{"product_id":"healing-roots-anthropology-in-life-and-medicine-9781789200591","title":"Healing Roots: Anthropology in Life and Medicine","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eUmhlonyane\u003c\/em\u003e, also known as \u003cem\u003eArtemisia afra\u003c\/em\u003e, is one of the oldest and best-documented indigenous medicines in South Africa. This bush, which grows wild throughout the sub-Saharan region, smells and tastes like “medicine,” thus easily making its way into people’s lives and becoming the choice of everyday healing for Xhosa healer-diviners and Rastafarian herbalists. This “natural” remedy has recently sparked curiosity as scientists search for new molecules against a tuberculosis pandemic while hoping to recognize indigenous medicine. Laplante follows \u003cem\u003eumhlonyane\u003c\/em\u003e on its trails and trials of becoming a biopharmaceutical — from the “open air” to controlled environments — learning from the plant and from the people who use it with hopes in healing.\u003cbr\u003e \t \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“Overall, Laplante’s\u003c\/em\u003e Healing Roots\u003cem\u003e, focusing on the tensions between the biomedical and traditional healing–based ways of making a medicine is an informative and important contribution to the literature [of] intrinsic value in the classroom, primarily for graduate-level students with specific interests in South Africa and the crossroads of ethnopharmacology and biomedicine.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Medical Anthropology Quarterly\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“\u003c\/em\u003eHealing Roots \u003cem\u003eshould be compulsory reading for students of pharmacology in Africa. That statement summarizes the wealth of information and in-depth analysis contained in a book that set out to, and succeeded in articulating the dissonance that exists in attempts to validate indigenous medicine using completely alien and super-imposed standards.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• African Studies Quarterly\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This book represents an interesting addition to the emerging series of articles and books dedicated to the study of the interactions between Western and African systems of knowledge…[It] is very provocative and will no doubt provoke many intellectual debates.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Gilles Bibeau\u003c\/strong\u003e, Université de Montréal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tIllustrations\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e \tAbbreviations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e Tracing the Preclinical Trial of an Indigenous Plant\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1. \u003c\/strong\u003eKnowing \u003cem\u003eUmhlonyane\/Artemisia afra\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2. \u003c\/strong\u003eEngaging in Medicine\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e Tracing Medicine – Wayfaring\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4. I\u003c\/strong\u003emagining Indigeneity\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Healing the Nation\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6. \u003c\/strong\u003eDreams, Ancestors and Sound Healing\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7. \u003c\/strong\u003eWeaving Molecules in Life\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eConclusion:\u003c\/strong\u003e Imagining the Clinical Trial\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tReferences\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042548678999,"sku":"9781789200591","price":26.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781789200591.jpg?v=1750954590","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/healing-roots-anthropology-in-life-and-medicine-9781789200591","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}