The plant hunter : a scientist's quest for nature's next medicines / Cassandra Leah Quave.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781984879110
- ISBN: 1984879111
- Physical Description: 371 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: [New York] : Viking, [2021]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | My Leg and the Wilderness -- Welcome to the Jungle -- Worms in the Belly -- An Unexpected Houseguest -- Wash and Fold -- From the Field to the Lab -- Babies and Biofilms -- A Lab of My Own -- The Sea Cabbage -- Billy Fell Off the Swing -- The One-Legged Hunter -- Cassandra's Curse. |
Additional Physical Form available Note: | Issued also in electronic format. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Quave, Cassandra Leah. Medical botanists > United States > Biography. People with disabilities > United States > Biography. Medicinal plants. Ethnobotany. |
Genre: | Autobiographies. Biographies. |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at Town of Hanover Libraries.
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Etna Library | 581.6 QUA | 31257000290881 | Adult collection | Available | - |
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Memorial: In memory of Elizabeth Skolfield Miller.
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The Plant Hunter : A Scientist's Quest for Nature's Next Medicines
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The Plant Hunter : A Scientist's Quest for Nature's Next Medicines
No one understands plants better than Dr. Cassandra Quave, and as a person born with multiple congenital defects who nearly lost her life at the age of three due to a staph infection, she has an intimate knowledge of the strengths and failings of modern medicine. In The Plant Hunter, Dr. Quave weaves together science, botany, and memoir to recount her own journey in search of natural compounds, long known to traditional healers, that could help save us all from this looming crisis. Her extraordinary story is filled with grit, tragedy, triumph, and awe.