Podcast: People I (Mostly) Admire
Episode: Cassandra Quave Thinks the Way Antibiotics Are Developed Might Kill Us | People I (Mostly) Admire 60
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.
Plant Hunter
Buy on Amazon"Professor Cassandra Quave, an ethnobotanist at Emory University, tells her story in an amazing new memoir entitled The Plant Hunter. Her right leg was amputated when she was three years old, and a subsequent staph infection nearly killed her."
Plant Hunter
Buy on Amazon"I've never really taken it very seriously until I started reading your book, The Plant Hunter. Do you have the facts about how many people die each year because of drug-resistant bugs and what the projections are for, say, the year 2050?"
Plant Hunter
Buy on Amazon"Reading your amazing book, The Plant Hunter, it seems like you've embraced a radically different vision for finding new antibiotics than most of your colleagues. Tell us about that approach."