Medicinal Resources of the Tropical Forest

by Balick, Michael J.; Elisabetsky, Elaine; Laird, Sarah A.

• ISBN13: 9780231101714
• ISBN10: 0231101716
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-04-01
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

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Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Norman R. Farnsworth
Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xv
PART ONE Biodiversity Prospecting, Drug Development, and Conservation	1	(230)
Natural Products and Medicine: An Overview	3	(8)
Varro E. Tyler
Biological Diversity, Chemical Diversity, and the Search for New Pharmaceuticals	11	(8)
James D. McChesney
Development of Pharmaceutical Companies Based on Plant Products: Suggested Approaches	19	(22)
Douglas Davidson
Peter J. Hylands
William Rod Sharp
Roy W. Stahlhut
Chemical Approaches to the Study of Ethnomedicines	41	(7)
Domingos Savio Nunes
The Contribution of the Physician to Medicinal Plant Research	48	(15)
Douglas C. Daly
Charles F. Limbach
Conservation and Tropical Medicinal Plant Research	63	(12)
Steven R. King
Higher Plants Versus Microorganisms: Their Future in Pharmaceutical Research	75	(3)
Georg Albers-Schonberg
Topotecan Development: An Example of the Evolution of Natural Product Drug Discovery Research	78	(16)
Brad K. Carte
Randall K. Johnson
Shaman Pharmaceuticals' Approach to Drug Development	94	(7)
Lisa A. Conte
Drug Discovery and Development at the National Cancer Institute: The Role of Natural Products of Plant Origin	101	(36)
Gordon M. Cragg
Michael R. Boyd
The Merck/INBio Agreement: A Pharmaceutical Company Perspective	137	(5)
Lynn Helena Caporale
Biodiversity Prospecting	142	(32)
Walter V. Reid
Sarah A. Laird
Carrie A. Meyer
Rodrigo Gamez
Ana Sittenfeld
Daniel Janzen
Michael A. Gollin
Calestous Juma
Property Rights and Genetic Resources: A Framework for Analysis	174	(17)
Jack R. Kloppenburg Jr.
Michael J. Balick
Monetizing the Pharmacological Benefits of Plants	191	(28)
Peter P. Principe
Capturing the Pharmaceutical Value of Species Information: Opportunities for Developing Countries	219	(12)
Bruce A. Aylward
PART TWO Country and Regional Programs in Medicinal Plant Research and Health Care	231	(178)
Resource Utilization and Conservation of Biodiversity in Africa	233	(18)
Maurice M. Iwu
The Economic Value and Potential for Plant-Derived Pharmaceuticals from Ghana	251	(10)
G. T. Odamtten
E. Laing
D. K. Abbiw
The Rwanda Experience in Enhancing and Commercializing the Use of Traditional Medicinal Plants	261	(5)
Luc Van Puyvelde
The Role of Medicinal Plants in Health Care in India	266	(12)
James A. Duke
A Standardized Commiphora wightii Preparation for Management of Hyperlipidemic Disorders	278	(6)
B. N. Dhawan
Plant Explorations in Asia Under the Sponsorship of the National Cancer Institute, 1986-1991: An Overview	284	(27)
Djaja Doel Soejarto
Charlotte Gyllenhaal
Peter S. Ashton
S. H. Sohmer
Medicinal Plants of Mexico: A Program for Their Scientific Validation	311	(6)
Xavier Lozoya, M.D.
TRAMIL: A Research Project on the Medicinal Plant Resources of the Caribbean	317	(9)
Lionel Robineau
Djaja Doel Soejarto
Ethnopharmacological Studies and Biological Conservation in Belize	326	(8)
Michael J. Balick
Rosita Arvigo
Gregory Shrophshire
Robert Mendelsohn
Tropical Medicinal Plant Conservation and Development Projects: The Case of the Costa Rican National Institute of Biodiversity (INBio)	334	(7)
Ana Sittenfeld
FENAMAD's Program in Traditional Medicine: An Integrated Approach to Health Care in the Peruvian Amazon	341	(25)
Miguel N. Alexiades
Didier Lacaze D.
Environment, Society, and Disease: The Response of Phytotherapy to Disease Among the Warao Indians of the Orinoco Delta	366	(20)
Werner Wilbert
Medicinal Plant Research in Brazil: Data from Regional and National Meetings	386	(16)
Alba R. M. Souza Brito
Antonio A. Souza Brito
Community Ethnobotany: Setting Foundations for an Informed Decision on Trading Rain Forest Resources	402	(7)
Elaine Elisabetsky
Appendix: Manual for Plant Collections	409	(12)
Elaine Elisabetsky
Rachel Trajber
Lin Chao Ming
Epilogue	421	(2)
Richard Deertrack
List of Contributors	423	(4)
Index	427