Healing roots : anthropology in life and medicine /

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"Umhlonyane, also known as Artemisia afra, is one of the oldest and best-documented Indigenous medicines in South Africa. This bush, which grows wild throughout the sub-Saharan region, smells and tastes like "medicine," thus easily making its way into people's lives and becoming...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Laplante, Julie (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2015.
Colección:Epistemologies of healing ; v. 15.
Temas:
Artemisia afra > Therapeutic use > South Africa.
Medicinal plants > South Africa.
Traditional medicine > South Africa.
Medical anthropology > South Africa.
Ethnopharmacology > South Africa.
Molecular biology > Social aspects.
Drugs > Testing.
Tuberculosis > Chemotherapy.
Artemisia > therapeutic use
Plants, Medicinal
Tuberculosis > drug therapy
Plantes médicinales > Afrique du Sud.
Ethnopharmacologie > Afrique du Sud.
Biologie moléculaire > Aspect social.
Médicaments > Essais cliniques.
Tuberculose > Chimiothérapie.
Plantes médicinales.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Drugs > Testing
Ethnopharmacology
Medical anthropology
Medicinal plants
Molecular biology > Social aspects
Traditional medicine
Tuberculosis > Chemotherapy
South Africa
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: tracing the preclinical trial of an Indigenous plant
  • Knowing umhloyane/Artemisia afra
  • Engaging in medicine
  • Tracing medicine/wayfaring
  • Imagining Indigeneity
  • Healing the nation
  • Dreams, ancestors and sound healing
  • Weaving molecules in life
  • Conclusion
  • imagining the clinical trial.

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