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

Other author Hsu, Elisabeth.
Other author Harris, Stephen, 1966-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Berghahn Books, ©2010.
Description316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesEpistemologies of healing ; v. 6
Epistemologies of healing ; v. 6. ^A782368
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010006692
ISBN9781845450601 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN1845450604 (hardback : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks GN476.73 .P6 2010 ✔ Available Place Hold