Previous Course Content
BOT 442 Medical Ethnobotany has previously been taught as a lecture course with examinations rather than as a problem-based course. The lectures were mostly delivered as Power Power presentations. PDFs of the Power Point presentations are listed below in the order that they were delivered in the past. This may be used either study materials for students in this or other courses or as a source of learning modules for instructors developing traditional curriculum.
Introduction
- History of Medical Ethnobotany
- Ethnobotanical Interview Techniques
- Informed Consent and Human Research
- Documentation and Collection of Medicinal Plant Specimens
- Ethics and Researcher Behavior
- Quantum Ethnobotany
Biochemical Perspectives
- Primary Metabolic Pathways
- Secondary Metabolic Pathways
- Secondary Metabolic Pathways II
- Structure-Activity Relationships
- Polysaccharides
- Lipids
- Terpenoids
- Terpenoids - Volatile Oils
- Steroids
- Glycosides
- Phenolics
- Alkaloids
- Alkaloids II
Plant Perspectives (These have usually been addressed with hands-on work with plants in the class, herbarium, botanical garden, and other locations with medicinal plants rather than Power Point talks so there are not PDFs to present here.)
- Medicinal Plant Surveys
- Conservation
- Laboratory Methods for Analysis of Medicinal Plants: Testing Hypotheses
Cultural Perspectives
- Diet and Heath Care
- Concepts of Health and Disease
- Ethnopharmacology
- Traditional Polynesian Healers
- Ethnopharmacology of Polynesian Medicine
- Pharmacology of Polynesian Medicinal Plants
- American Medicinal Plants
- Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Psychoactive Plants
- Psychoactive Plants II
- Poisons
- History of Pharmaceuticals and Herbal Products
- Herbal Products in the United States
- Field Methods for Testing Hypotheses
- Indigenous Property Rights