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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... read more

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Time was running out, and the indefatigable frog detective Dr. John Daly decided to risk everything in one of the boldest scientific crapshoots of the twentieth century.

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  1. Mark J. Plotkin (Author)

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  1. biology
  2. ethnobotany
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  4. popular science 
 

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