The Human Embryo

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.