Quantification and Measurement in British Health Advice, C. 1670-1830 : Diet, Exercise, and Body Weight in Iatromechanics.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wübbels, Marsha.

Series:

Palgrave Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2026.

Summary:

This open access book explores how medical advice on diet, exercise, and body weight evolved in Britain between 1670 and 1830.Focusing on the growing use of measurement and quantification, it shows how ideas of a 'healthy' body were defined and debated in medical literature.

Contents:

Palgrave Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine

Quantification and Measurement in British Health Advice, c. 1670-1830

Acknowledgements

Contents

1. Presentation of the Theme and Historical Contextualisation

2. 'Whats good and bad': Dietary Choices in Eighteenth-Century Health Guides

3. From Appetite to Measure? Food Quantities in British Dietary Advice

4. 'The Debauchery of Inaction': Idleness and Sedentarism in Health Advice

5. 'Ad ruborem, non sudorem': Sweat, Insensible Perspiration, and the Limits of Healthful Exercise

6. A Weighty Matter: Understanding Corpulency and Body Weighing Practices in Eighteenth-Century Britain

7. Conclusion

Bibliography

Index1.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9783032327604