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Edible medicines: an ethnopharmacology of food
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN10: 0816527482
ISBN13: 9780816527489
DDC: 394.1/2
LCC: GT2850
Edition: (pbk)
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.
Classification
- LCC: GT2850
- Dewey Decimal: 394.1/2
Book Details
- Language: eng
- Physical Description: 301 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Edition Info: (pbk)
Subjects
- Nonfiction -- Social Sciences -- Anthropology -- General
- Nonfiction -- Social Sciences -- Sociology -- General
- Medicine -- Pharmacology -- General
- Medicine -- Special Topics -- Nutrition
- Professional & Technical -- Medical -- Basic Sciences -- Nutrition
- Professional & Technical -- Medical -- Pharmacology -- General
- Food Habits
- Food preferences
- Ethnopharmacology
- Traditional medicine
- Alternative medicine
- Nutrition
- Food Habits -- ethnology
- Complementary Therapies
- Food Preferences -- ethnology
- Medicine, Traditional
- Plants, Medicinal
- Habitudes alimentaires
- Préférences alimentaires
- Ethnopharmacologie
- Médecine traditionnelle
- Médecines parallèles
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