Key Resources

A major skill to be employed in this course is knowing how to discern what information is useful and what is not from within the overwhelming set available. A few resources will be of particular value and are listed here. Please be sure to update this list with others that become clearly more useful.

Berlin, B. 1992. Ethnobiological Classification: Principles of Categorization of Plants and Animals in Traditional Societies. Princeton University Press, New Jersey.

Hanson, B. 2005. Understanding Medicinal Plants. Their chemistry and therapeutic action. The Haworth herbal Press, Binghamton, NY

Hardman, J. G. & l. E. Limbird. 2001. Editors of Goodman and Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics. Tenth Edition. McGraw-Hill Publishing, New York. (or more recent versions of similar books.)

Heinrich, M. J. Barnes, S. Gibbons & E.M. Williamson. 2004. Fundamentals of Pharmcognosy and Phytotherapy. Churchill Livingston, New York.

Johns, T. 1996. The Origins of Human Diet and Medicine: Chemical ecology (Arizona Studies in Human Ecology). University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

Judd, W., C. S. Campbell, E. A. Kellogg, P. F. Stevens & M. J. Donoghue. 2007. Plant Systematics: A phylogenetic approach. Third edition. Sinauer, New York.

Robbers, J.E., M.K. Speedie & V.E. Tyler. 1996. Pharmacognosy and Pharmacobiotechnology. Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore.

Schultes, R. E. & A. Hofmann. 1979 (1992). Plants of the Gods: Origins of Hallucinogenic Use. McGraw-Hill, New York.