The Human Embryo: Aristotle and the Arabic and European Traditions - Couverture rigide

 
9780859893404: The Human Embryo: Aristotle and the Arabic and European Traditions
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0859893405 ISBN 13 : 9780859893404
Editeur : University of Exeter, 1990

Synopsis

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.

Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

À propos de l?auteur


 

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
University of Exeter
Date d'édition
1990
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0859893405
ISBN 13 
9780859893404
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
248
Éditeur
Dunstan G.R.
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
Parlux SpA
customer-care@parlux.it

Via Goldoni, 10-12
Trezzano sul Naviglio
20090
Italie