Roger Gosden is a British and American scientist whose career began as a research student and fellow in Cambridge, England, supervised by Robert Edwards. After a Population Council fellowship at Duke University, he moved to Edinburgh Medical School in 1976 where he worked for 18 years, subsequently becoming a professor and research director at Leeds and McGill Universities, and the Howard & Georgeanna Jones professor of reproductive medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School. In 2004, he moved to Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, joining on the faculty his wife Lucinda Veeck, the embryologist for America’s first IVF baby. They live in Williamsburg, Virginia, where he is a writer, naturalist, and visiting scholar at William & Mary.
The author celebrates a love of nature and science in this collection of 40 essays and memoirs. They reveal deep curiosity about biology, including our fellow creatures, and his concern for planetary and human health. Not a science book for scientists nor a nature book for naturalists, it is offered to everyone who shares those cares, and not only for information but also for contemplation. Stories are seasoned with humor and quotations from favorite writers and poets. The straight-jacket of academia was cast off for the freedom of writing in a hopeful tone for an anxious age.
Título : A Biologist in Paradise
EAN : 9780989719926
Editorial : Jamestowne Bookworks LLC
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