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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 / Masha Gessen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gessen, M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical genetics--Social aspects.
- Medical genetics.
- Human chromosome abnormalities--Diagnosis--Social aspects.
- Human chromosome abnormalities.
- BRCA genes.
- Genetic counseling.
- Human chromosome abnormalities--Diagnosis.
- Physical Description:
- 321 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Orlando : Harcourt, [2008]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-307) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780151013623
- 0151013624
- OCLC:
- 171151566
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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