Bitter Roots
Title | Bitter Roots PDF eBook |
Author | C.J. Carmichael |
Publisher | Tule Publishing |
Pages | 235 |
Release | 2017-04-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1945879904 |
Bitter Roots: A Bitter Root Mystery
Bitter Roots
Title | Bitter Roots PDF eBook |
Author | Abena Dove Osseo-Asare |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 309 |
Release | 2014-01-13 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 022608616X |
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 Bitter Roots, Abena Dove Osseo-Asare 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.
The Bitter Root
Title | The Bitter Root PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Edward Kirkwood |
Publisher | |
Pages | 92 |
Release | 1916 |
Genre | Bitterroot |
ISBN |
Bitter Root #12
Title | Bitter Root #12 PDF eBook |
Author | David F. Walker |
Publisher | Image Comics |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 2021-04-28 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
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"LEGACY," Part Two Cullen and Ford are in a fight to stay alive while Ma Etta makes a decision that will impact the entire Sangerye family. Meanwhile, Enoch makes an important discoveryÉbut will he live long enough to tell anyone?
The Bitter Root
Title | The Bitter Root PDF eBook |
Author | Evelyn Mary Early |
Publisher | |
Pages | 798 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Bitterroot and Mr. Brandborg
Title | The Bitterroot and Mr. Brandborg PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick H Swanson |
Publisher | University of Utah Press |
Pages | 377 |
Release | 2012-05-22 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1607819902 |
Meticulously written, "The Bitterroot and Mr. Brandborg" tells the story of Guy M. Brandborg and his impact on the practices of the U.S. Forest Service. It articulates Brandborg's Progressive-era idealism and is based on extensive archival research in collections throughout the Rockies and the Northwest, including the Brandborg family papers.
The Dalys of the Bitter Root
Title | The Dalys of the Bitter Root PDF eBook |
Author | Ada Powell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 174 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Bitterroot River Valley (Mont.) |
ISBN |