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Health : a history / edited by Peter Adamson.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford philosophical concepts.
- Oxford philosophical concepts
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine--Philosophy.
- Medicine.
- Health.
- Medicine--History.
- Philosophy, Medical.
- Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice.
- History of Medicine.
- Medical Subjects:
- Philosophy, Medical.
- Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice.
- Health.
- History of Medicine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 363 pages) : illustrations (some color).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- This text 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 difficulty of defining health.
- Contents:
- Health and philosophy in pre- and early imperial China / Michael Stanley-Baker
- Medical conceptions of health from antiquity to the Renaissance / Peter E. Pormann
- The soul's virtue and the health of the body in ancient philosophy / James Allen
- Reflection: Phrontis: the patient meets the text / Helen King
- Health in Arabic ethical works / Peter Adamson
- Reflection: The rationality of medieval leechbooks / Richard Scott Nokes
- Health in the Renaissance / Guido Giglioni
- Reflection: Early modern anatomy and the human skeleton / Anita Guerrini
- Health in the early modern philosophical tradition / Gideon Manning
- Health in the eighteenth century / Tom Broman
- Reflection: Pictures of health? / Ludmilla Jordanova
- Freud and the concept of mental health / Jim Hopkins
- Reflection: Portrait of the healthy artist / Glenn Adamson
- Contemporary accounts of health / Elselijn Kingma.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Previously issued in print: 2019.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-092129-3
- 0-19-991643-8
- 0-19-092128-5
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