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Liam Shaw

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Liam Shaw is a biologist researching the evolution and spread of antibiotic resistance. After a four-year Wellcome funded fellowship at the University of Oxford, he now leads a research group at the University of Bristol. His writing has appeared in the London Review of Books, Morning Star, and Private Eye. Dangerous Miracle is his first book.

Books by Liam Shaw
Dangerous Miracle
Liam Shaw

Antibiotics - one of humanity’s greatest achievements, but invented by bacteria. Dangerous Miracle is an epic narrative of scientific discovery and innovation but also of the exploitation of the natural world in pursuit of the 'fossil fuels' of medicine.

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