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020			_a9780226086163 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
020			_a9781306180665 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
043			_af------
050	0	4	_aRS181 _b.B588 2014
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aOsseo-Asare, Abena Dove Agyepoma, _e1
245	1	0	_aBitter roots : _bthe search for healing plants in Africa / _cAbena Dove Osseo-Asare.
260			_aChicago ; _aLondon : _bThe University of Chicago Press, _c(c)2014.
300			_a1 online resource (vii, 300 pages) : _billustrations, maps
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
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520	0		_a"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
505	0	0	_aIntroduction: From plants to pharmaceuticals -- _tTake Madagascar periwinkle for leukemia and pennywort for leprosy -- _tTake grains of paradise for love -- _tTake arrow poisons for the heart -- _tTake bitter roots for malaria -- _tTake Kalahari hoodia for hunger -- _tConclusion: Toward bioprosperity.
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650		0	_aMateria medica, Vegetable _zAfrica.
650		0	_aMedicinal plants _zAfrica.
650		0	_aBotany, Medical.
650		0	_aMedicinal plants.
650		0	_aProperty.
650	1	2	_aPlants, Medicinal
650	2	2	_aDrug Discovery
650	2	2	_aDrug Industry _xeconomics
650	2	2	_aEthnopharmacology
650	2	2	_aMedicine, African Traditional
650	2	2	_aOwnership
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=577458&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell