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Know your remedies[electronic resource] :pharmacy and culture in early modern China /

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
杜威分類號:	615.10951
書名/作者:	Know your remedies : pharmacy and culture in early modern China // He Bian.
作者:	Bian, He.
出版者:	Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press,, c2020.
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (xiv, 246 p.)
附註:	Revision of author's dissertation, Assembling the cure: Materia Medica and the culture of healing in late imperial China--Harvard University, 2014.
標題:	Pharmacy - History. - China
標題:	Pharmacopoeias - History. - China
標題:	Medicine, Chinese - History.
標題:	Transmission of texts - History. - China
標題:	History of Pharmacy.
標題:	Pharmacopoeias as Topic - history.
標題:	Medicine, Chinese Traditional.
標題:	Drugs, Chinese Herbal.
ISBN:	9780691189048
書目註:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
內容註:	The last pharmacopeia -- Converting tribute -- The nature of drugs -- Virtuosity and orthodoxy -- The marketplace and the shop -- Eating exotica.
摘要、提要註:	"Traditional Chinese medicine has been practiced in various forms for more than a thousand years. Practitioners may heal patients with herbal remedies, acupuncture, massage, exercise, and modified diets. Even today, herbal medicines are of particular importance; Chinese pharmacies containing a vast array of remedies can be found in cities and towns the world over. This book is an interdisciplinary and cultural history of the concept of "pharmacy," both the drugs themselves and the trade in medicine, during the Ming and Qing dynasties of early modern China. This was a time of change for traditional Chinese medicine and for Chinese science as a whole. Many historians have argued that sixteenth-century China was a high point of scientific inquiry, followed by a period of intellectual decline. Though political and intellectual shifts led to a crisis of authority over pharmaceutical knowledge in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, Bian argues that this period of supposed intellectual decline was in fact characterized by numerous efforts to further refine and spread the pharmacological knowledge amassed in the Ming dynasty. She draws on a wide range of primary sources, but particularly through the study of bencao (pronounced "pen ts'ao"), a genre of encyclopaedic works, often called matteria medica or pharmacopoeia in the West, that collect information on medicinal substances. As the early modern Chinese Empire expanded and print culture became more widespread, the pursuit of medical remedies became a significant commercial enterprise. The author connects theory and practice of pharmacy during the Ming and Qing dynasties to broader developments in intellectual history, book culture, commerce, and taxation"--
電子資源:	http://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691189048

Know your remedies[electronic resource] :pharmacy and culture in early modern China /
Bian, He.

Know your remediespharmacy and culture in early modern China /[electronic resource] :He Bian. - 1st ed. - Princeton, NJ :Princeton University Press,c2020. - 1 online resource (xiv, 246 p.)

Revision of author's dissertation, Assembling the cure: Materia Medica and the culture of healing in late imperial China--Harvard University, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The last pharmacopeia -- Converting tribute -- The nature of drugs -- Virtuosity and orthodoxy -- The marketplace and the shop -- Eating exotica.

"Traditional Chinese medicine has been practiced in various forms for more than a thousand years. Practitioners may heal patients with herbal remedies, acupuncture, massage, exercise, and modified diets. Even today, herbal medicines are of particular importance; Chinese pharmacies containing a vast array of remedies can be found in cities and towns the world over. This book is an interdisciplinary and cultural history of the concept of "pharmacy," both the drugs themselves and the trade in medicine, during the Ming and Qing dynasties of early modern China. This was a time of change for traditional Chinese medicine and for Chinese science as a whole. Many historians have argued that sixteenth-century China was a high point of scientific inquiry, followed by a period of intellectual decline. Though political and intellectual shifts led to a crisis of authority over pharmaceutical knowledge in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, Bian argues that this period of supposed intellectual decline was in fact characterized by numerous efforts to further refine and spread the pharmacological knowledge amassed in the Ming dynasty. She draws on a wide range of primary sources, but particularly through the study of bencao (pronounced "pen ts'ao"), a genre of encyclopaedic works, often called matteria medica or pharmacopoeia in the West, that collect information on medicinal substances. As the early modern Chinese Empire expanded and print culture became more widespread, the pursuit of medical remedies became a significant commercial enterprise. The author connects theory and practice of pharmacy during the Ming and Qing dynasties to broader developments in intellectual history, book culture, commerce, and taxation"--

ISBN: 9780691189048

Standard No.: 10.1515/9780691189048doi

LCCN: 2019038113Subjects--Topical Terms:

751991
Pharmacy
--History.--China

LC Class. No.: RS67.C6 / B53 2020

Dewey Class. No.: 615.10951

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