Dr. Quave has just completed a field study in NE Albania collaboration with Dr. Andrea Pieroni, from the University of Gastronomic Sciences (Italy). The scope of the study was to investigate traditional health practices, including the use of wild plants for food and medicine, in several small Albanian and Gorani…
New Op-ed out with colleagues Drs. Janna Rose and Gazi Islam in the Brazilian newspaper Terra: http://carosamigos.terra.com.br/index2/index.php/artigos-e-debates/2863-controversias-na-bioprospeccao-mundial
The newest version of the student-authored collection of Medicinal Plant Monographs is now available under the Teaching tab on the Etnobotanica website. This latest edition includes an additional 26 medicinal plant monographs written by my students enrolled at Emory University in the HLTH385-000 “Botanical Medicine and Health” course.
Interested in learning more about medicinal plants? Visit this YouTube playlist “Medicinal Plant Monographs” to view short educational videos on the plants that interest you the most! These presentations have been created by my undergraduate students as part of their end of semester project. Feel free to leave comments and…
Visit this link http://scienceline.org/2012/02/the-chocolate-wars/ to find out why the future of chocolate plants is at risk.
A provisional PDF of a new paper co-authored by Quave and colleagues entitled “Medical ethnobotany of the Albanian Alps in Kosovo” was released today in the Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. This paper documents the study of medicinal plants used in Alpine communities Albanian of Kosovo. The uses of 98…
ArtPlantae Today posted (1/27/2012) a wonderful piece reporting an interview with cultural anthropologist, Emanuela Appetiti, and historian of science, Alain Touwaide from the Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions. The full article can be accessed here.
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Announcing the launch of Emory University’s new Center for the Study of Human Health website! The vision of the Center is to advance health knowledge and inspire students to confront the challenges of improving human well-being. It serves as a nexus for intellectual discourse on topics of human health, CAM,…
An exciting new study by Dr. Quave and colleagues reporting the activity of ellagic acid derivatives against S. aureus biofilms was published today in PLoS One. These compounds were isolated from a medicinal blackberry plant used in southern Italy to treat skin infections. The full article is accessible at this…
