Transcript: Interview: Mark Plotkin, author of "Medicine Quest: In Search of Nature's Healing Secrets," talks about the many ways that nature can and does help us

Article: Mark Plotkin Whigs Out; In Colonial Williamsburg, a ...
The Washington Post;  August 2, 2000 ;     700+ words ...We asked radio commentator Mark Plotkin, motormouth champion of D.C ... revolutionary--Colonial Williamsburg. Mark Plotkin doesn't do tea. "I'm not ... The D.C. Politics Hour With Mark Plotkin," broadcast weekly on public ...

Article: Mark Plotkin
Encyclopedia of World Biography;      700+ words ...Mark Plotkin Ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin (born 1955) has, since the 1980s, scoured the tropical ... advanced at a frightening pace. According to ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin, 90 percent of the original forest cover was gone on the island ...

Article: WAMU Loses Commentator Mark Plotkin To WTOP
The Washington Post;  April 12, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Mark Plotkin, the always passionate, sometimes ... weekly "D.C. Politics Hour With Mark Plotkin," which is hosted by Nnamdi. Plotkin ... new show, "The Politics Hour With Mark Plotkin," will air Fridays at 10 a.m ...

Article: Need to Reach Mark Plotkin? Make Sure the Right ...
The Washington Post;  November 6, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... ethnobotanist. All three are named Mark Plotkin. No, really. It's the joke the ... ethnobotanist. "It's not easy being named Mark Plotkin in this town," sighed Mark E. Plotkin ... I left for Miami." If there is one Mark Plotkin most responsible for turning them into ...

Article: Washington's Booming Voice; Ol' Yeller Mark Plotkin ...
The Washington Post;  May 30, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... band. At 88.5, a public-radio station where you rarely hear a voice raised above a sober, modulated pitch. It's Mark Plotkin! And he's yelling! It's the "D.C. Politics Hour," and for 10 years now, Plotkin has been yelling, mostly in ...

Article: Medicine without borders.(Director's Letter)
Natural Health;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... Almost every plant put to use by Western medicine was discovered by indigenous cultures," says Mark Plotkin, Ph.D., author of Medicine Quest. "Despite this, few of the world's tribal peoples have been the subject of comprehensive ethnomedical ...

Article: OCU Honors Famous Naturalist's 200th With Special Program
Targeted News Service;  January 20, 2009 ;     570 words ... ... lecture at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 12 from world-renowned ethnobotanist and author Mark Plotkin, who wrote "The Shaman's Apprentice" and "The Medicine Quest." The lecture will be held in OCU's Petree Recital Hall. Plotkin traded his ...