Traveling Cultures and Plants: The Ethnobiology and Ethnopharmacy of Human MigrationsAndrea Pieroni, Ina Vandebroek The tremendous increase in migrations and diasporas of human groups in the last decades are not only bringing along challenging issues for society, especially related to the economic and political management of multiculturalism and culturally effective health care, but they are also creating dramatic changes in traditional knowledge, believes and practices (KBP) related to (medicinal) plant use. The contributors to this volume – all internationally recognized scholars in the field of ethnobiology, transcultural pharmacy, and medical anthropology – analyze these dynamics of traditional knowledge in especially 12 selected case studies. Ina Vandebroek, features in Nova's "Secret Life of Scientists", answering the question: just what is ethnobotany? |
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... Uterine Fibroids in Dominican Ethnomedical Literature (n = 30) and by Dominican Healers in New York City (n = 6) and the Dominican Republic (n = 11) Medicinal Plant Species Reported Exclusively by Dominican Healers in New York City (n ...
... uterine fibroids The use of herbs: natural and teleological aims San Lazaro, the patron of the sick, embodies the syncretic representation of the Orisha Babalu Aye (photo by Maria Gomez) Botánicas are multifunctional spaces. Here a ...
... uterine fibroids (benign tumors that develop within the wall of the uterus or attached to it). The ruralurban disparity in plant knowledge for uterine fibroids in the Dominican Republic is further pronounced by a transnational ...
... uterine fibroids (benign connective tissue tumors). Most recently, this study has focused on herbal therapies for uterine fibroids and hot flashes. Data collected from Dominican healers in New York City were based on multiple patient ...
... uterine fibroids were included for comparison with the study in New York City. Plants were not reported for treatment of endometriosis in the New York City study, so it was not included in the Dominican Republic study. Table 1.1 ...
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