It all depends on the dose : poisons and medicines in european history / edited by Ole Peter Grell, Andrew Cunningham and Jon Arrizabalaga.

Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9781315521091
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yayın Bilgisi
Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, 2018.
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource (258 pages) : 47 illustrations.
Dizi
The history of medicine in context
İçindekiler Notu
chapter Introduction: Deadly medicine A N DR EW CUNNI NGH A M -- chapter 1 Poisons in the historic medicine cabinet TOI N E PI ET ER S -- chapter 2 “First Behead Your Viper”: Acquiring knowledge in Galen’s poison stories / H EL ENKI NG -- chapter 3 Mining for poison in a devout heart: Dissective practices and poisoning in late medieval Europe MON TSER R AT C A BR ÉANDF ER NA N DO SA L MÓN -- chapter 4 Pestis Manufacta: Plague, poisons and fear in mid-fourteenth-century Europe / JON ARRIZA BA L AGA -- chapter 5 Alchemy, potency, imagination: Paracelsus’s theories of poison GEORGI A NA D. H E DE SA N -- chapter 6 Martin Luther on the poison of sexual abstinence and the poison of the pox: From Galen to Paracelsus OL E PET ER GR ELL -- chapter 7 Poisoning as politics: The Italian Renaissance courts ALE SSA N DRO PA STOR E -- chapter 8 Gender, poison, and antidotes in early modern Europe A L ISH ARANKIN -- chapter 9 Mateu Orfila (1787–1853) and nineteenth-century toxicology JOSÉ R A MÓN BERTOM EU - SÁ NC HEZ -- chapter 10 Mercury: “One of the Most Valuable Drugs We Have” (1937) A N DR EW CUNNI NGH A M -- chapter 11 Collateral benefits: Ergot, botulism, Salmonella and their therapeutic applications since 1800 ANNEHAR DY -- chapter 12 It does all depend on the dose. Understanding beneficial and adverse drug effects since 1864: Clinical and experimental attitudes to the Law of Mass Action and concentration– effect curves JEFFR EY K. A RONSON AND ROBI N E. F ER N ER.
Özet, vb.
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.
Konu
HISTORY / Europe / General. __ bisacsh
MEDICAL / History. __ bisacsh
Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions __ history.
Drugs __ Dose-response relationship.
Drugs __ Toxicology __ Europe __ History.
Drugs __ Toxicology.
Pharmaceutical Preparations __ history.
Poisons __ Europe __ History.
Poisons.
Toxicology __ history.
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