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Health: A History - Oxford Philosophical Concepts
Peter Adamson
Health: A History - Oxford Philosophical Concepts
Peter Adamson
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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