Gideon Manning

Gideon Manning received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2006 with a dissertation titled “Descartes’s Philosophy of Biology.” He has served on the faculty at the College of William and Mary, California Institute of Technology, and Claremont Graduate University, and is currently Associate Professor of History of Medicine and Humanities at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, where he directs the Cedars-Sinai Program in the History of Medicine. A past associate editor of HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science and now book reviews editor at Annals of Science, Gideon has been supported by several research institutions and societies, including the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which funded a research year as a student at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. Broadly interested in the dialogue between medicine, philosophy, and science, especially during the early modern period (1500–1750), Gideon’s current research examines the oversized role of cardiovascular science in seventeenth-century neuroscience.  In addition, he is working on the evolving measures of surgical success; and he is preparing a critical edition of Louis de La Forge’s Treatise on the Spirit of Man using a previously unknown manuscript translation from the library of Robert Hooke.

Publications

• Anna Marie Roos and Gideon Manning, ed., Collected Wisdom of the Early Modern Scholar (Springer, 2023)

• Gideon Manning, “Women, Medicine, and the Life Sciences” in The Routledge Handbook for Woman and Early Modern European Philosophy, ed. Lisa Shapiro and Karen Detlefson (Routledge, 2023)

• Gideon Manning, “Cartesian Medicine: Past, Present and Future” in Descartes and Medicine: A System with Obscurities and Light, ed. Fabrizio Baldassari (Brepols, 2023)

• Gideon Manning, “Circulation and the New Physiology” in The Cambridge History of Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution, ed David M. Miller and Dana Jalobeanu (Cambridge, 2022)

• James Wilberding and Gideon Manning, “The World-Soul and Spontaneous Generation” in World-Soul: A History, ed. James Wilberding (Oxford, 2021)