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An Introduction to Body-Machine Intersections
Part I Blended Bodies
Chapter 1 More Than a Thing: Figuring Hybridity in Archaic Poetry and Art
Chapter 2 Automata, Cyborgs, and Hybrids: Bodies and Machines in Antiquity
Chapter 3 Not Yet the Android: The Limits of Wonder in Ancient Automata
Part II The Technological Body
Chapter 4 Technical Physicians and Medical Machines in the Hippocratic Corpus
Chapter 5 The Empirical, Art and Science in Hippocrates' On Joints
Chapter 6 Hippocrates' Diseases 4 and the Technological Body
Part III Towards the Mechanization of the Human Body
Chapter 7 Aristotle on the Lung and the Bellows-Lungs Analogy
Chapter 8 The Ill Effect of South Winds on the Joints in the Human Body: Theophrastus, De ventis 56 and Pseudo-Aristotle, Problemata 1.24
Chapter 9 The Beauty That Lies Within: Anatomy, Mechanics and Thauma in Hellenistic Medicine
Chapter 10 The Mechanics of the Heart in Antiquity
Chapter 11 The Mechanics of Galen's Theory of Nutrition
Chapter 12 Iatromechanism and Antiquarianism in Morgagni's Studies on Celsus, 1720-1761
Conclusions or From Antiquity to the Early Modern
Index of Passages
General Index
Half-title page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
An Introduction to Body-Machine Intersections
Part I Blended Bodies
Chapter 1 More Than a Thing: Figuring Hybridity in Archaic Poetry and Art
Chapter 2 Automata, Cyborgs, and Hybrids: Bodies and Machines in Antiquity
Chapter 3 Not Yet the Android: The Limits of Wonder in Ancient Automata
Part II The Technological Body
Chapter 4 Technical Physicians and Medical Machines in the Hippocratic Corpus
Chapter 5 The Empirical, Art and Science in Hippocrates' On Joints
Chapter 6 Hippocrates' Diseases 4 and the Technological Body
Part III Towards the Mechanization of the Human Body
Chapter 7 Aristotle on the Lung and the Bellows-Lungs Analogy
Chapter 8 The Ill Effect of South Winds on the Joints in the Human Body: Theophrastus, De ventis 56 and Pseudo-Aristotle, Problemata 1.24
Chapter 9 The Beauty That Lies Within: Anatomy, Mechanics and Thauma in Hellenistic Medicine
Chapter 10 The Mechanics of the Heart in Antiquity
Chapter 11 The Mechanics of Galen's Theory of Nutrition
Chapter 12 Iatromechanism and Antiquarianism in Morgagni's Studies on Celsus, 1720-1761
Conclusions or From Antiquity to the Early Modern
Index of Passages
General Index