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The Poison Trials

By Alisha Rankin

The Poison Trials book

The Poison Trials

By Alisha Rankin

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"At a time when poison was widely feared as a harming agent and as the root of deadly diseases like plague, the urgent need for effective cures provoked intense excitement about new drugs. Doctors developed their experimental protocols for European princes and elites as an explicit contrast to the marketplace shows put on by those who sold cure-alls through dramatic displays. As they created, performed, and evaluated poison trials, physicians devoted careful attention to method, wrote detailed experimental reports, and engaged with the problem of using human subjects for fatal tests. By reconstructing the history of the antidote trials, Rankin reveals how they generated extensive engagement with 'experimental thinking' in the century before the great experimental boom of the seventeenth century. The Poison Trials sheds ... light on the intertwined nature of medical innovations, professional rivalries, and political power"--
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
312
Release Date:
2021-01-01
Publication Date:
2021-01-01
Publisher:
The University of Chicago Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
022674485X
ISBN13:
9780226744858
Weight:
498 g
Height:
150 cm
Width:
228 cm
Thickness:
21 cm

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