Health : a history

Health : a history / edited by Peter Adamson.

This book brings together contributions by historians of philosophy and medicine to trace the concept of health from ancient Greece and China, through the Islamic world, down to modern thinkers like Descartes and Freud. Major themes include the parallel between mental and physical health and the dif...

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Other Authors: Adamson, Peter, 1972- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Series:Oxford philosophical concepts.
Subjects:
Medicine > Philosophy.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Holism.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Reference.
MEDICAL > Alternative Medicine.
MEDICAL > Atlases.
MEDICAL > Essays.
MEDICAL > Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL > Holistic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Osteopathy.
Medicine > Philosophy
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Series; Health; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Colour Plates; Introduction; 1. Health and Philosophy in Pre-​ and Early Imperial China; 2. Medical Conceptions of Health from Antiquity to the Renaissance; 3. The Soul's Virtue and the Health of the Body in Ancient Philosophy; Reflection: Phrontis: The Patient Meets the Text; 4. Health in Arabic Ethical Works; Reflection: The Rationality of Medieval Leechbooks; 5. Health in the Renaissance; Reflection: Early Modern Anatomy and the Human Skeleton; 6. Health in the Early Modern Philosophical Tradition
  • 7. Health in the Eighteenth CenturyReflection: Pictures of Health?; 8. Freud and the Concept of Mental Health; Reflection: Portrait of the Healthy Artist; 9. Contemporary Accounts of Health; Bibliography; Index of Terms; Index of Authors and Works

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