Selected Publications

Ashworth, D. R. (1968). Economic plants of the northern prairies: a survey of market sales, 1964-1966.

Ashworth, D. R. (1975). Teaching plant taxonomy with living collections.

Ashworth, D. R. (1983). Plants sold for medicinal use in rural markets of the Artibonite valley, Haiti: a preliminary list.

Ashworth, D. R. (1985). Notes on preparations associated with reported cases of apparent death in Haiti.

Ashworth, D. R. (1987). Apparent death and folk pharmacology: a reply to my critics.

Ashworth, D. R. (1994). Ten years later: what a botanist can and cannot say about the Haitian zombi.

Copies of some of these papers can be requested by letter. I regret that I can no longer answer every request.

Experiment 7

Experiment 7

April 2, 1984. A trial of sample C, recorded on videotape. View the report and the recording

Recent changes

2009-03-03Added two photographs to the Photographs page, and a new page: Experiment 7.
2007-11-12Corrected the dates of my second field season.
2006-06-20Added a note at the end of The Narcisse Case.
2004-09-08These pages are online.

About the author

Dale R. Ashworth at his desk, 2005

Retired professor of botany. Three field seasons in Haiti, 1981-1984. More

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