Lifestyle and medicine in the Enlightenment : the six non-naturals in the long eighteenth century / edited by James Kennaway and Rina Knoeff.
"The biggest challenges in public health today are often related to attitudes, diet and exercise. In many ways, this marks a return to the state of medicine in the eighteenth century, when ideals of healthy living were a much more central part of the European consciousness than they have become...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
[2020]
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| Series: | Routledge studies in the history of science, technology, and medicine ;
43. |
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| Summary: | "The biggest challenges in public health today are often related to attitudes, diet and exercise. In many ways, this marks a return to the state of medicine in the eighteenth century, when ideals of healthy living were a much more central part of the European consciousness than they have become since the advent of modern clinical medicine. Enlightenment advice on healthy lifestyle was often still discussed in terms of the six non-naturals - airs and places, food and drink, exercise, excretion and retention, and sleep and emotions. This volume examines what it meant to live healthily in the Enlightenment in the context of those non-naturals, showing both the profound continuities from Antiquity and the impact of newer conceptions of the body"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 320 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780429465642 0429465645 9780429879234 0429879237 9780429879241 0429879245 9780429879258 0429879253 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 09, 2020) |