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

Contributor(s): Series: Epistemologies of healing ; v. 6.Publication details: New York : Berghahn Books, c2010.Description: xi, 316 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781845450601 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 1845450604 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 9780857456335 (paperback)
  • 0857456334 (paperback)
  • 9780857456342 (ebook)
  • 0857456342 (ebook)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 581.6/34 22
LOC classification:
  • GN476.73 .P6 2010
NLM classification:
  • 2010 L-466
  • WB 925
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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