Like a Virgin (39 page)

Venus of Hohle fels

Verkuyl, Douwe

Villareal, Luis

Vinci, Leonardo da

Victorian Era Exhibition

viral DNA

viruses

virgin births

Virginia Aquarium

VVF (vesico-vaginal fistulae)

Washington Post

Weismann, August

Wells, H.G.

whiptail lizard

Whiting, Audrey

Winston, Lord Robert

womb

women, as living incubators

Women & Infants Hospital

Women’s Protection League of India

World Conservation Union

worms, parasitic

Wyatt, Charlotte

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Aarathi Prasad is a biologist and science writer. She has appeared on TV and radio programmes, including as presenter of Channel 4’s controversial
Is It Better to Be Mixed Race?
and
Brave New World
with Stephen Hawking, as well as BBC Radio 4’s
The Quest for Virgin Birth
, and written for
Wired
, the
Guardian
, and many other publications.
Previously a cancer genetics researcher at Imperial College London, she subsequently moved out of the lab and into the worlds of science communication and policy, in areas including the passage in
the UK Parliament of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008. A single mother, Dr Prasad lives in London.