Healing roots : anthropology in life and medicine / / Julie Laplante
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| Autore: |
Laplante Julie
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| Titolo: |
Healing roots : anthropology in life and medicine / / Julie Laplante
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : berghahn, , 2015 |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (301 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.4610968 |
| Soggetto topico: | Artemisia afra - Therapeutic use - South Africa |
| Medicinal plants - South Africa | |
| Traditional medicine - South Africa | |
| Medical anthropology - South Africa | |
| Ethnopharmacology - South Africa | |
| Molecular biology - Social aspects | |
| Drugs - Testing | |
| Tuberculosis - Chemotherapy | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | Artemisia Afra |
| Folk Medicine | |
| Indigeneity | |
| Indigenous Medicine | |
| Medical Anthropology | |
| Pharmacology | |
| Traditional Medicine | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction - Tracing the Preclinical Trial of an Indigenous Plant; Chapter 1 - Knowing Umhlonyane/Artemisia afra; Chapter 2 - Engaging in Medicine; Chapter 3 - Tracing Medicine Wayfaring; Chapter 4 - Imagining Indigeneity; Chapter 5 - Healing the Nation; Chapter 6 - Dreams, Ancestors and Sound Healing; Chapter 7 - Weaving Molecules with Life; Conclusion - Imagining the Clinical Trial; References; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Umhlonyane, also known as Artemisia afra, is one of the oldest and best-documented indigenous medicines in South Africa. This bush, which grows wild throughout the sub-Saharan region, smells and tastes like ""medicine,"" thus easily making its way into people's lives and becoming the choice of everyday healing for Xhosa healer-diviners and Rastafarian herbalists. This ""natural"" remedy has recently sparked curiosity as scientists search for new molecules against a tuberculosis pandemic while hoping to recognize indigenous medicine. Laplante follows umhlonyane on its trails and trials of beco |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Healing roots |
| ISBN: | 1-78238-555-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910817259203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Epistemologies of healing ; ; Volume 15.