Randi Hutter Epstein | |
Occupation: | Author, medical writer/adjunct professor |
Known For: | Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything |
Birth Date: | December 10, 1962 |
Spouse: | Stuart Epstein |
Children: | 4 |
Randi Hutter Epstein is a medical writer, author and journalist, has written for publications such as New York Times,[1] and The Washington Post.[2] She is also a lecturer at Yale University, a writer-in-residence at the Yale School of Medicine and an adjunct professor at Columbia University's[3] 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.
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 Columbia University School of Journalism, an M.D. from Yale University School of Medicine, and an M.P.H. from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
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[4] (released by W. W. Norton, Jan 2010).