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Health: A History - Oxford Philosophical Concepts
Health: A History - Oxford Philosophical Concepts
This book brings together contributions by historians of philosophy and medicine to trace the concept of health from ancient Greece and China, through the Islamic world, down to modern thinkers like Descartes and Freud. Major themes include the parallel between mental and physical health and the difficulty of defining health.
392 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | January 2, 2019 |
| ISBN13 | 9780199916443 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 376 |
| Dimensions | 208 × 140 × 27 mm · 408 g |
| Editor | Adamson, Peter (Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy, Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy, LMU in Munich) |