It All Depends on the Dose Poisons and Medicines in European History

• Övriga skapare: Grell, Ole Peter (Utgivare, redaktör, sammanställare), Cunningham, Andrew (Utgivare, redaktör, sammanställare), Arrizabalaga, Jon (Utgivare, redaktör, sammanställare)
• Materialtyp: Elektronisk Bokavsnitt
• Språk: engelska
• Publicerad: Taylor & Francis 2018
• Ämnen: History; Medicine; Medicines; poisons
• Länkar: OAPEN Library: description of the publication

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...