{"product_id":"wellbeing-9780745629148","title":"Wellbeing","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis authoritative new book offers a panoramic overview on health and healthy living from classical Antiquity through to the mid-nineteenth century. Klaus Bergdolt offers the reader a thoroughly researched and a well exemplified examination of the numerous historical manifestations of 'dietetics'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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 348\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404360884567,"sku":"9780745629148","price":18.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745629148.jpg?v=1730486218","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/wellbeing-9780745629148","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}