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Introduction.- PART ONE: THE ANCIENT WESTERN WORLD.- 1. “The Beginnings”.- 2. “The Hippocratic Contribution” .- 3. “Plato’s Timaeus”.- 4. “Aristotle”.- 5. “Concluding with Galen”.- PART TWO: The Medieval, Modern, and Contemporary Worlds.- 6. The New Paradigm: Changes leading up to the Seventeenth Century and Beyond.- 7. “Evolution, Germ Theory, and their Consequences”.- 8. “Nature Split: Big Nature and Little Nature”.- 9.“Technology and Nature: A Marriage or a Divorce?”.- Appendix: “Health as Self-Fulfilment”.- Bibliography.- Index.

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      Publisher: Springer
      Publication Date: 23/08/2025
      ISBN13: 9783031978050, 978-3031978050
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      Introduction.- PART ONE: THE ANCIENT WESTERN WORLD.- 1. “The Beginnings”.- 2. “The Hippocratic Contribution” .- 3. “Plato’s Timaeus”.- 4. “Aristotle”.- 5. “Concluding with Galen”.- PART TWO: The Medieval, Modern, and Contemporary Worlds.- 6. The New Paradigm: Changes leading up to the Seventeenth Century and Beyond.- 7. “Evolution, Germ Theory, and their Consequences”.- 8. “Nature Split: Big Nature and Little Nature”.- 9.“Technology and Nature: A Marriage or a Divorce?”.- Appendix: “Health as Self-Fulfilment”.- Bibliography.- Index.

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