by Sonia Shah
Finally, I acknowledge a deep debt to the various familial editors, reviewers, and supporters lurking amidst the Shah-Bulmer family. You know who you are. Molecular ecologist Mark Bulmer, in particular, painstakingly reviewed each draft of this book, which is dedicated, in hopes for a safe, fair, happy world full of whizzing bicycles, to our boys, Zakir and Kush.
About the Author
SONIA SHAHIS an independent journalist and author of The Body Hunters: Testing New Drugs on the World’s Poorest Patients. Her writing on science and politics appears regularly on www.soniashah.com as well as in The Nation, Orion, Salon, and elsewhere.
Copyright © 2004 Sonia Shah
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