Wellbeing

* This authoritative new book offers a panoramic overview on health and healthy living from classical Antiquity through to the mid-nineteenth century. * Klaus Bergdolt offers the reader a thoroughly researched and a well exemplified examination of the numerous historical manifestations of 'dietetics'.

Autorentext
Klaus Bergdolt is Professor of History and Ethics of Medicine at the University of Cologne.

Inhalt
* 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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