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Blood Matters : From Inherited Illness to Designer Babies, How the World and I Found Ourselves in the Future of the Gene by Masha Gessen (2008, Hardcover)

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In 2004 genetic testing revealed that Masha Gessen had a mutation that predisposed her to ovarian and breast cancer. The discovery initiated Gessen into a club of sorts: the small (but exponentially expanding) group of people in possession of a new and different way of knowing themselves through what is inscribed in the strands of their DNA. As she wrestled with a wrenching personal decision--what to do with such knowledge--Gessen explored the landscape of this brave new world, speaking with others like her and with experts including medical researchers, historians, and religious thinkers. "Blood Matters "is a much-needed field guide to this unfamiliar and unsettling territory. It explores the way genetic information is shaping the decisions we make, not only about our physical and emotional health but about whom we marry, the children we bear, even the personality traits we long to have. And it helps us come to terms with the radical transformation that genetic information is engineering in our most basic sense of who we are and what we might become.

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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-10
0151013624
ISBN-13
9780151013623
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Author
Masha Gessen
Publication Name
Blood Matters : From Inherited Illness to Designer Babies, How the World and I Found Ourselves in the Future of the Gene
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
336 Pages

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9in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
20.1 Oz

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Rb155.G475 2008
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Blood Matters is valuable reading to almost anyone facing a huge health decision, not only for the literary commiseration it offers, but also for the inspired example of medical sleuthing on one's own behalf that it provides ... The enduring memory one takes away is Gessen's intelligence and wit as she's staring down the barrel of a gun., PRAISE FOR ESTER AND RUZYA "Reviewers sometimes call a work of nonfiction 'as exciting as a novel,' but that would be an understatement applied to this extraordinary family memoir . . . Ester and Ruzya will remind you how much life, history and emotional and moral complexity the genre can convey in the hands of a wonderful writer." --The New York Times Book Review, PRAISE FOR ESTER AND RUZYA"Reviewers sometimes call a work of nonfiction 'as exciting as a novel,' but that would be an understatement applied to this extraordinary family memoir . . . Ester and Ruzya will remind you how much life, history and emotional and moral complexity the genre can convey in the hands of a wonderful writer."The New York Times Book Review, PRAISE FOR ESTER AND RUZYA "Reviewers sometimes call a work of nonfiction 'as exciting as a novel,' but that would be an understatement applied to this extraordinary family memoir . . . Ester and Ruzya will remind you how much life, history and emotional and moral complexity the genre can convey in the hands of a wonderful writer." —The New York Times Book Review, PRAISE FOR ESTER AND RUZYA "Reviewers sometimes call a work of nonfiction 'as exciting as a novel,' but that would be an understatement applied to this extraordinary family memoir . . . Ester and Ruzya will remind you how much life, history and emotional and moral complexity the genre can convey in the hands of a wonderful writer." -The New York Times Book Review, Blood Matters is valuable reading to almost anyone facing a huge health decision, not only for the literary commiseration it offers, but also for the inspired example of medical sleuthing on one''s own behalf that it provides ... The enduring memory one takes away is Gessen''s intelligence and wit as she''s staring down the barrel of a gun.
Table of Content
Contents part 1: the past 1 My Mother's Fatal Flaw 3 2 The Four Mothers of Jews 15 3 The Post-Nazi Era 57 part 2: the present 4 Indecision 71 5 A Decision at Any Cost 78 6 The Father of Hereditary Cancers 117 7 The Cruelest Disease 139 8 The Science of Matchmaking 166 9 The Operation 191 part 3: the future 10 The Future the Old-Fashioned Way 199 11 Biobabble 238 12 What We Fear Most 264 Acknowledgments 283 Glossary of Key Terms 285 Notes on Sources 289 Index 309
Copyright Date
2007
Target Audience
Trade
Topic
Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Genetics
Lccn
2007-036751
Dewey Decimal
616/.042
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Science, Medical

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