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Wellbeing: A Cultural History of Healthy Living

ISBN: 978-0-7456-2914-8
Paperback
416 pages
May 2008, Polity
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  • This authoritative new book offers a panoramic overview on health and healthy living from classical Antiquity through to the mid-nineteenth century.

  • Klaus Bergdolt offers the reader a thoroughly researched and a well exemplified examination of the numerous historical manifestations of 'dietetics'.

  • A fascinating discussion of the theories of health espoused by physicians through history, including how religious, philosophical and social factors produced notions of 'healthy' and 'ill', and directions on healthy living.

  • Will be of interest to general readers and to students and scholars of the history of medicine and health.
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