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Drugs on the Page
Pharmacopoeias and Healing Knowledge in the Early Modern Atlantic World
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Drugs on the Page
Pharmacopoeias and Healing Knowledge in the Early Modern Atlantic World
About this book
In the early modern Atlantic World, pharmacopoeiasâofficial lists of medicaments and medicinal preparations published by municipal, national, or imperial governmentsâorganized the world of healing goods, giving rise to new and valuable medical commodities such as cinchona bark, guaiacum, and ipecac. Pharmacopoeias and related texts, developed by governments and official medical bodies as a means to standardize therapeutic practice, were particularly important to scientific and colonial enterprises. They served, in part, as tools for making sense of encounters with a diversity of peoples, places, and things provoked by the commercial and colonial expansion of early modern Europe.
Drugs on the Page explores practices of recording, organizing, and transmitting information about medicinal substances by artisans, colonial officials, indigenous peoples, and others who, unlike European pharmacists and physicians, rarely had a recognized role in the production of official texts and medicines. Drawing on examples across various national and imperial contexts, contributors to this volume offer new and valuable insights into the entangled histories of knowledge resulting from interactions and negotiations between Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans from 1500 to 1850.
Drugs on the Page explores practices of recording, organizing, and transmitting information about medicinal substances by artisans, colonial officials, indigenous peoples, and others who, unlike European pharmacists and physicians, rarely had a recognized role in the production of official texts and medicines. Drawing on examples across various national and imperial contexts, contributors to this volume offer new and valuable insights into the entangled histories of knowledge resulting from interactions and negotiations between Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans from 1500 to 1850.
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Yes, you can access Drugs on the Page by Matthew James Crawford, Joseph M. Gabriel, Matthew James Crawford,Joseph M. Gabriel in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Medical Theory, Practice & Reference. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Thinking with Pharmacopoeias
- Part I. Pharmacopoeias and Textual Traditions
- Part II. Pharmacopoeias and the Codification of Knowledge
- Part III. Pharmacopoeias and the Construction of New Worlds
- Part IV. Pharmacopoeias and the Emergence of the Nation
- Afterword. The Power of Unknowing: Early Modern Pharmacopoeias and the Imagination of the Atlantic
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index