Plants and Health New Perspectives on the Health-Environment-Plant Nexus /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Olson, Elizabeth Anne (Editor), Stepp, John Richard (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Ethnobiology,
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Medicine.; Plant anatomy.; Plant development.; Plant physiology.; Plant breeding.; Life Sciences.; Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography.; Plant Anatomy/Development.; Plant Breeding/Biotechnology.; Plant Physiology.; Medicine/Public Health, general.

This volume showcases current ethnobiological accounts of the ways that people use plants to promote human health and well-being. The goal in this volume is to highlight some contemporary examples of how plants are central to various aspects of healthy environments and healthy minds and bodies. Auth...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Some Key Theoretical and Methodological Attributes of Medicinal Plant Studies in Ethnobiology
• Jamu becomings on the Island of Java, Indonesia
• Plants are Good to Live With: Coast Salish Food Sovereignty, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and People-Plant Becomings
• Medicinal Plants of Tecopatlán, Jalisco, Mexico: Description of the Uses and Environmental Availability
• Plant Biodiversity Conservation as Human Mental-Health Intervention? More than Human Communication, Affect, and Civic Environmentalism at the Bristol Zoo Gardens
• Medicinal Plants in Bangladesh: Planting Seeds of Care in the Weeds of Neoliberalism
• Medicinal Plants and Resisting Violence in Amazonian Ecuador
• Some Characteristics of Ethnomedical Practices in Semi-Rural Mexico
• What is plant medicine? States of emergence in botanical movements across cultural, conceptual and translocal landscapes.