Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Culture in Early Modern China
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Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Culture in Early Modern China
By (Author) He Bian
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
17th May 2022
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
History of science
History of medicine
Social and cultural history
Traditional medicine and herbal remedies
Pharmacology
615.109510903
Physical Properties
Paperback
264
Width 156mm, Height 235mm
Description
A cultural history of the concept of pharmacy, both the material nature of drugs and the trade in medicine, in early modern China Know Your Remedies presents a panoramic inquiry into China's early modern cultural transformation through the lens of pharmacy. In the history of science and civilization in China, pharmacy-as a commercial enterprise
Reviews
"Honorable Mention for the Joseph Levenson Pre-1900 Book Prize, China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies"
"An entirely novel approach to a known topic. . . . Read this book with interest and pleasure to begin to appreciate the development of a complex nation over two thousand years of conquering, and being conquered by, people of diverse faiths and national structures."---Tony Dayan, British Society for the History of Medicine
"He Bian ingeniously uses conventional historical sources to uncover the hidden story of nonelite knowing of material remedies."---Xiaomeng Liu, Exchange
Author Bio
He Bian is assistant professor of history and East Asian studies at Princeton University.
