Michael A Flannery
Biographic Data
| ID | 460140 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael A Flannery |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael A |
| FAMILY NAME | Flannery |
| SIGNATURE | FLANNERY M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alabama at Birmingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
From Athens to Jerusalem: Platonism, Richard Owen, and the Road Not Taken in Biology
Tertullian provocatively asked (circa 200 AD), “What indeed has Athens to do with Jerusalem? What concord is there between the Academy and the Church?” The relationship between formal philosophy and religion has been a contentious battleground ever since. It has historically come into sharpest focus in biology generally, and evolutionary theory specifically. Charles Darwin clearly won the day in the short-term. His evolutionary functionalism look…
Rethinking Modern Process Thought: A Brief Historiographical Survey
By all accounts, Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) is virtually synonymous with process thought, including its more specific expressions as process philosophy and theology. This is most often assumed with little regard for the origins of modern process thought itself. Nicholas Rescher, reflecting on this fact, has called the pluralization of the field the “cardinal task” of all process proponents. This charge, given nearly thirty years ago, rema…
The Voice of the Universe: Cosmic Immanence in John Elof Boodin's Process Thought, What It Is and Why It Matters
For most, the way to process thought has been through mathematician-turned-philosopher Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947). However, his contemporary, Swedish-American philosopher John Elof Boodin (1869-1950), offers another path. While both clearly exposit a process-based philosophy/theology, there are important differences. The main purpose of this essay is to delineate those differences and highlight Boodin's concept of cosmic immanence (CI) as…
The Process Theology of John Elof Boodin
Despite his impeccable academic pedigree, a protégé of Josiah Royce and a friend and student of William James, John Elof Boodin is nearly forgotten today among American philosophers; hence, an essential aspect of his thought lost to history is his contribution to process theology. The leading features of process thought demonstrate Boodin's connections to this unique theology and show it to have been established early on, as early as 1900 and 190…
Neurology Meets Theology: Charles Sherrington's Gifford Lectures Then and Now
Charles Scott Sherrington (1857-1952) is widely acclaimed as the most important neurophysiologist in history. He became a legend in his own time, coined the term "synapse", and in 1932 received the Nobel Prize in medicine for his discoveries on the function of neurons. By the time he presented the Gifford Lectures 1937-38, he represented the best that science had to offer on behalf of the relationship of the mind to the natural world. The lecture…
America's Forgotten Poet-Philosopher: The Thought of John Elof Boodin in His Time and Ours
Strong and Weak Teleology in the Life Sciences Post-Darwin
It is often assumed that direction and purpose in nature-teleology-is a dead relic of the past, a result of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species (1859) and Descent of Man (1871). But teleology has had a long and complex relationship with science. This paper will trace its general history with an emphasis upon the life sciences, especially biology. Particularly important is the fact that all teleology is not equal; strong (transcendent) teleology (d…
Alfred Russel Wallace's Intelligent Evolution and Natural Theology
Alfred Russel Wallace's conception of evolution and its relation to natural theology is examined. That conception is described as intelligent evolution-directed, detectably designed, and purposeful common descent. This essay extends discussion of the forces and influences behind Wallace's journey from the acknowledged co-discoverer of natural selection, to include his much lesser known position within the larger history of natural theology. It wi…
Recollections of a Civil War Medical Cadet: Burt Green Wilder
June 01 2018 Recollections of a Civil War Medical Cadet: Burt Green Wilder Recollections of a Civil War Medical Cadet: Burt Green Wilder. Edited by Richard M.Reid. (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2017. Pp. ix, 148. $29.95.) Michael A. Flannery Michael A. Flannery Michael A. Flannery is professor emeritus of UAB Libraries, University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is co-editor with Katherine H. Oomens of Well Satisfied with My Position: The …
Richard H. Nollan. Blood Picture: L. W. Digg’s Sickle Cell Anemia, and the South’s First Blood Bank
When Richard Nollan was awarded the Medical Library Association’s Gottlieb Prize (recently renamed the Eric Meyerhoff Prize) in 2013 for the best unpublished paper in the history of the health sciences, there was a strong suspicion that much more would result from his “Life's Blood: Blood Banking in a Southern City.” That “much more” is now available in an interesting book-length study of Johns Hopkins-trained Dr. Lemuel Diggs’s life and career, …
Marrow of Tragedy: The Health Crisis of the American Civil War
The medical history of the Civil War has a fairly extensive historiography, beginning with the flurry of first-person narrative accounts by nurses, hospital stewards, surgeons, medical purveyors, and other assorted healthcare providers (official and unofficial) that kept American presses busy in the years following the war. The lull in such writing that followed from the 1920s on was not broken until George Worthington Adams issued the first impo…
Alfred Russel Wallace's Medical Libertarianism: State Medicine, Human Progress, and Evolutionary Purpose
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), naturalist and explorer of South America and the Malay Archipelago, secured his place in history by independently discovering the theory of natural selection. His letter outlining the theory was sent from Ternate in eastern Indonesia and received at Down House, according to Charles Darwin (1809-82), on June 18, 1858, prompting the now-famed evolutionist to rush his languishing manuscript to press. Wallace's cont…
Learning from the Wounded: The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science , by Shauna Devine
Learning from Wounded: The War and Rise of American Medical Science, by Shauna Devine. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2014. x, 372 pp. $39.95 US (cloth). Shauna Devine proposes to relocate roots of modern medical science in America from commonly ascribed influences of late nineteenth-century Germany to traumatic years of 1861-1865, American War. Civil War author explains, especially northern physicians, transformed American medi…
Practicing Medicine in a Black Regiment: The Civil War Diary of Burt G. Wilder, 55th Massachusetts
Book Review| July 01 2013 Practicing Medicine in a Black Regiment: The Civil War Diary of Burt G. Wilder, 55th Massachusetts Practicing Medicine in a Black Regiment: The Civil War Diary of Burt G. Wilder, 55th Massachusetts. Edited by Richard M. Reid. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010. 288 pp. Illustrations. $39.95 (cloth. Michael A. Flannery Michael A. Flannery Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of …
Planetary History, Wallace, and Natural Selection
Concerns about the anthropogenic ecological degradation of the planet-deforestation, species endangerment, pollution, and an increasing carbon footprint-have prompted numerous studies calling for wide-ranging, comprehensive global programs. In this regard, Tim Flannery's effort in Here on Earth to enlist Alfred Russel Wallace, a nineteenth-century naturalist, in the service of a twentieth-century idea falls prey to presentism on the grounds of a …
The Encyclopedia of Civil War Medicine
This ready-reference resource is a testimony to the tremendous growth in the history and historiography of Civil War medicine. Forty to fifty years ago such a work would have been extremely difficult to compile due to the sheer dearth of secondary resources. But the explosion of interest in this field since the centennial of that great American crucible in 1961 has made Schroeder-Lein's work a resource-rich endeavor. The author is not new to her …
The Modern Art of Dying: A History of Euthanasia in the United States
Most scholarly discourse on euthanasia has taken place in contemporary medical, legal, and socioeconomic contexts in clinical care and/or bioethical settings. That has changed, however, with the publication of two important books: Ian Dowbiggin's Concise History of Euthanasia: Life, Death, God, and Medicine (2005) and the title here reviewed. Shai J. Lavi, who teaches law and sociology at Tel Aviv University, traced how the concept of euthanasia …
Civil War Medicine: Approaches for Teaching
The Civil War was by far the most devastating conflict in American history. From April 12, 1861, to April 9, 1865, more than 360,000 soldiers died in a momentous struggle to determine the fate and course of the Union. But the all-too-common images of grizzly amputations, painful bullet extractions, and excruciating wound closures belie a less dramatic but far more lethal killer: disease. Thus, the challenge of providing care in the field to the t…
Trying to Give Ease: Tommie Bass and the Story of Herbal Medicine, and: A Reference Guide to Medicinal Plants: Herbal Medicine Past and Present
Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 73, Number 1, Spring 1999
Another House Divided: Union Medical Service and Sectarians During the Civil War
Journal Article Another House Divided: Union Medical Service and Sectarians During the Civil War Get access MICHAEL A. FLANNERY MICHAEL A. FLANNERY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 54, Issue 4, October 1999, Pages 478–510, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/54.4.478 Published: 01 October 1999
The Medicine and Medicinal Plants of C. S. Rafinesque
The History of Pharmacy: A Selected Annotated Bibliography . Gregory J. Higby , Elaine C. Stroud
The Spirit of Voluntarism: A Legacy of Commitment and Contribution: The United States Pharmacopeia, 1820-1995 . Lee Anderson , Gregory J. Higby
The Process Theology of John Elof Boodin
Despite his impeccable academic pedigree, a protégé of Josiah Royce and a friend and student of William James, John Elof Boodin is nearly forgotten today among American philosophers; hence, an essential aspect of his thought lost to history is his contribution to process theology. The leading features of process thought demonstrate Boodin's connections to this unique theology and show it to have been established early on, as early as 1900 and 190…
America's Forgotten Poet-Philosopher: The Thought of John Elof Boodin in His Time and Ours
Strong and Weak Teleology in the Life Sciences Post-Darwin
It is often assumed that direction and purpose in nature-teleology-is a dead relic of the past, a result of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species (1859) and Descent of Man (1871). But teleology has had a long and complex relationship with science. This paper will trace its general history with an emphasis upon the life sciences, especially biology. Particularly important is the fact that all teleology is not equal; strong (transcendent) teleology (d…
The History of Pharmacy: A Selected Annotated Bibliography . Gregory J. Higby , Elaine C. Stroud
The Spirit of Voluntarism: A Legacy of Commitment and Contribution: The United States Pharmacopeia, 1820-1995 . Lee Anderson , Gregory J. Higby
The Medicine and Medicinal Plants of C. S. Rafinesque
Trying to Give Ease: Tommie Bass and the Story of Herbal Medicine, and: A Reference Guide to Medicinal Plants: Herbal Medicine Past and Present
Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 73, Number 1, Spring 1999
Another House Divided: Union Medical Service and Sectarians During the Civil War
Journal Article Another House Divided: Union Medical Service and Sectarians During the Civil War Get access MICHAEL A. FLANNERY MICHAEL A. FLANNERY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 54, Issue 4, October 1999, Pages 478–510, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/54.4.478 Published: 01 October 1999
Civil War Medicine: Approaches for Teaching
The Civil War was by far the most devastating conflict in American history. From April 12, 1861, to April 9, 1865, more than 360,000 soldiers died in a momentous struggle to determine the fate and course of the Union. But the all-too-common images of grizzly amputations, painful bullet extractions, and excruciating wound closures belie a less dramatic but far more lethal killer: disease. Thus, the challenge of providing care in the field to the t…
The Modern Art of Dying: A History of Euthanasia in the United States
Most scholarly discourse on euthanasia has taken place in contemporary medical, legal, and socioeconomic contexts in clinical care and/or bioethical settings. That has changed, however, with the publication of two important books: Ian Dowbiggin's Concise History of Euthanasia: Life, Death, God, and Medicine (2005) and the title here reviewed. Shai J. Lavi, who teaches law and sociology at Tel Aviv University, traced how the concept of euthanasia …
The Encyclopedia of Civil War Medicine
This ready-reference resource is a testimony to the tremendous growth in the history and historiography of Civil War medicine. Forty to fifty years ago such a work would have been extremely difficult to compile due to the sheer dearth of secondary resources. But the explosion of interest in this field since the centennial of that great American crucible in 1961 has made Schroeder-Lein's work a resource-rich endeavor. The author is not new to her …
Planetary History, Wallace, and Natural Selection
Concerns about the anthropogenic ecological degradation of the planet-deforestation, species endangerment, pollution, and an increasing carbon footprint-have prompted numerous studies calling for wide-ranging, comprehensive global programs. In this regard, Tim Flannery's effort in Here on Earth to enlist Alfred Russel Wallace, a nineteenth-century naturalist, in the service of a twentieth-century idea falls prey to presentism on the grounds of a …
Practicing Medicine in a Black Regiment: The Civil War Diary of Burt G. Wilder, 55th Massachusetts
Book Review| July 01 2013 Practicing Medicine in a Black Regiment: The Civil War Diary of Burt G. Wilder, 55th Massachusetts Practicing Medicine in a Black Regiment: The Civil War Diary of Burt G. Wilder, 55th Massachusetts. Edited by Richard M. Reid. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010. 288 pp. Illustrations. $39.95 (cloth. Michael A. Flannery Michael A. Flannery Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of …
Learning from the Wounded: The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science , by Shauna Devine
Learning from Wounded: The War and Rise of American Medical Science, by Shauna Devine. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2014. x, 372 pp. $39.95 US (cloth). Shauna Devine proposes to relocate roots of modern medical science in America from commonly ascribed influences of late nineteenth-century Germany to traumatic years of 1861-1865, American War. Civil War author explains, especially northern physicians, transformed American medi…
Marrow of Tragedy: The Health Crisis of the American Civil War
The medical history of the Civil War has a fairly extensive historiography, beginning with the flurry of first-person narrative accounts by nurses, hospital stewards, surgeons, medical purveyors, and other assorted healthcare providers (official and unofficial) that kept American presses busy in the years following the war. The lull in such writing that followed from the 1920s on was not broken until George Worthington Adams issued the first impo…
Alfred Russel Wallace's Medical Libertarianism: State Medicine, Human Progress, and Evolutionary Purpose
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), naturalist and explorer of South America and the Malay Archipelago, secured his place in history by independently discovering the theory of natural selection. His letter outlining the theory was sent from Ternate in eastern Indonesia and received at Down House, according to Charles Darwin (1809-82), on June 18, 1858, prompting the now-famed evolutionist to rush his languishing manuscript to press. Wallace's cont…
Richard H. Nollan. Blood Picture: L. W. Digg’s Sickle Cell Anemia, and the South’s First Blood Bank
When Richard Nollan was awarded the Medical Library Association’s Gottlieb Prize (recently renamed the Eric Meyerhoff Prize) in 2013 for the best unpublished paper in the history of the health sciences, there was a strong suspicion that much more would result from his “Life's Blood: Blood Banking in a Southern City.” That “much more” is now available in an interesting book-length study of Johns Hopkins-trained Dr. Lemuel Diggs’s life and career, …
Recollections of a Civil War Medical Cadet: Burt Green Wilder
June 01 2018 Recollections of a Civil War Medical Cadet: Burt Green Wilder Recollections of a Civil War Medical Cadet: Burt Green Wilder. Edited by Richard M.Reid. (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2017. Pp. ix, 148. $29.95.) Michael A. Flannery Michael A. Flannery Michael A. Flannery is professor emeritus of UAB Libraries, University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is co-editor with Katherine H. Oomens of Well Satisfied with My Position: The …
Strong and Weak Teleology in the Life Sciences Post-Darwin
It is often assumed that direction and purpose in nature-teleology-is a dead relic of the past, a result of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species (1859) and Descent of Man (1871). But teleology has had a long and complex relationship with science. This paper will trace its general history with an emphasis upon the life sciences, especially biology. Particularly important is the fact that all teleology is not equal; strong (transcendent) teleology (d…
Alfred Russel Wallace's Intelligent Evolution and Natural Theology
Alfred Russel Wallace's conception of evolution and its relation to natural theology is examined. That conception is described as intelligent evolution-directed, detectably designed, and purposeful common descent. This essay extends discussion of the forces and influences behind Wallace's journey from the acknowledged co-discoverer of natural selection, to include his much lesser known position within the larger history of natural theology. It wi…
The Process Theology of John Elof Boodin
Despite his impeccable academic pedigree, a protégé of Josiah Royce and a friend and student of William James, John Elof Boodin is nearly forgotten today among American philosophers; hence, an essential aspect of his thought lost to history is his contribution to process theology. The leading features of process thought demonstrate Boodin's connections to this unique theology and show it to have been established early on, as early as 1900 and 190…
Neurology Meets Theology: Charles Sherrington's Gifford Lectures Then and Now
Charles Scott Sherrington (1857-1952) is widely acclaimed as the most important neurophysiologist in history. He became a legend in his own time, coined the term "synapse", and in 1932 received the Nobel Prize in medicine for his discoveries on the function of neurons. By the time he presented the Gifford Lectures 1937-38, he represented the best that science had to offer on behalf of the relationship of the mind to the natural world. The lecture…
America's Forgotten Poet-Philosopher: The Thought of John Elof Boodin in His Time and Ours
Rethinking Modern Process Thought: A Brief Historiographical Survey
By all accounts, Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) is virtually synonymous with process thought, including its more specific expressions as process philosophy and theology. This is most often assumed with little regard for the origins of modern process thought itself. Nicholas Rescher, reflecting on this fact, has called the pluralization of the field the “cardinal task” of all process proponents. This charge, given nearly thirty years ago, rema…
The Voice of the Universe: Cosmic Immanence in John Elof Boodin's Process Thought, What It Is and Why It Matters
For most, the way to process thought has been through mathematician-turned-philosopher Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947). However, his contemporary, Swedish-American philosopher John Elof Boodin (1869-1950), offers another path. While both clearly exposit a process-based philosophy/theology, there are important differences. The main purpose of this essay is to delineate those differences and highlight Boodin's concept of cosmic immanence (CI) as…
From Athens to Jerusalem: Platonism, Richard Owen, and the Road Not Taken in Biology
Tertullian provocatively asked (circa 200 AD), “What indeed has Athens to do with Jerusalem? What concord is there between the Academy and the Church?” The relationship between formal philosophy and religion has been a contentious battleground ever since. It has historically come into sharpest focus in biology generally, and evolutionary theory specifically. Charles Darwin clearly won the day in the short-term. His evolutionary functionalism look…
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