Wellbeing : a cultural history of healthy living / Klaus Bergdolt ; translated by Jane Dewhurst.
Wellbeing : a cultural history of healthy living / Klaus Bergdolt ; translated by Jane Dewhurst.
Wellbeing : a cultural history of healthy living / Klaus Bergdolt ; translated by Jane Dewhurst.
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Publisher
Cambridge : Polity Press, 2008.
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Date
2008.
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G 2014/2384
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English
German
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Physical Description
Physical content
ix, 366 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
Prologue: The Ancient Advanced Civilizations - Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia -- 1. Greece -- The ideal of health in ancient Greece -- The Presocratics -- The Hippocratic corpus -- Diocles of Carystus, a fourth-century health pedagogue -- 'Knidic' dietetics -- Health in Plato and Aristotle -- Dietetics...
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Publisher
Cambridge : Polity Press, 2008.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2008.
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Summary
"What is a healthy life? What is it to live well? How do our contemporary ways of thinking about health compare to the ways in which a healthy life was understood by our predecessors?" "In this authoritative new book, Klaus Bergdolt offers a panoramic overview of health and healthy living from the ancient world through to the middle of the nineteen...
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Wellbeing : a cultural history of healthy living / Klaus Bergdolt ; translated by Jane Dewhurst.
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General note
Translated from the German.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
State Reference Library copy: transferred from REF/N613.09/2.
Language note
English translation of: Leib und Seele.
Translated from the German.
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G 2014/2384
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74VM4Krgg8Xg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VM4Krgg8Xg
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ISBN
9780745629148 (pbk)
9780745629131
DDC
613.09
MMS ID
991001375939702626
