Book Excerpts
Bush Medicine of the Bahamas:
A Cross-cultural Perspective from San Salvador Island,
including Pharmacology and Oral Histories
Publication date: September 8, 2011. 120 medicinal plants & hundreds of blends
396 pages with 161 illustrations (104 in color), 11.25" x 9" x 1" quality hardcover, ISBN 978-0-9837673-0-5
Hardcover: $37.00 E-book: $18.95
Winner of the 2012 Mary W. Klinger Book Award
for outstanding book of the year, by the Society for Economic Botany.
The following are page previews of Bush Medicine of the Bahamas.
All excerpts are provided for viewing as PDF files.
- Front Cover
- Book Jacket (front, back, and inside) [small image]
- Book Jacket (front, back, and inside) [large image]
- Copyright page
- Table of Contents
- Foreword by Gary Paul Nabhan (2 pages)
- Foreword by Kathleen Maier (3 pages)
- Chapter 3: Principles and Practices of Bush Medicine (first page of 7 pages)
- Chapter 5: Materia Medica - Medicinal Plants (first 6 pages of 177 pages)
- Glossary of Bahamian Dialect (first page of 3 pages)
- Index of Medicinal Plants According to Uses (partial first page of 5 pages)
- Index of Scientific Names (first page of 4 pages)
- Index of Common Names (first page of 11 pages)
- Subject Index (first page of 5 pages)
- References (first page of 11 pages)
- Color Plates of Medicinal Plants (first page of 28 pages) (image below)
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