William Harvey and His Age: The Professional and Social Context of the Discovery of the Circulation

by Jerome J. Bylebyl

William Harvey and His The Professional and Social Context of the Discovery of the Circulation (The Henry E. Sigerist Supplements to the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, New Series, No. 2), edited by Jerome J. Bylebyl. Series edited by Lloyd G. Stevenson. 1979 hardcover published by The John Hopkins University Press.

Genres: History

168 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1979

Reviews

[Ed · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book consists of three essays published in honor of Harvey's circulation of the blood. Charles Webster provides a description of the social intellectual context within which Harvey worked. Robert Frank discusses Harvey's influence on late seventeenth century medical thought. The core of the book is a brilliant essay by Jerome Bylebyl, which describes the process by which Harvey came to his conclusions. How did an aristotelian and galenic physician arrive at conclusions that completely undermined everything he had been trained to think? If every there has been a 'revolution' in physiology and medicine, this is it and Bylebyle gives you a front row seat to watch Harvey carry it out.