Ellen Ruppel Shell (born 1952
[Pearson Education (2008). Shell, Ellen Ruppel. Retrieved on 2009-08-10 from http://wps.prenhall.com/hss_kirszner_blairreader_5/24/6255/1601495.cw/index.html .]) is a correspondent for ''
The Atlantic Monthly'', and professor of science journalism.
Biography
Shell was born in
Auburn,
New York, United States. In 1974, Shell received a B.A. degree from the
University of Rochester. Her work tends to focus on the intersection of
science
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and society with a special emphasis on medical policy, and she also writes on the politics of science, science and the media, and environmental policy.
Works
Shell is the author of four books:
*''
A Child's Place: a year in the life of a day care center '' (
Little, Brown, 1992)
*''
The Hungry Gene: the science of fat and the future of thin'' (New York :
Atlantic Monthly Press
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, 2002)
*''Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture'' (New York :
Penguin Books
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, 2009)
*''The Job: Work and Its Future in a Time of Radical Change'' (New York :
Crown Publishing Group, 2018)
*''Slippery Beast - A True Crime and Natural History, with Eels ' (New York :
Abrams Press, 2024)
References
External links
Faculty of Boston University's Master's Degree Program in Science and Medical Journalism
salon.com. July 12, 2009.
washingtonpost.com. Accessed February 24, 2024.
20th-century American women journalists
1952 births
Living people
University of Rochester alumni
Boston University faculty
People from Auburn, New York
Journalists from New York (state)
20th-century American journalists
American women academics
21st-century American women
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