Medical ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology of Europe

Ethnopharmacology

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 343-355

  Pardo De Santayana, Manuel ^a   Quave, Cassandra L ^b,c   Sõukand, Renata ^d   Pieroni, Andrea ^e  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Estonian Literary Museum   (Estonia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GASTRONOMIC SCIENCES   (Italy)

Author keywords

European popular medicine; Field studies; History of medicine; Medicinal plants

Indexed keywords

EID: 85013765888     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118930717.ch29     Document Type: Chapter

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