Plants and health : new perspectives on the health-environment-plant nexus /: new perspectives on the health-environment-plant nexus. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Elizabeth Anne Olson, John Richard Stepp, editors.
• Editors: Olson, Elizabeth Anne; Stepp, John Richard
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer Nature
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 175 pages), illustrations (chiefly color), maps
• Subjects: 581.6; Life sciences; Human-plant relationships; Ethnobotany; Ethnobotany; Human-plant relationships; Science -- Life Sciences -- Botany; Medical -- General; Botany & plant sciences; Plant reproduction & propagation; Plant physiology; Medicine: general issues; Plant anatomy; Plant breeding; Plant physiology; Medicine; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319480886
• Related ISBNs: 331948088X; 9783319480862; 3319480863
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from digital title page (EBL platform, viewed March 20, 2017).
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