Healthy living in late Renaissance Italy /

The authors explore in detail the efforts made by men and women in late Renaissance Italy to stay healthy and prolong their lives. Drawing on a wide variety of sources - ranging from cheap healthy living guides in the vernacular to personal letters conduct literature, household inventories, and surv...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteurs principaux: Cavallo, Sandra (Auteur), Storey, Tessa (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Sujets:
1500-1599
Public health > Italy > History > 16th century.
Medicine, Preventive > Italy > History > 16th century.
Health behavior.
Health Behavior
Hygiene > history
Public Health Practice > history
History, 16th Century
Santé publique > Italie > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Médecine préventive > Italie > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Habitudes sanitaires.
Médecine > Histoire > 16e siècle.
MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
Health behavior
Medicine, Preventive
Public health
Hygiëne.
Gezondheid.
Lichaamsverzorging.
Italy
Italië
History
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Print and culture of prevention
  • Practices of healthy living : the sources
  • Worrying about the air
  • A good night's sleep
  • Gentle exercise and genteel living
  • The well-tempered man
  • "Salute!" (cheers!) : drinking to your health
  • Excretions as excrements : the hygiene of the body.

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