Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Lifestyle and Medicine in the Enlightenment: The Six Non-Naturals in the Long Eighteenth Century

Lifestyle and Medicine in the Enlightenment: The Six Non-Naturals in the Long Eighteenth Century

Kennaway, James
Knoeff, Rina

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and

Medical ReferenceGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1138610704
ISBN13: 9781138610705
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Apr 29 2020
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

The biggest challenges in public health today are often related to attitudes, diet and exercise. In many ways, this marks a return to the state of medicine in the eighteenth century, when ideals of healthy living were a much more central part of the European consciousness than they have become since the advent of modern clinical medicine. Enlightenment advice on healthy lifestyle was often still discussed in terms of the six non-naturals - airs and places, food and drink, exercise, excretion and retention, and sleep and emotions. This volume examines what it meant to live healthily in the Enlightenment in the context of those non-naturals, showing both the profound continuities from Antiquity and the impact of newer conceptions of the body.

1 different editions

Also available

Also from

Kennaway, James

View All

Also in

General World History

View All