Health

This book brings together contributions by historians of philosophy and medicine to trace the concept of health from ancient Greece and China, through the Islamic world, down to modern thinkers like Descartes and Freud. Major themes include the parallel between mental and physical health and the difficulty of defining health.

List of contents

• 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

About the author

Peter Adamson is Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. He is the co-editor of another volume in the Oxford Philosophical Concepts series, Animals: A History, and the author of the book series (and podcast) A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, also published by Oxford University Press.

Summary

This book brings together contributions by historians of philosophy and medicine to trace the concept of health from ancient Greece and China, through the Islamic world, down to modern thinkers like Descartes and Freud. Major themes include the parallel between mental and physical health and the difficulty of defining health.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Adamson, Peter (Professor of Late Ancient and Arab Adamson
• Assisted by: Peter Adamson (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9780199916443
• ISBN: 978-0-19-991644-3
• No. of pages: 392
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 25 mm
• Series: OXFORD PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPTS; OXFORD PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPTS
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Eastern, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, East Asian and Indian philosophy, Oriental & Indian philosophy, Islamic & Arabic philosophy, Islamic and Arab philosophy