The Resource Bitter roots : the search for healing plants in Africa, Abena Dove Osseo-Asare
Bitter roots : the search for healing plants in Africa, Abena Dove Osseo-Asare
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- Summary
- "For over a century, plant specialists worldwide have sought to transform healing plants in African countries into pharmaceuticals. And for equally as long, conflicts over these medicinal plants have endured, from stolen recipes and toxic tonics to unfulfilled promises of laboratory equipment and usurped personal patents. In this book the author draws on publicly available records and extensive interviews with scientists and healers in Ghana, Madagascar, and South Africa to interpret how African scientists and healers, rural communities, and drug companies, including Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Unilever have sought since the 1880s to develop drugs from Africa's medicinal plants. Osseo-Asare recalls the efforts to transform six plants into pharmaceuticals: rosy periwinkle, Asiatic pennywort, grains of paradise, Strophanthus, Cryptolepis, and Hoodia. Through the stories of each plant, she shows that herbal medicine and pharmaceutical chemistry have simultaneous and overlapping histories that cross geographic boundaries. At the same time, Osseo-Asare sheds new light on how various interests have tried to manage the rights to these healing plants and probes the challenges associated with assigning ownership to plants and their biochemical components. A fascinating examination of the history of medicine in colonial and postcolonial Africa, Bitter Roots will be indispensable for scholars of Africa; historians interested in medicine, biochemistry, and society; and policy makers concerned with drug access and patent rights"--Provided by publisher
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (vii, 300 pages)
- Contents
-
- Introduction: From plants to pharmaceuticals
- Take Madagascar periwinkle for leukemia and pennywort for leprosy
- Take grains of paradise for love
- Take arrow poisons for the heart
- Take bitter roots for malaria
- Take Kalahari hoodia for hunger
- Conclusion: Toward bioprosperity
- Isbn
- 9780226086163
- Label
- Bitter roots : the search for healing plants in Africa
- Title
- Bitter roots
- Title remainder
- the search for healing plants in Africa
- Statement of responsibility
- Abena Dove Osseo-Asare
- Subject
-
- Afrika
- Arzneimittelentwicklung
- Drug Discovery
- Drug Industry -- economics
- Electronic books
- Ethnopharmacology
- Heilpflanzen
- MEDICAL -- Pharmacology
- Africa
- Materia medica, Vegetable -- Africa
- Medicinal plants
- Medicinal plants -- Africa
- Medicine, African Traditional
- Ownership
- Plants, Medicinal
- Materia medica, Vegetable
- Africa
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "For over a century, plant specialists worldwide have sought to transform healing plants in African countries into pharmaceuticals. And for equally as long, conflicts over these medicinal plants have endured, from stolen recipes and toxic tonics to unfulfilled promises of laboratory equipment and usurped personal patents. In this book the author draws on publicly available records and extensive interviews with scientists and healers in Ghana, Madagascar, and South Africa to interpret how African scientists and healers, rural communities, and drug companies, including Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Unilever have sought since the 1880s to develop drugs from Africa's medicinal plants. Osseo-Asare recalls the efforts to transform six plants into pharmaceuticals: rosy periwinkle, Asiatic pennywort, grains of paradise, Strophanthus, Cryptolepis, and Hoodia. Through the stories of each plant, she shows that herbal medicine and pharmaceutical chemistry have simultaneous and overlapping histories that cross geographic boundaries. At the same time, Osseo-Asare sheds new light on how various interests have tried to manage the rights to these healing plants and probes the challenges associated with assigning ownership to plants and their biochemical components. A fascinating examination of the history of medicine in colonial and postcolonial Africa, Bitter Roots will be indispensable for scholars of Africa; historians interested in medicine, biochemistry, and society; and policy makers concerned with drug access and patent rights"--Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Osseo-Asare, Abena Dove Agyepoma
- Dewey number
- 615.3/21
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- RS181
- LC item number
- .O87 2014eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- NLM call number
- QV 770 HA1
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Materia medica, Vegetable
- Medicinal plants
- Plants, Medicinal
- Drug Discovery
- Drug Industry
- Ethnopharmacology
- Medicine, African Traditional
- Ownership
- Africa
- MEDICAL
- Materia medica, Vegetable
- Medicinal plants
- Africa
- Arzneimittelentwicklung
- Heilpflanzen
- Afrika
- Label
- Bitter roots : the search for healing plants in Africa, Abena Dove Osseo-Asare
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-288) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- mixed
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: From plants to pharmaceuticals -- Take Madagascar periwinkle for leukemia and pennywort for leprosy -- Take grains of paradise for love -- Take arrow poisons for the heart -- Take bitter roots for malaria -- Take Kalahari hoodia for hunger -- Conclusion: Toward bioprosperity
- Control code
- 864899425
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (vii, 300 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780226086163
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 549317
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)864899425
- Label
- Bitter roots : the search for healing plants in Africa, Abena Dove Osseo-Asare
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-288) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- mixed
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: From plants to pharmaceuticals -- Take Madagascar periwinkle for leukemia and pennywort for leprosy -- Take grains of paradise for love -- Take arrow poisons for the heart -- Take bitter roots for malaria -- Take Kalahari hoodia for hunger -- Conclusion: Toward bioprosperity
- Control code
- 864899425
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (vii, 300 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780226086163
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 549317
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)864899425
Subject
- Afrika
- Arzneimittelentwicklung
- Drug Discovery
- Drug Industry -- economics
- Electronic books
- Ethnopharmacology
- Heilpflanzen
- MEDICAL -- Pharmacology
- Africa
- Materia medica, Vegetable -- Africa
- Medicinal plants
- Medicinal plants -- Africa
- Medicine, African Traditional
- Ownership
- Plants, Medicinal
- Materia medica, Vegetable
- Africa
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