Drugs on the Page

Pharmacopoeias and Healing Knowledge in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-8229-4562-8
Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press

Buch, Englisch, 277 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 673 g

In the early modern Atlantic World, pharmacopoeias—official lists of medicaments and medicinal preparations published by municipal, national, or imperial governments—organized 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Crawford, Matthew James

Gabriel, Joseph M

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Matthew James Crawford is a specialist in the history of science and medicine in the early modern world with an emphasis on the Iberian Atlantic. He holds a PhD in History and Science Studies and an MA in History from the University of California, San Diego and has had research fellowships at the John Carter Brown Library, the Science History Institute (formerly the Chemical Heritage Foundation), and the Lloyd Library in Cincinnati. He is Kent State’s first historian of science and medicine,

Joseph M. Gabriel, Associate Professor at the Florida State University, College of Medicine is an historian of medicine and the biomedical sciences. He received his PhD in History from Rutgers University and in 2006-2007 held a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship in the science studies program at the University of California, San Diego.