Bitter roots the search for healing plants in africa osseo asare abena dove 9780226086026 books amazonca. In bitter roots abena dove osseo asare draws on publicly available records and extensive interviews with scientists and healers in ghana madagascar and south africa to interpret how african scientists and healers rural communities and drug companies including pfizer bristol myers squibb and unilever have sought since the 1880s to develop drugs from africas medicinal plants. Bitter roots the search for healing plants in africa ebook osseo asare abena dove amazonca kindle store. Start by marking bitter roots the search for healing plants in africa as want to read bitter roots the search for healing plants in africa by abena dove osseo asare 373 rating details 15 ratings 3 reviews for over a century plant specialists worldwide have sought to transform healing plants in african countries into pharmaceuticals and for equally as long conflicts . Bitter roots the search for healing plants in africa abena dove osseo asare abstract bitter roots is a history of drug discovery from plants across different african countries it reconsiders the history of pharmaceutical patents biopiracy and bioprospecting to show that african medicine inspired new phytochemicals and probes the responsibilities of multiple innovators to compensate rural