Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Culture in Early Modern China Bian He
Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Culture in Early Modern China Bian He A cultural history of the concept of pharmacy, both the material nature of drugs and the trade in medicine, in early modern…
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Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Culture in Early Modern China Bian He
A cultural history of the concept of pharmacy, both the material nature of drugs and the trade in medicine, in early modern ChinaKnow Your Remedies presents a panoramic inquiry into China's early modern cultural transformation through the lens of pharmacy. 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. In the history of science and civilization in China, pharmacy--as a commercial enterprise and as a branch of classical medicine--resists easy characterization.
Rejecting narratives of intellectual stagnation or an unchanging folk culture, He Bian argues that pharmacy's history in early modern China can best be