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020			_a9780295749013
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035			_a(OCoLC)1226075976
040			_aMdBmJHUP _cMdBmJHUP
100	1		_aLiu, Yan _eVerfasserIn. _4aut
245	1	0	_aHealing with Poisons : _bPotent Medicines in Medieval China / _cYan Liu.
264		1	_aSeattle _bUniversity of Washington Press _c[2021]
264		3	_aBaltimore, Md. : _bProject MUSE, _c2021
264		4	_c©[2021]
300			_a1 online resource (276 pages).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
506	0		_aOpen Access _fUnrestricted online access _2star
520			_a"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 with Poisons explores the ways physicians, religious figures, court officials, and laypersons used toxic substances to both relieve acute illnesses and enhance life. It illustrates how the Chinese concept of du-a word carrying a core meaning of "potency"-led practitioners to devise a variety of methods to transform dangerous poisons into effective medicines. Recounting scandals and controversies involving poisons from the Era of Division to the Tang, historian Yan Liu considers how the concept of du was central to how the people of medieval China perceived both their bodies and the body politic. He also examines the wide range of toxic minerals, plants, and animal products used in classical Chinese pharmacy, including everything from the herb aconite to the popular recreational drug Five-Stone Powder. By recovering alternative modes of understanding wellness and the body's interaction with foreign substances, this study cautions against arbitrary classifications and exemplifies the importance of paying attention to the technical, political, and cultural conditions in which substances become truly meaningful. Healing with Poisons is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) and the generous support of the University of Buffalo"
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		7	_aTraditional medicine. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01153974
650		7	_aMedicine, Chinese. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01015214
650		0	_aTraditional medicine.
650		0	_aMedicine, Chinese.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse. _edistributor
830		0	_aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/85685/
999			_c235192 _d235191