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Pointing out that the notion of the dehumanizing potentialities of science as articulated by Foucault and his followers has not yet informed the history of medicine, as it has for example the history of the body, Williams (history, Oklahoma State U.) undertakes to correct the lack by focusing on the chief intellectual product of one of the leading institutions of Enlightenment medicine. She portrays the vitalist physicians of Montpellier, France, as the chief antagonists of the medical framework of the body machine first developed by Descartes and later elaborated by physicians associated with iatromechanism. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
