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Healing with poisons : potent medicines in medieval China /
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
[2021]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- G
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
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- Back Cover