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Nina L. EtkinPublication Details
BookUniversity of Arizona Press2006Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) GT2850 .E874 2006 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Description
Incorporating co-evolution with a biocultural perspective, she addresses some of the physiological effects of foods across cultures and through history while taking into account both the complex dynamics of food choice and the blurred distinctions between food and medicine. Drawing on an extensive literature that transects food and culture, the history of medicine, ethnopharmacology, food history, nutrition, and human evolution, Edible Medicines demonstrates the intricate relationship between culture and nature. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
Contents
- Introduction
- Food in the history of biomedicine
- Spices : the pharmacology of the exotic
- Fermented foods and beverages
- The lives of social plants
- Medicinal qualities of animal foods
- Health in the marketplace : complementary and alternative medicine, functional foods, and more
- Appendix: Some common spices
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- 0816520933
- 9780816520930
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