Elisha Bartlett's Philosophy of MedicineWilliam Stempsey Springer Science & Business Media, 14 de juny 2005 - 246 pàgines The idea of preparing a new critical edition of Elisha Bartlett’s Essay on the Philosophy of Medical Science was suggested to me several years ago by Dr. H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. Since that time it has been a pleasure to get to know the life and work of Elisha Bartlett. I am pleased to be completing this book in the bicentennial year of Bartlett’s birth. Bartlett was born in 1804 in Smithfield, Rhode Island, less than twenty-five miles from Worcester, Massachusetts, my present home—a short journey even in Bartlett’s day. I have been able to walk at some of the sites to which Bartlett continually returned during his life. Visiting Bartlett’s grave in the Slatersville cemetery has been an inspiration for the preparation of this book. Proximity to several institutions with rich holdings in Bartlett’s works and in nineteenth-century American history of medicine greatly facilitated my research. First, though, I want to acknowledge the College of the Holy Cross for supporting my sabbatical leave for the academic year 2003-2004. The American Antiquarian Society, in Worcester, Massachusetts, was generous in giving me access to its remarkable resources. I was able to find many of Bartlett’s published works and other nineteenth-century medical literature there, and the entire library staff provided quick and able research assistance. |
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
CONTENTS OF THIS BOOK | 2 |
A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF ELISHA BARTLETT | 3 |
Life in Lowell | 5 |
The Peripatetic Professor | 6 |
Return to Rhode Island | 10 |
PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY | 11 |
Early NineteenthCentury American Medicine | 12 |
CHAPTER III | 69 |
CHAPTER IV | 71 |
CHAPTER V | 80 |
Philosophy of Medical Science | 83 |
Chapter I | 85 |
Chapter II | 87 |
Chapter III | 91 |
Chapter IV | 92 |
The Paris Clinical School | 14 |
Influence of the Paris Clinical School in America | 15 |
ELISHA BARTLETTS PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE | 16 |
An Introductory Lecture on the Objects and Nature of Medical Science | 17 |
An Essay on the Philosophy of Medical Science | 18 |
An Inquiry into the Degree of Certainty of Medicine and into the Nature and Extent of Its Power over Disease | 26 |
The Philosophy of Therapeutics | 29 |
BARTLETTS OTHER WRITINGS | 31 |
Editorial Work and Translation | 32 |
Medical Exhortation | 33 |
Civic Addresses | 36 |
Poetry | 37 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 41 |
An Essay on the Philosophy Of Medical Science | 49 |
Philosophy of Physical Science | 58 |
CHAPTER I | 60 |
CHAPTER II | 62 |
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