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Conserving health in early modern culture : bodies and environments in Italy and England /
Conserving Health brings together scholarship from across the disciplinary spectrum to illustrate the role of preventive culture in early modern England and Italy, its ubiquity but also how patterns of healthy living differed in different countries.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2017.
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| Colección: | Social histories of medicine.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Plates; Figures; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Color Plates; Introduction Conserving health: the Non-Naturals in early modern culture and society; I A comparative perspective on preventive literature; 1 Regimens, authors and readers: Italy and England compared; II The Non-Naturals and the vulnerable body; 2 'What to expect when you're always expecting': frequent childbirth and female health in early modern Italy; 3 'Ordering the infant': caring for newborns in early modern England.
- 4 'She sleeps well and eats an egg': convalescent care in early modern EnglandIII Airs and places; 5 Neapolitan airs: health advice and medical culture on the edge of a volcano; 6 The afterlife of the Non-Naturals in early eighteenth-century Hippocratism: from the healthy individual to a healthy population; IV Spiritual health and bodily health; 7 Sleep-piety and healthy sleep in early modern English households; 8 English and Italian health advice: Protestant and Catholic bodies; V Spaces, paintings and objects: performing and portraying health.
- 9 Chasing 'good air' and viewing beautiful perspectives: painting and health preservation in seventeenth-century Rome10 Hot-drinking practices in the late Renaissance Italian household: a case study around an enigmatic pouring vessel; Bibliography; Index.