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Draws on publicly available records and interviews with scientists and healers in Ghana, Madagascar, and South Africa to interpret how African scientists and healers, rural communities, and drug companies have sought since the 1880s to develop drugs from Africa's medicinal plants.

Bitter Roots

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 17 January 2014
      ISBN-13 9780226086026
      978-0226086026
      ISBN-10 022608602X
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      Complementary and alternative medicine Botany and plant sciences Science: general issues

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Draws on publicly available records and interviews with scientists and healers in Ghana, Madagascar, and South Africa to interpret how African scientists and healers, rural communities, and drug companies have sought since the 1880s to develop drugs from Africa's medicinal plants.

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