Guidi, Simone & Tonetti, Luca: Moving on the Latitude of Health and Disease. Some Remarks on the Galenic Concept of Neutrum from the 16th to the 18th Centuries

In The Legal Anatomy of the Body: Health, Rights, and Politics in Times of Emergency. Springer. forthcomingThis article examines how Italian physicians between the 16th and 18th centuries developed a logic of ‘intermediate states’ between health and disease. Moving from late Scholastic Galenism to early mechanistic medicine and through a genealogical counter-history of the concept of health as developed by the World Health Organization, it shows how a dynamic view of the body allowed physicians