Making sense of health, disease, and the environment in cross-cultural history : the Arabic-Islamic World, China, Europe and North America /: the Arabic-Islamic World, China, Europe and North America. (©2019)
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- Title:
- Making sense of health, disease, and the environment in cross-cultural history : the Arabic-Islamic World, China, Europe and North America /: the Arabic-Islamic World, China, Europe and North America. (©2019)
- Main Title:
- Making sense of health, disease, and the environment in cross-cultural history : the Arabic-Islamic World, China, Europe and North America
- Further Information:
- Note: Florence Bretelle-Establet, Marie Gaille, Mehrnaz Katouzian-Safadi, editors.
- Other Names:
- Bretelle-Establet, Florence
Gaille, Marie
Katouzian-Safadi, Mehrnaz - Contents:
- 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. UrbanPart 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. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Cham : Springer
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Copyright Date:
- 2019
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (387 pages)
- Subjects:
- 613/.109
Environmental health -- History
Environmental health -- Cross-cultural studies
Environmental health
Electronic books
Cross-cultural studies
History - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9783030190828
- Related ISBNs:
- 303019082X
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