Books by Andrew Cunningham

This book presents a new interpretation of how and why the discovery of the circulation of the blood in animals was made.

Focusing on projects of inquiry, this history of anatomy is a discontinuous look at the different people seeking and finding different things within their social context. It asks why do people investigate nature? Why in that particular time and place? And why these particular people?

A collection of essays concerned with issues of identity - what was the identity of topics, disciplines, arguments, diseases in the past, and whether they are identical with (more usually, how they are not identical with) topics, disciplines, arguments or diseases in the present.

The Enlightenment period is considered to be a period when religion was obliged to give way to rationality. However, there are indications in scholarship that this may be an overstatement. It appears that religion retained many of its customary relations with medicine. This book explores how far, and the ways in which, this was still the case.

Students notoriously vote with their feet, seeking out the best and most innovative teachers of their subject. This book deals with the peregrinatio medica from the viewpoint of the travelling students: who went where; how did they travel; what did they find when they arrived; and, what did they take back with them from their studies.

The eighteenth-century practitioners of anatomy saw their own period as 'the perfection of anatomy'. This book looks at the investigation of anatomy in the 'long' eighteenth century in disciplinary terms. It considers the practical aspects of anatomizing, the questions of how one became an anatomist, and where and how the discipline was practised.

This book presents a series of essays, each specially written by an expert in the area, which focus on the role of Romantic philosophy and ideology in the sciences, and on the role of the sciences in Romantic literature.