Overview
An international team of scholars trace the tradition of the enquiry into the nature of the embryo over the last 2000 years. The book explores the attitudes of a variety of cultures - Greek, Latin, Jewish, Arabian, Islamic and Christian - and considers how the subject is regarded in terms of medical practice, penitential discipline, canon law, common law and human feeling. It argues that the terms in which the issue were discussed were set down by the Greeks and transmitted through Arabic authors to medieval Europe. Finally, it examines how the beliefs of various cultures and religions relate to the research being carried out in laboratories in the 1990s.
Full Product Details
Author: G.R. Dunstan ,
D. M. Balme ,
Stephen Bemrose ,
P. R. Braude
Publisher: University of Exeter
Imprint: University of Exeter
Edition: annotated edition
Dimensions:
Width: 14.70cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 23.20cm
Weight: 0.530kg
ISBN: 9780859893404
ISBN 10: 0859893405
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 01 January 1990
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
The book is thoroughly documented, carefully edited and beautifully produced ... care has also been taken to make the work readable and accessible to a non-specialist who wants to find out more about the thought of bygone ages concerning matters of ''contemporary concern''. -Bioethics
This book helps us with the history of the ethics that we must know if we are to deal with the technology of the future. (Independent) The book is thoroughly documented, carefully edited and beautifully produced ... care has also been taken to make the work readable and accessible to a non-specialist who wants to find out more about the thought of bygone ages concerning matters of 'contemporary concern'. (Bioethics) All the chapters are well researched and annotated . . . The text becomes much more gripping as the relationship of contemporary opinion to the views of preceding generations becomes apparent. (British Medical Journal)
This book helps us with the history of the ethics that we must know if we are to deal with the technology of the future. (Independent) The book is thoroughly documented, carefully edited and beautifully produced ... care has also been taken to make the work readable and accessible to a non-specialist who wants to find out more about the thought of bygone ages concerning matters of 'contemporary concern'. (Bioethics) All the chapters are well researched and annotated . . . The text becomes much more gripping as the relationship of contemporary opinion to the views of preceding generations becomes apparent. (British Medical Journal)
