Science Incarnate

Historical Embodiments of Natural Knowledge

By: Christopher Lawrence (Editor), Steven Shapin (Editor)

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Paperback | 28 March 1998 | Edition Number 1

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Ever since Greek antiquity "disembodied knowledge" has often been taken as synonymous with "objective truth." Yet we also have very specific mental images of the kinds of bodies that house great minds-the ascetic philosopher versus the hearty surgeon, for example. Does truth have anything to do with the belly? What difference does it make to the pursuit of knowledge whether Einstein rode a bicycle, Russell was randy, or Darwin flatulent?

Bringing body and knowledge into such intimate contact is occasionally seen as funny, sometimes as enraging, and more often just as pointless. Vividly written and well illustrated, Science Incarnate offers concrete historical answers to such skeptical questions about the relationships between body, mind, and knowledge.

Focusing on the seventeenth century to the present, Science Incarnate explores how intellectuals sought to establish the value and authority of their ideas through public displays of their private ways of life. Patterns of eating, sleeping, exercising, being ill, and having (or avoiding) sex, as well as the marks of gender and bodily form, were proof of the presence or absence of intellectual virtue, integrity, skill, and authority. Intellectuals examined in detail include Rene Descartes, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, and Ada Lovelace.

Science Incarnate is at once very funny and deeply serious, addressing issues of crucial importance to present-day discussions about the nature of knowledge and how it is produced. It incorporates much that will interest cultural and social historians, historians of science and medicine, philosophers, sociologists, and anthropologists.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Body of Knowledge
The Philosopher and the Chicken: On the Dietetics of Disembodied Knowledge
A Mechanical Microcosm: Bodily Passions, Good Manners, and Cartesian Mechanism
Regeneration: The Body of Natural Philosophers in Restoration England
Isaac Newton: Lucatello Professor of Mathematics
Medical Minds, Surgical Bodies: Corporeality and the Doctors
A Calculus of Suffering: Ada Lovelace and the Bodily Constraints on Women's Knowledge in Early Victorian England
I Could Have Retched All Night: Charles Darwin and His Body
Exercising the Student Body: Mathematics and Athleticism in Victorian Cambridge
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