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Plants and empire colonial bioprospecting in the Atlantic world

Londa L Schiebinger

Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press 2004

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Título:
Plants and empire colonial bioprospecting in the Atlantic world
Autor: Londa L Schiebinger
Assuntos: Pride-of-Barbados (Plant); Herbal abortifacients -- History; Slavery -- Caribbean Area -- History; Pharmacognosy -- history -- Caribbean Region; Abortifacient Agents -- history -- Caribbean Region; Caesalpinia -- Caribbean Region; Colonialism -- history -- Caribbean Region; History, 18th Century -- Caribbean Region; Bioprospektion; Imperialismus; PLANTAS; VIAGENS E EXPLORAÇÕES; CAESALPINIACEAE
Notas: Referências (p. 286-297) e índice
Descrição: "The Base for All Economics" -- Voyaging Out -- Botanistes Voyageurs -- Maria Sibylla Merian -- Biopirates -- Who Owns Nature? -- Voyaging Botanical Assistants -- Creole Naturalists and Long-Term Residents -- Armchair Botanists -- The Search for the Amazons -- Heroic Narratives -- Bioprospecting -- Drug Prospecting in the West Indies -- Biocontact Zones -- Secrets and Monopolies -- Drug Prospecting at Home -- Brokers of International Knowledge -- Exotic Abortifacients -- Merian's Peacock Flower -- Abortion in Europe -- Abortion in the West Indies -- Abortion and the Slave Trade -- The Fate of the Peacock Flower in Europe -- Animal Testing -- Self-Experimentation -- Human Subjects -- Testing for Sexual Difference -- The Complications of Race -- Abortifacients -- Linguistic Imperialism -- Empire and Naming the Kingdoms of Nature -- Naming Conundrums -- Exceptions: Quassia and Cinchona -- Alternative Naming Practices -- Conclusion: Agnotology
Editor: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press
Data de criação/publicação: 2004
Formato: x, 306 p ill. 25 cm.
Idioma: Inglês

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Londa L Schiebinger

Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press 2004

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