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Title:

Plants, health and healing : on the interface of ethnobotany and medical anthropology / edited by Elisabeth Hsu and Stephen Harris.

Publisher:

Berghahn Books,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

xi, 316 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Ethnobotany.
Medicinal plants.
Botany, Medical.
Medical anthropology.
Ethnobotany.
Medicine, Traditional.
Anthropology, Cultural.
Phytotherapy.
Plants, Medicinal.
Phytotherapy--history.

Other Authors:

Hsu, Elisabeth.
Harris, Stephen, 1966-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Plants in medical practice and common sense : on the interface of ethnobotany and medical anthropology / Elisabeth Hsu -- Non-native plants and their medicinal uses / Stephen Harris -- Qing hao (Herba Artemisiae annuae) in the Chinese Materia medica / Elisabeth Hsu (in consultation with Frédéric Obringer) -- Shamanic plants and gender in the healing forest / Françoise Barbira Freedman -- Persons, plants and relations : treating childhood illness in a western Kenyan village / P. Wenzel Geissler and Ruth J. Prince -- East goes west : Ginkgo biloba and dementia / John Grimley Evans -- Medicinal, stimulant and ritual plant use : an ethnobotany of caffeine-containing plants / Caroline S. Weckerle, Verena Timbul and Philip Blumenshine.

Series:

Epistemologies of healing ; v. 6

ISBN:

1845450604 (hardback : alk. paper)
9781845450601 (hardback : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)426817273

LCCN:

2010006692

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)