The human embryo : Aristotle and the Arabic and European traditions

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Note 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.

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