Dorothy H. Crawford

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is professor of

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and

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for public understanding of medicine at the

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. She has written a number of books on

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es.

Selected publications

* ''The Invisible Enemy: A Natural History of Viruses''. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002. * ''Virus Hunt''. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013. * ''Deadly Companions''. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2018. * ''Viruses: A Very Short Introduction''. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2018.

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Crawford talking about The hunt for the origins of HIV.
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