Ethnobotany Series: The Plant Hunter: A Conversation with Cassandra Quave, October 14, 2021.

SHP Director, Ann Armbrecht, speaks with medical ethnobotanist Dr Cassandra Quave who’s book, The Plant Hunter: A Scientist’s Quest for Nature’s Next Medicines, has just been published by Viking Press. The Plant Hunter weaves together Dr. Quave’s personal experiences in and with medicine, infection, her personal experiences with disability, and scientific discovery with a fascinating and accessible description of how plants and microbes interact, how antibiotic resistance evolves, and how Dr. Quave is working to figure out how we may be able to overcome it by taking the focus away from synthetic compounds.