Sandra Hempel

Sandra Hempel is an esteemed medical journalist who has written for many newspapers and journals, including The Times , The Guardian and The Lancet . Her previous books include The Medical Detective: John Snow, Cholera and the Mystery of the Broad Street Pump , which won the British Medical Association's prize for the public understanding of science, and The Inheritor's Powder: A Cautionary Tale of Poison, Betrayal and Greed , which was serialised on Radio 4 as Book of the Week.

Sandra Hempel is an esteemed medical journalist who has written for many newspapers and journals, including The Times , The Guardian and The Lancet . Her previous books include The Medical Detective: John Snow, Cholera and the Mystery of the Broad Street Pump , which won the British Medical Association's prize for the public understanding of science, and The Inheritor's Powder: A Cautionary Tale of Poison, Betrayal and Greed , which was serialised on Radio 4 as Book of the Week. See less