Introduction
Conserving health: the Non-Naturals in early modern culture and society - Sandra Cavallo
Part I: A comparative perspective on preventive literature
1 Regimens, authors and readers: Italy and England compared - Sandra Cavallo and Tessa Storey
Part II: The Non-Naturals and the vulnerable body
2 'What to expect when you're always expecting': frequent childbirth and female health in late Renaissance Italy - Caroline Castiglione
3 'Ordering the infant': caring for newborns in early modern England - Leah Astbury (available open access)
4 'She sleeps well and eats an egg': convalescent care in early modern England - Hannah Newton (available open access)
Part III: Airs and places
5 Neapolitan airs: health advice and medical culture on the edge of a volcano - Maria Conforti
6 The afterlife of the Non-Naturals in early eighteenth-century Hippocratism: from the healthy individual to a healthy population - Maria Pia Donato
Part IV: Spiritual health and bodily health
7 Sleep-piety and healthy sleep in early modern English households - Sasha Handley
8 English and Italian health advice: Protestant and Catholic bodies - Tessa Storey
Part V: Spaces, paintings and objects: performing and portraying health
9 Chasing 'good air' and viewing beautiful perspectives: painting and health preservation in seventeenth-century Rome - Frances Gage
10 Hot drinking practices in the late-Renaissance Italian household: a case-study around an enigmatic pouring vessel - Marta Ajmar
Index