Complete Guide to Natural Healing or When Nature Goes Public

Complete Guide to Natural Healing

Author: Tom Mont

The Complete Guide to Natural Healing shows how to prevent and treat common illnesses and maintain overall health using natural remedies. Here is a wealth of information on diet and nutrition, herbalism, homeopathy, Chinese medicine (including acupuncture and the Chinese tools for healing), bodywork, exercise, and massage. This health-saving book also offers summaries of the most common symptoms, illnesses and disorders, followed by an array of treatment options from Western, orthodox medicine to traditional, holistic medicine. Finally, The Complete Guide to Natural Healing offers a holistic approach to maintaining overall health - as well as strengthening specific organs and systems such as bladder, heart and circulation, lungs, stomach, and kidneys - before illness can occur.

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When Nature Goes Public: The Making and Unmaking of Bioprospecting in Mexico

Author: Corinne P Hayden

Bioprospecting--the exchange of plants for corporate promises of royalties or community development assistance--has been lauded as a way to develop new medicines while offering southern nations and indigenous communities an incentive to preserve their rich biodiversity. But can pharmaceutical profits really advance conservation and indigenous rights? How much should companies pay and to whom? Who stands to gain and lose? The first anthropological study of the practices mobilized in the name and in the shadow of bioprospecting, this book takes us into the unexpected sites where Mexican scientists and American companies venture looking for medicinal plants and local knowledge.

Cori Hayden tracks bioprospecting's contentious new promise--and the contradictory activities generated in its name. Focusing on a contract involving Mexico's National Autonomous University, Hayden examines the practices through which researchers, plant vendors, rural collectors, indigenous cooperatives, and other actors put prospecting to work. By paying unique attention to scientific research, she provides a key to understanding which people and plants are included in the promise of "selling biodiversity to save it"--and which are not. And she considers the consequences of linking scientific research and rural "enfranchisement" to the logics of intellectual property.

Roving across UN protocols, botanical collecting histories, Mexican nationalist agendas, neoliberal property regimes, and North-South relations, When Nature Goes Public charts the myriad, emergent publics that drive and contest the global market in biodiversity and its futures.

Table of Contents:

	List of Figures and Tables
	List of Abbreviations
	Acknowledgments
	Author's Note
	Introduction	1
Ch. 1	Interests and Publics: On (Ethno)science and Its Accountabilities	19
Ch. 2	Neoliberalism's Nature	48
Ch. 3	Prospecting in Mexico: Rights, Risk, and Regulation	85
Ch. 4	Market Research: When Local Knowledge Is Public Knowledge	125
Ch. 5	By the Side of the Road: The Contours of a Field Site	158
Ch. 6	The Brine Shrimp Assay: Signs of Life, Sites of Value	191
Ch. 7	Presumptions of Interest	213
Ch. 8	Remaking Prospecting's Publics	230
	Notes	237
	Bibliography	255
	Index	275