Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu, Volume 2
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- ISBN 9780520291966
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 22 Nov 2016
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The Ben cao gang mu, compiled in the second half of the sixteenth century by a team led by the physician Li Shizhen (1518-1593) on the basis of previously published books and contemporary knowledge, is the largest encyclopedia of natural history in a long tradition of Chinese materia medica works. Its description of almost 1,900 pharmaceutically used natural and man-made substances marks the apex of the development of premodern Chinese pharmaceutical knowledge. The Ben cao gang mu dictionary offers access to this impressive work of 1,600,000 characters. This second book in a three-volume series verifies and localizes all 2,158 geographical and associated administrative names referred to in the Ben cao gang mu in connection with the origin and use of pharmaceutical substances.
Hua Linfu is Professor at the Institute of Qing History, Renmin University of China. Paul D. Buell is an independent scholar living in Seattle, Washington. Paul U. Unschuld is Professor and Director of the Horst-Goertz Endowment Institute for the Theory, History, and Ethics of Chinese Life Sciences at Charite-Medical University Berlin. His previous books include Huang Di Nei Jing Ling Shu: The Ancient Classic on Needle Therapy and What Is Medicine? Western and Eastern Approaches to Healing.
