Title: Recovering the body : a philosophical story /
Authors: Collier, Carol, 1943-
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Human body (Philosophy) History.
Contents: Pt. I. The road to mechanism : ancient Greece to the scientific revolution. Body and soul at war : Plato -- Body and nature : Aristotle and the Stoics -- The resurrection of the body : Christianity -- From astrology to the cult of dissection : the Renaissance -- The body-machine : Descartes -- The road not followed : Spinoza -- pt. II. The limits of mechanism : contemporary problems and solutions. The legacy of mechanism : the fragmenting and disappearing body -- Recovering the body : yoga -- Recovering the body : alternative medicine.