Plants and health : new perspectives on the health-environment-plant nexus / Elizabeth Anne Olson, John Richard Stepp, editors.
"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...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer Nature,
[2016]
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| Series: | Ethnobiology.
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Table of Contents:
- Traditional and Nontraditional Medicine in a Yucatec Maya Community / Eugene N. Anderson
- Becoming-Plant: Jamu in Java, Indonesia / Julie Laplante
- Medicinal Plants in Bangladesh: Planting Seeds of Care in the Weeds of Neoliberalism / Karen McNamara
- Shaping Strong People: Napo Runa Therapeutic Narratives of Medicinal Plant Use / Nora C. Bridges
- Using Plants as Medicines and Health Foods in Southern Jalisco / Elizabeth A. Olson
- What If There Is a Cure Somewhere in the Jungle? States of Emergence in Medicinal Plant Becomings / Natasha-Kim Ferenczi
- Transmission, Sharing, and Variation of Medicinal Plant Knowledge and Implications for Health / John Richard Stepp.