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1 online resource |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
A philosophical history of the body and a work of recovery, bringing to light many aspects of this history that have been lost or forgotten in the West after the Scientific Revolution. |
| Contents |
pt. I. The road to mechanism : ancient Greece to the scientific revolution. Body and soul at war : Plato -- Body and nature : Aristotle and the Stoics -- The resurrection of the body : Christianity -- From astrology to the cult of dissection : the Renaissance -- The body-machine : Descartes -- The road not followed : Spinoza -- pt. II. The limits of mechanism : contemporary problems and solutions. The legacy of mechanism : the fragmenting and disappearing body -- Recovering the body : yoga -- Recovering the body : alternative medicine. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Human body (Philosophy) -- History.
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Human body (Philosophy) |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Collier, Carol, 1943- Recovering the body. [Ottawa, Ontario] : University of Ottawa Press, 2013 9780776607993 (DLC) 2016417833 (OCoLC)827073023 |
| ISBN |
9780776620800 (electronic book) |
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0776620800 (electronic book) |
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9780776620817 (electronic book) |
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0776620819 (electronic book) |
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9780776607993 |
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0776607995 |
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