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Total Pages : 200 pages
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Download or read book Jamaica's Ethnomedicine written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ina Vandebroek
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030489272
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Popular Medicinal Plants in Portland and Kingston, Jamaica written by Ina Vandebroek and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the results from over a year of ethnobotanical research in a rural and an urban community in Jamaica, where we interviewed more than 100 people who use medicinal plants for healthcare. The goal of this research was to better understand patterns of medicinal plant knowledge, and to find out which plants are used in consensus by local people for a variety of illnesses. For this book, we selected 25 popular medicinal plant species mentioned during fieldwork. Through individual interviews, we were able to rank plants according to their frequency of mention, and categorized the medicinal uses for each species as “major” (mentioned by more than 20% of people in a community) or “minor” (mentioned by more than 5%, but less than 20% of people). Botanical identification of plant specimens collected in the wild allowed for cross-linking of common and scientific plant names. To supplement field research, we undertook a comprehensive search and review of the ethnobotanical and biomedical literature. Our book summarizes all this information in detail under specific sub-headings.
Author : Arvilla Payne-Jackson
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ISBN 13 : 9789766401238
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Jamaican Folk Medicine written by Arvilla Payne-Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering work is multi-disciplinary in approach as it examines the rich folk medicine of Jamaica. Payne-Jackson and Alleyne analyse the historical and linguistic aspects of folk medicine, based on their research, which included extensive fieldwork and interviews. They explore the sociological and ethnological dimensions of common healing and health-preserving practices which rely on Jamaica's rich biodiversity in medicinal and nutritional flora. As is the case with other aspects of Jamaican traditional culture, Jamaican folk medicine is largely misunderstood and subject to negative pejorative attitudes. This comprehensively study challenges some of the myths and misinformation. Particular attention is paid to cultural transference from Africa and the use of herbs in African-Jamaican religions. The work has an appendix and a glossary as well as a detailed bibliography.
Author : Mark Nichter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134298854
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)
Download or read book Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Ethnomedicine written by Mark Nichter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1992. The reader of this volume will see how a decade of new work has remade ethnomedicine into one of the livelier and more promising domains of anthropology. Nicthter's encompassing redefinition of the relationship of ethnomedicine to medical anthropology and his critical comments that introduce each chapter are bound to provoke discussion and response over the years to come. - Arthur Kleinman, MD Harvard Medical School.
Author : Myrtle Chuck-A-Sang
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 169871419X
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Ideological Foundations and Development Expectations of Caribbean Regionalism written by Myrtle Chuck-A-Sang and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-16 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foci of publications This publication is intended to be an invaluable tool to the avid researcher on Caribbean regionalism and related subjects. The range of papers presented, probe areas such as the institutional development of one of the most enduring economic integration systems in the international community, the workings of its major institutions and indeed its very survival. The importance of record keeping to the survival of any institution or major grouping is the message that permeates this volume given its role in enabling an understanding of our past and in the holistic development and preservation of the region’s cultural identity.
Author : Arvind Dagur
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1040115985
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Artificial Intelligence and Information Technologies written by Arvind Dagur and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2024-07-31 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the proceedings of a non-profit conference with the objective of providing a platform for academicians, researchers, scholars and students from various institutions, universities and industries in India and abroad to exchange their research and innovative ideas in the field of Artificial Intelligence and information technologies. It begins with exploring the research and innovation in the field of Artificial Intelligence and information technologies, including secure transaction, monitoring, real time assistance and security for advanced stage learners, researchers and academicians has been presented. It goes on to cover: Broad knowledge and research trends about Artificial Intelligence and information technologies and their role in today’s digital era Depiction of system model and architecture for clear picture of Artificial Intelligence in real life Discussion on the role of Artificial Intelligence in various real-life problems such as banking, healthcare, navigation, communication and security Explanation of the challenges and opportunities in Artificial Intelligence-based healthcare, education, banking and related industries Recent information technologies and challenges in this new epoch This book will be beneficial to researchers, academicians, undergraduate students, postgraduate students, research scholars, professionals, technologists and entrepreneurs.
Author : Michael Silbermann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197551343
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)
Download or read book Global Perspectives in Cancer Care written by Michael Silbermann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Contemporary medical models focus predominantly on the technical and financial aspects of care. While these are important aspects of care, they fail to include what may be the most critical need of patients and families - that is, the whole-person approach to care where psychosocial and spiritual needs are viewed as essential and just as important as the physical. Cecily Saunders, the founder of hospice, was one of the first to describe the concept of 'total pain', which led to the biopsychosocial and spiritual model of care. In 2014, the World Health Assembly for the WHO passed a resolution which included spiritual care as an essential domain of palliative care, stating that Palliative Care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients "through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and correct assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, whether physical, psychosocial or spiritual." WHO also noted that "it is the ethical duty of health care professionals" to alleviate pain and suffering, whether physical, psychosocial or spiritual and further supported an interdisciplinary model by noting the need for collaboration between professional palliative care providers and support care providers, including spiritual support and counseling"--
Author : Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319281550
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)
Download or read book Introduction to Ethnobiology written by Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook provides a basic introduction to ethnobiology with key concepts for beginners. It is also written for those who teach ethnobiology or related fields. The core issues and concepts, as well as approaches and theoretical positions are fully covered.
Author : Mahendra Rai
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1439853622
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (398 download)
Download or read book Ethnomedicinal Plants written by Mahendra Rai and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting recent discoveries on ethnomedicinal plants around the world, this book focuses on evaluating the progress to date as well as the future potential of drug development in ethnomedicine. Eight reviews examine therapeutic applications including the spasmolitic effects of various plants, the anti-inflammatory activity of plants from Brazil a
Author : Gabriela Soto Laveaga
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822391961
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Jungle Laboratories written by Gabriela Soto Laveaga and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2009-12-23 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1940s chemists discovered that barbasco, a wild yam indigenous to Mexico, could be used to mass-produce synthetic steroid hormones. Barbasco spurred the development of new drugs, including cortisone and the first viable oral contraceptives, and positioned Mexico as a major player in the global pharmaceutical industry. Yet few people today are aware of Mexico’s role in achieving these advances in modern medicine. In Jungle Laboratories, Gabriela Soto Laveaga reconstructs the story of how rural yam pickers, international pharmaceutical companies, and the Mexican state collaborated and collided over the barbasco. By so doing, she sheds important light on a crucial period in Mexican history and challenges us to reconsider who can produce science. Soto Laveaga traces the political, economic, and scientific development of the global barbasco industry from its emergence in the 1940s, through its appropriation by a populist Mexican state in 1970, to its obsolescence in the mid-1990s. She focuses primarily on the rural southern region of Tuxtepec, Oaxaca, where the yam grew most freely and where scientists relied on local, indigenous knowledge to cultivate and harvest the plant. Rural Mexicans, at first unaware of the pharmaceutical and financial value of barbasco, later acquired and deployed scientific knowledge to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies, lobby the Mexican government, and ultimately transform how urban Mexicans perceived them. By illuminating how the yam made its way from the jungles of Mexico, to domestic and foreign scientific laboratories where it was transformed into pills, to the medicine cabinets of millions of women across the globe, Jungle Laboratories urges us to recognize the ways that Mexican peasants attained social and political legitimacy in the twentieth century, and positions Latin America as a major producer of scientific knowledge.
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Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Jamaica Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rex M. Nettleford
Publisher : Ian Randle Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Rex N written by Rex M. Nettleford and published by Ian Randle Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social and cultural historian, political analyst, trade union educator, artist, expert on development and cultural dynamics, man of letters - these represent only a few of the areas of expertise of Rex Nettleford, one of the Caribbean's finest scholars. This carefully selected collection of 42 of Nettleford's speeches can only provide a mere glimpse of his formidable intellect and his contribution to the search for and validation of a Caribbean cultural identity. Known affectionately in academic, cultural, literary and artistic circles the world over, simply as Rex, this informal and unpretentious designation is used to capture the essence of the man whose ideas and speeches can be said to collectively represent the 'Triumph of the Caribbean Spirit and Imagination'. Readers who have had the privilege of hearing one or more of Rex Nettleford's speeches will agree with Barry Chevannes that 'Reading Rex Nettleford is not quite the same as hearing him...even when the ideas are the same...to hear Rex Nettleford address an audience is to be treated to a performance.' Of Nettleford, Chevannes writes: 'As a Caribbean man, Nettleford himself embodies the multilayered complexity which he insists is characteristic of the region, a five-foot eleven black man with rhythm in his steps and intertexuality in his living, who exercises the powers of his creative imagination to help his fellow tenants hold on to their legacy of a sense of self, for which monumental work he is a much revered, much appreciated voice teaching lessons for life on all the continents tenanted by homo sapiens.
Author : Swapna Thacheril Sukumaran
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811551367
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)
Download or read book Plant Metabolites: Methods, Applications and Prospects written by Swapna Thacheril Sukumaran and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-28 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food security and the medicinal needs of billions of people around the world are pressing global issues, and the biodiversity and sustainable utilization of plants is of great significance in this context. Further, ethnobotanical studies are vital in the discovery of new drugs from indigenous medicinal plants, and plants with industrially important metabolites need to be cultivated to meet the growing market demand. In addition, the production of plant metabolites under in vitro conditions also has tremendous possibilities. The totipotency of plant cells plays a valuable role in the sustainable utilization of plant resources through cell, tissue and organ culture. At the same time, production can be enhanced using productive cell lines, treatment with elicitors, changing nutritional parameters and metabolic engineering. This book provides state-of-the-art information on biodiversity, conservation, ethnobotany, various aspects of In vitro secondary metabolite production, bioprospecting from various plant groups and drug discovery. It also discusses methods of extracting and characterizing drug leads from plant sources.
Author : Joanne Levine
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000339440
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Understanding Medical Cannabis written by Joanne Levine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible text provides trainee human service providers and those currently working in the field with a comprehensive, cutting-edge overview of topics related to the medical and therapeutic use of cannabis. Employing an interdisciplinary, biopsychosocial framework, the book explores the different biological, cultural, and policy contexts of medical cannabis from a wide range of perspectives including practitioners, academics, and medical cannabis advocates. This book bridges the gap between theory and practice and underscores the urgent need for expanded and rigorous scientific research as medical cannabis is increasingly legalized, that may result in new cannabis-based medicines and help in identifying what health risks cannabis use may present. Chapters are both evidence-based and practical, weaving in learning objectives, review questions, and varied case examples, all of which will prepare students and professionals for the reality of working with medical cannabis consumers.
Author : Pamela Irene Erickson
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Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Ethnomedicine written by Pamela Irene Erickson and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Erickson fills this gap by clearly explaining the basic organizing principles that underlie all medical systems, the full range of theories of disease causation, the geographical distribution of medical practices, and the historical trends that led to biomedical dominance. Her efficient, balanced approach highlights commonalities among the world's vast and diverse medical systems, making ethnomedicine easier to internalize and to apply in clinical settings."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Ronnie Linda Leavitt
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838634370
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (343 download)
Download or read book Disability and Rehabilitation in Rural Jamaica written by Ronnie Linda Leavitt and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although negative conditions exist, it appears that disabled children are not particularly stigmatized at the household level. Nevertheless, societal stigmatization and apathy do exist. As a result, disabled children are not being prepared to fully integrate into Jamaican society. 2. There is a range of variation of beliefs and behaviors with regard to disability and rehabilitation. The concept of intracultural diversity is supported. 3. This population has adapted their cultural belief systems and actual behaviors to match their material realities. That is, it would appear that people who have a disability, and their caretakers, have demonstrated "contextual accommodation." 4. Community based rehabilitation programs, based on the primary health care and community participation principles enumerated by the WHO are theoretically sound and practically attainable in Jamaica.
Author : Merrill Singer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444395297
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Medical Anthropology written by Merrill Singer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Medical Anthropology examines the current issues, controversies, and state of the field in medical anthropology today. Provides an expert view of the major topics and themes to concern the discipline since its founding in the 1960s Written by leading international scholars in medical anthropology Covers environmental health, global health, biotechnology, syndemics, nutrition, substance abuse, infectious disease, and sexuality and reproductive health, and other topics
