TY - BOOK AU - Gessen,Masha TI - Blood matters: from inherited illness to designer babies, how the world and I found ourselves in the future of the gene SN - 0151013624 PY - 2008/// CY - Orlando PB - Harcourt KW - BRCA genes KW - Genetic counseling KW - Human chromosome abnormalities KW - Diagnosis KW - Social aspects KW - Medical genetics N1 - 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 ER -