Making Sense of Health, Disease, and the Environment in Cross-Cultural History: The Arabic-Islamic W

Part I. Environment, Disease, and the Body: Observations, Definitions and Theories.- Chapter 1. Creation, Generation, Force, Motion, Habit: Medieval Theoretical Definitions of Nature.- Chapter 2. The Animal Environment and Human Health. The Approach Followed by the Medieval Zoologist, Gahi (ninth century).- Chapter 3. Landscaped Environment and Health in Han China (208 BCE - 220).- Chapter 4. The Construction of Thinking on the Environment: the Words, Their Meanings, and Their Uses from 1790 to 1970.- Chapter 5. Environment in Relation to Health, Wellbeing and Human Flourishing: The Contribution of Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy of Life and of the Subject.- Chapter 6. Environment and Chagas Disease: an Elusive and Diverse Relationship.- Part II. Healthy or Unhealthy Environments: for whom and for what?.- Chapter 7. 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 8. Inhabited Lands and Temperaments. Between Observations and Therapeutic Solutions, the Views of Medieval Scientists and Physicians: al-Gahi (9th), Razi (9th-10th), Ibn Ridwan (11th).- Chapter 9. Health and the Environment: Aldo Leopold, Land Health and the First Person Ecology Approach.- Chapter 10. Urban Space of the Living and Dead. The Conception of Environment and Death in Beijing from the 18th Century to the Middle 20th Century.- Chapter 11. Urban Nature: (the) Good and (the) Bad.- Chapter 12. Health and the Environment in Ecological Transition: the Case of the Permaculture Movement.- Chapter 13. Affordances': A Concept to Reflect on the Relationships between the Body and Its Environment.- Chapter 14. Gestalt Therapy and its Contribution to the Understanding of the Link between Health and the Environment.