|
Books > Medicine > Complementary medicine
|
Buy Now
Bitter Roots (Paperback)
Loot Price: R1,197
Discovery Miles 11 970
|
|
|
Bitter Roots (Paperback)
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
For over a century, plant specialists worldwide have sought to
transform healing plants from African countries into
pharmaceuticals. And for equally as long, conflicts over these
medicinal plants have endured. In Bitter Roots, Abena Dove
Osseo-Asare draws on publicly available records and extensive
interviews with scientists and healers in Ghana, Madagascar, and
South Africa to interpret how African scientists and healers, rural
communities, and drug companies - including Pfizer, Bristol-Myers
Squibb, and Unilever - have sought since the 1880s to develop drugs
from Africa's medicinal plants. Osseo-Asare recalls the efforts to
transform six plants into pharmaceuticals: rosy periwinkle, Asiatic
pennywort, grains of paradise, Strophanthus, Cryptolepis, and
Hoodia. Through the stories of each plant, she shows that herbal
medicine and pharmaceutical chemistry have simultaneous and
overlapping histories that cross geographic boundaries. At the same
time, Osseo-Asare sheds new light on how various interests have
tried to manage the rights to these healing plants and probes the
challenges associated with assigning ownership to plants and their
biochemical components. A fascinating examination of the history of
medicine in colonial and post-colonial Africa, Bitter Roots will be
indispensable for scholars of Africa; historians interested in
medicine, biochemistry, and society; and policy makers concerned
with drug access and patent rights.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
