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Making Sense of Health, Disease, and the Environment in Cross-Cultural History: The Arabic-Islamic World, China, Europe, and North America (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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Making Sense of Health, Disease, and the Environment in Cross-Cultural History: The Arabic-Islamic World, China, Europe, and North America (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 333
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This book has been defined around three important issues: the first
sheds light on how people, in various philosophical, religious, and
political contexts, understand the natural environment, and how the
relationship between the environment and the body is perceived; the
second focuses on the perceptions that a particular natural
environment is good or bad for human health and examines the
reasons behind such characterizations ; the third examines the
promotion, in history, of specific practices to take advantage of
the health benefits, or avoid the harm, caused by certain
environments and also efforts made to change environments supposed
to be harmful to human health. The feeling and/or the observation
that the natural environment can have effects on human health have
been, and are still commonly shared throughout the world. This led
us to raise the issue of the links observed and believed to exist
between human beings and the natural environment in a broad
chronological and geographical framework. In this investigation, we
bring the reader from ancient and late imperial China to the
medieval Arab world up to medieval, modern, and contemporary
Europe. This book does not examine these relationships through the
prism of the knowledge of our modern contemporary European
experience, which, still too often, leads to the feeling of totally
different worlds. Rather, it questions protagonists who, in
different times and in different places, have reflected, on their
own terms, on the links between environment and health and tries to
obtain a better understanding of why these links took the form they
did in these precise contexts. This book targets an academic
readership as well as an "informed audience", for whom present
issues of environment and health can be nourished by the
reflections of the past.
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