The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic

The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Deborah Blum has Handbook: Murder PDF º always considered herself a southerner although she has no real The Poisoner's PDF/EPUB ² Southern accent and was born in Illinois Urbana Still her parents moved to Poisoner's Handbook: Murder MOBI î Baton Rouge Louisiana when she was two and to Athens Georgia when she was Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the PDF/EPUB or twelve And she has always believed that the Southern culture of story telling had a real influence on the way she uses narrative in writing about science After high school Blum received a journalism degree from the University of Georgia in with a double minor in anthropology and political science She worked for two newspapers in Georgia and one in Florida St Petersburg Times before deciding to become a science writer and going to graduate school at the University of Wisconsin in Madison A University of Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the PDF/EPUB or Wisconsin fellow she received her degree in and moved to California to work for McClatchy newspapers first in Fresno and then in Sacramento During her years at The Sacramento Bee she won numerous awards for her work culminating in the Pulitzer Prize in beat reporting for a series investigating ethical issues in primate research The series became her first book The Monkey Wars Oxford which was named a Library Journal Best Sci Tech book of the year Three years later she published Sex on the Brain The Biological Differences Between Men and Women Viking which was named a New York Times Notable Book Her book Love at Goon Park Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection Perseus Books was a finalist for The Los Angeles Times Book Prize She followed that with Ghost Hunters William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death Penguin Press Her latest book The Poisoner s Handbook Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York will be published in February Blum is also the co editor of a widely used guide to science writing A Field Guide for Science Writers Oxford She is currently the Helen Firstbrook Franklin Professor of Journalism at the University of Wisconsin Madison where she teaches science journalism creative non fiction magazine writing and investigative reporting A past president of the National Association of Science Writers she currently serves as the North American board member to the World Federation of Science Journalists She also sits on the board of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing and on the board of trustees for the Society for Society and the Public.