Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher:
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Category : Canal Zone
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Considers legislation to establish the Panama Canal Co. and Canal Zone Government to oversee Panama Canal.
Maintenance and Operation of the Panama Canal
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canal Zone
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Considers legislation to establish the Panama Canal Co. and Canal Zone Government to oversee Panama Canal.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canal Zone
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Considers legislation to establish the Panama Canal Co. and Canal Zone Government to oversee Panama Canal.
Bitter Roots
Author: Abena Dove Osseo-Asare
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022608616X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
For over a century, plant specialists worldwide have sought to transform healing plants in African countries into pharmaceuticals. And for equally as long, conflicts over these medicinal plants have endured, from stolen recipes and toxic tonics to unfulfilled promises of laboratory equipment and usurped personal patents. In Bitter Roots, Abena Dove Osseo-Asare draws on publicly available records and extensive interviews with scientists and healers in Ghana, Madagascar, and South Africa to interpret how African scientists and healers, rural communities, and drug companies—including Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Unilever—have sought since the 1880s to develop drugs from Africa’s medicinal plants. Osseo-Asare recalls the efforts to transform six plants into pharmaceuticals: rosy periwinkle, Asiatic pennywort, grains of paradise, Strophanthus, Cryptolepis, and Hoodia. Through the stories of each plant, she shows that herbal medicine and pharmaceutical chemistry have simultaneous and overlapping histories that cross geographic boundaries. At the same time, Osseo-Asare sheds new light on how various interests have tried to manage the rights to these healing plants and probes the challenges associated with assigning ownership to plants and their biochemical components. A fascinating examination of the history of medicine in colonial and postcolonial Africa, Bitter Roots will be indispensable for scholars of Africa; historians interested in medicine, biochemistry, and society; and policy makers concerned with drug access and patent rights.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022608616X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
For over a century, plant specialists worldwide have sought to transform healing plants in African countries into pharmaceuticals. And for equally as long, conflicts over these medicinal plants have endured, from stolen recipes and toxic tonics to unfulfilled promises of laboratory equipment and usurped personal patents. In Bitter Roots, Abena Dove Osseo-Asare draws on publicly available records and extensive interviews with scientists and healers in Ghana, Madagascar, and South Africa to interpret how African scientists and healers, rural communities, and drug companies—including Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Unilever—have sought since the 1880s to develop drugs from Africa’s medicinal plants. Osseo-Asare recalls the efforts to transform six plants into pharmaceuticals: rosy periwinkle, Asiatic pennywort, grains of paradise, Strophanthus, Cryptolepis, and Hoodia. Through the stories of each plant, she shows that herbal medicine and pharmaceutical chemistry have simultaneous and overlapping histories that cross geographic boundaries. At the same time, Osseo-Asare sheds new light on how various interests have tried to manage the rights to these healing plants and probes the challenges associated with assigning ownership to plants and their biochemical components. A fascinating examination of the history of medicine in colonial and postcolonial Africa, Bitter Roots will be indispensable for scholars of Africa; historians interested in medicine, biochemistry, and society; and policy makers concerned with drug access and patent rights.
Public general laws
Author: Maryland
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
State-chartered Credit Unions
Author: United States. Bureau of Federal Credit Unions
Publisher:
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Category : Banks and banking, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Banks and banking, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Baltimore County Families, 1659-1759
Author: Robert W. Barnes
Publisher: Clearfield
ISBN: 9780806318424
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publisher: Clearfield
ISBN: 9780806318424
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The State Weather Service
Author: Nipher
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Estimated Energy R & D Funding by Provincial Governments in 1976-7, 1977-8 and 1978-9
Author: Canada. Office of Energy Research and Development
Publisher: Supply and Services Canada
ISBN:
Category : Energy conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Publisher: Supply and Services Canada
ISBN:
Category : Energy conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Oscar Carleton McCulloch, 1843-1891
Author: Genevieve C. Weeks
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Oscar McCulloch was born in Fremont, Ohio, 2 July 1843 and died 10 December 1891 in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Oscar McCulloch was born in Fremont, Ohio, 2 July 1843 and died 10 December 1891 in Indianapolis, Indiana.
A History of the Cutter Family of New England
Author: Benjamin Cutter
Publisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
HIST OF COSHOCTON COUNTY OHIO
Author: Norman Newell Jr Hill, Comp
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781362742074
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781362742074
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description