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Medicine Quest: In Search of Nature's Healing Secrets by Mark J. Plotkin
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Medicine Quest: In Search of Nature's Healing Secrets

by Mark J. Plotkin

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Great anecdotes about the discovery and development of drugs from ethnic healing. Great leach and maggot stories etc.
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Natuur geneest is een spannende mengeling van geneeskunde, ecologie, etnobotanie, geschiedenis, ontdekkingsreizen en avontuur- Dit boek zal wetenschappers, natuurliefhebbers en avonturiers zekefMRneren.
Mark J. Piotkin genoot zijn opleiding aan de univelpeiten van Harvard, Yale en Tufts. Als etnohjtanicus heeft hij uitgebreid onderzoek gedaan in de laaglanden van Jhpisch Zuid-Amerika. Momenteel is hij voorzitter van het Amazon Conservation Team, en onderzoeksmedewerker van het Museum of Natura! History van het Smithsonian Institution.

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In Medicine Quest, Mark Plotkin moves beyond the Amazon rainforests of his classic Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice to describe the ongoing race to find new medicines for intractable diseases such as AIDS, cancer, diabetes, and tuberculosis in far-flung places all over the world. While highlighting the unlikely marriage of natural products, indigenous wisdom, and biotechnology, Plotkin details discoveries that are producing stunning results in the laboratory: painkillers from the skin of rainforest frogs, anticoagulants from leech saliva, and antitumor agents from snake venom. An entertaining and educational weave of medicine, ecology, ethnobotany, history, exploration, and adventure, Medicine Quest will thrill scientists, naturalists, and armchair explorers, and heighten our appreciation for the inexhaustible therapeutic potential of our natural world.

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