1.2 Talking about health
In this next video, Helen King, professor of Classical Studies at The Open University speaks to Mathijs Lucassen, from the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies at The Open University, about how to find out what counts as ‘health’, both today and in the past. Their discussion introduces debates over how health is defined, and addresses the term ‘wellbeing’ and why it is used.
Next you will look at another difference between past and present understandings of health, and explore how health in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds encompassed religion as well as medicine.
OpenLearn - Health and wellbeing in the ancient world
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