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[PDF] Download Bitter Roots: The Search for Healing Plants in Africa By -Abena Dove Osseo-Asare Full Or Descriptions :For over a century, plant specialists worldwide have sought to transform healing plants in Africancountries into pharmaceuticals. And for equally as long, conflicts over these medicinal plants haveendured, from stolen recipes and toxic tonics to unfulfilled promises of laboratory equipment andusurped personal patents. In Bitter Roots, Abena Dove Osseo-Asare draws on publicly availablerecords and extensive interviews with scientists and healers in Ghana, Madagascar, and SouthAfrica to interpret how African scientists and healers, rural communities, and drugcompanies?including Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Unilever?have sought since the 1880s todevelop drugs from Africa?s medicinal plants.???????????Osseo-Asare recalls the efforts totransform six plants into pharmaceuticals: rosy periwinkle, Asiatic pennywort, grains of paradise,Strophanthus, Cryptolepis, and Hoodia.?Through the stories of each plant, she shows that herbalmedicine and pharmaceutical chemistry have . Details Of Books : Author : Abena Dove Osseo-Asare Pages : 288 pages Publisher : University of Chicago Press Language : ISBN-10 : 022608602X ISBN-13 : 9780226086026