Ethnopharmacology
Ethnopharmacology
Editors:
Elaine Elisabetsky, Laboratory of Ethnopharmacology,Departmento de
Farmacologia,Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Nina L. Etkin,
Department of Anthropology and Ecology&Health,
University of Hawai'i, USA
Ethnopharmacology: An Overview
Nina L. Etkin, Department of Anthropology and
Ecology&Health, University of Hawai'i, USA
Elaine Elisabetsky, Laboratory of Ethnopharmacology,Departmento de
Farmacologia,Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
1. Historical Foundations of Botanical Medicine
Daniel E. Moerman, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
2. Insights into Evolutionary Systems Via Chemobiological Data
Maria Renata de M.B. Borin, Programa de Pós-Graduação em
Química Orgânica, Instituto de Química, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
Otto Richard Gottlieb, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Química Orgânica,
Instituto de Química, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
3. Contemporary Methodological Approaches in the Search for New Lead Compounds
from Higher Plants
Emerson Ferreira Queiroz,Kurt Hostettmann andAndrew Marston,
Laboratoire de Pharmacognoise et Phytochimie,Section de Sciences
Pharmaceutiques,University of Geneva, Switzerland
4. Integrating Ethnographic and Ecological Perspectives for Ethnopharmacology
Field Research
Nina L. Etkin, Department of Anthropology and Ecology&Health, University
of Hawai'i, USA
Tamara Ticktin, Department of Botany, University of Hawaii, USA
5. Managing Ethnopharmacological Data: Herbaria, Relational Databases,
Literature
John Richard Stepp, Department of Anthropology, Tropical
Conservation and Development Program, University of Florida, USA
Michael B. Thomas, Department of Botany, Univeristy of Hawaii, USA
6. Professional Ethics and Ethnopharmacology
Kelly P. Bannister, University of
Victoria, Faculty of Law and School of Environmental Studies,University of
Victoria, Canada
7. "Medicinal Plants in the Evolution of Therapeutics" A Case of Applied
Ethnopharmacology
Fernando Ortega-Perez, Universidad San Francisco de Quito,
Ecuador
8. Plants as a Source of Anti-Cancer Agents
Gordon M. Cragg and David Newman, Natural Products Branch,
Developmental Therapeutics Program, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis,
National Cancer Institute, USA
9. Traditional Medicinal Plants for the Treatment and Prevention of Human
Parasitic Diseases
Benjamin Gilbert, FarManguinhos-FIOCRUZ, Brazil
Merlin L. Willcox, Research Initiative on Traditional Antimalarial Methods,
UK
10. Plants and Plant Substances Against AIDS and Other Viral Diseases
Paul Cos, Dirk Vanden Berghe, and Louis L. Maes,
Laboratory for Microbiology,Parasitology and Hygiene, Faculty of
Pharmaceutical,Biomedical and Veterinary Sciences, University of Antwerp,
Belgium
Nina Hermans, Sandra S. Apers and Arnold J Vlietinck, , Laboratory of
Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry, Faculty of Pharmaceutical,Biomedical and
Veterinary Sciences, University of Antwerp, Belgium
11. Botanical Analgesic and Anti-Inflammatory Drugs
João B. Calixto, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina,
Centro de Ciencias Biologicas, Departamento de Farmacologia, Brazil
Adair R.S. Santos and Maria Martha Campos,, Department of Physiologic
Sciences, CCB, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil
12. The Search for Plants to Manage Diabetes
Steven R. King, Napo Pharmaceuticals Inc., USA
Charles Limbach, Big Sur Health Center, USA
13. Medicinal Plants for the Prevention and Treatment of Coronary Heart Disease
Gail B. Mahady, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Program
for Collaborative Research in the Pharmaceutical Sciences, UIC/NIH Center for
Botanical Dietary Supplements Research, College of Pharmacy, University of
Illnois at Chicago, USA
14. The Search for Plants to Manage Neurodegenerative Diseases
Peter John Houghton, Department of Pharmacy, King’s
College London, UK
Melanie-Jayne Rosemarie Howes, Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew,
UK
15. Psychoactive Botanicals in Ritual, Relegion, and Shamanism
Glenn H. Shepard Jr., National Institute of Amazonian
Research (INPA),Brazil,University of East Anglia,UK, Brazil
16. Primates,Plants,and Parasites:The Evolution of Animal Self-Medication and
Ethnomedicine
Michael A. Huffman, Section of Ecology, Primate Research
Institute, Kyoto University, Japan
Sylvia K. Vitazkova, Department of Ecology,Evolution,and Environmental
Biology and Center for Environmental Research and Conservation, Columbia
University, USA
17. Ethnopharmacology and Health Care in the Developing World
Armin Prinz and Ruth Kutalek, Ethnomedicine Unit,Institute
for the History of Medicine, School of Public Health,Medical University of
Vienna, Austria
18. Safety of Traditional Remedies
Michael Heinrich, Centre for Pharmacognosy and
Phytotherapy, The School of Pharmacy, University of London, UK
19. Medicinal Plants in International Trade: Conservation and Equity Issues
Sarah Laird, Department of Anthropology,University College
London, UK
20. The Future of Ethnopharmacology: Seeking a Transdisciplinary and Culturally
Germane Science
Nina L. Etkin, Department of Anthropology and
Ecology&Health, University of Hawai'i, USA
Elaine Elisabetsky, Laboratory of
Ethnopharmacology,Departmento de Farmacologia,Universidade Federal do Rio Grande
do Sul, Brazil
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