Description: In this volume some of the world's authorities on embryology trace the tradition of enquiry over two and a half thousand years. The answers given in related cultures reflected the purposes to be served at different times, in medical practice, penitential discipline, canon law, common law, human feeling.
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"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)