New Authored Medical Book Award
The Society of Authors administers the prize annually for medical books published in Britain. The principal aim of the prize is to encourage authors who work in the UK and write for medical students, medical professionals or the general public.
The 2008 New Authored Book Award went to Professor Michael Wilson for his work Bacteriology of Humans: An Ecological Perspective.
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