Nature and deliberate health : coping with health in German autobiographies from the 18th and 19th Centuries

摘要

Coping with illness is a topic well established in social psychology, and in other social sciences. In this essay I focus upon coping with health. I restrict myself to health as an individual activity. Starting with a differentiation between -natural. and «deliberate" health, which was made in the times of the Enlightenment, I look into alternative health accounts represented in German autobiographies.