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Edible medicines : an ethnopharmacology of food
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- Creator
- Nina L. Etkin
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2006]
- ©2006
- Physical Details
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- 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0816520933, 9780816527489, 9780816520930, 0816527482
- OCLC
- ocm62679811, ocn183262265
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-281) and indexes.
- Introduction -- Food in the history of biomedicine -- Spices : the pharmacology of the exotic -- Fermented foods and beverages -- The lives of social plants -- Medicinal qualities of animal foods -- Health in the marketplace : complementary and alternative medicine, functional foods, and more -- Appendix: Some common spices
Subjects
- Food habits.
- Food preferences.
- Ethnopharmacology.
- Traditional medicine.
- Alternative medicine.
- Nutrition.
- Feeding Behavior -- ethnology.
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- Ethnopharmacology.
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- Food Preferences -- ethnology.
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- Complementary Therapies.
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- Medicine, Traditional.
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- Nutritional Physiological Phenomena -- ethnology.
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- Plants, Medicinal.
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