TY  - CHAP
A1  - Marek, Roman M.
T1  - Das Amazonasbecken: Eine vergessene Kulturlandschaft und ihre Medizin
T2  - Was ist Gesundheit? : Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven aus Medizin, Geschichte und Kultur
N2  - The Amazon Basin: A Forgotten Cultural Landscape and Its Medicine. While the Amazon region’s ecological importance remains uncontested, its role as a cultural hotspot is largely unknown to most people. Yet, recent archeological findings revise the image of a lush but inhospitable landscape whose farm produce could not sustain advanced civilization. The indigenous people today are only a tiny remainder of a far bigger population that developed impressive agricultural and forest engineering skills – until it was wiped out by diseases brought in from Europe. In fact, modern medicine benefits greatly from biological knowledge of indigenous Amazonians even today. This resource could prove to be much more valuable than any short-term profit realized by slash-and-burn farming or the extraction of raw materials. Therefore, it is all the more important to protect this endangered region. Scientific research will not only help to rescue indigenous biomedical knowledge, it will also give back respect and dignity to socalled savages and their cultural achievements.
KW  - Amazonas
KW  - Ayahuasca
KW  - Psychotherapie
KW  - Depression
KW  - Regeneration
KW  - Kulturlandschaft
KW  - Nervensystem
KW  - Neurotransmitter
KW  - Demenz
KW  - Heiler
Y1  - 2021
UR  - https://edoc.bbaw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3667
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b4-opus4-36671
SN  - 9783110713336
SP  - 170
EP  - 191
PB  - De Gruyter
CY  - Berlin, Boston
ER  -