Education

Ph.D., University of Chicago (2006)

Courses

  • COM LIT 180: Death in Literature
  • HIST 191I: Capstone Seminar: History—Science/Technology: Making Visible

Select Publications

Books

  • Gideon Manning, ed., Testimonies: States of Mind and States of the Body in the Early Modern Period (New York: Springer, 2020)
  • Gideon Manning and Anna Marie Roos, eds., Collected Wisdom of the Early Modern Scholar (New York: Springer, 2023)

Articles and Book Chapters                       

  • Gideon Manning, “Circulation and the New Physiology” in The Cambridge History of Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution, ed. D. M. Miller and D. Jalobeanu (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), pp. 369-386
  • Gideon Manning, “Woman, Medicine, and the Life Sciences” in The Routledge Handbook for Woman and Early Modern European Philosophy, ed. L. Shapiro and K. Detlefson (New York: Routledge, 2023), pp.187-199
  • Gideon Manning, “Cartesian Medicine: Past, Present and Future” in Descartes and Medicine: Problems, Responses and Survival of a Cartesian Discipline, ed. F. Baldassari (Turnhout: Brepols, 2023), pp. 43-58
  • Gideon Manning and Monique Kornell, “Birth of Modern-Anatomo-Pathology,” “The Reward of Cruelty,” and “Diseases of the Stomach” in Comparative Guts, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, 2023. https://comparative-guts.net/birth-of-modern-anatomo-pathology/
  • Gideon Manning, “Long Live Descartes: Longevity and the Practical Value of Philosophy” in Alvearium, XVI, 16 (December 2023), pp. 179-192. http://www.cartesius.net/doc/pubblicazioni/20250203-ALVEARIUM_N16.pdf
  • Cynthia Klestinec and Gideon Manning, “The Good Death in Early Modern Europe” in History Compass, Vol. 22, 8, pp. 1-8, August 2024.
  • Gideon Manning, “Descartes’s Cardiovascular Science of the Brain” in The Cartesian Brain: Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives, ed. D. Kambouchner, D. Lacroux, T. Schmaltz and R. She (New York: Routledge, 2025), pp. 137-166.
  • Cynthia Klestinec and Gideon Manning, “Premodern (Pre-1800) Surgery” in Oxford Bibliographies Online, 2025. https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780197768723/obo-9780197768723-0008.xml
  • Gideon Manning and Stephen A. Geller, “Evolving Images of Tuberculosis: Seeing and Understanding an Ancient, Endemic Disease” in Biomedical Visions: Epistemology, Medicine and Art Practice, ed. A. Freeborn and E. Hughes (Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2025), pp. 157-189.
  • Gideon Manning, “Cartesian Biology and Medicine” in The Cartesian Mind, ed. J. Secada and C. Wee (Routledge: New York, 2025), pp. 386-398.
  • Gideon Manning, “The Medical Provenance of Cartesian Illustrations: History, Action and Use” in Cartesian Images: Picturing Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Age, ed. M. Mantovani and D. Cellamare (Leiden: Brill, 2025), pp. 392-420.