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Tiger bone & rhino horn : the destruction of wildlife for traditional Chinese medicine / Richard Ellis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ellis, Richard, 1938-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine, Chinese.
- Poaching.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (310 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Tiger bone and rhino horn
- Place of Publication:
- Washington : Island Press : Shearwater Books, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In parts of Korea and China, moon bears, black but for the crescent-shaped patch of white on their chests, are captured in the wild and brought to "bear farms" where they are imprisoned in squeeze cages, and a steel catheter is inserted into their gall bladders.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Ch 1: Tyger, Tyger
- Ch 2: Suffer the Animals
- Ch 3: Chinese Medicine, Western Medicine
- Ch 4: Horn of Plenty
- Ch 5: Where Have All the Tigers Gone?
- Ch 6: The Bad News for Bears
- Ch 7: Tigers, Rhinos, and Bears
- Oh My!
- Bibliography
- Illustration Credits
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-59726-953-0
- 1-4294-9524-3
- OCLC:
- 290607423
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