Know Your Remedies (eBook)

Pharmacy and Culture in Early Modern China

He Bian (Autor)

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2020
264 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18904-8 (ISBN)

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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 and as a branch of classical medicine-resists easy characterization. While China's long tradition of documenting the natural world through state-commissioned pharmacopeias, known as bencao, dwindled after the sixteenth century, the ubiquitous presence of Chinese pharmacy shops around the world today testifies to the vitality of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Rejecting narratives of intellectual stagnation or an unchanging folk culture, He Bian argues that pharmacy's history in early modern China can best be understood as a dynamic interplay between elite and popular culture.Beginning with decentralizing trends in book culture and fiscal policy in the sixteenth century, Bian reveals pharmacy's central role in late Ming public discourse. Fueled by factional politics in the early 1600s, amateur investigation into pharmacology reached peak popularity among the literati on the eve of the Qing conquest in the mid-seventeenth century. The eighteenth century witnessed a systematic reclassification of knowledge, as the Qing court turned away from pharmacopeia in favor of a demedicalized natural history. Throughout this time, growth in long-distance trade enabled the rise of urban pharmacy shops, generating new knowledge about the natural world.Bringing together a wealth of primary sources, Know Your Remedies makes an essential contribution to the study of Chinese history and the history of medicine.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.4.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 9 b/w illus. 3 tables. 4 maps
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Alternative Heilverfahren
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Pharmakologie / Pharmakotherapie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Naturheilkunde ► Phytotherapie
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Anecdote • apothecaries • apothecary • Beijing • bookkeeping • bureaucrat • Career • China • Chinese history • Chinese letter • commodification • Commodity • Confucianism • County magistrate • Curriculum • Customer • decoction • Discourses (Meher Baba) • Doctrine of the Mean • Drugs • Edward H. Schafer • efficacy • erudition • Eunuch • Fang’an • Folk Culture • Fujian • gazetteer • Gazetteers • Ginseng • Grand Secretariat • Guangxi • guilds • Gujin Tushu Jicheng • Hangzhou • herbal • herbs • Historiography • History of Science • Hongzhi Emperor • Illustration • Imperial examination • Indication (medicine) • ingredient • Jiangxi • Jin Ping Mei • laborer • Li Shizhen • Literature • Liu Wentai • mandate of heaven • market town • material culture • Materia medica • medicalized • medication • Medicinal • Medicinal plants • Memorial to the throne • Mentorship • Ming Dynasty • Ministry of Rites • Modernity • monetization • Monograph • Moxibustion • Nanjing • narrative • Nathan Sivin • Natural History • Neo-Confucianism • optimism • Pharmaceutical • pharmaceutical drug • Pharmacist • pharmacology • Pharmacopoeia • Pharmacy • Philosopher • Physician • Physicians • plants • Porcelain • Precedent • Prescriptions • Print Culture • printing • Processing (Chinese materia medica) • Publishing • Qianlong emperor • Qing Dynasty • Qiu Ying • Recipe • Scholar-official • school of thought • Scientist • Shennong • Sichuan • Sinologist • Sinology • Song dynasty • substances • Suggestion • Superiority (short story) • Symptom • Tao Hongjing • Taoism • Tax • The Confusions of Pleasure • The Monkey and the Inkpot: Natural History and Its Transformations in Early Modern China • The Other Hand • The Physician • Three teachings • Tongrentang • Tradition • Traditional Chinese Medicine • treatise • Wang Yangming • Wealth • Writing • Yangtze • Yunnan • Yuwen • Zhangshu • Zhang Yu • Zhao Xuemin • Zhejiang • Zheng (state) • Zhiyi • Zhu Xi • Zhu Youcheng
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18904-8 / 0691189048
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18904-8 / 9780691189048