Randi Hutter Epstein is a medical writer, author and journalist, has written for

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'', and ''

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''. She is also a lecturer at Yale University, a writer-in-residence at the Yale School of Medicine and an

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's Journalism School. Epstein has worked as a medical writer for the ''London bureau of The Associated Press'' and was the London bureau chief of ''Physicians' Weekly''. Her articles have also appeared in ''The Daily Telegraph'', ''The Guardian, Parents'', ''More'', among other newspapers and magazines.

Education

Epstein earned a B.S. from The University of Pennsylvania where she studied the history and sociology of science. She earned an M.S. from the

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, an M.D. from Yale University School of Medicine, and an M.P.H. from the

Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health The Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health is the public health graduate school of Columbia University. Located on the Columbia University Medical Center campus in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, the school i ...

Books

Epstein is the author of ''Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything'' (released by W. W. Norton, June 2018) and ''Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank'' (released by W. W. Norton, Jan 2010).

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Articles

Cases: So Lucky to Have Given Birth in England
''New York Times'' — Dec. 4, 2001

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''New York Times'' — June 15, 2016

''New York Times'' — July 31, 2015, Page A1 *
You Don't Actually Have Cancer
Daily Beast, July 13, 2013 {{DEFAULTSORT:Epstein, Randi Hutter American women journalists Medical journalists Living people Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism faculty 1962 births 21st-century American women