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As a journalist for more than 40 years (I started young) I have written for national newspapers including the Guardian, Observer, Times and Sunday Telegraph, magazines including New Statesman, the Literary Review, TLS and History Today and medical journals including The Lancet and British Medical Journal. My work has won several awards. I am a member of the National Union of Journalists and a former fellow of the Royal Literary Fund. You can contact me at wendy.moore@wendymoore.org
Recent articles
Guardian Review
6 Jan 2018 From scientists to weapons testers
A Lab of One's Own by Patricia Fara
14 Oct 2017 The Butchering Art by Lindsey Fitzharris
17 April 2017 A love of the dead, maggots and all
Past Mortems by Carla Valentine
10 Nov 2016 An exquisite story of scandalous subterfuge
A Woman Ahead of her Time by Michael du Preez and Jeremy Dronfield
13 Jan 2016 A lively history of strange animals and stranger people
Menagerie by Caroline Grigson
TLS
15 Sept 2023 - Bone-weary
18 Aug 2023 - Five to midnight
7 July 2023 - A long dark corridor
10 Mar 2023 - Slick operation
1 July 2022 - Labour of love
10 Jun 2022 - Vital signs
15 April 2022 - Cheerful to the end
5 Feb 2021 - Breathtaking
1 May 2020 - Deadly serious comic
31 Oct 2018 - Outside the Hospital Doors
Literary Review
Nine Pints by Rose George
With the End in Mind by Kathryn Mannix
May 2018 - In Florence's Footsteps
The Language of Kindness by Christie Watson
Mar 2018 - The Past is another Person
Somebody I used to Know by Wendy Mitchell
Feb 2018 - No Respect for Golf Courses
Rise Up Women! by Diana Atkinson
and Hearts and Minds by Jane Robinson
Every Third Thought by Robert McCrum
Fragile Lives by Stephen Westaby
Nov 2016 - Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
Entanglement by Emma Tarlo
Sept 2016 - Blessed are the Bacteria
I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong
Beyond the High Blue Air by Lu Spinney
Feb 2016 - I can't go on. I'll go on
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Fashion Victims by Alison Matthews David
Oct 2015 - Hostess with the Mostess
Peg Plunkett by Julie Peakman
Adventures in Human Being by Gavin Francis
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
May 2014 - Decisions & Incisions
Do No Harm by Henry Marsh
New Statesman
July 2016 - The world in your hands
Hands: What we do with them - and why by Darian Leader & This Mortal Coil by Fay Bound Alberti
Daily Express
16 May 2017 - How hypnosis cured my headaches
Lancet
5 July 2019 - Trailblazing Medical Women
8 Jun 2019 - Opening the Box of Tricks
21 July 2018 - Charles Dickens' Scientific Network
2 Mar 2019 - The Anatomy Professors
3 Feb 2018 - The Medical Suffragettes
18 Feb 2017 - The mesmerist will see you now
16 July 2016 - Two doctors who put Worcester on the medical heritage map
4 June 2016 - Exceptional and Extraordinary artists
7 May 2016 - Casting the body
Commentary - magazine of the Royal College of Physicians
Oct 2016 - The Healing Arts - how art is helping patients to recovery
June 2016 - Delivering Hope and Help - the doctors working with refugees
Dec 2016 - William Harvey and 17th-century Witchcraft
Royal Literary Fellowship - Vox recordings
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