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Plants And Health: New Perspectives On The Health-environment-plant Nexus (ethnobiology) by Elizabeth Anne Olson, John Richard Stepp (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"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 o

Who reads Plants And Health: New Perspectives On The Health-environment-plant Nexus (ethnobiology)?

Author

Elizabeth Anne Olson, John Richard Stepp (eds.)

Publisher

Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Springer

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9783319480886

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Science, Technology