Michael Barrett
Articles by Michael Barrett
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World Affairs
Bad air
- 28 July 2003
The Miraculous Fever Tree: malaria, medicine and the cure that changed the world
Fiammetta Rocco HarperCollins, 348pp, £16.99
ISBN 0002572028
Ideas
Soft in the head
- 28 April 2003
How the Cows Turned Mad
Maxime Schwartz (translated by Edward Schneider) University of California Press, 238pp, £17.95
ISBN 0520235312
Ideas
Germ rights
- 31 March 2003
Smallpox: the fight to eradicate a global scourge
David Koplow University of California Press, 276pp, £17.95
SciTech
Presumed innocent. Michael Barrett on the contentious life and work of David Livingstone, "the first African freedom fighter"
- 01 July 2002
David Livingstone: mission and empire
Andrew Ross Hambledon and London, 304pp, £19.95
ISBN 1852852852
David Livingstone
Meriel Buxton Palgrave, 232pp, £45
Books
From double helix to double-cross
- 07 January 2002
Genes, Girls and Gamow
James D Watson Oxford University Press, 304pp, £18.99
ISBN 0198509766
Books
Blood suckers
- 30 July 2001
Mosquito: the story of mankind's deadliest foe
Andrew Spielman and Michael D'Antonio Faber and Faber, 267pp, £10.99
ISBN 0571209807
Books
Rumble in the jungle
- 28 August 2000
In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz: living on the brink of disaster in the Congo
Michela Wrong Fourth Estate, 324pp, £13.99
ISBN 1841154210
Books
Doing drugs
- 10 July 2000
Pills, Potions and Poisons: how drugs work
Trevor Stone & Gail Darlington Oxford University Press, 384pp, £18.99
ISBN 0198504039
Books
White and wrong
- 27 March 2000
Livingstone's Tribe: A journey from Zanzibar to the Cape
Stephen Taylor HarperCollins, 260pp, £17.99
ISBN 000255836
Books
Debunking DNA
- 06 March 2000
Life Without Genes
Adrian Woolfson HarperCollins, 420pp, £17.99
ISBN 0002556189
