Towards health / by J. Arthur Thomson.

  • Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur), 1861-1933.
Date:
1927
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Towards health / by J. Arthur Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS CHAPTER I PAGE The Biology of Health ... . . i § I. What Health Means. §2. Enthusiasm for Health. §3. The Biological Outlook. § 4. Good and 111. § 5. Contrast between Organic Nature and Civilised Society. § 6. Meliorism. § 7. The Alphabet of Victory. § 8. The Living Creature on its Defence. § 9. How the Body is Made One. CHAPTER II Surroundings, Food, and Occupations . . -37 § 1. Sphere within Sphere. § 2. The Biological Prism. § 3. Analysis of the Environment. § 4. Two Aspects of Life. § 5. Folk, Work, Place. § 6. The Power of the Environment. § 7. The Air we Breathe. § 8. Hygienic Value of Light. §9. Warmth. § 10. Influence of Food. §11. Influence of Occupations. CHAPTER III Health and Heredity ...... 64 § 1. Strength and Weakness both Hereditary. § 2. Common Misunderstandings. § 3. Are any Diseases Transmissible ? § 4. Some Provisional Propositions. § 5. Practical Sugges- tions. § 6. The Other Side of Heredity. CHAPTER IV Health and the Curve of Life . . . .96 § 1. Various Life-curves. § 2. Before Birth. § 3. The Biology of Babies. § 4. Tender Years. § 5. Childhood. § 6. The Biology of Play. § 7. Adolescence. § 8. Falling in Love, or, rather, Rising. § 9. The Study of Sex. § 10. Married Life, § 11. Birth-Control. § 12. Ageing.