Tag: Chiara Lacroix
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Is writing context-laden intellectual histories possible?
This essay compares two relatively recent works of intellectual history centred on the 18th century, both with an ambitious scope, and both written by established historians of science and medicine: Stephen Gaukroger’s The Natural and the Human: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1739-1841 and Suman Seth’s Difference and Disease: medicine, race, and the eighteenth-century…