Translated from the German: Leib und Seele / Klaus Bergdolt. c1999. Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-347) and index.
Contents:
Introduction Prologue: The Ancient Advanced Civilizations - Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia -- Greece -- The ideal of health in ancient Greece -- The Presocratics -- The Hippocratic corpus -- Diodes of Carystus, a fourth-century health pedagogue -- 'Knidic' dietetics -- Health in Plato and Aristotle -- Dietetics in Alexandria -- Cures and miracles, Aesculapius and Hygieia -- 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 Stoics: Plutarch, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, 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 Seventeenth 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
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