
HoP 402 - Life is Not Enough - Medicine in Renaissance France
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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The history of philosophy podcast is back with a new episode. This week, Peter Adamson looks at the effects of opium on people's minds. He says that it may have been about as good an explanation as any one could have offered in the sixteenth century. And he explains why some doctors struggled to explain its effects.
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