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Deborah Rudacille (born July 1958) is an American journalist and science writer. She has worked as a news editor for the
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Autism Research Initiative in New York, and in May 2012 became Professor of the Practice in journalism at the
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."Deborah Rudacille Joins English Faculty"
, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 31 May 2012.
In April 2017, Rudacille was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Science Writing for a project titled "The Family Disease: Alcoholism, Addiction and Inheritance." Rudacille is the author of ''The Scalpel and the Butterfly'' (2000), a history of the practice and politics of
animal testing Animal testing, also known as animal experimentation, animal research, and ''in vivo'' testing, is the use of animals, as model organisms, in experiments that seek answers to scientific and medical questions. This approach can be contrasted ...
, ''The Riddle of Gender'' (2004), which examines scientists' attempts to define gender and the effect that had on
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people, and ''Roots of Steel'' (2010), about the history of the
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steelworks in
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. ''The Scalpel and the Butterfly'' was chosen by the ''
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'' as one of the year's best non-fiction books, and ''The Riddle of Gender'' was nominated for a
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.


Background

Rudacille was born in
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into a working-class family with a long history of working for the local steelmill, including her father and his brothers, her grandfather and her great-grandfather. Her mother worked for the
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labor union. Her maternal grandparents were first generation Italian-American immigrants who arrived during World War II, while her paternal grandparents had arrived in the 1920s. She attended Our Lady of Hope elementary school and The Catholic High School of Baltimore.Cassie, Ron
"Getting to the Point"
, ''Dundalk Patch'', 15 November 2010.
She obtained her BA in 1980 from Loyola College and her MA in 1998 from the Writing Seminars program at
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, where she specialized in science writing. In May 2012, she joined the English department at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, as Professor of the Practice. She teaches courses on science and medical writing, community journalism in the digital age, and the history of medical attempts to define gender and alcoholism.


Selected works

*with Joanne Zurlo and Alan M. Goldberg. ''Animals and Alternatives in Testing: History, Science, Ethics''.
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, 1994, *''The Scalpel and the Butterfly: The War Between Animal Research and Animal Protection''.
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, 2000. *''The Riddle of Gender: Science, Activism and Transgender Rights.
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, 2004. *''Roots of Steel: Boom and Bust in an American Mill Town''. Pantheon, 2010.
"Baltimore Blues"
, ''Baltimore Style'', November 2008.

''
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'', 7 April 2010.


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Personal website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rudacille, Deborah 1958 births American people of Italian descent American women journalists Living people People from Dundalk, Maryland Loyola University Maryland alumni Johns Hopkins University alumni 21st-century American women