Making Sense of Health, Disease, and the Environment in Cross-Cultural History: The Arabic-Islamic World, China, Europe, and North America

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bretelle-Establet, Florence (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Gaille, Marie (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Katouzian-Safadi, Mehrnaz (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 333
• Subjects: History.; World history.; Philosophy and science.; Medicine-History.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; History of Science.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; Philosophy of Science.; History of Medicine.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.

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 percep...