Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter ii
2. Contents ix
3. Figures xi
4. Preface xiii
5. Acknowledgments xxxiii
6. Introduction 1
7. Blood, Circulation, and the Soul
8. The Heart of the Matter: Remapping the Body Economy in Juan de Cabriada’s Philosophical Medico-Chemical Letter 43
9. Cartesianism and Its Discontents: Marcelino Boix y Moliner, Martín Martínez, and Diego de Torres Villarroel 80
10. Political Reform and the Order of Nature
11. Vitalizing the Medical Revolution in Spain; or, How Sebastián Miguel Guerrero Herreros and Ignacio María Ruiz de Luzuriaga Theorized Life, Death, and Everything in Between 119
12. The Subjective Self and the Sublimity of Nature’s Vital Force in Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos 158
13. From Neo-Hippocratism to the Avant-Garde
14. Pursuing the Modern at the End of an Age: Positivist Materialism and the Krausist Ideal in Pedro Mata y Fontanet and Julián Sanz del Río 199
15. Degeneration, Regeneration, Corporealization: What the Lived Body Can Do According to Miguel de Unamuno, Pío Baroja, and Ramόn Gόmez de la Serna 232
16. Conclusion 296
17. Bibliography 305
18. Index 339