God’s Natural Store: The Extraordinary Healing Powers of Plants and Animals
Publisher
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JC Lattès
Parution date
:
2001
EAN
:
9782709621106
Description
Plants have provided the world with remedies for more than five thousand years. As both nature and ancestral knowledge of plants become endangered, ethno-pharmacologists have begun to explore forests and oceans in order to take stock of these unknown resources and develop new drugs. How can chemical and biological tools be optimized to sort out natural substances? Who are the righteous owners of these substances? How should revenues from such discoveries be distributed equally? In Le magasin du Bon Dieu, Pierre Potier and François Chast recount the fascinating story of these discoveries, raising fundamental scientific and economic issues.
Author
François Chast : François Chast is a director at the department of toxicology, pharmacy and pharmacology at the Hotel-Dieu Hospital and a specialist of the history of drugs.
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