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Plants and Health - New Perspectives on the Health-Environment-Plant Nexus (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Plants and Health - New Perspectives on the Health-Environment-Plant Nexus (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Series: Ethnobiology
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This volume showcases current ethnobiological accounts of the ways
that people use plants to promote human health and well-being. The
goal in this volume is to highlight some contemporary examples of
how plants are central to various aspects of healthy environments
and healthy minds and bodies. Authors employ diverse analytic
frameworks, including: interpretive and constructivist, cognitive,
political-ecological, systems theory, phenomenological, and
critical studies of the relationship between humans, plants and the
environment. The case studies represent a wide geographical range
and explore the diversity in the health appeals of plants and
herbs. The volume begins by considering how plants may
intrinsically be 'healthful' and the notion that ecosystem health
may be a literal concept used in contemporary efforts to increase
awareness of environmental degradation. The book continues with the
exploration of the ways in which medically-pluralistic societies
demonstrate the entanglements between the environment, the state
and its citizens. Profit driven models for the extraction and
production of medicinal plant products are explored in terms of
health equity and sovereignty. Some of the chapters in this volume
work to explore medicinal plant knowledge and the globalization of
medicinal plant knowledge. The translocal and global networks of
medicinal plant knowledge are pivotal to productions of medicinal
and herbal plant remedies that are used by people in all variety of
societies and cultural groups. Humans produce health through
various means and interact with our environments, especially
plants, in order to promote health. The ethnographic accounts of
people, plants, and health in this volume will be of interest to
the fields of anthropology, biology and ethnobiology, as well as
allied disciplines.
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