Plants, Health and Healing

preview-18
  • Plants, Health and Healing Book Detail

  • Author : Elisabeth Hsu
  • Release Date : 2012
  • Publisher : Berghahn Books
  • Genre : Health & Fitness
  • Pages : 321
  • ISBN 13 : 0857456334
  • File Size : 58,58 MB

Plants, Health and Healing by Elisabeth Hsu PDF Summary

Book Description: Plants have cultural histories, as their applications change over time and with place. Some plant species have affected human cultures in profound ways, such as the stimulants tea and coffee from the Old World, or coca and quinine from South America. Even though medicinal plants have always attracted considerable attention, there is surprisingly little research on the interface of ethnobotany and medical anthropology. This volume, which brings together (ethno-)botanists, medical anthropologists and a clinician, makes an important contribution towards filling this gap. It emphasises that plant knowledge arises situationally as an intrinsic part of social relationships, that herbs need to be enticed if not seduced by the healers who work with them, that herbal remedies are cultural artefacts, and that bioprospecting and medicinal plant discovery can be viewed as the epitome of a long history of borrowing, stealing and exchanging plants.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Plants, Health and Healing books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Plants, Health and Healing

Plants, Health and Healing

File Size : 12,12 MB
Total View : 4585 Views
DOWNLOAD

Plants have cultural histories, as their applications change over time and with place. Some plant species have affected human cultures in profound ways, such as

Innovation in Chinese Medicine

Innovation in Chinese Medicine

File Size : 53,53 MB
Total View : 7369 Views
DOWNLOAD

In the West ideas about Chinese medicine are commonly associated with traditional therapies and ancient practices which have survived, unchanging, since time im

The Transmission of Chinese Medicine

The Transmission of Chinese Medicine

File Size : 20,20 MB
Total View : 7855 Views
DOWNLOAD

This is a study of traditional medical education in the People's Republic of China. The author became a disciple of a scholarly private practitioner, a Qigong m

Chinese Medicine in East Africa

Chinese Medicine in East Africa

File Size : 30,30 MB
Total View : 2639 Views
DOWNLOAD

Introduction -- Moving through the Practico-Sensory Realm of Space -- Spatial Textures of the Clinical Encounter -- Misunderstandings, and the Spaces They Creat