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Public Health in the Premodern World : Dynamic Balances.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Geltner, G.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (378 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2026.
- Summary:
- This volume gathers sixteen studies on the deeper history and archaeology of public health from across the premodern globe. Each chapter vividly reconstructs preventative ideas and practices in a different region, critically engaging with the paradigm of 'healthscaping', or designing environments where health can bloom.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Public Health in the Premodern World
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Figures
- Tables
- List of Maps
- Contributor List
- Introduction : Premodern Bodies, Changing Environments, New Approaches
- The Durability and Variety of Public Health
- A New Paradigm
- Healthscaping
- Structure of the Book
- Bibliography
- Printed Sources
- Secondary Sources
- PART 1 : URBAN RISKS AND RESOURCES
- 1 : Healthscaping Public Health History in Premodern China
- Introduction
- Historiography
- An Innovative Political-MedicalAnalogy: The Verb zhi 治 to Govern/Treat
- Healthscaping as New Conceptual Tool in the Song
- Public Health Prior to Huizong's Reign
- Public Health Initiatives During Huizong's Reign (1100-25 ce)
- Poorhouses
- Peace and Relief Hospitals
- The Pauper's Cemetery
- The Demise of the Welfare and Public Health System
- The Public Pharmacy
- The Public Pharmacy During Huizong's Reign
- The Formulary of the Pharmacy
- Huizong on the Way ( ) of Healthscaping
- Conclusion
- Primary Sources
- 2 : Plague Prevention, Care, and Infrastructure in Valencia, 1450-1520
- Anti-contagionPolicy in Late Medieval Valencia
- The Slow Emergence of Valencian Plague Hospitals
- Containment or Care?
- Archival Sources
- 3 : Agents of Communal Health in Iberian Jewish Communities, 1200-1500
- General Public Health Provisions and Local Jews
- Caring for the Community's Health and Well-Being
- Women's Agency and Communal Health
- 4 : Governmentality, Biopolitics,and Medical Institutions in Flemish Cities, 1200-1550
- Medical Knowledge and Urban Administration.
- Medical Practice as a Form of Potential Urban Pollution
- Competition and Supervision on the Medical Market
- 5 : Fire Prevention in Late Medieval British Towns and Cities
- Fire Safety in London
- Advances and Reversals
- The Case of Norwich
- Manuscript Sources
- Website
- 6 : Governing Water and Public Health in a Muslim City Cairo in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Century ce
- Galenism and Pietism at the Root of Hisba Manuals
- Islamic Legal and Pietistic Thinking on Water and Purity
- Ḥisba Manuals on Regulating Bathhouses and Drinking Water
- PART 2 : HEALTHSCAPINGTHE COUNTRYSIDE
- 7 : Dynamic Landscapes The Archaeology of Prevention in NorthwesternEurope (Seventh to Fourteenth Centuries)
- Dealing with Small-ScaleIssues
- Communal Management of Local Environments
- Changing Relationships to Natural Environmentsand Possible Consequences
- 8 : Preventative Healthcare Among Miners in Europe, 1200-1550
- Preventative Programs Below the Ground
- Miners' Well-BeingAbove the Ground
- 9 : Dangerous Flows Public Health and the Itinerant Poor in the Urbanand Rural Low Countries, 1400-1600
- Ideas: The Itinerant Poor as a Galenic Imbalance
- Policies: The 1531 Edict on Poverty
- Vagrancy and Epidemics in Antwerp
- Subsistence Strategies
- 10 : Better Safe than Sorry "Houses of Health" and Ideologies ofCare Across the Bay of Bengal.
- Introduction
- Puzzling Buildings of the Khorat Plateau
- The Royal Edicts
- Beyond Jayavarman VII: Looking at BothSides of the Bay of Bengal
- Comparative Archaeologies of Health
- "As Long as the Sun and Moon Endure": The Cultureof Endowments and Regulations
- Special Texts Mentioning Health-RelatedRegulations
- Primary Sources and Translations
- PART 3 : RELIGIOUS AND INTELLECTUALTRADITIONS OF PREVENTATIVEHEALTHCARE
- 11 : They Who Have Stood as Women The Nahua-CihuateteohReciprocal Preventative Relationship in the Postclassic and EarlyColonial Valley of Mexico
- The Mocihuaquetzqueh and Cihuateteoh
- A Reciprocal Relationship with Cihuateteoh
- Uncategorized References
- 12 : The Promises and Limitations of Islamicate Plague Treatises from the Eighth/Fourteenth to Fourteenth/Nineteenth Centuries
- Islamdom's First Millennium
- Aside: Drowning in an Absence of(Cataloged and Edited) Sources
- Further Institutions and Narratives
- Islamic Plague Treatises and What We Don't Know
- Manuscripts
- 13 : Pestilential Insects and Public Healthin Europe, c.1100-1600
- Spontaneous Generation
- Putrefaction and Disease
- Animal Behavior and Signs of Disease
- Extermination and Exorcism
- Digital Collections
- 14 : Ulema, Medicine, and Community inYemen's Long Fifteenth Century
- Ulema, Medicine, Healthscaping
- Local Communities: The Ulema of the Tihama
- Local Conditions: Baḥraq of Hadhramaut
- Medicine Without Doctors: Muttaqī of India
- Manuscript Sources.
- Printed Sources in Arabic
- Printed Sources in English
- 15 : Buddhist Prophylactics in Visual Form Biopolitics and Public Health inSeventeenth-CenturyTibet
- Introduction: Health in the Gyushi
- Tibetan Medicine and Buddhism
- The Three nyepa
- Body and Mind
- Seventeenth-CenturyTibetan-BuddhistBiopolitics
- The Tibetan Medical Paintings
- Painting Medical Knowledge
- A Visual Dissemination of Medical Knowledge
- Afterword : Where Next?
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-896947-3
- 0-19-896948-1
- OCLC:
- 1568103246
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