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Author:
Foster, Laura A., author.
Title:
Reinventing hoodia : peoples, plants, and patents in South Africa / Laura A. Foster.
Publisher:
University of Washington Press,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
xxii, 209 pages ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Hoodia--Law and legislation--South Africa.
Materia medica, Vegetable--South Africa.
Medicinal plants--South Africa.
San (African people)--South Africa--Social conditions.
Botanical drug industry--South Africa.
Materia medica, Vegetable.
Medicinal plants.
South Africa.
Hoodia.
South Africa.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Colonial science and hoodia as a scientific object -- San demands for benefits by knowing !khoba as a plant from nature -- South African scientists and the patenting of hoodia as a molecule -- Botanical drug discovery of hoodia, from solid drug to liquid food -- Hoodia growers and the making of hoodia as a cultivated plant -- Epilogue : implications of a feminist decolonial technoscience.
Series:
Feminist technosciences
ISBN:
0295742186
9780295742182
0295742178
9780295742175
OCLC:
(OCoLC)987591512
LCCN:
2017010452
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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