A B S T R AC T This article deals with a transition process from a professional engineering archetype to a modernizing managerialist archetype in a British electricity utility. This took place in the context of the substantially changing utility sector characterized by privatization, the introduction of efficiency targets, the introduction of a regulatory system, the prospect of mergers and pre...

This article concerns the use of rhetorical strategies in the natural historical and anatomical works of the seventeenth-century Royal Society. Choosing representative works, it argues that naturalists such as Nehemiah Grew, John Ray and the neuroanatomist Thomas Willis used the rhetorical device known as ‘comparison’ to make their descriptions of natural things vivid. By turning to contemporar...

This article concerns the use of rhetorical strategies in the natural historical and anatomical works of the seventeenth-century Royal Society. Choosing representative works, it argues that naturalists such as Nehemiah Grew, John Ray and the neuroanatomist Thomas Willis used the rhetorical device known as ‘comparison’ to make their descriptions of natural things vivid. By turning to contemporar...

The English translation of Les Cinq Sens has been a long time coming. After publication in 1985, Les Cinq Sens was awarded the Prix Médicis in Paris. Since then, Michel Serres has grown in popularity and standing. Some may claim that Serres’s works are impossible to translate due to their complex word play, neologisms and erratic style. Despite this, Margaret Sankey and Peter Cowley should be c...

Two crucial topics in the philosophy of medicine are the philosophy of nature and philosophical anthropology. In this essay I engage the philosophy of nature by exploring Anne Fagot-Largeault's study of norms in nature as a way of articulating a Confucian philosophy of medicine. I defend the Confucian position as a moderate naturalism.

The subtitle of Robert Rowland Smith’s DeathDrive announces a ghostly Freudian haunting of literature and art. This visitation by Freud, coming without full authoritative presence, drives Smith to posit a compelling and creative – albeit strange and spectral – reading of aesthetics and its relations to death and the deathly. But Freud is not the only ghostly presence in this book, absent presen...