NEW DATE! Scholars@Hallwalls: Yan Liu, “Use poison to attack poison: Medicine, illness, and society in early imperial China”
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center 341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY, United StatesHow does medicine help us understand society? Using Chinese medicine as an example, my talk shows the conception of illness and the therapeutic rationale of deploying poisons in first-millennium China. Liu identifies a striking parallel: Just like doctors’ use of potent drugs to eliminate malign entities out of a physical body, the state established stringent […]