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Bitter Roots : The Search for Healing Plants in Africa /
For over a century, plant specialists worldwide have sought to transform healing plants in African countries into pharmaceuticals. And for equally as long, conflicts over these medicinal plants have endured, from stolen recipes and toxic tonics to unfulfilled promises of laboratory equipment and usu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
[2014]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction: From Plants to Pharmaceuticals
- 1. Take Madagascar Periwinkle for Leukemia and Pennywort for Leprosy
- 2. Take Grains of Paradise for Love
- 3. Take Arrow Poisons for the Heart
- 4. Take Bitter Roots for Malaria
- 5. Take Kalahari Hoodia for Hunger
- Conclusion: Toward Bioprosperity
- Acknowledgments
- Persons Consulted
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index