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Materia Medica, Pharmacology & Bio-Prospecting Main Menu Introduction Student Projects An Investigation of Five Plants from Rumphius' The Ambonese Herbal By Jasmine Mariko Reddy, Riya Shah, Emily Burns, Jessica Wakefield and Sareen Manuel The Importance of Plantago in Medieval European Medicine By Chris Jamali, Eryn Wilkinson, Swetha Sundaram, Osvaldo Sanchez Fernandez, and Fiza Zahra Baloch Re-discovery of Huang Hua Hao: "Qing Hao," Artemisinin, and Malaria By Anna Yu, Yasaman Moradian, Arman Soltanzadeh, Maya Barajas-Tavera, and Medha Vallurupalli

Materia Medica, Pharmacology & Bio-Prospecting

39212 Study integrates literature from multiple disciplines to investigate history of collected knowledge about therapeutic properties of any healing substance originated from natural resources. Study accomplished through lens of pharmacological studies and applications in historical contexts across different medical cultures. Emphasis on bioprospecting issues of drug discovery, acquisition, testing, and application. These issues include circulation of knowledge in translation, collection, and classification; development in colonial and postcolonial contexts; and emergence of scientific pharmacology, ethnobotany, and ethnopharmacology.

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