Plants and Health New Perspectives on the Health-Environment-Plant Nexus

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. Auth...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Olson, Elizabeth Anne (Editor), Stepp, John Richard (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2016, 2016
Edition:1st ed. 2016
Series:Ethnobiology
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Some Key Theoretical and Methodological Attributes of Medicinal Plant Studies in Ethnobiology
  • Jamu becomings on the Island of Java, Indonesia
  • Plants are Good to Live With: Coast Salish Food Sovereignty, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and People-Plant Becomings
  • Medicinal Plants of Tecopatlán, Jalisco, Mexico: Description of the Uses and Environmental Availability
  • Plant Biodiversity Conservation as Human Mental-Health Intervention? More than Human Communication, Affect, and Civic Environmentalism at the Bristol Zoo Gardens
  • Medicinal Plants in Bangladesh: Planting Seeds of Care in the Weeds of Neoliberalism
  • Medicinal Plants and Resisting Violence in Amazonian Ecuador
  • Some Characteristics of Ethnomedical Practices in Semi-Rural Mexico
  • What is plant medicine? States of emergence in botanical movements across cultural, conceptual and translocal landscapes