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1 online resource (377 pages) |
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Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; Notes; Part 1 Casuistry and Medicine across Time and Space; Chapter 1 A Framework for Casuistry: The Royal College of Paediatrics Guidance for Decision Making at the End of Life (2004-2015); The case of Charlie Gard; Notes; Chapter 2 The Medical Case Narrative in Pre-Modern Europe and China: Comparative History of an Epistemic Genre; What is a case?; Comparing the observatio medica and the yi'an: Similarities; Comparing the observatio medica and the yi'an: Differences |
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Did cases travel between East and West?Acknowledgments; Notes; Part 2 Religious Anomalies in the Ancient and Medieval World; Chapter 3 Ritual and Its Transgressions in Ancient Greece; Ritual: Etymology and semantic development; The Thesmophoria; The Eleusinian Mysteries; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; Chapter 4 The Case about Jesus: (Counter- )History and Casuistry in Toledot Yeshu; Myth and Casuistry; What is Toledot Yeshu?; Case and Novel; Jesus as "Case"; Jesus the Magician; Magic in Toledot Yeshu; The Arrogant Bastard . . .; ... And the Adulterous Mother; The Unwilling Adulteress |
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Mary and the JewsCounter-History as Casuistry; Acknowledgments; Notes; Part 3 Legal Casuistry between Judaism and Islam; Chapter 5 "I Signed but I Did not Say": The Status of Chess in Early Modern Judaism; Notes; Chapter 6 The Many Roads to Justice: A Case of Adultery in Sixteenth-Century Cairo; Acknowledgments; Notes; Chapter 7 Islamic Casuistry and Galenic Medicine: Hashish, Coffee, and the Emergence of the Jurist-Physician; Fiqh as casuistry; Hospital culture and the emergence of the jurist-physicians; Al-Qarāfī's medical-legal casuistry |
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Al-Jazīrī's treatise on the permissibility of coffee: Casuistry and public orderThe convergence of fiqh and tibb and the growth of casuistry; Notes; Part 4 Casuistry between Reformation and Counter-Reformation; Chapter 8 The Exception as Norm: Casuistry of Suicide in John Donne's Biathanatos; Crime and sin; "My cases of conscience": Donne the casuist; Biathanatos and casuistry; "A false thread"; "Doing one thing while feigning another, for the public good": Donne's Machiavellian casuistry; "I dare not profess myself a master in so curious a science": Beyond casuistry; Notes |
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Chapter 9 "Whether 'tis Lawful for a Man to Beat His Wife": Casuistical Exercises in Late Stuart and Early Hanoverian EnglandNotes; Part 5 Norms and Exceptions in the Early Modern Global World (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries); Chapter 10 Indians' Forced Labor as a Case for Exception in Seventeenth-Century Colonial America; Derecho Indiano: A casuistic body of law; Solórzano's legal treatises: An overview; The state of the Indians; Indian forced labor; Adaptation, accommodation, and flexibility; Conclusions; Notes |
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Chapter 11 Morality and Empire: Cases, Norms, and Exceptions in Sixteenth-Century Portuguese Asia |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Casuistry -- History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Biasiori, Lucio
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| ISBN |
9781350006775 |
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1350006777 |
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9781350006768 |
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1350006769 |
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