Fiber, Medicine, and Culture in the British Enlightenment

Part I. Prelude to the Fiber Body in the Latter Half of the Seventeenth Century, c.1650–1700

1. Visualizing the Fiber-Woven Body: Emergence of the Fiber Body
Hisao Ishizuka

Part II. The Fiber Body in Eighteenth-Century Medicine

2. “Fiber Body” in the Era of Iatromechanism, c. 1700 to 1740s
Hisao Ishizuka

3. Elasticity of Animal Fiber: Motion, Tone, and Life of the Fiber Body
Hisao Ishizuka

4. Continuity and Change: “Fiber Body” in the Era of Iatro-Vitalism, c.1750–1800
Hisao Ishizuka

5. Interlude: Fiber Psychology
Hisao Ishizuka

Part III. Fiber and Culture

6. The Fiber Body and the Baroque: The Anatomy of Membranes and Folds
Hisao Ishizuka

7. The Fiber Body and the Culture of Sensibility: From Nervous Man to Fiber Man
Hisao Ishizuka

Nyckelord: Cultural and Media Studies, Cultural and Media Studies, general, History of Medicine, History of Biology, History of Psychology