"Vitalism and the Scientific Image in Post-Enlightenment Life Science, 1800-2010" offers a comprehensive analysis of the development of vitalism and its influence on the life sciences, medicine, and philosophy over a period of more than 200 years. This scholarly work examines the epistemological challenges that vitalism poses to the mechanistic worldview and highlights the revival of organic approaches in early theoretical biology. The contributions in this volume cover a wide range of topics and combine historical and philosophical methods to create a nuanced picture of the history of vitalism from the end of the Enlightenment to the present day. The balanced distribution between historical considerations of the 19th and 20th centuries and contemporary analyses makes this work a significant contribution to the current literature in the history and philosophy of science as well as medicine.