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Conservation, Ethnobotany, and the Search for New Jungle Medicines: Pharmacognosy Comes of Age … Again
Author(s) -
Plotkin Mark J.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
pharmacotherapy: the journal of human pharmacology and drug therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.227
H-Index - 109
eISSN - 1875-9114
pISSN - 0277-0008
DOI - 10.1002/j.1875-9114.1988.tb04081.x
Subject(s) - ethnobotany , jungle , shamanism , witch , traditional medicine , pharmacognosy , folk medicine , anthropology , ethnology , history , medicine , biology , medicinal plants , sociology , ecology , archaeology , biochemistry , biological activity , in vitro
Through most of man's history, botany and medicine were, for all practical purposes, synonymous fields of knowledge, and the shaman, or witch‐doctor — usually an accomplished botanist — represents probably the oldest professional man in the evolution of human culture.