Helke Ferrie

Helke Ferrie is a medical science writer with a master's degree in anthropology and prehistoric archaeology. Her special area of interest is human evolutionary biology and the anthropology of disease. She started writing on issues of medicine and environment as a result of a serious illness caused by mercury and pesticide poisoning in the mid-1990s.

Helke Ferrie is a medical science writer with a master's degree in anthropology and prehistoric archaeology. Her special area of interest is human evolutionary biology and the anthropology of disease. She started writing on issues of medicine and environment as a result of a serious illness caused by mercury and pesticide poisoning in the mid-1990s. See less