Public health in the premodern world : dynamic balances / edited by G. Geltner, Janna Coomans, and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Geltner, Frank Joseph, 1944- editor.

Coomans, Janna, editor.

Yoeli-Tlalim, Ronit, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public health--History--To 1500.

Public health.

Medicine, Ancient.

Medicine, Medieval.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 365 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color).

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [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:

Contents

List of figures and tables

List of maps

Contributor list

Introduction : Premodern bodies, changing environments, new approaches / G. Geltner, Janna Coomans, and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim

Part 1. Urban risks and resources

Healthscaping public health history in premodern China / Asaf Goldschmidt and Marta Hanson

Plague prevention, care, and infrastructure in Valencia, 1450-1520 / Abigail Agresta

Agents of communal health in Iberian Jewish communities, 1200-1500 / Carmen Caballero-Navas

Governmentality, biopolitics,and medical institutions in Flemish cities, 1200-1550 / Lola Digard

Fire prevention in late medieval British towns and cities / Carole Rawcliffe

Governing water and public health in a Muslim city : Cairo in the thirteenth and fourteenth century CE / Maaike van Berkel and Edmund Hayes

Part 2. Healthscaping the countryside

Dynamic landscapes : the archaeology of prevention in northwestern Europe (seventh to fourteenth centuries) / Léa Hermenault

Preventative healthcare among miners in Europe, 1200-1550 / G. Geltner

Dangerous flows : public health and the itinerant poor in the urban and rural low countries, 1400-1600 / Janna Coomans

Better safe than sorry : 'Houses of health' and ideologies of care across the Bay of Bengal / Francesco Bianchini

Part 3. Religious and intellectual traditions of preventative healthcare

They who have stood as women : the Nahua-Cihuateteoh reciprocal preventative relationship in the postclassic and early colonial Valley of Mexico / Edward Anthony Polanco

The promises and limitations of Islamicate plague : treatises from the eighth/fourteenth to fourteenth/nineteenth centuries / Justin Stearns

Pestilential insects and public health in Europe, c. 1100-1600 / Claire Weeda

Ulema, medicine, and community in Yemen's long fifteenth century / Shireen Hamza

Buddhist prophylactics in visual form : bio-politics and public health in seventeenth century Tibet / Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim

Afterword : Where next? / Peregrine Horden

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9780198969471

0-19-896947-3

0-19-896948-1

OCLC:

1568103246