{"product_id":"wellbeing-a-cultural-history-of-healthy-living-paperback-softback-9780745629148","title":"Wellbeing; A Cultural History of Healthy Living (Paperback \/ softback) 9780745629148","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWellbeing\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Cultural History of Healthy Living\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKlaus Bergdolt (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745629148, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 23 April 2008\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e416 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.9 cm, 0.562 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"A fascinating and nearly exhaustive overview of the traditional concepts of hygiene and dietetics from ancient times through to the nineteenth century.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSocial History of Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \"The thematic and chronological scope of \u003ci\u003eWellbeing \u003c\/i\u003eis ambitious; yet it is surprisingly readable, a testament to both its author and translator. The arrangement of chapters, clear index and thoughtful introduction draw in the reader and the comprehensive referencing provides a wealth of additional material without interrupting the flow of the text.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHistory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \"In this scholarly, authoritative, and well-referenced monograph, Bergdolt presents the chronological development of many aspects related to well-being, including diet, cleanliness, exercise\/sport, spirituality, and psychology, as well as healing (by useful and dubious means) ... Highly recommended for lower-level undergraduates and above and general readers.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eChoice\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \"Klaus Bergoldt's masterly contribution to the bibliography of health has been a long time coming, but is no less welcome for that ... Bergdolt has achieved a heroic internal synthesis of the health genre.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMedical History\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \"This book is ... absolutely central to what traditionally constituted the mainstream of medicine, and Bergdolt handles his subject matter with clarity, skill and erudition.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eRoy Porter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 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.  \u003cp\u003eKlaus 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotwithstanding 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrologue: The Ancient Advanced Civilizations – Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia 7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Greece 14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe ideal of health in ancient Greece 14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Presocratics 19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Hippocratic corpus 24\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiocles of Carystus, a fourth-century health pedagogue 30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Knidic’ dietetics 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHealth in Plato and Aristotle 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDietetics in Alexandria 44\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCures and miracles, Aesculapius and Hygieia 46\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublic health care and sport 53\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEarly Stoics and Cynics 56\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Rome 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePeople and literati: dietetics in ancient Rome 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew doctors, new theories 73\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSport and baths 77\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe sacred tales of Publius Aelius Aristides 79\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Roman Stoics: Plutarch, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus 82\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGalen 87\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Jewish and Early Christian Traditions 94\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJewish doctrines of health 94\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChristus medicus 98\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEarly Christian doctrines of health 103\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Medieval Traditions in the East and West 109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJealing and health in early monasticism 109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe first German pharmacopoeia 113\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDietetics in Islam 116\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMedieval doctrines of health in the West 124\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAsceticism and mysticism – feasts and beauty care 131\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWestern and Eastern clerical scholars: Maimonides, Petrus, Hispanus, Roger Bacon 137\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHildegard of Bingen 146\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSaints and miracle workers 149\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe power of the stars 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Doctrines of Health in the Renaissance 158\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePetrarch’s conception of health 158\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlberti and other intellectuals around 1500 161\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHouse books and manuals – health and literature 168\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther humanists – Platina, More, Luther 173\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhilosophy of health and prophylaxis in Venice – Mercuriale, Rangone, Cornaro 179\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGabriele Zerbi and the Gerontocomia 185\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eParacelsus’ teachings on health 187\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHerbal books 191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDietetics in daily life 194\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Dietetics in the Seventeenth Century 199\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCartesianism and conservative tendencies 199\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVan Helmont, Sylvius and other ‘iatrochemists’ 208\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDoctrines of health in England – the dietetics of the state 210\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHealth through planning – the utopias 216\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe dietetics of the Enlightenment – philosophers, pedagogues, charlatans 220\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Doctrines of Health in the Eighteenth Century 226\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMedical theories of health 226\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe French Enlightenment and Rousseau 233\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTissot, Triller, Mai: health education at grassroots 239\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublic health care 247\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Around 1800 251\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe notion of ‘Lebenskraft’ (vital force) – Hufeland and Kant 251\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe recurrent topic of a dietetic regime for intellectuals 255\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlternative paths to health 258\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGoethe 263\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRomantic medicine – Schelling, Carus, Novalis 266\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 The Nineteenth Century 274\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTrends in the nineteenth century 274\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRudolf Virchow and the dietetics of reason 276\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNietzsche, Schopenhauer and the philosophical critique of positivism 280\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe revolution in nutrition and alternative paths to health 283\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfterword 287\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 289\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 327\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 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