The Ethnobotany Program
at the University of Hawaii at Manoa

Botany 442: Medical Ethnobotany

Required Texts

1) Robbers, J., M. Speedie, & V. Tyler. 1996. Pharmacognosy and Pharmacobiotechnology. Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, MD.

2) Lewis, W. & M. Elvin-Lewis. 2003. Medical Botany: Plants Affecting Human Health.

Optional Texts

1) Balick, M., E. Elisabetsky, & S. Laird. 1996. Editors of Medicinal Resources of the Tropical Forest. Columbia University Press, New York, NY.

2) Laird, S.A.  2002.  Editor of Biodiversity and Traditional Knowledge: Equitable Partnerships in Practice.  Earthscan Publications Ltd., London, UK.

3) Schultes, R.E. & R.F. Raffauf. 2004. Vine of the Soul: Medicine Men, their Plants and Rituals in the Colombian Amazonia. Synergetic Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Additionally, selected current articles dealing with popular herbal medicine, narrow special interest topics, taxonomic selections of plant drugs, and cultural perspectives of medicinal plants may be passed out as assigned readings.

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