{"product_id":"the-human-embryo-aristotle-and-the-arabic-and-european-traditions-philosophy-and-religion-9780859893404","title":"The Human Embryo Aristotle and the Arabic and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this volume some of the world''s authorities on embryology trace the tradition of enquiry over two and a half thousand years. The answers given in related cultures reflected the purposes to be served at different times, in medical practice, penitential discipline, canon law, common law, human feeling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"This book helps us with the history of the ethics that we must know if we are to deal with the technology of the future.\" (Independent)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"The book is thoroughly documented, carefully edited and beautifully produced … care has also been taken to make the work readable and accessible to a non-specialist who wants to find out more about the thought of bygone ages concerning matters of 'contemporary concern'.\" (Bioethics)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"All the chapters are well researched and annotated . . . The text becomes much more gripping as the relationship of contemporary opinion to the views of preceding generations becomes apparent.\" (British Medical Journal)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNote on the Frontispiece, vii; Contributors, viii; 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; Constantinus Africanus and the conflict between religion and science MONICA H. GREEN, 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 AND MARTIN H. JOHNSON, 208; Short communication: some fallacies in embryology through the ages MARY J. SELLER, 222; Index, 228.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Exeter Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359245566295,"sku":"9780859893404","price":71.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780859893404.jpg?v=1754124098","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-human-embryo-aristotle-and-the-arabic-and-european-traditions-philosophy-and-religion-9780859893404","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}