Health: A History - Oxford Philosophical Concepts - Peter Adamson - Books - Oxford University Press Inc - 9780199916429 - May 22, 2019
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Health: A History - Oxford Philosophical Concepts

Peter Adamson

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     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released May 22, 2019
ISBN13 9780199916429
Publishers Oxford University Press Inc
Pages 376
Dimensions 208 × 145 × 25 mm   ·   522 g
Editor Adamson, Peter (Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy, Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy, LMU in Munich)

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