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Tables of Contents for Magic, Reason and Experience
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
ix
Texts and abbreviations
xi
Introduction
1
6
Part I The development of zoological taxonomy
7
51
Introduction
7
11
Social behaviour of animals in Aristotle's zoology
18
8
Man as model
26
18
Dualisers
44
9
Conclusion
53
5
Part II The female sex: medical treatment and biological theories in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.
58
54
Introduction
58
4
The treatment of women in the Hippocratic Corpus
62
24
Alternative theories of the female seed
86
8
Aristotle on the difference between the sexes
94
11
The post-Aristotelian debate and conclusions
105
7
Part III Developments in pharmacology, anatomy and gynaecology
112
89
Introduction
112
7
Theophrastus, the Hippocratics and the root-cutters
119
16
Pliny, learning and research
135
14
The development of Greek anatomical terminology
149
19
The critique of traditional ideas in Soranus's gynaecology
168
14
The epistemological theory and practice of Soranus's Methodism
182
19
Conclusion: Science, folklore and ideology
201
17
Bibliography
218
21
Index of passages referred to
239
17
General index
256