Wellbeing A Cultural History of Healthy Living

, by Bergdolt, Klaus

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ISBN: 9780745629131 | 074562913X
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Copyright: 5/27/2008

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What is a healthy life? What is it to live well? How do our contemporary ways of thinking about health compare to the ways in which a healthy life was understood by our predecessors?

Introduction	p. 1
Prologue: The Ancient Advanced Civilizations - Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia	p. 7
Greece	p. 14
The ideal of health in ancient Greece	p. 14
The Presocratics	p. 19
The Hippocratic corpus	p. 24
Diocles of Carystus, a fourth-century health pedagogue	p. 30
'Knidic' dietetics	p. 33
Health in Plato and Aristotle	p. 37
Dietetics in Alexandria	p. 44
Cures and miracles, Aesculapius and Hygieia	p. 46
Public health care and sport	p. 53
Early Stoics and Cynics	p. 56
Rome	p. 62
People and literati: dietetics in ancient Rome	p. 62
New doctors, new theories	p. 73
Sport and baths	p. 77
The sacred tales of Publius Aelius Aristides	p. 79
The Roman Stoics: Plutarch, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus	p. 82
Galen	p. 87
Jewish and Early Christian Traditions	p. 94
Jewish doctrines of health	p. 94
Christus medicus	p. 98
Early Christian doctrines of health	p. 103
Medieval Traditions in the East and West	p. 109
Healing and health in early monasticism	p. 109
The first German pharmacopoeia	p. 113
Dietetics in Islam	p. 116
Medieval doctrines of health in the West	p. 124
Asceticism and mysticism - feasts and beauty care	p. 131
Western and Eastern clerical scholars: Maimonides, Petrus Hispanus, Roger Bacon	p. 137
Hildegard of Bingen	p. 146
Saints and miracle workers	p. 149
The power of the stars	p. 154
Doctrines of Health in the Renaissance	p. 158
Petrarch's conception of health	p. 158
Alberti and other intellectuals around 1500	p. 161
House books and manuals - health and literature	p. 168
Further humanists - Platina, More, Luther	p. 173
Philosophy of health and prophylaxis in Venice - Mercuriale, Rangone, Cornaro	p. 179
Gabriele Zerbi and the Gerontocomia	p. 185
Paracelsus' teachings on health	p. 187
Herbal books	p. 191
Dietetics in daily life	p. 194
Dietetics in the Seventeenth Century	p. 199
Cartesianism and conservative tendencies	p. 199
Van Helmont, Sylvius and other 'iatrochemists'	p. 208
Doctrines of health in England - the dietetics of the state	p. 210
Health through planning - the utopias	p. 216
The dietetics of the Enlightenment - philosophers, pedagogues, charlatans	p. 220
Doctrines of Health in the Eighteenth Century	p. 226
Medical theories of health	p. 226
The French Enlightenment and Rousseau	p. 233
Tissot, Triller, Mai: health education at grassroots	p. 239
Public health care	p. 247
Around 1800	p. 251
The notion of 'Lebenskraft' (vital force) - Hufeland and Kant	p. 251
The recurrent topic of a dietetic regime for intellectuals	p. 255
Alternative paths to health	p. 258
Goethe	p. 263
Romantic medicine - Schelling, Carus, Novalis	p. 266
The Nineteenth Century	p. 274
Trends in the nineteenth century	p. 274
Rudolf Virchow and the dietetics of reason	p. 276
Nietzsche, Schopenhauer and the philosophical critique of positivism	p. 280
The revolution in nutrition and alternative paths to health	p. 283
Afterword	p. 287
Notes	p. 289
References	p. 327
Index	p. 348
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