Health (eBook)

Introduction - Peter Adamson 1. Health and Philosophy in Pre- and Early Imperial China Michael Stanley-Baker 2. Medical Conceptions of Health from Antiquity to the Renaissance Peter E. Pormann 3. The Soul's Virtue and the Health of the Body in Ancient Philosophy James Allen Reflection: Phrontis: The Patient Meets the Text Helen King 4. Health in Arabic Ethical Works Peter Adamson Reflection: The Rationality of Medieval Leechbooks Richard Scott Nokes 5. Health in the Renaissance Guido Giglioni Reflection: Early Modern Anatomy and the Human Skeleton Anita Guerrini 6. Health in the Early Modern Philosophical Tradition Gideon Manning 7. Health in the Eighteenth Century Tom Broman Reflection: Pictures of Health? Ludmilla Jordanova 8. Freud and the Concept of Mental Health Jim Hopkins Reflection: Portrait of the Healthy Artist Glenn Adamson 9. Contemporary Accounts of Health Elselijn Kingma