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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Place / Publishing House: | Seattle : : University of Washington Press,, [2021] ©2021 |
प्रकाशन का वर्ष : | 2021 |
भाषा: | English |
भौतिक वर्णन: | 1 online resource |
टिप्पणियाँ: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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विषय - सूची:
- 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.