title: Natural and deliberate health: coping with health in German autobiographies from the 18th and 19 centuries.
abstract: 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 invidivual 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.
authors.affiliation: Fakultat fur Soziologie, Universitat Bielefeld.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Stollberg
mesh_terms: D001325:Autobiographies as Topic; D005858:Germany; D006262:Health; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D008091:Literature / Q000266:history*