TY - BOOK AU - Blumenshine,Philip AU - Evans,John Grimley AU - Freedman,Françoise Barbira AU - Geissler,P.Wenzel AU - Harris,Stephen AU - Hsu,Elisabeth AU - Prince,Ruth J. AU - Timbul,Verena AU - Weckerle,Caroline S. TI - Plants, Health and Healing: On the Interface of Ethnobotany and Medical Anthropology T2 - Epistemologies of Healing SN - 9781845450601 U1 - 581.6/34 23 PY - 2010///] CY - New York, Oxford PB - Berghahn Books KW - Botany, Medical KW - Ethnobotany KW - Medical anthropology KW - Medicinal plants KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social KW - bisacsh KW - Medical Anthropology, Environmental Studies (General) N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; List of Tables --; Introduction. Plants in Medical Practice and Common Sense: On the Interface of Ethnobotany and Medical Anthropol --; HISTORY --; Editorial Introduction --; 1. Non-Native Plants and Their Medicinal Uses --; 2. Qing hao (Herba Artemisiae annuae) in the Chinese Materia Medica --; ANTHROPOLOGY --; Editorial Introduction --; 3. Shamanic Plants and Gender in the Healing Forest --; 4. Persons, Plants and Relations: Treating Childhood Illness in a Western Kenyan Village --; PLANT PORTRAITS --; Editorial Introduction --; 5. East goes West. Ginkgo biloba and Dementia --; 6. Medicinal, Stimulant and Ritual Plant Use: an Ethnobotany of Caffeine-Containing Plants --; Notes on Contributors --; Index; restricted access N2 - Plants have cultural histories, as their applications change over time and with place. Some plant species have affected human cultures in profound ways, such as the stimulants tea and coffee from the Old World, or coca and quinine from South America. Even though medicinal plants have always attracted considerable attention, there is surprisingly little research on the interface of ethnobotany and medical anthropology. This volume, which brings together (ethno-)botanists, medical anthropologists and a clinician, makes an important contribution towards filling this gap. It emphasises that plant knowledge arises situationally as an intrinsic part of social relationships, that herbs need to be enticed if not seduced by the healers who work with them, that herbal remedies are cultural artefacts, and that bioprospecting and medicinal plant discovery can be viewed as the epitome of a long history of borrowing, stealing and exchanging plants UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781845458218 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781845458218 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781845458218/original ER -