Drugs on the Page : Pharmacopoeias and Healing Knowledge in the Early Modern Atlantic World /

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In the early modern Atlantic World, pharmacopoeias--official lists of medicaments and medicinal preparations published by municipal, national, or imperial governments--organized the world of healing goods, giving rise to new and valuable medical commodities such as cinchona bark, guaiacum, and ipec...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gabriel, Joseph M. (Joseph Michael) (Editor ), Crawford, Matthew James (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Medical writing > History.
Pharmacopoeias > Africa > History.
Pharmacopoeias > America > History.
Pharmacopoeias > Europe > History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. thinking with pharmacopoeias / Matthew James Crawford & Joseph M. Gabriel
  • part I. Pharmacopoeias and textual traditions. 1. Pharmacopoeias and the textual tradition in Galenic pharmacy / Paula De Vos
  • 2. Authority, authorship, and copying : the Ricettario Fiorentino and manuscript recipe culture in sixteenth-century Florence / Emily Beck
  • 3. An imperial pharmacopoeia? The Pharmacopoeia Matritensis and Materia medica in the eighteenth-century Spanish Atlantic world / Matthew James Crawford
  • part II. Pharmacopoeias and the codification of knowledge. 4. Beyond the pharmacopoeia? Secret remedies, exclusive privileges, and trademarks in early modern France / Justin Rivest
  • 5. Crown authorities, colonial physicians, and the exigencies of empire : the codification of indigenous therapeutic knowledge in India and Brazil during the Enlightenment era / Timothy D. Walker
  • 6. Imperfect knowledge : medicine, slavery, and silence in Hans Sloane's Philosophical transactions and the 1721 London pharmacopoeia / William J. Ryan
  • part III. Pharmacopoeias and the construction of New Worlds. 7. The flip side of the pharmacopoeia : sub-Saharan African medicines and poisons in the Atlantic world / Benjamin Breen
  • 8. Consuming Canada : Capillaire du Canada in the French Atlantic world / Christopher Parsons
  • 9. Rethinking pharmacopoeic forms : Samson Occom and Mohegan medicine / Kelly Wisecup
  • part IV. Pharmacopoeias and the emergence of the nation. 10. National identities, medical politics, and local traditions : the origins of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin pharmacopoeias, 1618-1807 / Stuart Anderson
  • 11. The Codex nationalized : naming people and things in the wake of a revolution / Antoine Lentacker
  • 12. Indian secrets, Indian cures, and the Pharmacopoeia of the United States of America / Joseph M. Gabriel
  • Afterword. The power of unknowing : early modern pharmacopoeias and the imagination of the Atlantic / Pablo F. Gómez.

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