Ethnopharmacology 3004887 214944782 2008-05-26T00:46:44Z CrazyChemGuy 5525799 clean up using [[Project:AutoWikiBrowser|AWB]] '''Ethnopharmacology''' is the scientific study correlating [[ethnic group]]s, their [[health]], and how it relates to their physical habits and methodology in creating and using [[medicine]]s. As an amalgamation of the [[social science]] of [[ethnology]] and the [[medical science]] of [[pharmacology]], ethnopharmacology studies the pharmacological aspects of a culture's medical treatment as well as its social appeal, including [[taste]], [[symbology]], and [[religion|religious]] context. Through this, a culture's exposure to pharmacological substances can be determined.<ref name="medicalanthropology">{{cite book | title=Medical Anthropology: Contemporary Theory and Method | authors=Thomas M. Johnson, Carolyn F. Sargent | chapter=Ethnopharmacology: The Conjunction of Medical Ethnography and the Biology of Therapeutic Action | pages=132-133, 151 | year=1996 | publisher = Praeger Publishers | city=Westport, Connecticut }}</ref> Ethnopharmacology is related to [[botany]] in that many pharmaceuticals are delivered through plants.<ref name="medicalanthropology"/> It is also often associated with [[ethnopharmacy]], but while the aim of ethnopharmacology is the bio-evaluation of the effectiveness of [[traditional medicine]]s, the former deals instead with much broader trans-disciplinary aspects related to the study of the perception, use, and management of pharmaceuticals (not necessarily [[traditional medicine]]s) within a given human society. In British Columbia it is used to procure the constant evolution of a strain of cannabis.{{Fact|date=April 2007}} It is also related to [[pharmacoepidemiology]]. When investigating a natural product used by a certain culture as a medicine, it is important that the methods of collection, extraction, preparation are the same or similar to those used by the ethnic group, as it is these processes which have allowed safe usage of the substance and give it its safety record. {{Fact|date=April 2007}} ==See also== *[[Ethnobotany]] *[[Pharmacognosy]] *[[Natural product drug discovery]] *[[Latin American and Caribbean Bulletin of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants]] ==References== <references/> ==External links== *[http://www.ethnopharmacology.org International Society for Ethnopharmacology] *[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03788741 Journal of Ethnopharmacology] *[http://www.blacpma.cl Latin American and Caribbean Bulletin of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants] [[Category:Anthropology]] [[Category:Pharmacology]] [[Category:Pharmacognosy]] [[Category:Anthropology]] [[Category:Ethnobiology]] [[fr:Ethnopharmacologie]] [[no:Etnofarmakologi]]