Phage Turners

Founded so that co-organisers Fran & Carolyn had a reason to read the non-fiction they kept buying but never getting round to reading; Phage Turners (pun credit: Carolyn) is a relaxed book club for the Draper Lab and friends. Loosely focused on public health topics, we read one book every 2-3 months then meet after work to discuss over pizza and drinks. One day we will get round to printing bookmarks with our logo, and Fran will finish a book in time for the meeting.

We are currently reading:

Life in Her Hands: The Inspiring Story of a Pioneering Female Surgeon, by Averil Mansfield (2023)

Please get in touch by email (francesca.donnellan@bioch.ox.ac.uk and/or carolyn.nielsen@bioch.ox.ac.uk) if you are based in the University or Oxford University Hospitals and are interested in joining us.

Previous books:

(recommended read by general and unscientific consensus i.e. Fran picked her favourites)

The Ghost Map	Steven Johnson
Infectious Madness	Harriet Washington
House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox	William Foege
The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS	Elizabeth Pisani
Factfulness	Hans Rosling
Dreamland	Sam Quinones
The Butchering Art	Lindsey Fitzharris
Radium Girls	Kate Moore
I Contain Multitudes	Ken Albeck
Bad Blood	John Carreyrou
The Vaccine Book: Making the Right Decision for Your Child	Robert W. Sears
Nine Pints	Rose George
The Gendered Brain	Gina Rippon
The Body: A Guide for Occupants	Bill Bryson
The Body Economic: Why Austerity Kills*	David Stuckler and Sanjay Basu
Stuck	Heidi Larson
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty	Patrick Radden Keefe
Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams	Matthew P. Walker
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin: Patterns, Proteins and Peace: A Life in Science	Georgina Ferry
Deadly Companions: How microbes shaped our history	Dorothy H. Crawford
The Facemaker: One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I	Lindsey Fitzharris
Written In Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind	Sue Black
The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World	Michael Marmot
Catch your breath: The Secret Life of a Sleepless Anaesthetist	Ed Patrick
The Good Virus	Tom Ireland

*Barney's favourite