Blood Matters: A journey Along the Genetic Frontier

Masha Gessen

Blood Matters: A journey Along the Genetic Frontier - Granta 2007 - 321 pages ; 20 cm

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.

978184700783


Gessen, Masha -- Health. Human chromosome abnormalities -- Diagnosis -- Social aspects. Human chromosome abnormalities -- Diagnosis -- Moral and ethical aspects.

616.042 GES-B