Books written by Nina L. Etkin

  • Edible Medicines: An Ethnopharmacology of Food

    Waveland Press , Prospect Heights , Ill . Pollan , Michael . 2001. Behind the organic - industrial complex . New York Times , 13 May . Pollan , Michael . 2003. The futures of foods . ... Posey , Darrell A. 1981.

  • MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES - Volume XIII

    Iroquois Medical Botany. 1st ed. Syracuse, N.Y: Syracuse University Press. [One of the great ethnobotanical syntheses; the author combines intensive first hand fieldwork with a mastery of a century of earlier work on Iroquois plant use.] ...

  • Ethnopharmacology - Volume I

    Medicine: A substance or idea which people utilize when they do not feel well. ... Iroquois Medical Botany. ... the author combines intensive first hand fieldwork with a mastery of a century of earlier work on Iroquois plant use.

  • MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES - Volume II

    Conclusions Insights Into Evolutionary Systems Via Chemobiological Data 25 Otto R. Gottlieb, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Química Orgânica, Instituto de Química, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Campus do Valonguinho, Rio de Janeiro, ...

  • MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES - Volume VII

    To meet this felt need, the Multilingual Dictionary of Disaster Medicine and International Relief defines some 1200 terms, endorsed by the U.N. Disaster Relief Coordinator as the standard vocabulary of disaster management, ...

  • Eating on the Wild Side: The Pharmacologic, Ecologic and Social Implications of Using Noncultigens

    ception of Permanence in Urban Microenvironments ” ( in Urbanism , Health , and Human Biology in Industrialized ... of Food Phytochemicals ( with John T. Romeo ) and co - author of Luo Biological Dictionary ( with John O. Kokwaro ) .

  • Plants and Indigenous Medicine and Diet: Biobehavioral Approaches

    AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS 16:435–450. Livingstone, Frank B. 1967 ABNORMAL HEMOGLOBINS IN HUMAN POPULATIONS. Aldine. Chicago. Livingstone, Frank B 1971 Malaria and human polymorphisms.

  • Ethnopharmacology - Volume II

    [Classic ethnographic study of religious and artistic symbolism associated with the shamanic use of psychoactive plants]. Rudgely, R. (2000). The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Substances. New York: St. Martin's Press.

  • MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES - Volume XIV

    Encyclopedia of Shamanism. Santa Barbara: ABC Clio. [Recently compiled encyclopedia covering shamanism throughout the globe]. Wasson, R. G. (1968). Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality. (Vol. 1). New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, ...

  • Eating on the Wild Side: The Pharmacologic, Ecologic and Social Implications of Using Noncultigens

    CONTENTS 1. The Cull of the Wild, Nina L. Etkin Selection 2. Agriculture and the Acquisition of Medicinal Plant Knowledge, Michael H. Logan & Anna R. Dixon 3. Ambivalence to the Palatability Factors in Wild Food Plants, Timothy Johns 4.