Book ID: CBB000039453

The human embryo: Aristotle and the Arabic and European traditions (1990)

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Dunstan, G. R. (Editor)


University of Exeter Press


Publication Date: 1990
Physical Details: xi + 235 pp.; illus.; notes; index

Description Contents: Dunstan, G.R.: Introduction: Text and context. King, Helen: Making a man: Becoming human in early Greek medicine. Balme, D.M.: “Anthropos” anthropon genna: Human is generated by human. Musallam, Basim: The human embryo in Arabic scientific and religious thought. Green, Monica H.: Constantinus Africanus and the conflict between religion and science. Hitchcock, Richard: Arabic medicine: The Andalusí contexts. Goodman, L.E.: The fetus as a natural miracle: The Maimonidean view. Burnett, C.S.F.: The planets and the development of the embryo. Huby, Pamela M.: Soul, life, sense, intellect: Some 13th-century problems. Bemrose, Stephen: “Come d'animal divegna fante”: The animation of the human embryo in Dante. Nutton, Vivian: The anatomy of the soul in early Renaissance medicine. Brockliss, L.W.B.: The embryological revolution in the France of Louis XIV: The dominance of ideology. McLaren, Angus: Policing pregnancies: Changes in 19th-century criminal and canon law. Braude, Peter R., Johnson, Martin H.: The embryo in contemporary medical science. Seller, Mary J.: Short communication: Some fallacies in embryology through the ages.


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Review Riddle, J.M. (1996) Review of "The human embryo: Aristotle and the Arabic and European traditions". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (pp. 87-90). unapi

Review Park, K. (1994) Review of "The human embryo: Aristotle and the Arabic and European traditions". Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology (pp. 101-2). unapi

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