Academic Theories of Generation in the Renaissance

1. Introduction
Linda Deer Richardson, Benjamin Goldberg

Part I. The Sources: Classical Theories of Generation and Their Renaissance Editions

2. Classical Theories of Generation in the Renaissance
Linda Deer Richardson, Benjamin Goldberg

3. Plato
Linda Deer Richardson, Benjamin Goldberg

4. Hippocrates
Linda Deer Richardson, Benjamin Goldberg

5.
Pneuma and the Pre-Socratics
Linda Deer Richardson, Benjamin Goldberg

6. Aristotle
Linda Deer Richardson, Benjamin Goldberg

7. Galen
Linda Deer Richardson, Benjamin Goldberg

Part II. Philosophi Adversus Medicos: Renaissance Commentaries on Aristotle’s Generation of Animals

8. The Context of Debate and the Classic Questions
Linda Deer Richardson, Benjamin Goldberg

9.
Renaissance Commentators on “De Generatione”: Felix Accorambonius (fl. 1540–90)
Linda Deer Richardson, Benjamin Goldberg

10. Agostino Nifo (1470? –1538)
Linda Deer Richardson, Benjamin Goldberg

11. Cesare Cremonini (1550–1631)
Linda Deer Richardson, Benjamin Goldberg

12. The ‘Anti-commentary’ of Bernardino Telesio (1509–1588)
Linda Deer Richardson, Benjamin Goldberg

Part III. Medici et Philosophi: Generation in Textbooks of Theoretical Medicine

13. The ‘Compendia Tradition’ and Jean Fernel (1497–1559)
Linda Deer Richardson, Benjamin Goldberg

14. Elements and Temperaments
Linda Deer Richardson, Benjamin Goldberg

15. Spirits and Innate Heat
Linda Deer Richardson, Benjamin Goldberg

16. The Soul in Generation and the Animation of the Foetus
Linda Deer Richardson, Benjamin Goldberg

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, History of Medicine, Philosophy of Medicine, Medical Education