Plants and Indigenous Medicine and Diet: Biobehavioral Approaches

ISBN-13: 9780913178027 / Angielski / Twarda / 1986 / 336 str.

James A. Duke; II Robert T. Trotter; Nina L. Etkin

Opis

First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Spis treści

PART ONE THE IMPORTANCE OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO PLANT USE, PART TWO CRITERIA USED IN THE SELECTION OF MEDICINAL PLANTS, PART THREE PLANTS IN MEDICINAL AND DIETARY CONTEXTS, PART FOUR MEDICAL PANACEAS AND MISUNDERSTOOD PLANTS

O autorze

NINA L. ETKIN is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota. Her research interests include medical and nutritional anthropology, human biology, ethnomedicine, and biobehavioral implications of plant use in indigenous medicine and diet.