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Titre(s) : Making sense of health, disease, and the environment in cross-cultural history [Texte électronique] : the Arabic-Islamic world, China, Europe and North America / Florence Bretelle-Establet, Marie Gaille, Mehrnaz Katouzian-Safadi, editors
Publication : Cham : Springer, copyright 2019
Description matérielle : 1 online resource (387 pages)
Collection : Boston studies in the philosophy and history of science, ISSN 2214-7942 ; 333
Lien à la collection : Boston studies in the philosophy of science (Online)
Note(s) : Index
This book has been defined around three important issues: the first sheds light on
how people, in various philosophical, religious, and political contexts, understand
the natural environment, and how the relationship between the environment and the
body is perceived; the second focuses on the perceptions that a particular natural
environment is good or bad for human health and examines the reasons behind such characterizations
; the third examines the promotion, in history, of specific practices to take advantage
of the health benefits, or avoid the harm, caused by certain environments and also
efforts made to change environments supposed to be harmful to human health. The feeling
and/or the observation that the natural environment can have effects on human health
have been, and are still commonly shared throughout the world. This led us to raise
the issue of the links observed and believed to exist between human beings and the
natural environment in a broad chronological and geographical framework. In this investigation,
we bring the reader from ancient and late imperial China to the medieval Arab world
up to medieval, modern, and contemporary Europe. This book does not examine these
relationships through the prism of the knowledge of our modern contemporary European
experience, which, still too often, leads to the feeling of totally different worlds.
Rather, it questions protagonists who, in different times and in different places,
have reflected, on their own terms, on the links between environment and health and
tries to obtain a better understanding of why these links took the form they did in
these precise contexts. This book targets an academic readership as well as an "informed
audience", for whom present issues of environment and health can be nourished by the
reflections of the past
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Bretelle-Establet, Florence. Éditeur scientifique
Gaille, Marie (1971-....). Éditeur scientifique
Katouzian-Safadi, Mehrnaz. Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Hygiène du milieu -- Histoire
Hygiène du milieu -- Études transculturelles
Indice(s) Dewey :
613.109 (23e éd.) = Facteurs environnementaux (santé) - Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9783030190828. - ISBN 303019082X (eBook). - ISBN 9783030190811 (print)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46643486j
Notice n° :
FRBNF46643486
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Part I. Environment, Disease, and the Body: Observations, Definitions and Theories
; Chapter 1. Creation, Generation, Force, Motion, Habit: Medieval Theoretical Definitions
of Nature ; Chapter 2. The Animal Environment and Human Health. The Approach Followed
by the Medieval Zoologist, Ğāhiẓ (ninth century) ; Chapter 3. Landscaped Environment
and Health in Han China (208 BCE ; 220) ; Chapter 4. The Construction of Thinking
on the Environment: the Words, Their Meanings, and Their Uses from 1790 to 1970 ;
Chapter 5. Environment in Relation to Health, Wellbeing and Human Flourishing: The
Contribution of Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy of Life and of the Subject
; Chapter 6. Environment and Chagas Disease: an Elusive and Diverse Relationship
; Part II. Healthy or Unhealthy Environments: for whom and for what? ; Chapter 7.
The Worst Environment in which to Live in China: a Question of Points of View. The
Legendary Miasmatic Far South of China Challenged by Local Doctors in Late Imperial
China ; Chapter 8. Inhabited Lands and Temperaments. Between Observations and Therapeutic
Solutions, the Views of Medieval Scientists and Physicians: al-Ğāḥiẓ (9th), Rāzī
(9th-10th), Ibn Riḍwān (11th) ; Chapter 9. Health and the Environment: Aldo Leopold,
Land Health and the First Person Ecology Approach ; Chapter 10. Urban Space of the
Living and Dead. The Conception of Environment and Death in Beijing from the 18th
Century to the Middle 20th Century ; Chapter 11. Urban Nature: (the) Good and (the)
Bad ; Chapter 12. Health and the Environment in Ecological Transition: the Case of
the Permaculture Movement ; Chapter 13. Affordances': A Concept to Reflect on the
Relationships between the Body and Its Environment ; Chapter 14. Gestalt Therapy
and its Contribution to the Understanding of the Link between Health and the Environment.
