Health: a history
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press Inc
ISBN :
9780199916443
Date de publication :
7 févr. 2019
Dimensions :
13,7 x 20,6 x 2,5 cm
Poids :
408 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.