TY  - GEN
T1  - Know your remedies : pharmacy and culture in early modern China
A1  - Bian, He, 1984-
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 2020
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1130387746
AB  - "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"--
OP  - 246
NO  - Revision of author's dissertation, Assembling the cure: Materia Medica and the culture of healing in late imperial China--Harvard University, 2014.
CN  - RS67.C6 B53 2020
SN  - 0691189048
SN  - 9780691189048
SN  - 9780691179049
KW  - Pharmacy : China : History.
KW  - Pharmacopoeias : China : History.
KW  - Medicine, Chinese : History.
KW  - Transmission of texts : China : History.
KW  - Medicine, Chinese.
KW  - History of Pharmacy
KW  - Pharmacopoeias as Topic : history
KW  - Medicine, Chinese Traditional
KW  - Drugs, Chinese Herbal
KW  - Pharmacopées : Chine : Histoire.
KW  - Médecine chinoise : Histoire.
KW  - Transmission de textes : Chine : Histoire.
KW  - Médecine chinoise.
KW  - HISTORY / Asia / China.
KW  - Medicine, Chinese
KW  - Pharmacopoeias
KW  - Pharmacy
KW  - Transmission of texts
KW  - China
KW  - Chinese history.
KW  - Chinese letter.
KW  - Fang'an.
KW  - Li Shizhen.
KW  - Liu Wentai.
KW  - Materia Medica.
KW  - Sinologist.
KW  - Sinology.
KW  - The Monkey and the Inkpot: Natural History and Its Transformations in Early Modern China.
KW  - Zhang Yu.
KW  - Zhao Xuemin.
KW  - Zhu Youcheng.
KW  - apothecaries.
KW  - apothecary.
KW  - drugs.
KW  - folk culture.
KW  - gazetteers.
KW  - guilds.
KW  - herbal.
KW  - herbs.
KW  - history of science.
KW  - material culture.
KW  - medicalized.
KW  - medication.
KW  - medicinal.
KW  - modernity.
KW  - natural history.
KW  - pharmaceutical.
KW  - pharmacist.
KW  - physicians.
KW  - plants.
KW  - prescriptions.
KW  - print culture.
KW  - substances.
KW  - tradition.
KW  - China.
KW  - History
ER  -