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Blood Matters: From Brca1 to Designer Babies, How the World and I Found Ourselves in the Future of the Gene Paperback - 2009 - 1st Edition
by Masha Gessen
When genetic testing revealed that Masha Gessen had the dreaded BRCA1 genetic mutation--the same mutation made famous recently by Angelina Jolie, which predisposes women to ovarian and breast cancer -- she composed this valuable and extensively researched field guide to the significant role DNA plays in making us who we are.
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Masha Gessen discovered through genetic testing that she had the dreaded BRCA1 genetic mutation--the same mutation made famous recently by Angelina Jolie, which predisposes women to ovarian and breast cancer. As Gessen wrestled with a wrenching personal decision—what to do with such knowledge—she explored the landscape of a 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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- Title Blood Matters: From Brca1 to Designer Babies, How the World and I Found Ourselves in the Future of the Gene
- Author Masha Gessen
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mariner Books, U.S.A.
- Date 2009-11-01
- Features Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780156033312 / 0156033313
- Weight 0.67 lbs (0.30 kg)
- Dimensions 8.04 x 5.26 x 0.82 in (20.42 x 13.36 x 2.08 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 616.042
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- New York Times Book Review, 12/13/2009, Page 28
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