Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses Weaving Together Biography, Global History and Science Writing - Softcover

Prasad, Aarathi

 
9780008451882: Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses Weaving Together Biography, Global History and Science Writing
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ISBN 10: 0008451885 ISBN 13: 9780008451882
Verlag: William Collins, 2024

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A History in Three Metamorphoses Weaving Together Biography, Global History and Science Writing

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AARATHI PRASAD is a writer, broadcaster, and researcher. She is the author of In the Bonesetter's Waiting Room: Travels Through Indian Medicine (Profile, 2016) which was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and won the Popular Medicine Award at the BMA Awards 2017; and Like A Virgin: How Science is Redesigning the Rules of Sex (Oneworld, 2012), shortlisted for the Salon Prize and translated into Italian, Bulgarian and Dutch. Born in London to an Indian mother who wore only silk saris and a Caribbean father who loved the natural world, Aarathi was educated in the West Indies and the UK. After completing a PhD in molecular genetics from Imperial College London, she later trained in bioarchaeology. She works as a Senior Research Fellow at the UCL Institute for Global Health, focussed on sustainability and urban health in Kenya, and as part of an international team excavating and analysing ancient DNA from funerary sites in Spain, Rome, and Pompeii.

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Verlag
William Collins
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0008451885
ISBN 13 
9780008451882
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
368
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