Making Sense of Health, Disease, and the Environment in Cross-Cultural History: The Arabic-Islamic World, China, Europe, and North America

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Creation, Generation, Force, Motion and Habit: Medieval Theoretical Definitions of Nature

Chapter 3 The Animal Environment and Human Health: The Approach Followed by the Medieval Zoologist Ğāḥiẓ (Ninth Century)

Chapter 4 Landscaped Environment and Health in Han China (208 BCE–220)

Chapter 5 The Construction of Thinking on the Environment: The Words, Their Meanings, and Their Uses from 1790 to 1970

Chapter 6 Environment in Relation to Health, Wellbeing and Human Flourishing: The Contribution of Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy of Life and of the Subject

Chapter 7 Environment and Chagas Disease: An Elusive and Diverse Relationship

Chapter 8 The Worst Environment in Which to Live in China: A Question of Points of View. The Legendary Miasmatic Far South of China Challenged by Local Doctors in Late Imperial China

Chapter 9 Inhabited Lands and Temperaments: Observations and Therapeutic Solutions, the Views of Scientists and Medieval Physicians – Ğāḥiẓ (9th), Rāzī (9th–10th), Ibn Riḍwān (11th)

Chapter 10 Health and the Environment: Aldo Leopold, Land Health, and the First-Person Ecology Approach

Chapter 11 Urban Space of the Living and Dead: The Conception of Environment and Death in Beijing from the Eighteenth Century to the Middle Twentieth Century

Chapter 12 Urban Nature: (The) Good and (The) Bad

Chapter 13 Health and the Environment in Ecological Transition: The Case of the Permaculture Movement

Chapter 14 “Affordances”: A Notion that Reveals How Artificial It Is to Separate the Body and Its Environment

Chapter 15 Gestalt Therapy and Its Contribution to the Understanding of the Link Between Health and the Environment