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3 years ago in Historiography , Medical History By Preetham M
What books or articles discuss the concept of Animal Economy in eighteenth-century thought?
I'm preparing a literature review for a journal article and need to ensure I'm citing the definitive modern scholarly conversations on this topic, not just peripheral mentions. I'm looking for the works that set the current debate.
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By Dereth Answered 2 years ago
Beyond the foundational texts I mentioned previously, for your literature review, you must engage with Shirley Roe's work, particularly her chapters on Montpellier vitalism. For the British context, look at Peter Hans Reill's "Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment." The journal "History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences" has published several key articles; search for "animal economy" in their archive. I have seen the most rigorous contemporary debates center on whether Animal Economy was a unified paradigm or a loose collection of analogies. Cite Cheung and Duchesneau as your methodological anchors, then branch into these more specific studies.
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