Table of contents of Science in Context vol. 21, # 4, 2008 VITALISM WITHOUT METAPHYSICS? MEDICAL VITALISM IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT Guest Editor, Charles T. Wolfe Introduction (Charles Wolfe) 1. Guido Giglioni (London) — “What Ever Happened to Francis Glisson? Albrecht Haller and the Fate of Eighteenth-Century Irritability” 2. Dominique Boury (Lille) — “Irritability and Sensibility: Two Key Concepts in Assessing the Medical Doctrines of Haller and Bordeu” 3. Tobias Cheung (Berlin) — “Regulating Agents, Functional Interactions, and Stimulus-Reaction-Schemes: The Concept of “Organism” in the Organic System Theories of Stahl, Bordeu and Barthez” 4. Charles T. Wolfe (Sydney) & Motoichi Terada (Nagoya) — “The Animal Economy as Object and Program in Montpellier Vitalism” 5. Timo Kaitaro (Helsinki) — “Can Matter Mark the Hours? – Eighteenth-Century Vitalist Materialism and Functional Properties” 6. Elizabeth Williams (Oklahoma State) —“Of Two Lives One? Jean-Charles-Marguerite-Guillaume Grimaud and the Question of Holism in Vitalist Medicine” 7. Philippe Huneman (Paris) — “Montpellier Vitalism and the Emergence of Alienism in France (1750-1800): The Case of the Passions” 8. Elke Witt (Berlin) —“Form – A Matter of Generation. The Relation of Generation, Form and Function in the Epigenetic Theory of C.F. Wolff”