Plants, health and healing : on the interface of ethnobotany and medical anthropology / edited by Elisabeth Hsu and Stephen Harris.

New York : Berghahn Books, 2010.

xi, 316 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm.

Plants in medical practice and common sense : on the interface of ethnobotany and medical anthropology / Elisabeth Hsu -- Non-native plants and their medicinal uses / Stephen Harris -- Qing hao (Herba Artemisiae annuae) in the Chinese Materia medica / Elisabeth Hsu (in consultation with Frédéric Obringer) -- Shamanic plants and gender in the healing forest / Françoise Barbira Freedman -- Persons, plants and relations : treating childhood illness in a western Kenyan village / P. Wenzel Geissler and Ruth J. Prince -- East goes west : Ginkgo biloba and dementia / John Grimley Evans -- Medicinal, stimulant and ritual plant use : an ethnobotany of caffeine-containing plants / Caroline S. Weckerle, Verena Timbul and Philip Blumenshine.

Includes bibliographical references and index.