Study.