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

by Ole Peter Grell (Editor), Andrew Cunningham (Editor), Jon Arrizabalaga (Editor)

This is the first volume to take a broad historical sweep of the close relation of 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 be transformed into medicines, while medicines can t

Author Biography

Ole Peter Grell is Professor in Early Modern History at The Open University, U.K.

Andrew Cunningham was formerly Senior Research Fellow at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, U.K.

Jon Arrizabalaga is Research Professor in History of Science at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Institución Milà i Fontanals, Barcelona, Spain.