Helen Pearson

The Life Project (eBook, ePUB)

The Extraordinary Story of Our Ordinary Lives

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 ORWELL PRIZE

The remarkable story of a unique series of studies that have touched the lives of almost everyone in Britain today

On 3rd March 1946 a survey began that is, today, the longest-running study of human development in the world, growing to encompass six generations of children, 150,000 individuals and some of the best-studied people on the planet. The simple act of observing human life has changed the way we are born, schooled, parent and die, irrevocably altering our understanding of inequality and health. This is the tale of these studies; the scientists who created and sustain them, the remarkable discoveries that have come from them. The envy of scientists around the world, they are one of Britain's best-kept secrets.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780141976624
• Artikelnr.: 44621182

Autorenporträt

Helen Pearson is a science journalist and editor for the international science journal Nature. She has been writing for Nature since 2001 and her stories have won accolades including the 2010 Wistar Institute Science Journalism Award and two best feature awards from the Association of British Science Writers. Based in London, she has a PhD in genetics and spent eight years with Nature in New York. The Life Project is her first book, and was highly commended at the British Medical Association Book Awards in 2017.

Rezensionen

An elegant mix of science and human drama, The Life Project was - by a considerable measure in my view - the best science book published this year Robin McKie, Best Science Books of 2016 Observer