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- Ethnopharmacology,
Ethnobotany, Indigenous Medicinal Plants
- Complementary
and Alternative Medicines (CAM): prevention
and treatment in the "informal
sector" in contemporary Hawai?i – cultural
constructions and social transactions
of healing, ethics, implications for
clinic policy.
- Ethnomedicine
in Eastern Indonesia: indigenous and
western medicines in transition.
- Health
and therapeutics among Hausa in Nigeria:
cultural constructions of Hausa medicine;
indigenous medicines and diet; impact
on indigenous therapeutics of introduced
bio-medicines.
- Co-Evolution
of Parasites, Plants, and People: Oxidation
and the mediation of Malaria, Inherited
Red Cell Disorders, Pharmaceuticals,
and Medicinal Plants
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Selected
Publications
| (In
Press): Etkin, N.L. Ethnopharmacology. In The
Encyclopedia of Food.. S.H. Katz, ed. Charles
Scribner. New York. |
| (In
Press): Etkin, N.L. Contributions of Traditional
Knowledge and Practices to the Conservation
of Biodiversity. In Proceedings of the International
Conference on Science and Technology in Biodiversity
Conservation and Utilization. Xiao Pei-Gen,
ed. Chinese Academy of Sciences. Beijing |
| (In
Press): Etkin, N.L. M. do Céu de Madureira,
and G. Burford. Guidelines for Ethnobotanical
Studies on Traditional Antimalarials. In Traditional
Medicines for Malaria. M. Willcox and G. Bodeker,
eds. RITAM. Oxford, UK. |
| (In
Press): Etkin, N.L., J.D. Baker, and J.N. Busch.
Traditional Therapeutics. In Encyclopedia of
Public Health. C.J.L. Murray, ed. Academic Press.
San Diego, California |
| (In
Press): Etkin, N.L. Nutraceuticals, Cosmeceuticals,
and Antiaging Agents in US Popular Culture.
In Proceedings of the International Symposium
on Lycium and Antiaging Agents. Xiao, Pei-Gen,
editor. Ningxia, China. |
| (In
Press): Etkin, N.L. The Future of Ethnobotany:
Moving Fast, Going Where? In Ethnobotany in
the Third Millennium: Expectations and Unresolved
Issues. Aldo Moretti, ed. University of Naples
Press. Naples, Italy. |
| (In
Press): Etkin, N.L. and Paul J. Ross. Polypharmacy
and the Elderly Cancer Patient: Rethinking “Noncompliance.”
In Ethnogerontology and Ethnogeriatrics: Living
and Healing Old Age in the World. A. Guerci,
ed. Erga Edizioni. Genoa, Italy. |
| (In
Press): Etkin, N.L. Practitioner Profile, Medical
Ecological Approaches to Health. In Culture
and Health: Applying Theoretical Concepts in
Medical Anthropology. M. Winkelman. Harcourt
Brace. New York. |
| 2003:
Etkin, N.L. The Co-Evolution of People, Plants,
and Parasites: Biological and Cultural Adaptations
to Malaria. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society
(UK) 62:1-7. |
| 2003:
Etkin, N.L. and H.L. McMillen. The Ethnobotany
of Noni (Morinda citrifolia L., Rubiaceae):
Dwelling in the Land between La?au Lapa?au and
TestiNONials. In CTAHR Proceedings. S.C. Nelson,
ed. Pp. 11-16. College of Tropical Agriculture
and Human Resources. University of Hawai?i.
Honolulu. |
| 2002:
Etkin, N.L. Local Knowledge of Biotic Diversity
and its Conservation in Rural Hausaland, Northern
Nigeria. Economic Botany 56(1):73-88. |
| 2002.
Etkin, N.L. and P.J. Ross. Polypharmacy and
the Elderly Cancer Patient: Rethinking “Noncompliance.”
In Living Old Age: The Western World and Modernization.
A. Guerci and S. Consigliere, eds. Pp. 21-32,
and CD-ROM. Erga Edizioni. Genoa, Italy. |
| 2001:
Etkin, N.L. Perspectives in Ethnopharmacology:
Forging a Closer Link between Bioscience and
Traditional Empirical Knowledge. Journal of
Ethnopharmacology 76:177-182. |
| 2000:
Etkin, N.L. and P.J. Ross. The Ethnopharmacology
of Fermented Medicinal Foods. In Proceedings
of the International Symposium on Ethnobotany
– Mediicnal Plants, Folk Traditions: Ethnomedicine,
History, and Pharmacology. R. Chaves, ed. Universidad
Para La Paz. San José, Costa Rica. CD-ROM. |
| 1999:
Etkin, N.L., A.R. Dixon, P.W. Nishimoto, and
P.J. Ross. Medicinal Foods in Multiethnic Honolulu,
Hawai?i. In Cultural Food. A. Guerci, ed. Pp.
12-26. Erga Edizioni. Genoa, Italy. |
| 1999:
Dixon, A.R., H. McMillen, and N.L. Etkin. Ferment
This: The Transformation of Noni, a Traditional
Polynesian Medicine (Morinda citrifolia L.)
Economic Botany 53:51-68. |
| 1999:
Etkin, N.L., P.J. Ross, and I. Muazzamu. The
Rational Basis of "Irrational" Drug
Use: Pharmaceuticals in the Context of "Development."
In Anthropology in Public Health. R.A. Hahn,
ed. Pp. 165-181. Oxford University Press. Oxford. |
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