Lifestyle and medicine in the Enlightenment : the six non-naturals in the long eighteenth century /

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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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Kennaway, James Gordon, 1975- (Editor), Knoeff, Rina (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2020]
Series:Routledge studies in the history of science, technology, and medicine ; 43.
Subjects:
Health behavior > Europe > History > 18th century.
Self-care, Health > Europe > History > 18th century.
Lifestyles > Health aspects > Europe > History > 18th century.
Dietetics > Europe > History > 18th century.
Longevity > Europe > History > 18th century.
Enlightenment > Europe.
Dietetics.
Enlightenment.
Health behavior.
Lifestyles > Health aspects.
Longevity.
Self-care, Health.
Europe.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • "The most valuable part of medicine" : the six non-naturals in the long eighteenth century / James Kennaway and Rina Knoeff
  • The body is a barometer : Dutch doctors on healthy weather and strong constitutions / Rina Knoeff
  • Hot climate and health care : tropical regions in the Dutch Atlantic, c.1600-c.1800 / Stephen Snelders
  • Eating after the climacteric : food, gender and ageing in the long eighteenth century / Elizabeth A. Williams
  • The impossible ideal of moderation : food, drink, and longevity / Anita Guerrini
  • "For it is the debilitating fibres that execise restores" : movement, morality and moderation in eighteenth-century medical advice literature / James Kennaway and Rina Knoeff
  • The healthy body, civic virtue, gender and the new physical education in Germany, 1770-1800 / Teresa Sanislo
  • "That venerable and princely custom of long-lying abed" : sleep and civility in seventeenth and eighteenth-century urban society / Elizabeth Hunter
  • Wasted days and wasted nights : sleeping and waking in the long eighteenth-century / Roger Schmidt
  • Keeping the body open. Impurity, excretions, and healthy living in the early modern period / Michael Stolberg
  • Increasing and reducing : breastmilk flows and female health / Ruben Verwaal
  • Feel-good tunes : music aesthetics, performance and well-being in the eighteenth century / Wiebke Thormählen
  • The dietetics of the soul in Britain in the long eighteenth century / James Kennaway
  • "That is more excellent which preserveth health and preventeth sicknesse." Continuity and change in vernacular preventive health advice over the early modern period / Tessa Storey.

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