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By : Abena Dove Osseo-Asare
Book Synopsis :
For over a century, plant specialists worldwide have sought to transform healing plants in African countries into pharmaceuticals. And for equally as long, conflicts over these medicinal plants have endured, from stolen recipes and toxic tonics to unfulfilled promises of laboratory equipment and usurped personal patents. In Bitter Roots, Abena Dove Osseo-Asare draws on publicly available records and extensive interviews with scientists and healers in Ghana, Madagascar, and South Africa to interpret how African scientists and healers, rural communities, and drug companies?including Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Unilever?have sought since the 1880s to develop drugs from Africa?s medicinal plants.???????????Osseo-Asare recalls the efforts to transform six plants into pharmaceuticals: rosy periwinkle, Asiatic pennywort, grains of paradise, Strophanthus, Cryptolepis, and Hoodia.?Through the stories of each plant, she shows that herbal medicine and pharmaceutical chemistry have .
Book Detail :
Tittle : Bitter Roots: The Search for Healing Plants in Africa
Author : Abena Dove Osseo-Asare
Pages : 288 pages
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
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ISBN-10 : 022608602X
ISBN-13 : 9780226086026
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