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Bitter roots : the search for healing plants in Africa
- Title
- Bitter roots : the search for healing plants in Africa / Abena Dove Osseo-Asare.
- Author
- Osseo-Asare, Abena Dove Agyepoma
- Publication
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2014.
- ©2014
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Details
- Description
- vii, 300 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-288) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: From plants to pharmaceuticals -- Take Madagascar periwinkle for leukemia and pennywort for leprosy -- Take grains of paradise for love -- Take arrow poisons for the heart -- Take bitter roots for malaria -- Take Kalahari hoodia for hunger -- Conclusion: Toward bioprosperity.
- Call Number
- Sc E 14-909
- ISBN
- 9780226085524 (cloth : alkaline paper)
- 022608552X (cloth : alkaline paper)
- 9780226086026 (paperback : alkaline paper)
- 022608602X (paperback : alkaline paper)
- 9780226086163 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2013020550
- OCLC
- 846912175
- Author
- Osseo-Asare, Abena Dove Agyepoma, author.
- Title
- Bitter roots : the search for healing plants in Africa / Abena Dove Osseo-Asare.
- Publisher
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2014.
- Copyright Date
- ©2014
- Type of Content
- textstill imagecartographic image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-288) and index.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 14-909