New medicines based on traditional knowledge: Indigenous and intellectual property rights from an ethnopharmacological perspective

Ethnopharmacology

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 75-85

  Heinrich, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Food supplements; Galanthamine; Indigenous rights; Intellectual property rights; Knowledge driven drug discovery; Medicinal plants; Natural products; Peplin

Indexed keywords

EID: 85054593485     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118930717.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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