First Nations Healing: From Traditional Medicine to Experimental Ethnopharmacology

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DOI
10.1515/zaa-2020-0017
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2196-4726
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0044-2305
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2
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ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ANGLISTIK UND AMERIKANISTIK
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159 - 175
Datum der Veröffentlichung
2020
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Published
Titel
First Nations Healing: From Traditional Medicine to Experimental Ethnopharmacology
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  • Article
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68

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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Focusing on First Nations traditional medicine, we investigated whether traditional knowledge of medicinal plants can be validated by modern scientific methods of molecular and cellular pharmacology and whether this information is of value for improving current therapy options. Based on two projects on medicinal plants of the Gwich’in – a First Nations group on the Canadian North West Coast – we found that extracts from several plants traditionally used medically were able to kill tumor cells, including otherwise multidrug-resistant cells. Investigating medicinal plants from Indigenous communities raises questions about ownership, appropriation, and commercial use. At the same time, because of the intricacies of patent law, publishing scientific investigations on medicinal herbs represents an effective way to prevent biopiracy. Therefore, research cooperation between industrialized and developing countries, and between Western and non-Western knowledge systems will facilitate ethically sound ethnopharmacological research and merge a diversity of competencies and knowledges.</jats:p>
Autoren
DOI
10.1515/zaa-2020-0017
eISSN
2196-4726
ISSN
0044-2305
Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
2
Zeitschrift
Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
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en
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2020
Paginierung
159 - 175
Datum der Veröffentlichung
2020
Status
Published
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2020-0017
Datum der Datenerfassung
2021
Titel
First Nations Healing: From Traditional Medicine to Experimental Ethnopharmacology
Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
68

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Abstract
Focusing on First Nations traditional medicine, we investigated whether traditional knowledge of medicinal plants can be validated by modern scientific methods of molecular and cellular pharmacology and whether this information is of value for improving current therapy options. Based on two projects on medicinal plants of the Gwich’in – a First Nations group on the Canadian North West Coast – we found that extracts from several plants traditionally used medically were able to kill tumor cells, including otherwise multidrug-resistant cells. Investigating medicinal plants from Indigenous communities raises questions about ownership, appropriation, and commercial use. At the same time, because of the intricacies of patent law, publishing scientific investigations on medicinal herbs represents an effective way to prevent biopiracy. Therefore, research cooperation between industrialized and developing countries, and between Western and non-Western knowledge systems will facilitate ethically sound ethnopharmacological research and merge a diversity of competencies and knowledges.
Autoren
ISSN
0044-2305
Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
2
Zeitschrift
Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik: A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture
Schlüsselwörter
  • folk rituals
  • rites
  • healing rites
  • Canada
  • ethnopharmaceutics
Sprache
English
Paginierung
159 - 175
Datum der Veröffentlichung
2020
Herausgeber
Stauffenburg
Titel
First Nations Healing: From Traditional Medicine to Experimental Ethnopharmacology
Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
68

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