Dorothy H. Crawford
Dorothy H. Crawford qualified in medicine from St Thomas’s Hospital, London and gained a PhD from Bristol University. She is Emeritus Professor of Medical Microbiology at the University of Edinburgh. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2001 and awarded an OBE for services to medicine and higher education in 2005. Her books include The Invisible Enemy: A Natural History of Viruses and Viruses: A Very Short Introduction.
Books by Dorothy H. Crawford
Viruses: A Very Short Introduction
by Dorothy H. Crawford
Part of the Very Short Introductions series
“Viruses are just a piece of genetic material inside a protein shell. So they’re obligate parasites. They can’t exist on their own. Whether or not they are alive is a moot point: it’s something that I’ve argued both for and against in my own books, because it’s an interesting question not only scientifically, but also philosophically. You have to start by asking: what do we call ‘alive’? I would come down on the side of no, they are not living. After all, they don’t metabolise, so they can’t generate energy or make proteins; in fact they can’t do anything on their own. That piece of genetic material has to get inside a living cell – then it hijacks all the mechanisms of the living cell to produce its own offspring.” Read more...
Dorothy H. Crawford, Medical Scientist
Interviews with Dorothy H. Crawford
The best books on Viruses, recommended by Dorothy H. Crawford
Many of us have developed a new fascination for viruses and virology during the global COVID-19 crisis. Here, Dorothy Crawford, professor of medical microbiology and the author of Viruses: A Very Short Introduction, selects five of the best books on viruses for the general reader.
Interviews where books by Dorothy H. Crawford were recommended
The best books on Viruses, recommended by Dorothy H. Crawford
Many of us have developed a new fascination for viruses and virology during the global COVID-19 crisis. Here, Dorothy Crawford, professor of medical microbiology and the author of Viruses: A Very Short Introduction, selects five of the best books on viruses for the general reader.
