Prometheus and the Liver through Art and Medicine
Prometheus was punished by the supreme god Zeus for giving to mankind the Olympic fire with which they learned to think and feel. He was chained to a cliff in the Caucasus, where, to make matters worse, he was visited daily by an eagle who ate part of his liver. At night, however, his liver grew bac...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press
[2022]
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009670615806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 THE PROMETHEUS MYTH
- 2 THE DEPICTION OF PROMETHEUS IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY
- 3 THE LIVER ACCORDING TO THE ANCIENT GREEKS AND THE ETRUSCANS
- 4 THE HARUSPEX AND HEPATOSCOPY
- 5 PROMETHEUS IN THE MIDDLE AGES
- 6 THE LIVER IN THE THE MIDDLE AGES, ACCORDING TO GALEN
- 7 PROMETHEUS IN THE RENAISSANCE
- 8 THE LIVER IN THE RENAISSANCE AS DESCRIBED BY REISCH, VESALIUS, AND DA VINCI
- 9 PROMETHEUS IN THE BAROQUE
- THE WOUNDS OF CHRIST AND PROMETHEUS – TWO OF A KIND?
- 10 THE LIVER IN THE BAROQUE, ACCORDING TO VAN DEN SPIEGEL, GLISSON, AND BIDLOO
- 11 PROMETHEUS AND MODERNITY
- MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEIN; OR, THE MODERN PROMETHEUS
- 12 THE LIVER IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT
- 13 THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY PROMETHEUS
- 14 LIVER SURGERY AND LIVER REGENERATION
- REGENERATION OF THE HYDRA POLYP
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- ON THE AUTHORS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
