It All Depends on the Dose
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...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-363122025-06-24T07:08:36Z It All Depends on the Dose Grell, Ole Peter Cunningham, Andrew Arrizabalaga, Jon Medicines poisons History thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing 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. 2018-07-09 23:55 2019-10-17 15:01:44 2020-04-01T12:36:38Z 2018 book 1000224 OCN: 1051779888 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29720 9781315521084; 9781315521091 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/36312 eng open access Taylor & Francis Routledge fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 Chapter 5 Alchemy, potency, imagination 9781315521084; 9781315521091 Routledge 258 open access |
| spellingShingle | Medicines poisons History thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing It All Depends on the Dose |
| title | It All Depends on the Dose |
| title_full | It All Depends on the Dose |
| title_fullStr | It All Depends on the Dose |
| title_full_unstemmed | It All Depends on the Dose |
| title_short | It All Depends on the Dose |
| title_sort | it all depends on the dose |
| topic | Medicines poisons History thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing |
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