It All Depends on the Dose : Poisons and Medicines in European History Hardback
Edited by Ole Peter (The Open University, UK) Grell, Andrew Cunningham, Jon Arrizabalaga
Part of the The History of Medicine in Context series
Hardback
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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 actively being turned into beneficial medicines. Chapter 5 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:244 pages, 1 Tables, black and white; 10 Line drawings, black and white; 13 Halftones, black and whi
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:09/05/2018
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- ISBN:9781138697614
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:244 pages, 1 Tables, black and white; 10 Line drawings, black and white; 13 Halftones, black and whi
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:09/05/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781138697614
