Medicinal Resources of the Tropical Forest: Biodiversity and Its Importance to Human Health

by Michael Balick, Elaine Elisabetsky, Sarah Laird

Overview

— Times Higher Education Supplement

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231101707
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	02/22/1996
Series:	Biology and Resource Management Series
Pages:	440
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 10.34(h) x 1.22(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Michael J. Balick is director and philecology curator at the New York Botanical Garden Institute of Economic Botany, and adjunct professor in forestry at Yale University and the City University of New York.

Elaine Elisabetsky is professor at the Laboratório de Ethnofarmacologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil.

Saraah A. Laird is research fellow at the Rainforest Alliance, and former director of the Rainforest Alliance's Periwinkle Project.

Editorial Reviews

A survey of the current literature on medicinal uses of tropical plants, detailing the drug discovery work of major pharmaceutical companies as well as smaller-scale regional efforts. Discusses habitat protection, ethical issues and intellectual property rights, and the practical aspects of natural products chemistry, in sections on biodiversity prospecting, drug development, and conservation; and country and regional programs in medicinal plant research and health care. Includes guidelines for plant collections. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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