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Health - A History (Hardcover)
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Health - A History (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Philosophical Concepts
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From antiquity to the early modern period, many philosophers also
studied anatomy and medicine, or were medical doctors themselves -
yet the history of philosophy and of medicine are pursued as
separate disciplines. This book departs from that practice,
gathering contributions by both historians of philosophy and of
medicine to trace the concept of health from ancient Greece and
China, through the Islamic world and to modern thinkers such as
Descartes and Freud. Through this interdisciplinary approach,
Health demonstrates the synchronicity and overlapping histories of
these two disciplines. From antiquity to the Renaissance,
contributors explore the Chinese idea of qi or circulating "vital
breath," ideas about medical methodology in antiquity and the
middle ages, and the rise and long-lasting influence of Galenic
medicine, with its insistence that health consists in a balance of
four humors and the proper use of six "non-naturals" including
diet, exercise, and sex. In the early modern period, mechanistic
theories of the body made it more difficult to explain what health
is and why it is more valuable than other physical states. However,
philosophers and doctors maintained an interest in the interaction
between the good condition of the mind and that of the body, with
Descartes and his followers exploring in depth the idea of
"medicine for the mind" despite their notorious mind-body dualism.
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, scientific improvements
in public health emerged along with new ideas about the psychology
of health, notably with the concept of "sensibility" and Freud's
psychoanalytic theory. The volume concludes with a critical survey
of recent philosophical attempts to define health, showing that
both "descriptive," or naturalistic, and "normativist" approaches
have fallen prey to objections and counterexamples. As a whole,
Health: A History shows that notions of both physical and mental
health have long been integral to philosophy and a powerful link
between philosophy and the sciences.
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