The Human Embryo - Aristotle and the Arabic and European Traditions (Hardcover, annotated edition)

Questions asked by Greek philosophy and science - how do we come to be? How do we grow? When are we recognizably human? - are addressed with new intensity today. Modern embryology has changed the methods of enquiry and given new knowledge. Public interest and concern are high because medical applications of new knowledge offer benefits and yet awaken ancestral fears. The law and politics are called upon to secure the benefits without realizing the fears. Philosophers and theologians are involved once again. In this volume some of the world's authorities on the subject trace the tradition of enquiry over two and a half thousand years. The answers given in related cultures - Greek, Latin, Jewish, Arabian, Islamic, Christian - reflected the purposes to be served at different times, in medical practice, penitential discipline, canon law, common law, human feeling. But the terms in which the questions were discussed were those set down by the Greeks and transmitted through the Arabic authors to medieval Europe.

General

Imprint:	University Of Exeter Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	1990
First published:	1990
Editors:	G.R. Dunstan
Contributors:	D.M. Balme • Stephen Bemrose • P. R. Braude • L.W.B. Brockliss • C. S. F. Burnett • G.R. Dunstan • L.E. Goodman • Monica H. Green • Richard Hitchcock
Dimensions:	232 x 147 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	248
Edition:	annotated edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-85989-340-4
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > Medical ethics Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Ethical issues & debates > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General Promotions
LSN:	0-85989-340-5
Barcode:	9780859893404

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