Blood matters : from inherited illness to designer babies, how the world and I found ourselves in the future of the gene /
Gessen, Masha.
Blood matters : from inherited illness to designer babies, how the world and I found ourselves in the future of the gene / Masha Gessen. - 1st ed. - Orlando : Harcourt, c2008. - 321 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-307) and index.
pt. 1. The past. My mother's fatal flaw -- The four mothers of Jews -- The post-Nazi Era -- pt. 2. The present. Indecision -- A decision at any cost -- The father of hereditary cancers -- The cruelest disease -- The science of matchmaking -- The operation -- pt. 3. The future. The future the old-fashioned way -- Biobabble -- What we fear most.
0151013624 9780151013623
2007036751
BRCA genes.
Genetic counseling.
Human chromosome abnormalities--Diagnosis--Social aspects.
Medical genetics--Social aspects.
Blood matters : from inherited illness to designer babies, how the world and I found ourselves in the future of the gene / Masha Gessen. - 1st ed. - Orlando : Harcourt, c2008. - 321 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-307) and index.
pt. 1. The past. My mother's fatal flaw -- The four mothers of Jews -- The post-Nazi Era -- pt. 2. The present. Indecision -- A decision at any cost -- The father of hereditary cancers -- The cruelest disease -- The science of matchmaking -- The operation -- pt. 3. The future. The future the old-fashioned way -- Biobabble -- What we fear most.
0151013624 9780151013623
2007036751
BRCA genes.
Genetic counseling.
Human chromosome abnormalities--Diagnosis--Social aspects.
Medical genetics--Social aspects.