Autore
Paoletti, Cristina

Titolo
Filosofia e pratica medica in John Gregory
Periodico
Rivista di filosofia
Anno: 2004 - Volume: 0 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 37 - Pagina finale: 62

John Gregory became professor of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1766, when Robert Whytt died. His medical thought is strictly connected with Whytt's physiology, with whom he shared a non-mechanical and non-materialist interpretation of animal life. Gregory dealt also with a new moral and medical problem produced by the popularization of medical care, the relationship between a patient and his physician. Following Baconian advice and moral theories of David Hume and Thomas Reid, Gregory considered human imagination not only a cause of illness, but also a treatment: the correct use of imagination is said to improve the powers of understanding and to regulate passions.



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