This fluid materiality of medicines in classical Chinese pharmacy is in sharp contrast to the concept of “active ingredient” or “active principle” in modern biomedicine, where a specific chemical ingredient isolated from a substance is responsible for its effects. Originating in nineteenth-century Europe, the idea has become the gold standard for drug development in modern pharmacology." In early Chinese pharmaceutical history, however, drugs were not understood to contain such a pure and invariant material core; it was the context of a drug-its interplay with other drugs, its preparation, its mode of acting upon a particular body-that shaped its therapeutic outcome.In this regard, the concept of “drug assemblage” proposed by philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari is relevant. When... (查看原文)
Given the robust tradition of the medical use of poisons throughout imperial China, we may wonder where today's idea of Chinese drug therapy as mild and benign came from. The answer lies in a refashioning of Chinese medicine in the modern era. With the introduction of Western biomedicine and the rise of scientism in China in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, classical Chinese medicine experienced a serious crisis that called its legitimacy into question. During this tumultuous period, advocates for Chinese medicine vigorously negotiated with the state and initiated a series of measures to transform their medical practices and reinstate their authority." The emphasis on the benign naturalness of Chinese drug therapy was hence a strategic rhetoric that highlighted the unique bene... (查看原文)
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1 有用 谁的风雨阁 2024-10-26 21:51:03 安徽
视角独特，但是没看到重点。还是汉学的老毛病，以翻译梳理为主要内容。
3 有用 其实我会飞 2024-08-20 09:55:28 山东
配色很酷，内容一般。中国人写给外国人看的，再译成中文，阅读体验感不好。
1 有用 易疯橙子 2026-01-09 01:24:52 湖北
作者系统介绍了汉唐时期关于毒的认识与实践，政府主导、民间参与是本书的主要脉络，包括附子、乌头、五石散、丹药、本草学、孙思邈等话题。有点主题不显，叙事偏多，部分章节论述有点游离。 毒如何影响政治走向，又如何为政治服务；政治是如何塑造毒的地位，又巧妙地发挥毒的作用。另外，该书关于孙思邈与官方关系的研究，还是很吸引人的。
4 有用 GoTill 2024-05-16 20:53:51 美国
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1 有用 南山侍亭 2025-02-06 07:59:47 北京
第一部第二部非常惊艳，对药与毒的转化以及国家对药物知识的管理讲的很清楚。第三部略微落入窠臼，但结语不错。以及作者的关注点是秦汉六朝隋唐，题目的范围用“古代中国”太大了，感觉“中古中国”更合适