Bitter Roots: The Search for Healing Plants in Africa Paperback – January 17, 2014
Author: Abena Dove Osseo-Asare | Language: English | ISBN: 022608602X | Format: PDF, EPUB
Bitter Roots: The Search for Healing Plants in Africa – January 17, 2014
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(Harold J. Cook, author of Matters of Exchange)
(Stacey Langwick, Cornell University)
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Review
“In a fascinating look at modern and traditional medicine, the author tells the stories of efforts to commercialize pharmaceuticals from six African plants.”
(Science News)“Bitter Roots is a book for our times: an age of bioprospecting and biopiracy, with hope for partnerships bringing bioprosperity. Abena Dove Osseo-Asare’s remarkable investigations clarify both the facts and the issues through the example of how the roots of several plants associated with Africa have been used, studied, and remade. She notes the slippery entanglements between traditional and scientific practices and, in the process, stalks not only knowledge but justice. Informative, bold, and sensitive.”
(Harold J. Cook, author of Matters of Exchange)
“By choosing to investigate colonial and postcolonial science through scientific work with plant medicines, Abena Dove Osseo-Asare deepens our understanding of the power relations not only between African and European or American scientists but also between healers and these indigenous and foreign scientists. Her detailed account of transnational scientific collaborations will be a lasting contribution to the field of science studies.”
(Stacey Langwick, Cornell University)
About the Author
Abena Dove Osseo-Asare is assistant professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley.
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- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: University Of Chicago Press (January 17, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 022608602X
- ISBN-13: 978-0226086026
- Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #437,269 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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