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Nina Etkin

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#1155

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#1525

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#563

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Nina Etkin's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Nina Lilian Etkin was an anthropologist and biologist. Etkin was noted for her work in medical anthropology, ethnobiology, and ethnopharmacology. She studied the relation between food and health for over thirty years. Her work involved complementary and alternative medicines for prevention and treatment in Hawai‘i; the use of ethnomedicines in Indonesia; and health issues in Nigeria. She won numerous grants and awards from national and international agencies and published several books as well as over 80 professional articles in peer reviewed journals.

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Nina Etkin's Published Works

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Food as medicine and medicine as food. An adaptive framework for the interpretation of plant utilization among the Hausa of Northern Nigeria. (1982) (274)
Quality Standards of Indian Medicinal Plants, Volume 1: Indian Council of Medical Research, ICMR, New Delhi, India, 2003, xvi + 262 pp., 32 Chapters and colour plates, 6 Appendices, 3 Indices, US$ 40.00, hard cover, ISSN: 0972-7213 (2004) (255)
Ferment this: The transformation of Noni, a traditional polynesian medicine (Morinda Citrifolia, Rubiaceae) (2008) (157)
Anthropological methods in ethnopharmacology. (1993) (117)
Antimalarial Plants Used by Hausa in Northern Nigeria (1997) (111)
Side effects: cultural constructions and reinterpretations of western pharmaceuticals. (1992) (105)
Ethnopharmacology: Biobehavioral Approaches in the Anthropological Study of Indigenous Medicines (1988) (97)
Medicinal cuisines: Diet and ethopharmacology (1996) (93)
The indigenization of pharmaceuticals: therapeutic transitions in rural Hausaland. (1990) (87)
Seeking a transdisciplinary and culturally germane science: The future of ethnopharmacology. (2005) (85)
A Hausa herbal pharmacopoeia: biomedical evaluation of commonly used plant medicines. (1981) (84)
Cultural Constructions of Efficacy (1988) (80)
Edible Medicines: An Ethnopharmacology of Food (2006) (79)
Local knowledge of biotic diversity and its conservation in Rural Hausaland, Northern Nigeria (2008) (76)
Perspectives in ethnopharmacology: forging a closer link between bioscience and traditional empirical knowledge. (2001) (69)
Eating on the Wild Side: The Pharmacologic, Ecologic and Social Implications of Using Noncultigens (1994) (58)
Should we set a place for diet in ethnopharmacology? (1991) (57)
Plants in indigenous medicine & diet : biobehavioral approaches (1986) (51)
Catalase activity and red cell metabolism. (1972) (48)
Indigenous patterns of conserving biodiversity: pharmacologic implications. (1998) (44)
Assessment of red cell sodium transport in essential hypertension. (1982) (42)
The co-evolution of people, plants, and parasites: biological and cultural adaptations to malaria* (2003) (32)
Racial differences in hypertension-associated red cell sodium permeability (1982) (26)
Sociocultural factors in the use of prenatal care by Hmong women, Minneapolis. (1995) (26)
Part one: Indigenous medicine among the Hausa of Northern Nigeria: Laboratory evaluation for potential therapeutic efficacy of antimalarial plant medicinals 1 (1979) (22)
Eating on the Wild Side (1994) (21)
A changing Hausa diet. (1996) (20)
Consuming a Therapeutic Landscape:: A Multicontextual Framework for Assessing the Health Significance of Human-Plant Interactions (1994) (15)
Bridging the "two cultures" in ethnopharmacology: barriers against interdisciplinarity in postgraduate education. (2011) (11)
Biomedical evaluation of indigenous medical practices (1979) (10)
The greater risk of fewer deaths: an ethnodemographic approach to child mortality in Hausaland (1991) (7)
Foods of Association: Biocultural Perspectives on Food and Beverages that Mediate Sociability (2009) (7)
Ethnomedicine in Polynesia : past trends and future directions (1993) (6)
Ethnoecological Approaches to Integrating Theory and Method in Ethnomedical Research (2011) (5)
Medicinal Food Plants (2008) (3)
Plants for food and medicine : proceedings of the joint conference of the Society for Economic Botany and the International Society for Ethnopharmacology, London, 1-6 July 1996 (1999) (3)
Ethnopharmacologic perspectives on diet and medicine in northern Nigeria (1993) (3)
Cultural Factors Influencing Therapeutic Practice (2008) (2)
Ethnomedicine In Maluku, Eastern Indonesia (1996) (2)
Medicinal Plants of the World: Chemical Constituents, Traditional and Modern Medicinal Uses.Volume 1. Second Edition.ByIvan A Ross.Totowa (New Jersey): Humana Press. $99.50. xv + 491 p + 24 pl; ill.; index. ISBN: 1–58829–281–9 (hc); 1–59259–365–8 (e‐book). 2003. (2004) (1)
Ethnopharmacology : an Overview (2011) (1)
Polypharmacy, complementary and alternative medicines (CAM), and cancer. (2004) (1)
Domestic Risk Factors in Diseases of Childhood in Northern Nigeria (1990) (1)
Cultural Memory and Biodiversity (Book Review). (2000) (1)
Cultural Memory and Biodiversity. (2000) (0)
Herbal Medicine Past and Present. 2 Volumes. John K. Crellin and Jane Philpott. (1991) (0)
International Symposium on Lycium Species (2001) (0)
Book Review:The Natural History of Medicinal Plants Judith Sumner (2001) (0)
Meeting Report (2002) (0)
Medicinal cuisines : Diet and ethopharmacology : Special section : Functional food (1996) (0)
Depending on Fulbright: One Researcher's Experience in North Nigeria (1994) (0)
ADHD Cancer Fibromyalgia Multiple sclerosis Addictions Cardiovascular disease Gout Muscle and joint pain Allergies Chemical sensitivity Hypertension Polio Arthritis Chronic fatigue Immune deficiency Rheumatism Asthma Diabetes Infection Severed fingers Brain problems Digestive problems Inflammation S (0)
Fundamentals of Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy (2005) (0)
Review of A Continuing Trial of Treatment: Medical Pluralism in Papua New Guinea, edited by Stephen Frankel and Gilbert Lewis (1991) (0)
Applied Anthropology: The Professionalisation of African Medicine. Murray Last and G. L. Chavunduka, eds (1990) (0)
Distinguished Economic Botanist Awards (2009) (0)
Reinterpretations of Western Pharmaceuticals (2016) (0)
Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets, Practices (2006) (0)
News & Notes (2008) (0)
L. Lewis Wall, Hausa Medicine: illness and well-being in a West African culture. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1988, 369 pp., ISBN 0 8223 07774. (1989) (0)
Review of Kava: The Pacific Drug, by Vincent Lebot, Mark Merlin, and Lamont Lindstrom (1995) (0)

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