Making Sense of Health, Disease, and the Environment in Cross-Cultural History: The Arabic-Islamic World, China, Europe, and North America
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| מחברים אחרים: | , , |
| סיכום: | XXI, 378 p. 11 illus. text |
| שפה: | אנגלית |
| יצא לאור: |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2019.
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| מהדורה: | 1st ed. 2019. |
| סדרה: | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science,
333 |
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| גישה מקוונת: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19082-8 |
| פורמט: | אלקטרוני ספר |
תוכן הענינים:
- 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.