Medicinal resources of the tropical forest : biodiversity and its importance to human health /

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Imprint:New York : Columbia University Press, c1996.
Description:x, 440 p.
Language:English
Series:Biology and resource management series
Biology and resource management in the tropics series.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1836851
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Other authors / contributors:Balick, Michael J., 1952-
Elisabetsky, Elaine.
Laird, Sarah A.
ISBN:0231101708 (cloth)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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505 0 0 |t Foreword /  |r Norman R. Farnsworth --  |g Pt. 1.  |t Biodiversity Prospecting, Drug Development, and Conservation.  |g 1.  |t Natural Products and Medicine: An Overview /  |r Varro E. Tyler.  |g 2.  |t Biological Diversity, Chemical Diversity, and the Search for New Pharmaceuticals /  |r James D. McChesney.  |g 3.  |t Development of Pharmaceutical Companies Based on Plant Products: Suggested Approaches /  |r Douglas Davidson, Peter J. Hylands, William Rod Sharp and Roy W. Stahlhut.  |g 4.  |t Chemical Approaches to the Study of Ethnomedicines /  |r Domingos Savio Nunes.  |g 5.  |t The Contribution of the Physician to Medicinal Plant Research /  |r Douglas C. Daly and Charles F. Limbach.  |g 6.  |t Conservation and Tropical Medicinal Plant Research /  |r Steven R. King.  |g 7.  |t Higher Plants Versus Microorganisms: Their Future in Pharmaceutical Research /  |r Georg Albers-Schonberg.  |g 8.  |t Topotecan Development: An Example of the Evolution of Natural Product Drug Discovery Research /  |r Brad K. Carte and Randall K. Johnson.  |g 9.  |t Shaman Pharmaceuticals' Approach to Drug Development /  |r Lisa A. Conte.  |g 10.  |t Drug Discovery and Development at the National Cancer Institute: The Role of Natural Products of Plant Origin /  |r Gordon M. Cragg and Michael R. Boyd.  |g 11.  |t The Merck/INBio Agreement: A Pharmaceutical Company Perspective /  |r Lynn Helena Caporale.  |g 12.  |t Biodiversity Prospecting /  |r Walter V. Reid, Sarah A. Laird, Carrie A. Meyer, Rodrigo Gamez, Ana Sittenfeld, Daniel Janzen, Michael A. Gollin and Calestous Juma.  |g 13.  |t Property Rights and Genetic Resources: A Framework for Analysis /  |r Jack R. Kloppenburg, Jr. and Michael J. Balick.  |g 14.  |t Monetizing the Pharmacological Benefits of Plants /  |r Peter P. Principe.  |g 15.  |t Capturing the Pharmaceutical Value of Species Information: Opportunities for Developing Countries /  |r Bruce A. Aylward --  |g Pt. 2.  |t Country and Regional Programs in Medicinal Plant Research and Health Care.  |g 16.  |t Resource Utilization and Conservation of Biodiversity in Africa /  |r Maurice M. Iwu.  |g 17.  |t The Economic Value and Potential for Plant-Derived Pharmaceuticals from Ghana /  |r G. T. Odamtten, E. Laing and D. K. Abbiw.  |g 18.  |t The Rwanda Experience in enhancing and Commercializing the Use of Traditional Medicinal Plants /  |r Luc Van Puyvelde.  |g 19.  |t The Role of Medicinal Plants in Health Care in India /  |r James A. Duke.  |g 20.  |t A Standardized Commiphora wightii Preparation for Management of Hyperlipidemic Disorders /  |r B. N. Dhawan.  |g 21.  |t Plant Explorations in Asia Under the Sponsorship of the National Cancer Institute, 1986-1991: An Overview /  |r Djaja Doel Soejarto, Charlotte Gyllenhaal, Peter S. Ashton and S. H. Sohmer.  |g 22.  |t Medicinal Plants of Mexico: A Program for Their Scientific Validation /  |r Xavier Lozoya.  |g 23.  |t TRAMIL: A Research Project on the Medicinal Plant Resources of the Caribbean /  |r Lionel Robineau and Djaja Doel Soejarto.  |g 24.  |t Ethnopharmacological Studies and Biological Conservation in Belize /  |r Michael J. Balick, Rosita Arvigo, Gregory Shropshire and Robert Mendelsohn.  |g 25.  |t Tropical Medicinal Plant Conservation and Development Projects: The Case of the Costa Rican National Institute of Biodiversity (INBio) /  |r Ana Sittenfeld.  |g 26.  |t FENAMAD's Program in Traditional Medicine: An Integrated Approach to Health Care in the Peruvian Amazon /  |r Miguel N. Alexiades and Didier Lacaze D.  |g 27.  |t Environment, Society, and Disease: The Response of Phytotherapy to Disease Among the Warao Indians of the Orinoco Delta /  |r Werner Wilbert.  |g 28.  |t Medicinal Plant Research in Brazil: Data from Regional and National Meetings /  |r Alba R. M. Souza and Antonio A. Souza Brito.  |g 29.  |t Community Ethnobotany: Setting Foundations for an Informed Decision on Trading Rain Forest Resources /  |r Elaine Elisabetsky --  |t Appendix: Manual for Plant Collections /  |r Elaine Elisabetsky, Rachel Trajber and Lin Chao Ming --  |t Epilogue /  |r Richerd Deertrack. 
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