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The Resource Medicinal resources of the tropical forest : biodiversity and its importance to human health, edited by Michael J. Balick, Elaine Elisabetsky, Sarah A. Laird

Medicinal resources of the tropical forest : biodiversity and its importance to human health, edited by Michael J. Balick, Elaine Elisabetsky, Sarah A. Laird

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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
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
xiv, 440 pages
Contents
  • Natural products and medicine : an overview / Varro E. Tyler -- Biological diversity, chemical diversity, and the search for new pharmaceuticals / James D. McChesney -- Development of pharmaceutical companies based on plant products : suggested approaches / Douglas Davidson, Peter J. Hylands, William Rod Sharp, and Roy W. Stahlhut -- Chemical approaches to the study of ethnomedicines / Domingos Sávio Nunes -- The contribution of the physician to medicinal plant research / Douglas C. Daly and Charles F. Limbach -- Conservation and tropical medicinal plant research / Steven R. King -- Higher plants versus microorganisms : their future in pharmaceutical research / Georg Albers-Schönberg -- Topotecan development : an example of the evolution of natural product drug discovery research / Brad K. Carté and Randall K. Johnson -- Shaman pharmaceuticals' approach to drug development / Lisa A. Conte -- Drug discovery and development at the National Cancer Institute : the role of natural products of plant origin / Gordon M. Cragg and Michael R. Boyd -- The Merck/INBio agreement : a pharmaceutical company perspective / Lynn Helena Caporale -- Biodiversity prospecting / Walter V. Reid, Sarah A. Laird, Carrie A. Meyer, Rodrigo Gámez, Ana Sittenfeld, Danile Janzen, Michael A. Gollin, and Calestous Juma -- Property rights and genetic resources : a framework for analysis / Jack R. Kloppenburg Jr. and Michael J. Balick -- Monetizing the pharmaceutical benefits of plants / Peter P. Principe -- Capturing the pharmaceutical value of species information : opportunities for developing countries / Bruce A. Aylward --
  • Resource utilization and conservation of biodiversity in Africa / Maurice M. Iwu -- The economic value and potential for plant-derived pharmaceuticals from Ghana / G.T. Odamtten, E. Laing, and D.K. Abbiw -- The Rwanda experience in enhancing and commercializing the use of traditional medicinal plants / Luc Van Puyvelde -- The role of medicinal plants in health care in India / James A. Duke -- A standardized Commiphora wightii preparation for management of hyperlipidemic disorders / B.N. Dhawan -- Plant explorations in Asia under the sponsorship of the National Cancer Institute, 1986-1991 : an overview / Djaja Doel Soejarto, Charlotte Gyllenhaal, Peter S. Ashton, and S. H. Sohmer -- Medicinal plants of Mexico : a program for their scientific validation / Xavier Lozoya -- TRAMIL : a research project on the medicinal plant resources of the Caribbean / Lionel Robineau and Djaja Doel Soejarto -- Ethnopharmacological studies and biological conservation in Belize / Michael J. Balick, Rosita Arvigo, Gregory Shropshire, and Robert Mendelsohn -- Tropical medicinal plant conservation and development projects : the case of the Costa Rican National Institute of Biodiversity (INBio) / Ana Sittenfeld -- FENAMAD's program in traditional medicine : an integrated approach to health care in the Peruvian Amazon / Miguel N. Alexiades and Didier Lacaze D. -- Environment, society, and disease : the response of phytotherapy to disease among the Warao Indians of the Orinoco Delta / Werner Wilbert -- Medicinal plant research in Brazil : data from regional and national meetings / Alba R.M. Souza Brito and Antonio A. Souza Brito -- Community ethnobotany : setting foundations for an informed decision on trading rain forest resources / Elaine Elisabetsky -- Appendix: Manual for plant collections / Elaine Elisabetsky, Rachel Trajber, and Lin Chao Ming -- Epilogue / Richard Deertrack
Isbn
9780231101714
Instance
Label
Medicinal resources of the tropical forest : biodiversity and its importance to human health
Title
Medicinal resources of the tropical forest
Title remainder
biodiversity and its importance to human health
Statement of responsibility
edited by Michael J. Balick, Elaine Elisabetsky, Sarah A. Laird
Title variation
Biodiversity and its importance to human health
Contributor
Editor
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
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
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Cataloging source
DLC
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
RS164
LC item number
.M377 1996
Literary form
non fiction
NAL call number
RS164.M377
NAL item number
1996
Nature of contents
bibliography
NLM call number
  • 1996 L-690
  • QV 766
NLM item number
M4873 1996
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
1952-
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • Balick, Michael J.
  • Elisabetsky, Elaine
  • Laird, Sarah A.
Series statement
Biology and resource management series
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Materia medica, Vegetable
  • Rain forest plants
  • Ethnobotany
  • Traditional medicine
  • Plants, Medicinal
  • Ethnobotany
  • Ecosystem
  • Tropical Climate
  • Plantas medicinais
  • Geneeskrachtige planten
  • Regenwouden
  • Biodiversiteit
  • Volksgeneeskunde
  • Medicinal plants
  • Medicine,Traditional
  • Pharmacology
  • Ethnobotany
  • Materia medica, Vegetable
  • Rain forest plants
  • Traditional medicine
Label
Medicinal resources of the tropical forest : biodiversity and its importance to human health, edited by Michael J. Balick, Elaine Elisabetsky, Sarah A. Laird
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Natural products and medicine : an overview / Varro E. Tyler -- Biological diversity, chemical diversity, and the search for new pharmaceuticals / James D. McChesney -- Development of pharmaceutical companies based on plant products : suggested approaches / Douglas Davidson, Peter J. Hylands, William Rod Sharp, and Roy W. Stahlhut -- Chemical approaches to the study of ethnomedicines / Domingos Sávio Nunes -- The contribution of the physician to medicinal plant research / Douglas C. Daly and Charles F. Limbach -- Conservation and tropical medicinal plant research / Steven R. King -- Higher plants versus microorganisms : their future in pharmaceutical research / Georg Albers-Schönberg -- Topotecan development : an example of the evolution of natural product drug discovery research / Brad K. Carté and Randall K. Johnson -- Shaman pharmaceuticals' approach to drug development / Lisa A. Conte -- Drug discovery and development at the National Cancer Institute : the role of natural products of plant origin / Gordon M. Cragg and Michael R. Boyd -- The Merck/INBio agreement : a pharmaceutical company perspective / Lynn Helena Caporale -- Biodiversity prospecting / Walter V. Reid, Sarah A. Laird, Carrie A. Meyer, Rodrigo Gámez, Ana Sittenfeld, Danile Janzen, Michael A. Gollin, and Calestous Juma -- Property rights and genetic resources : a framework for analysis / Jack R. Kloppenburg Jr. and Michael J. Balick -- Monetizing the pharmaceutical benefits of plants / Peter P. Principe -- Capturing the pharmaceutical value of species information : opportunities for developing countries / Bruce A. Aylward --
  • Resource utilization and conservation of biodiversity in Africa / Maurice M. Iwu -- The economic value and potential for plant-derived pharmaceuticals from Ghana / G.T. Odamtten, E. Laing, and D.K. Abbiw -- The Rwanda experience in enhancing and commercializing the use of traditional medicinal plants / Luc Van Puyvelde -- The role of medicinal plants in health care in India / James A. Duke -- A standardized Commiphora wightii preparation for management of hyperlipidemic disorders / B.N. Dhawan -- Plant explorations in Asia under the sponsorship of the National Cancer Institute, 1986-1991 : an overview / Djaja Doel Soejarto, Charlotte Gyllenhaal, Peter S. Ashton, and S. H. Sohmer -- Medicinal plants of Mexico : a program for their scientific validation / Xavier Lozoya -- TRAMIL : a research project on the medicinal plant resources of the Caribbean / Lionel Robineau and Djaja Doel Soejarto -- Ethnopharmacological studies and biological conservation in Belize / Michael J. Balick, Rosita Arvigo, Gregory Shropshire, and Robert Mendelsohn -- Tropical medicinal plant conservation and development projects : the case of the Costa Rican National Institute of Biodiversity (INBio) / Ana Sittenfeld -- FENAMAD's program in traditional medicine : an integrated approach to health care in the Peruvian Amazon / Miguel N. Alexiades and Didier Lacaze D. -- Environment, society, and disease : the response of phytotherapy to disease among the Warao Indians of the Orinoco Delta / Werner Wilbert -- Medicinal plant research in Brazil : data from regional and national meetings / Alba R.M. Souza Brito and Antonio A. Souza Brito -- Community ethnobotany : setting foundations for an informed decision on trading rain forest resources / Elaine Elisabetsky -- Appendix: Manual for plant collections / Elaine Elisabetsky, Rachel Trajber, and Lin Chao Ming -- Epilogue / Richard Deertrack
Dimensions
26 cm.
Extent
xiv, 440 pages
Isbn
9780231101714
Lccn
95013809
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations, maps
System control number
  • (OCoLC)32312412
  • (OCoLC)ocm32312412
Label
Medicinal resources of the tropical forest : biodiversity and its importance to human health, edited by Michael J. Balick, Elaine Elisabetsky, Sarah A. Laird
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Natural products and medicine : an overview / Varro E. Tyler -- Biological diversity, chemical diversity, and the search for new pharmaceuticals / James D. McChesney -- Development of pharmaceutical companies based on plant products : suggested approaches / Douglas Davidson, Peter J. Hylands, William Rod Sharp, and Roy W. Stahlhut -- Chemical approaches to the study of ethnomedicines / Domingos Sávio Nunes -- The contribution of the physician to medicinal plant research / Douglas C. Daly and Charles F. Limbach -- Conservation and tropical medicinal plant research / Steven R. King -- Higher plants versus microorganisms : their future in pharmaceutical research / Georg Albers-Schönberg -- Topotecan development : an example of the evolution of natural product drug discovery research / Brad K. Carté and Randall K. Johnson -- Shaman pharmaceuticals' approach to drug development / Lisa A. Conte -- Drug discovery and development at the National Cancer Institute : the role of natural products of plant origin / Gordon M. Cragg and Michael R. Boyd -- The Merck/INBio agreement : a pharmaceutical company perspective / Lynn Helena Caporale -- Biodiversity prospecting / Walter V. Reid, Sarah A. Laird, Carrie A. Meyer, Rodrigo Gámez, Ana Sittenfeld, Danile Janzen, Michael A. Gollin, and Calestous Juma -- Property rights and genetic resources : a framework for analysis / Jack R. Kloppenburg Jr. and Michael J. Balick -- Monetizing the pharmaceutical benefits of plants / Peter P. Principe -- Capturing the pharmaceutical value of species information : opportunities for developing countries / Bruce A. Aylward --
  • Resource utilization and conservation of biodiversity in Africa / Maurice M. Iwu -- The economic value and potential for plant-derived pharmaceuticals from Ghana / G.T. Odamtten, E. Laing, and D.K. Abbiw -- The Rwanda experience in enhancing and commercializing the use of traditional medicinal plants / Luc Van Puyvelde -- The role of medicinal plants in health care in India / James A. Duke -- A standardized Commiphora wightii preparation for management of hyperlipidemic disorders / B.N. Dhawan -- Plant explorations in Asia under the sponsorship of the National Cancer Institute, 1986-1991 : an overview / Djaja Doel Soejarto, Charlotte Gyllenhaal, Peter S. Ashton, and S. H. Sohmer -- Medicinal plants of Mexico : a program for their scientific validation / Xavier Lozoya -- TRAMIL : a research project on the medicinal plant resources of the Caribbean / Lionel Robineau and Djaja Doel Soejarto -- Ethnopharmacological studies and biological conservation in Belize / Michael J. Balick, Rosita Arvigo, Gregory Shropshire, and Robert Mendelsohn -- Tropical medicinal plant conservation and development projects : the case of the Costa Rican National Institute of Biodiversity (INBio) / Ana Sittenfeld -- FENAMAD's program in traditional medicine : an integrated approach to health care in the Peruvian Amazon / Miguel N. Alexiades and Didier Lacaze D. -- Environment, society, and disease : the response of phytotherapy to disease among the Warao Indians of the Orinoco Delta / Werner Wilbert -- Medicinal plant research in Brazil : data from regional and national meetings / Alba R.M. Souza Brito and Antonio A. Souza Brito -- Community ethnobotany : setting foundations for an informed decision on trading rain forest resources / Elaine Elisabetsky -- Appendix: Manual for plant collections / Elaine Elisabetsky, Rachel Trajber, and Lin Chao Ming -- Epilogue / Richard Deertrack
Dimensions
26 cm.
Extent
xiv, 440 pages
Isbn
9780231101714
Lccn
95013809
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations, maps
System control number
  • (OCoLC)32312412
  • (OCoLC)ocm32312412

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