Active compounds and atoms of society: Plants, bodies, minds and cultures in the work of Kenyan ethnobotanical knowledge

Social Studies of Science

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 599-634

  Wenzel Geissler, P ^a   Prince, Ruth J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Africa; Botany; Ethnography; Kenya; Medicine; Parasitology; Pharmacology; Psychology

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOBOTANY; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; KENYA; KNOWLEDGE; PARASITOLOGY; PHARMACOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY;

AFRICA; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; CULTURE; ETHNOBOTANY; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMANS; KENYA; KNOWLEDGE; PARASITOLOGY; PHARMACOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRICS;

EID: 69549096431     PISSN: 03063127     EISSN: 14603659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0306312709104075     Document Type: Article

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