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Sandra Hempel

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Sandra grew up in the Surrey countryside but has lived in London all her adult life. A career journalist who worked on The Times newsdesk for some years, she is now an author and also teaches creative writing. Her first two books – "The Medical Detective" and "The Inheritor's Powder" – are set in the world of medicine in 19th century Britain. She is fascinated by the struggle down the ages to understand the workings of the human body and to diagnose and treat disease. Sandra is a great lover of crime fiction and both of these books, while telling true stories, are written as thrillers. The Medical Detective won the Tony Thistlethwaite prize and the British Medical Association Book Prize. The Inheritor's Powder was serialised as a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. Her latest book is in a different format. "The Atlas of Disease" takes the 20 most devastating epidemic diseases and traces their history across the world from their first emergence in the human race. The stories involve great suffering of course but they also highlight the heroic attempts to understand and conquer diseases such as smallpox and the plague and, in our own time, HIV and AIDS. Alongside the narrative are specially commissioned maps charting the paths of infection, as well as some iconic illustrations.
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