| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 331 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
List of figures -- List of contributors -- An introduction to body-machine intersections -- Part I. Blended bodies -- 1. More than a thing: figuring hybridity in archaic poetry and art -- 2. Automata, cyborgs, and hybrids: bodies and machines in antiquity -- 3. Not yet the android: the limits of wonder in ancient automata -- Part II. The technological body -- 4. Technical physicians and medical machines in the Hippocratic corpus -- 5. The empirical, art and science in Hippocrates' On Joints -- 6. Hippocrates' diseases 4 and the technological body -- Part III. Towards the mechanization of the human body -- 7. Aristotle on the lung and the bellows-lungs analogy -- 8. The ill effect of south winds on the joints in the human body: Theophrastus, De ventis 56 and pseudo-Aristotle, Problemata 1.24 -- 9. The beauty that lies within: anatomy, mechanics and Thauma in Hellenistic medicine -- 10. The mechanics of the heart in antiquity -- 11. The mechanics of Galen's Theory of Nutrition -- 12. Iatromechanism and ntiquarianism in Morgagni's studies on Celsus, 1720-1761 -- Conclusions or fropm antiquity to the early modern -- Index of passages -- General index |
| Summary |
The first systematic exploration of the multifaceted relationship between human bodies and machines in classical antiquity |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indices |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed on August 08, 2023) |
| Subject |
Human body and technology.
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Technology -- Greece -- History -- To 1500
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Medicine, Greek and Roman.
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Human body and technology in literature.
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Medical literature -- Greece -- History and criticism
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Human body and technology.
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Human body and technology in literature.
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Medical literature.
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Medicine, Greek and Roman.
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Technology.
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Greece.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gerolemou, Maria, editor.
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Kazantzidis, Georgios, 1979- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781009092067 |
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1009092065 |
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9781009085786 |
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1009085786 |
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