Michael Heinrich
Centre for Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy / Research Cluster Biodiversity and Medicines UCL School of Pharmacy, London, United Kingdom
Ethnopharmacology is a fast developing, dynamic area of research with thousands of papers published annually. Researchers with diverse backgrounds including pharmaceutical scientists, pharmacologists, anthropologists, biologists, botanists, toxicologists, and practitioners / researchers of the diverse medical traditions are all involved in such research. Especially in most of the so-called BRICS and MINT countries (Brazil, India, China, South Africa; México, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey), but also in many other emerging economies like Thailand and Malaysia ethnopharmacological research is flourishing (Heinrich, M. and A.K. Jäger (eds) (2015) Ethnopharmacology. Wiley, Chichester. ISBN: 978-1-118-93074-8.). [Leer más…]