Plant Pharmacopoeia / Rainforest Depletion & Its Impact On Medicine

Abstract: A 6 page paper in which the writer discusses deforestation as a threat to medicinal plants and the protective measures employed by various groups; and a discussion of eleven (recently discovered) plants and/or their medical derivitives, including taxol. The paper postulates that protecting these medicinal plants is imperative through ethics, and even the passage of more laws. Bibliography lists 7 sources.

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Subcatagory: Environmental Issues & Ecology

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