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

ISBN-13: 9781138610705 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 320 str.

James Kennaway; Rina Knoeff

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. “The Most Valuable Part of Medicine”: The Six Non-Naturals in the Long Eighteenth Century; PART 1: AIRS, WATERS AND PLACES; 2. The Body is a Barometer: Dutch Doctors on Healthy Weather and Strong Constitutions; 3. Hot Climate and Health Care: Tropical Regions in the Dutch Atlantic, c.1600-c.1800; PART 2: FOOD AND DRINK; 4. Eating after the Climacteric: Food, Gender and Ageing in the Long Eighteenth Century; 5. The Impossible Ideal of Moderation: Food, Drink, and Longevity; PART 3: EXERCISE AND REST; 6. “For it is the debilitating fibres that execise restores”: Movement, Morality and Moderation in Eighteenth-Century Medical Advice Literature; 7. The Healthy Body, Civic Virtue, Gender and the New Physical Education in Germany, 1770-1800; PART 4: SLEEP AND WAKEFULNESS; 8. “That venerable and princely custom of long-lying abed”: Sleep and Civility in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Urban Society; 9. Wasted Days and Wasted Nights: Sleeping and Waking in the Long Eighteenth-Century; PART 5: EXCRETION AND RETENTION; 10. Keeping the body open. Impurity, excretions, and healthy living in the early modern period.; 11. Increasing and Reducing: Breastmilk Flows and Female Health; PART 6: PASSIONS AND EMOTIONS; 12. Feel-good tunes: Music Aesthetics, Performance and Well-being in the Eighteenth Century; 13. The Dietetics of the Soul in Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century; EPILOGUE; 14. “That is more excellent which preserveth health and preventeth sicknesse.” Continuity and Change in Vernacular Preventive Health Advice over the Early Modern Period