Blood Matters - From Brca1 to Designer Babies, How the World and I Found Ourselves in the Future of the Gene (Paperback)

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 medical experts, religious thinkers, historians, and others facing genetic disorders. "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.

General

Imprint:	Mariner Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2009
First published:	November 2009
Authors:	Masha Gessen
Dimensions:	204 x 134 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	336
ISBN-13:	978-0-15-603331-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Science, technology & engineering Books > Medicine > Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences > Medical genetics Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Diseases & disorders > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Genetics (non-medical) > General Books > Biography > Science, technology & engineering
LSN:	0-15-603331-3
Barcode:	9780156033312

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