It All Depends on the Dose
Poisons and Medicines in European History
This is the first volume to take a broad historical sweep of the close relation between medicines and poisons in the Western tradition, and their interconnectedness. They are like two ends of a spectrum, for the same natural material can be medicine or poison, depending on the dose, and poisons can be transformed into medicines, while medicines can turn out to be poisons. The book looks at important moments in the history of the relationship between poisons and medicines in European history, from Roman times, with the Greek physician Galen, through the Renaissance and the maverick physician Paracelsus, to the present, when poisons are activel…
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Weitere Autoren: Cunningham, Andrew (Hrsg.) / Arrizabalaga, Jon (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-315-52107-7
- EAN: 9781315521077
- Produktnummer: 31559778
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 258 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'456 KB
- Abbildungen: 23 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 13 schwarz-weiße Fotos, 10 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 1 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Über den Autor
Ole Peter Grell is Professor in Early Modern History at The Open University, U.K.Andrew Cunningham was formerly Senior Research Fellow at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, U.K.Jon Arrizabalaga is Research Professor in History of Science at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Institución Milà i Fontanals, Barcelona, Spain.
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