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The Human Embryo

Aristotle and the Arabic and European Traditions

by G. R. Dunstan

  • Hardback
  • 248 pages
  • Publisher: University of Exeter Press
  • 16.1 x 24.3 x 2.1 cm

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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.
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Sacred And The ProfaneThe Human Embryo

  • Author

    G. R. Dunstan

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    University of Exeter Press

  • Published

    January 1990

  • Weight

    500g

  • Page Count

    248

  • Dimensions

    16.1 x 24.3 x 2.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780859893404

  • ISBN-10

    0859893405

  • Eden Code

    4587027

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