Plants, Health and Healing

Plants, Health and HealingPlants 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

Considers a previously under-researched area of British fascism

Hong Kong in the Cold War shows how Hong Kong attained and honed a pragmatic tradition that bridged the abyss between such opposite ideas as capitalism and communism

and its dialectical form

Expertise and Architecture in the Modern Islamic World explores how architectural traditions and practices were shared and exchanged across national borders throughout the world

presenting travel as a serious

and treatment

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Journeying in search of his friend Jefferson Rigby

Includes examples of a wide range of interventions including individuals across the life span and of diverse communities and health systems

as bearers of civilization

This book deals with the ethical issues of clinicalgenetics

and avant-garde Modernism