Tending Nature
Tracing Indigenous Medicine to Patent Medicines
Clip: 11/10/2019 | 3m 18sVideo has Closed Captions
Ethnobotanist Julie Cordero-Lamb reads from a pharmacopoeia from the 1880s.
Ethnobotanist Julie Cordero-Lamb reads from a pharmacopoeia from the 1880s, which listed whole plant medicines learned from traditional knowledge. The American Medical Association reduced the large catalog down to a small list of patent medicines to control its use — and who profits from it, she says.
Tending Nature is a local public television program presented by PBS SoCal
Tending Nature
Tracing Indigenous Medicine to Patent Medicines
Clip: 11/10/2019 | 3m 18sVideo has Closed Captions
Ethnobotanist Julie Cordero-Lamb reads from a pharmacopoeia from the 1880s, which listed whole plant medicines learned from traditional knowledge. The American Medical Association reduced the large catalog down to a small list of patent medicines to control its use — and who profits from it, she says.
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