LEADER 03724nam 22005895 450 001 9910838368703321 005 20201005035553.0 010 $a0-226-08602-X 010 $a0-226-08616-X 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226086163 035 $a(CKB)2550000001167984 035 $a(EBL)1573579 035 $a(OCoLC)864899425 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001059424 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11593704 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001059424 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11079470 035 $a(PQKB)10060306 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000157052 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1573579 035 $a(DE-B1597)523554 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226086163 035 $a(PPN)179901133 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001167984 100 $a20200424h20142013 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBitter Roots $eThe Search for Healing Plants in Africa /$fAbena Dove Osseo-Asare 210 1$aChicago :$cUniversity of Chicago Press,$d[2014] 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (309 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-08552-X 311 $a1-306-18066-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tCONTENTS --$tIntroduction: From Plants to Pharmaceuticals --$t1. Take Madagascar Periwinkle for Leukemia and Pennywort for Leprosy --$t2. Take Grains of Paradise for Love --$t3. Take Arrow Poisons for the Heart --$t4. Take Bitter Roots for Malaria --$t5. Take Kalahari Hoodia for Hunger --$tConclusion: Toward Bioprosperity --$tAcknowledgments --$tPersons Consulted --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aFor 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. 606 $aMateria medica, Vegetable$zAfrica 606 $aMedicinal plants$zAfrica 615 0$aMateria medica, Vegetable 615 0$aMedicinal plants 676 $a615.3/21 700 $aOsseo-Asare$b Abena Dove$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01729251 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910838368703321 996 $aBitter Roots$94138964 997 $aUNINA