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100 1  Quave, Cassandra Leah,|eauthor. 
245 14 The plant hunter :|ba scientist's quest for nature's next 
       medicines /|cCassandra Leah Quave. 
264  1 [New York] :|bViking,|c[2021] 
300    371 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-371) and 
       index. 
505 0  Prologue -- Nature. My leg and the wilderness ; Welcome to
       the jungle ; Worms in the belly ; An unexpected houseguest
       -- Infection. Wash and fold ; From the field to the lab ; 
       Babies and biofilms ; A lab of my own -- Medicine. The sea
       cabbage ; Billy fell off the swing ; The one-legged hunter
       ; Cassandra's curse -- Epilogue. 
520    "A leading medical ethnobotanist tells us the story of her
       quest to develop new ways to fight illness and disease 
       through the healing powers of plants in this uplifting and
       adventure-filled memoir. Plants are the basis for an array
       of lifesaving and health-improving medicines we all now 
       take for granted. Ever taken an aspirin? Thank a willow 
       tree for that. What about life-saving medicines for 
       malaria? Some of those are derived from cinchona and 
       wormwood. In today's world of synthetic pharmaceuticals, 
       scientists and laypeople alike have lost this connection 
       to the natural world. But by ignoring the potential of 
       medicinal plants, we are losing out on the opportunity to 
       discover new life-saving medicines needed in the fight 
       against the greatest medical challenge of this century: 
       the rise of the post-antibiotic era. Antibiotic-resistant 
       microbes plague us all. Each year, 700,000 people die due 
       to these untreatable infections; by 2050, 10 million 
       annual deaths are expected unless we act now. No one 
       understands this better than Dr. Cassandra Quave, whose 
       groundbreaking research as a leading medical ethnobotanist
       --someone who identifies and studies plants that may be 
       able to treat antimicrobial resistance and other 
       threatening illnesses--is helping to provide clues for the
       next generation of advanced medicines. In The Plant Hunter,
       Dr. Quave weaves together science, botany, and memoir to 
       tell us the extraordinary story of her own journey. 
       Traveling by canoe, ATV, mule, airboat, and on foot, she 
       has conducted field research in the flooded forests of the
       remote Amazon, the murky swamps of southern Florida, the 
       rolling hills of central Italy, isolated mountaintops in 
       Albania and Kosovo, and volcanic isles arising out of the 
       Mediterranean-all in search of natural compounds, long-
       known to traditional healers, that could help save us all 
       from the looming crisis of untreatable superbugs. And as a
       person born with multiple congenital defects of her 
       skeletal system, she's done it all with just one leg. 
       Filled with grit, tragedy, triumph, awe, and scientific 
       discovery, her story illuminates how the path forward for 
       medical discovery may be found in nature's oldest 
       remedies"--|cProvided by publisher. 
530    Issued also in electronic format. 
600 10 Quave, Cassandra Leah. 
650  0 Medical botanists|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 People with disabilities|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Medicinal plants. 
650  0 Ethnobotany. 
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650  7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.|2bisacsh  
650  7 SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany.|2bisacsh  
650  7 Ethnobotany.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00916074 
650  7 Medical botanists.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01013752 
650  7 Medicinal plants.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01014866 
650  7 People with disabilities.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01057245 
651  7 United States.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204155 
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