Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-352) and indexes.
Contents:
Health and philosophy in pre- and early imperial China / Michael Stanley-Baker -- Medical conceptions of health from antiquity to the Renaissance / Peter E. Pormann -- The soul's virtue and the health of the body in ancient philosophy / James Allen -- Reflection: Phrontis: the patient meets the text / Helen King -- Health in Arabic ethical works / Peter Adamson -- Reflection: The rationality of medieval leechbooks / Richard Scott Nokes -- Health in the Renaissance / Guido Giglioni -- Reflection: Early modern anatomy and the human skeleton / Anita Guerrini -- Health in the early modern philosophical tradition / Gideon Manning -- Health in the eighteenth century / Tom Broman -- Reflection: Pictures of health? / Ludmilla Jordanova -- Freud and the concept of mental health / Jim Hopkins -- Reflection: Portrait of the healthy artist / Glenn Adamson -- Contemporary accounts of health / Elselijn Kingma.
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