Plants for Food and Medicine
proceedings of the joint conference of the society for economic botany and the international society for ethnopharmacology, london, 1-6 july 1996
$122.11
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
14 January 2000
Summary
Plants for Food and Medicine, the proceedings of the 1996 Economic Botany and the International Society of Ethnopharmacology Conference. Explores the commercial and scientific potential of plants for the food, health and drug industries. It focuses on the current state of ‘pharmafoods’ — how medicinal plants are shaping modern medicine; ethnopharmacology; new drug development; biodiversity and conservation; and the valuation of wild plant resources.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781900347556 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1900347555 |
| Author: | N.L. Etkin, D.R. Harris, Hew. D.V. Prendergast |
| Publisher: | Royal Botanic Gardens |
| Imprint: | Kew Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 14 January 2000 |
| Weight: | 716g |
| Dimensions: | 244mm x 170mm |
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About The Author
N.L. Etkin
Nina L. Etkin was a professor of anthropology and graduate chair in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She was one of the two recipients of the 2009 Distinguished Economic Botanist Award from the Society for Economic Botany, and she was awarded the prestigious Hawaiai Regentsa Medal for Excellence in Research. Etkin was the author of Edible Medicines: An Ethnopharmacology of Food and Eating on the Wild Side: The Pharmacologic, Ecologic, and Social Implications of Using Noncultigens, both published by the University of Arizona Press. Professor Etkin passed away
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