Barbara Ravage

photo: Adine Sagalyn

Welcome

Barbara Ravage has been communicating about health and medicine to consumer and professional audiences for more than 25 years. Her services include writing, editing, rewriting, ghostwriting; manuscript and project evaluation and development; meeting coverage. She writes a monthly column on health and wellness, and is available as a speaker and panelist.

Her areas of expertise include consumer health; diet and nutrition; fitness; cancer/oncology; diabetes; Alzheimer’s disease; skin cancer; ophthalmology; infectious disease; trauma and emergency medicine; history of medicine; science and health for school-age readers.

She is the author of nine books, most recently Burn Unit: Saving Lives After the Flames and The GI Handbook: How the Glycemic Index Works. She has edited or contributed to more than 50 books on a broad range of topics.

Selected Works

Narrative Nonfiction

Burn Unit: Saving Lives After the Flames
"a compelling blend of science, history, and storytelling....an enlightening, invaluable book.”

—Stewart O’Nan

Diet and Nutrition

The G.I. Handbook: How the Glycemic Index Works
A compact guide that makes sense of the carbohydrate controversy

Nonfiction-Memoir

Do Not Give in to Hope: The Story of a German Jew in the Time of Hitler
>>>>>>>Rights Available<<<<<<< "Helmut Hirsch lived between the two great wars of the twentieth century, and he died before the Holocaust began. Like many of his generation, he was deeply patriotic. Like some, he saw the nightmare that lay ahead. Like a few, he risked his life to stop it before it was too late."

Quick Links

Barbara Ravage's LinkedIn profile

Barbara Ravage ~ Health and Medical Communications

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