Plants, health, and healing: on the interface of ethnobotany and medical anthropology

Abstract

List of Illustrations List of Tables List of Contributors Introduction Elisabeth Hsu History Editorial introduction Stephen Harris Chapter 1. Non-native plants and their medicinal uses Stephen Harris Chapter 2. Qinghao .. (Herba Artemisiae annuae) in the Chinese materia medica Elisabeth Hsu (in consultation with Frederic Obringer) Anthropology Editorial introduction Stephen Harris Chapter 3. Shamanic plants and gender in the Peruvian Upper Amazon Francoise Barbira Freedman Chapter 4. Persons, plants and relations: treating childhood illness in a western Kenyan village P. Wenzel Geissler and Ruth J. Prince Plant Portraits Editorial introduction Stephen Harris Chapter 5. East goes West. Ginkgo biloba and Dementia Sir John Grimley Evans Chapter 6. Medicinal, stimulant and ritual plant use: an ethnobotany of caffeine-containing plants Caroline S. Weckerle, Verena Timbul and Philip Blumenshine Index