The ethnobotany of Eden : rethinking the jungle medicine narrative /

"In the mysterious and pristine forests of the tropics, a wealth of ethnobotanical panaceas and shamanic knowledge promises cures for everything from cancer and AIDS to the common cold. To access such miracles, we need only to discover and protect these medicinal treasures before they succumb t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Voeks, Robert A., 1950- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Temas:
Ethnobotany > Tropics.
Traditional medicine > Tropics.
Botany, Medical.
Medicinal plants.
Ethnobotany.
Rain forests.
Medicine, Traditional
Plants, Medicinal
Drug Discovery
Natural Resources
Rainforest
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Colonialism
Ethnobotany
Ethnobotanique > Régions tropicales.
Plantes médicinales.
Ethnobotanique.
Forêts pluviales.
rainforests.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Botany.
Medicinal plants
Botany, Medical
Traditional medicine
Tropics
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • God's medicine chest
  • Terra mythica
  • People in the forest
  • Green gold
  • Weeds in the garden
  • Gender and healing
  • Immigrant ethnobotany
  • Forgetting the forest
  • Environmental narratives.

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