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

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Bretelle-Establet, Florence (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Gaille, Marie (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Katouzian-Safadi, Mehrnaz (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 333
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Part I. Environment, Disease, and the Body: Observations, Definitions and Theories
• Chapter 1. Creation, Generation, Force, Motion, Habit: Medieval Theoretical Definitions of Nature
• Chapter 2. The Animal Environment and Human Health. The Approach Followed by the Medieval Zoologist, Ğāhiẓ (ninth century)
• Chapter 3. Landscaped Environment and Health in Han China (208 BCE - 220)
• Chapter 4. The Construction of Thinking on the Environment: the Words, Their Meanings, and Their Uses from 1790 to 1970
• Chapter 5. Environment in Relation to Health, Wellbeing and Human Flourishing: The Contribution of Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy of Life and of the Subject
• Chapter 6. Environment and Chagas Disease: an Elusive and Diverse Relationship
• Part II. Healthy or Unhealthy Environments: for whom and for what?
• Chapter 7. The Worst Environment in which to Live in China: a Question of Points of View. The Legendary Miasmatic Far South of China Challenged by Local Doctors in Late Imperial China
• Chapter 8. Inhabited Lands and Temperaments. Between Observations and Therapeutic Solutions, the Views of Medieval Scientists and Physicians: al-Ğāḥiẓ (9th), Rāzī (9th-10th), Ibn Riḍwān (11th)
• Chapter 9. Health and the Environment: Aldo Leopold, Land Health and the First Person Ecology Approach
• Chapter 10. Urban Space of the Living and Dead. The Conception of Environment and Death in Beijing from the 18th Century to the Middle 20th Century
• Chapter 11. Urban Nature: (the) Good and (the) Bad
• Chapter 12. Health and the Environment in Ecological Transition: the Case of the Permaculture Movement
• Chapter 13. Affordances': A Concept to Reflect on the Relationships between the Body and Its Environment
• Chapter 14. Gestalt Therapy and its Contribution to the Understanding of the Link between Health and the Environment.