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| Other authors / contributors: | Olson, Elizabeth Anne. Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT, USA, editor.
Stepp, John Richard. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA, editor.
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| ISBN: | 9783319480886
331948088X
9783319480862
3319480863
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| Digital file characteristics: | text file PDF
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from digital title page (EBL platform, viewed March 20, 2017).
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| Summary: | "This volume showcases current ethnobiological accounts of the ways that people use plants to promote human health and well-being. The goal in this volume is to highlight some contemporary examples of how plants are central to various aspects of healthy environments and healthy minds and bodies. Authors employ diverse analytic frameworks, including: interpretive and constructivist, cognitive, political-ecological, systems theory, phenomenological, and critical studies of the relationship between humans, plants and the environment. The case studies represent a wide geographical range and explore the diversity in the health appeals of plants and herbs. The volume begins by considering how plants may intrinsically be 'healthful' and the notion that ecosystem health may be a literal concept used in contemporary efforts to increase awareness of environmental degradation. The book continues with the exploration of the ways in which medically-pluralistic societies demonstrate the entanglements between the environment, the state and its citizens. Profit driven models for the extraction and production of medicinal plant products are explored in terms of health equity and sovereignty. Some of the chapters in this volume work to explore medicinal plant knowledge and the globalization of medicinal plant knowledge. The translocal and global networks of medicinal plant knowledge are pivotal to productions of medicinal and herbal plant remedies that are used by people in all variety of societies and cultural groups. Humans produce health through various means and interact with our environments, especially plants, in order to promote health. The ethnographic accounts of people, plants, and health in this volume will be of interest to the fields of anthropology, biology and ethnobiology, as well as allied disciplines."--Provided by publisher.
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| Other form: | Print version: OLSON, ELIZABETH ANNE. PLANTS AND HEALTH. 1ST ED. 2017. [S.l.] : SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PU, 2017 9783319480862
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| Standard no.: | 10.1007/978-3-319-48088-6
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