385 records matched your query
04251aam a2200541 i 4500 001 B6F13FF8A5B811ECBC4A196C2DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220317010139 008 191121t20202020njuab b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2019038113 020 $a 0691179042 020 $a 9780691179049 035 $a (OCoLC)1119531145 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCA $d CUT $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 041 1 $a chi $a chi $h chi 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-cc--- 050 00 $a RS67.C6 $b B53 2020 082 00 $a 615.10951 $2 23 100 1 $a Bian, He, $d 1984- $e author. 240 10 $a Assembling the cure 245 10 $a Know your remedies : $b pharmacy and culture in early modern China / $c He Bian. 264 1 $a Princeton, New Jersey : $b Princeton University Press, $c [2020] 300 $a xiv, 246 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 25 cm 520 $a "Traditional Chinese medicine has been practiced in various forms for more than a thousand years. Practitioners may heal patients with herbal remedies, acupuncture, massage, exercise, and modified diets. Even today, herbal medicines are of particular importance; Chinese pharmacies containing a vast array of remedies can be found in cities and towns the world over. This book is an interdisciplinary and cultural history of the concept of "pharmacy," both the drugs themselves and the trade in medicine, during the Ming and Qing dynasties of early modern China. This was a time of change for traditional Chinese medicine and for Chinese science as a whole. Many historians have argued that sixteenth-century China was a high point of scientific inquiry, followed by a period of intellectual decline. Though political and intellectual shifts led to a crisis of authority over pharmaceutical knowledge in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, Bian argues that this period of supposed intellectual decline was in fact characterized by numerous efforts to further refine and spread the pharmacological knowledge amassed in the Ming dynasty. She draws on a wide range of primary sources, but particularly through the study of bencao (pronounced "pen ts'ao"), a genre of encyclopaedic works, often called matteria medica or pharmacopoeia in the West, that collect information on medicinal substances. As the early modern Chinese Empire expanded and print culture became more widespread, the pursuit of medical remedies became a significant commercial enterprise. The author connects theory and practice of pharmacy during the Ming and Qing dynasties to broader developments in intellectual history, book culture, commerce, and taxation"-- $c Provided by publisher. 500 $a Revision of author's dissertation, Assembling the cure: Materia Medica and the culture of healing in late imperial China--Harvard University, 2014. 546 $a In English with some Chinese (romanization) phrases and English translation. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a The last pharmacopeia -- Converting tribute -- The nature of drugs -- Virtuosity and orthodoxy -- The marketplace and the shop -- Eating exotica. 650 0 $a Pharmacy $z China $x History. 650 0 $a Pharmacopoeias $z China $x History. 650 0 $a Medicine, Chinese $x History. 650 0 $a Transmission of texts $z China $x History. 650 2 $a Drugs, Chinese Herbal $0 (DNLM)D004365 650 2 $a History of Pharmacy $0 (DNLM)D000077406 650 2 $a Medicine, Chinese Traditional $0 (DNLM)D008516 650 2 $a Pharmacopoeias as Topic $x history $0 (DNLM)D010602Q000266 650 7 $a Medicine, Chinese. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01015214 650 7 $a Pharmacopoeias. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01060283 650 7 $a Pharmacy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01060285 650 7 $a Transmission of texts. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01154863 651 2 $a China $0 (DNLM)D002681 651 7 $a China. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01206073 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Bian, He, 1984- $s Assembling the cure. $t Know your remedies. $d Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2020] $z 9780691189048 $w (DLC) 2019038114 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117033051.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B6F13FF8A5B811ECBC4A196C2DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search