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Blood Matters: A Journey Along The Genetic Frontier
Masha Gessen
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Description for Blood Matters: A Journey Along The Genetic Frontier
Paperback. In 2004 genetic testing revealed that Masha Gessen had a mutation that predisposed her to ovarian and breast cancer. This is a guide to this unfamiliar and unsettling territory, pointing the way towards the radical transformation genetic information is engineering in our sense of who we are and what we might become. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 24. Weight in Grams: 320.
In 2004, genetic testing revealed that Masha Gessen had a mutation that predisposed her to ovarian and breast cancer. 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, a New York Times Notable Book for 2008, is a much needed field guide to this unfa-miliar and unsettling territory, pointing the way towards the radical transfor-mation genetic information is engineering in our sense of who we are and ... Read more
In 2004, genetic testing revealed that Masha Gessen had a mutation that predisposed her to ovarian and breast cancer. 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, a New York Times Notable Book for 2008, is a much needed field guide to this unfa-miliar and unsettling territory, pointing the way towards the radical transfor-mation genetic information is engineering in our sense of who we are and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Granta Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847080783
SKU
V9781847080783
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About Masha Gessen
Masha Gessen is a journalist who has written for Slate, the New Republic, the New York Times, and other publications.She is the author of two previous books, Dead Again and Two Babushkas. She lives in Boston.
Reviews for Blood Matters: A Journey Along The Genetic Frontier
'Blood Matters is about far more than Gessen's own story. She writes energetically - about the grander context in which her personal drama takes place - The book's enduring memory is Gessen's intelligence and wit as she's staring down the barrel of a gun'- The Scotsman'Gessen argues that in a generation we will discuss our genetic inheritance in the same ... Read more