Healing with poisons : : potent medicines in medieval China /

Healing with poisons : : potent medicines in medieval China / / Yan Liu.

"Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295749013 At first glance, medicine and poison might seem to be opposites. But in China's formative era of pharmacy (200-800 CE), poisons were strategically employed as healing agents to cure everything from abdominal pain to epidemic disease. Healing...

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Liu, Yan (Cultural historian),
Place / Publishing House:Seattle : : University of Washington Press,, [2021]
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Udgivelsesår:2021
Sprog:English
Fysisk beskrivelse:1 online resource
Kommentarer:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chronology of Dynasties
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Malleable Medicines
  • Chapter 1. Te Paradox of Du
  • Chapter 2. Transforming Poisons
  • Part II. Knowledge, Authority, and Practice
  • Chapter 3. Fighting Poison with Poison
  • Chapter 4. Medicines in Circulation
  • Chapter 5. Medicines in Practice
  • Part III. Enhancing the Body
  • Chapter 6. Alluring Stimulant
  • Chapter 7. Dying to Live
  • Conclusion
  • Glossary of Chinese Characters
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Back Cover.

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