New Statesman - <![CDATA[Michael Barrett]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/michael_barrett en <![CDATA[Pandemic's progress]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/health/2009/07/flu-pandemic-panic-mexico http://www.newstatesman.com/health/2009/07/flu-pandemic-panic-mexico Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:00:10 GMT Michael Barrett Our scientific knowledge will ensure that the swine flu pandemic is no apocalypse.

]]> <![CDATA[Pandemic’s progress: we saw it coming]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/world-affairs/2009/05/flu-pandemic-virus-million http://www.newstatesman.com/world-affairs/2009/05/flu-pandemic-virus-million Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:21:27 GMT Michael Barrett Be in no doubt, people in Britain will die from Mexican swine flu and there will be several million victims worldwide. But this is not a repeat of the 1918 pandemic, writes the leading research scientist and NS contributing editor

]]> <![CDATA[The end of nature’s mystery]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/religion/2009/04/chemical-life-living-earth http://www.newstatesman.com/religion/2009/04/chemical-life-living-earth Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:47:35 GMT Michael Barrett Michael Barrett, a leading research scientist, spends his days stripping life down to its chemical components. This has led him to conclude that we began as bits of goo

]]> <![CDATA[Bad air]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200307280032 http://www.newstatesman.com/200307280032 Mon, 28 Jul 2003 12:00:00 GMT Michael Barrett The Miraculous Fever Tree: malaria, medicine and the cure that changed the world Fiammetta Rocco HarperCollins, 348pp, £16.99 ISBN 0002572028

]]> <![CDATA[Soft in the head]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200304280040 http://www.newstatesman.com/200304280040 Mon, 28 Apr 2003 12:00:00 GMT Michael Barrett How the Cows Turned Mad Maxime Schwartz (translated by Edward Schneider) University of California Press, 238pp, £17.95 ISBN 0520235312

]]> <![CDATA[Germ rights]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200303310041 http://www.newstatesman.com/200303310041 Mon, 31 Mar 2003 12:00:00 GMT Michael Barrett Smallpox: the fight to eradicate a global scourge David Koplow University of California Press, 276pp, £17.95

]]> <![CDATA[Presumed innocent. Michael Barrett on the contentious life and work of David Livingstone, "the first African freedom fighter"]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200207010046 http://www.newstatesman.com/200207010046 Mon, 01 Jul 2002 12:00:00 GMT Michael Barrett David Livingstone: mission and empire Andrew Ross Hambledon and London, 304pp, £19.95 ISBN 1852852852 David Livingstone Meriel Buxton Palgrave, 232pp, £45

]]> <![CDATA[From double helix to double-cross]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200201070033 http://www.newstatesman.com/200201070033 Mon, 07 Jan 2002 12:00:00 GMT Michael Barrett Genes, Girls and Gamow James D Watson Oxford University Press, 304pp, £18.99 ISBN 0198509766

]]> <![CDATA[Blood suckers]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200107300039 http://www.newstatesman.com/200107300039 Mon, 30 Jul 2001 12:00:00 GMT Michael Barrett Mosquito: the story of mankind's deadliest foe Andrew Spielman and Michael D'Antonio Faber and Faber, 267pp, £10.99 ISBN 0571209807

]]> <![CDATA[Rumble in the jungle]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200008280033 http://www.newstatesman.com/200008280033 Mon, 28 Aug 2000 12:00:00 GMT Michael Barrett In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz: living on the brink of disaster in the Congo Michela Wrong Fourth Estate, 324pp, £13.99 ISBN 1841154210

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