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Dunstan, G. R. (ed.), The Human Embryo: Aristotle and the Arabic and European Traditions, Exeter, University of Exeter Press, 1990, xi + 235 pp.
- Resum
- An international team of scholars trace the tradition of the enquiry into the nature of the embryo over the last 2000 years. The book explores the attitudes of a variety of cultures - Greek, Latin, Jewish, Arabian, Islamic and Christian - and considers how the subject is regarded in terms of medical practice, penitential discipline, canon law, common law and human feeling. It argues that the terms in which the issue were discussed were set down by the Greeks and transmitted through Arabic authors to medieval Europe. Finally, it examines how the beliefs of various cultures and religions relate to the research being carried out in laboratories in the 1990s.
Contents:
* Foreword / Richard Sorabji · ix
* Preface · xi
* Introduction: text and context G. R. Dunstan · 1
* Making a man: becoming human in early Greek medicine · Helen King · 10
* Human is generated by human / D. M. Balme · 20
* The human embryo in Arabic scientific and religious thought / Basim Musallam · 32
* Green (1990), "Constantinus Africanus and the ..." · 47
* Arabic medicine: the Andalusi context / Richard Hitchcock · 70
* The fetus as a natural miracle: the Maimonidean view / L. E. Goodman · 79
* The planets and the development of the embryo / C. S. F. Burnett · 95
* Soul, life, sense, intellect: some thirteenth-century problems / Pamela M. Huby · 113
* 'Come d'animal divegna fante': the animation of the human embryo in Dante / Stephen Bemrose · 123
* The anatomy of the soul in early Renaissance medicine / Vivian Nutton · 136
* The embryological revolution in the France of Louis XIV: the dominance of ideology / L. W. B. Brockliss · 158
* Policing pregnancies: changes in nineteenth-century criminal and canon law / Angus McLaren · 187
* The embryo in contemporary medical science / Peter R. Braude & Martin H. Johnson · 208
* Short communication: some fallacies in embryology through the ages / Mary J. Seller · 222
- Matèries
- Filosofia - Filosofia natural
Medicina
Sexualitat
Aristòtil
Arabisme
Àrab
Religió
Astronomia i astrologia
- Notes
- "The Constantinus Colloquy, of which this volume is a product, was held in the University of Exeter from 25 to 27 March, 1988" (prefaci).
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