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Gain a Panoramic Overview of Health and Healthy Living From Classical Antiquity Through to the Mid-Nineteenth Century

Posted on: Wednesday, 30 January 2008, 06:00 CST

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c81204) has announced the addition of Wellbeing: A Cultural History of Healthy Living to their offering.

This authoritative new book offers a panoramic overview on health and healthy living from classical Antiquity through to the mid-nineteenth century, when scientific medicine began to gain ascendancy. Klaus Bergdolt offers the reader a lively and well exemplified account of the numerous historical manifestations of dietetics showing that despite the diversity of notions of healthy and ill', directions on healthy living remain surprisingly constant throughout the centuries.

Notwithstanding his admiration for the achievements of modern medicine, Bergdolt regrets that the simplest dietetic principles such as moderation, as well as the notion of individual responsibility for ones own health, are increasingly neglected, and that the old health precepts are frequently divorced from modern medicine. However, some circumstances, including economic constraints, speak in favour of a better balance between scientific medicine and traditional teachings on healthy living.

Contents

Introduction

Prologue

The ancient advanced civilizations - Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia Greece

The ideal of health in Ancient Greece

The Pre-Socratics

The Hippocratic Corpus Diocles of Carystus, a Fourth-Century Health Pedagogue 'Knidic'

Dietetics Health in Plato and Aristotle

Dietetics in Alexandria Cures and Miracles, Asculapius and Hygeia Public Health Care and Sport

Early Stoics and Cynics

Rome People and Literati - Dietetics in Ancient Rome

New Doctors, New Theories

Sport and Baths

The Sacred Tales of Publius Aelius Aristides

The Roman Stoa: Plutarch, Seneca, Marcus Arelius, Epictetus Galen Jewish and Early Christian Traditions

Jewish Doctrines of Health

Christus Medicus

Early Christian Doctrines of Health

Medieval Traditions in the East and West

Healing and Health in Early Monasticism

The first German pharmacopoeia

Dietetics in Islam

Medieval Doctrines of Health in the West

Asceticism and Mysticism - Feasts and Beauty Care

Western and Eastern Clerical Scholars: Maimonides, Petrus Hispanus, Roger Bacon

Hildegard of Bingen

Saints and Miracle Workers

The Power of the Stars

Doctrines of Health in the Renaissance

Petrarch's Conception of Health Alberti and other Intellectuals around 1500

House Books and Manuals - Health and Literature

Further Humanists - Platina, More, Luther Philosophy of Health and Prophylaxis in Venice - Mercuriale, Rangone, Cornaro Gabriele Zerbi and the Gerontocomia

Paracelsus' Teachings on Health

Herbal Books

Dietetics in Daily Life

Dietetics in the 17th Century

Cartesianism and Conservative Tendencies

Van Helmont, Sylvius and Other 'Iatrochemists'

Doctrines of Health in England - the Dietetics of the State

Health through Planning - the Utopias

The Dietetics of the Enlightenment - Philosophers, Pedagogues, Charlatans

Doctrines of Health in the Eighteenth Century

Medical Theories of Health The French Enlightenment and Rousseau Tissot, Triller,

Mai: Health Education at Grassroots

Public Health Care Around 1800

The Notion of 'Lebenskraft' (Vital Force) - Hufeland and Kant

The Recurrent Topic of a Dietetic Regime for Intellectuals Alternative Paths to Health

Goethe Romantic Medicine - Schelling, Carus, Novalis

The Nineteenth Century Trends in the Nineteenth Century Rudolf Virchow and the Dietetics of Reason

Nietzsche, Schopenhauer and the Philosophical Critique of Positivism

The Revolution in Nutrition and Alternative Paths to Health Afterword

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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